Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition Remastered) The Cars

• 1 Hello Again (2018 Remaster) 03:46
• 2 Looking for Love (2018 Remaster) 03:51
• 3 Magic (2018 Remaster) 03:57
• 4 Drive (2018 Remaster) 03:54
• 5 Stranger Eyes (2018 Remaster) 04:24
• 6 You Might Think (2018 Remaster) 03:04
• 7 It's Not the Night (2018 Remaster) 03:48
• 8 Why Can't I Have You (2018 Remaster) 04:03
• 9 I Refuse (2018 Remaster) 03:15
• 10 Heartbeat City (2018 Remaster) 04:30
• 11 Breakaway (2017 Remaster) 03:48
• 12 Hello Again (Remix) 05:56
• 13 Hello Again (Dub Version) (96kHz) 06:11
• 14 Drive (Demo) 04:46
• 15 Stranger Eyes (Early Version) (96kHz) 06:16
• 16 It's Not the Night (Early Version) (96kHz) 03:43
• 17 One More Time (Early Version of "Why Can't I Have You") 04:00
• 18 Baby I Refuse (Early Version of "I Refuse") 03:54
• 19 Jacki (Early Version of "Heartbeat City") 04:17
• 20 Shooting for You (First Version) (96kHz) 04:37
• 21 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) (96kHz) 05:23
• 22 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) [Alternate Mix] (96kHz) 04:03
• 23 Hello Again (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:58
• 24 Looking for Love (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:57
• 25 Magic (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:01
• 26 Drive (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:05
• 27 Stranger Eyes (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:56
• 28 You Might Think (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:09
• 29 It's Not the Night (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:44
• 30 I Refuse (Early Version) (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:07
• 31 Heartbeat City (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:01
• 32 Breakaway (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:58
• 33 Shooting for You (First Version) [Early Mix] (44.1kHz) 04:08
• 34 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) [Early Mix] (44.1kHz) 04:41
• Live in Housten 1984: Remastered in 96kHz
• 35 Hello Again (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:01
• 36 It's Not the Night (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:58
• 37 Touch and Go (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:02
• 38 Candy-O (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 02:44
• 39 Good Times Roll (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:34
• 40 Jimmy Jimmy (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:39
• 41 Moving in Stereo (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:33
• 42 Just What I Needed (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:38
• 43 A Dream Away (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:38
• 44 Cruiser (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:10
• 45 Drive (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:01
• 46 You Might Think (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:10
• 47 My Best Friend's Girl (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:43
• 48 Magic (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:26
• 49 Let's Go (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:45
• 50 Heartbeat City (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:11
• 51 You're All I've Got Tonight (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:05
• Total Runtime 03:36:29

Info for Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition Remastered)

Über 40 Jahre nach seiner Erstveröffentlichung ist „Heartbeat City“ nach wie vor das kommerziell erfolgreichste Album von The Cars. Es wurde in den USA mit 4-fach Platin ausgezeichnet und erreichte weltweit die Charts. Produziert von Robert John „Mutt“ Lange, enthält es sechs Hitsingles, darunter „Drive“, „You Might Think“ und „Magic“.

Als The Cars ihr fünftes Album herausbrachten, waren sie bereits erfahrene Hitproduzenten, doch die Band schien sich in ihrer kreativen Entwicklung festgefahren zu fühlen. Entscheidende Veränderungen – ein etwas weicherer Sound und die Zusammenarbeit mit Mutt Lange, dessen Pop-Expertise Roy Thomas Bakers Herangehensweise an die vorherigen Alben der Band ablösen sollte – machten „Heartbeat City“ zu einem absoluten Publikumsliebling weltweit. Während ihre ersten vier Langspielplatten jährlich erschienen, kam diese drei Jahre nach „Shake It Up“ heraus, das zwar einige einprägsame Songs hervorbrachte, diese aber im Vergleich zu „Drive“ verblassen ließen – und es gibt keinen besseren Grund, das Album der Band aus dem Jahr 1984 als Auftakt für eine Deluxe-Edition ihres Katalogs zu wählen.

„Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition)“ präsentiert die Highlights der Album-Sessions mit einer Demoversion des Top-10-Hits „Drive“ sowie unveröffentlichten Aufnahmen von Titeln wie „Stranger Eyes“ und „Jacki“ (später umbenannt in „Heartbeat City“). Die Edition enthält außerdem mehrere Versionen von „Shooting For You“, einem Outtake aus dem Panorama-Album der 1980er-Jahre, das während der Produktion von „Heartbeat City“ wiederentdeckt wurde.

Die Box enthält außerdem ein komplettes Konzert, das am 11. September 1984 im The Summit in Houston aufgezeichnet wurde. Ursprünglich auf VHS und Laserdisc als „The Cars – Live 1984-1985“ veröffentlicht, erscheint der Auftritt hier erstmals auf CD, erweitert um bisher unveröffentlichte Versionen von „Candy-O“ und „My Best Friend’s Girl“. Die Band eröffnete die Show mit „Hello Again“ und präsentierte in einem 70-minütigen Set 17 Songs, darunter die Hälfte des neuen Albums, inklusive „You Might Think“ und „Magic“, sowie frühere Hits wie „Good Times Roll“ und „Let’s Go“.

Ric Ocasek, Gesang, Gitarre
Ben Orr, Gesang, Bass
Elliot Easton, Gitarre, Gesang
Greg Hawkes, Keyboards, Gesang, Fairlight CMI-Programmierung
David Robinson, Schlagzeug, Fairlight-Programmierung

Digitally remastered

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The Cars
In many ways, The Cars were the prototypical American new wave band of the 1980s. Barging into a pop-music scene then overwhelmed by English New Romantic pretty-boy bands, The Cars’ highly polished, chrome-plated four-on-the-floor rock ’n’ roll charged up the charts like a souped-up Camaro racing to the checkered flag—with the band’s Alberto Vargas-designed album art glinting like metal-flake paint on a hot rod.

Cars co-founders Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr had been writing songs and forming bands together since 1972, when they first teamed as two-thirds of the folk trio Milkwood (whose one album also featured Cars’ future keyboardist Greg Hawkes). In 1974, Ocasek and Orr joined with Elliot Easton to form the legendary Boston band, Cap’n Swing, which lasted but a year. Finally, in 1976, the trio called in Hawkes and ex-Modern Lovers drummer David Robinson, and The Cars were ready to roll.

The Cars, released in the spring of ’78, spun off three hit singles (“Just What I Needed,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Good Times Roll”) and graced the charts for more than two and a half years, eventually going platinum six times over. Their debut was so successful, in fact, that Elektra delayed the release of the band’s 1979 follow-up, Candy-O, for several months. Candy-O, 1980’s Panorama, and 1981’s Shake It Up each, in turn, went platinum, and the latter’s title track became the group’s first Top 10 hit. Along the way, Ocasek began establishing a reputation as a producer, working with such bands as Suicide, Bad Brains, and Romeo Void.

After Shake It Up, the band members took a break, with Ocasek, Orr, and Hawkes all recording solo albums. It must have done them good, for their next album, Heartbeat City, became their most successful. Released in 1984, Heartbeat City sprang to #3 on the album charts and produced four Top 40 singles (“You Might Think,” “Magic,” “Drive,” and “Hello Again”). These singles also broke new ground visually with their inventive, computer-animated videos, which each received heavy rotation on the then-nascent MTV.

The next two years found the band on another extended leave (with solo albums from Ocasek, Orr, and Easton), followed by 1987’s only somewhat successful Door To Door. The Cars disbanded in February 1988. Ocasek went on to release seven solo albums and produced some of the biggest names in ’90s rock. Easton took to the road with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Orr, after a long and painful battle, succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2000.

The Cars legacy continued in to the 21st century with the release of a live concert DVD, a double-disc deluxe edition of their classic self-titled debut album, and the ultimate Cars collection, Complete Greatest Hits.

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