This 1979 Rock Hit Set the Blueprint for 80s Music From a Band We All AGREE On! | Professor Of Rock

What can you say about the Cars? They wrote some of the greatest new wave rock songs ever. They balanced those two genres perfectly and the dual vocal attack of Benjamin Orr and Rik Ocasek did major damage on 70s and 80s radio. The rest of the band rocked too from Elliot Easton on guitar to Greg Hawkes on Keys and David Robison on Drums they destroyed the idea of a sophomore slump when Candy-o came out in 1979. Charting higher then their debut, mostly due to their perfect rocker Let’s Go, my favorite Cars song ever… Up next the story of Let’s Go and more...

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Shifting into second gear, this 1979 follow-up record was a welcome hybrid of classic-rock and new wave… setting today’s band on cruise control straight into the heart of the 80s. And although they had two lead singers behind the wheel, that never slowed them down. One a quirky cool genius, and the other a mysterious and shadowy heartthrob, it was almost like they were moving in stereo. In fact, some people had a pretty hard time telling their voices apart. Could you? Out of the garage and into mainstream, it’s the story of a band that paved the way for a new decade of synth-rock… and it’s coming up... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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So Sometime between the summers of 1978 and 1979, Cars’ co-lead singer and bassist, Benjamin Orr, was sitting in his new, top-floor Boston apartment... going out of his mind. From somewhere below him there was this incessant booming of disco beats coming up through the floorboards…

Pounding over and over again. That day, Orr vowed never to succumb to playing trendy music just to please the masses.
Said Orr: “It was the same exact beat for forty-five minutes. It could have been fifteen different songs for all I know. I guess they get machines to play it. I’d saw my fingers off before I’d play that stuff.”

Thankfully, Benjamin's fingers stayed intact. The previous summer on June 6, 1978, the Cars gave music lovers just what they needed when they released of their self-titled debut... This New Wave meets Classic Rock, start to finish masterpiece, was a welcome reprieve from the Saturday Night Fever-ish hits dominating the charts.

One of the best debuts of the rock era, out of any genre, The Cars’ introductory record featured superb artistry from a crew of experienced musicians. Led by the band’s well-known co-lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, the rest of the band was rounded out by Elliot Easton on lead guitar, Greg Hawkes on keyboards, David Robinson on drums, and of course the aforementioned Benjamin Orr.