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The Cars - Candy-O Audio CD

A fair review of the The Cars "Candy-O" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Cars reviews here, or go back to the The Cars tabs.

The Cars Band: The Cars
Title: Candy-O
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Let's Go 2: Since I Held You 3: It's All I Can Do 4: Double Life 5: Shoo Be Doo 6: Candy-O 7: Night Spots 8: You Can't Hold on Too Long 9: Lust For Kicks 10: Got a Lot on My Head 11: Dangerous Type

THE CARS CANDY O
in this day and time most of us just but the great hits of most older bands. car's best. and while the cars do have a 2 disk anthology package out,this is their best single release.


Still love it !!
WOW, I forgot how good this album is ! Blows me away. I hadn't owned this album since I had the 8 track, or cassette (can't remember which) back in high school. The sound quality is amazing,too. Buy it, you won't regret it. .


The Cars' sophomore effort is arguably the band's greatest effort 30 years on

Following the success of The Cars' first perfect album (their 1978 self-titled debut), the band thought it would be nearly impossible to top it. The Cars released its second album Candy-O in June of 1979. Instead of laboring long and hard over a follow-up like many '70s bands did after a huge commercial success, the group (singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist Rik Ocasek, singer/bass player Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboard player Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson) went to Los Angeles with producer Roy Thomas Baker and engineer Geoff Workman to record The Cars' sophomore effort, Candy-O which would be the band's best album (as I found out when I first got on cassette tape in 1985 (a few weeks before my 9th birthday)).
We open the album with the first single, the Top 20 anthem "Let's Go," which is a great song. Next, Rik steps out for the rocker "Since I Held You" which is another great piece. The gentle "It's All I Can Do" follows and was a rock radio hit. "Double Life" is next and was a rock radio smash and Rik was on vocal and a great song. Then we segue into the techno (before techno) sounding rocker "Shoo-Be-Doo" which has Rik singing punk lyrics with a synthesizer. The title track ends the first half of the album and remains one of the band's best rockers.
The rocker "Night Spots" is next and was written for the first album but left off due to time constraints. Next is Ben's lone lead vocal on the second half "You Can't Hold On Too Long" which is another great rocker. Next is the modern pop sounding rocker "Lust For Kicks" which was one of Ocasek's best vocal performances on the entire album. We then rock out with "Got a Lot on My Head" which featured stellar guitar work from Easton and a great song. We close with Ocasek's most well-known vocal from the album and a great song out of the rocker "Dangerous Type" (where the verse guitar riff resembles "Bang a Gong" before going elsewhere for the chorus).
Candy-O proved that the Cars were not one-hit wonders and gave the band their first Top 10 album and their second deservedly Multi-Platinum album here in the US. The CD version was remastered in the late 1990s by Joe Gastwirt and sounds incredible.
Recommended!
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candy's lustre untarnished
Is it just me, or did/does Ben Orr have the greatest rock voice in history? Why didn't they exploit it more?

Pure classic.


The Cars Avoid The Sophmore Jinx With Another Great CD
Granted, the cover art is somewhat overly suggestive, and could inspire inappropriate sexual behavior, but the songs are uniformly strong and there are very few clunkers here. On CANDY-O, the Cars not only avoided the sophmore jinx, but came through with an album that's just as good as their debut. This CD and the debut are really what you need by the Cars. After this album, the band tried too hard and too many things in an attempt to remain relevant as musical tastes changed.


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