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Media Type: CD
Artist: CARS
Title: CANDY-O
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3253 in Music
• Brand: CARS
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Candy-O - oh my!
Although the first album is considered by many to be The Cars' one classic album, I'd put Candy-O on top. If you like driving down the highway with your 6(or 8 or 10...) speakers blasting on high, singing along to a CD, Candy-O will make you delirious. Ear candy of the finest order, The Cars' second album has many bright spots - chief among them being "Nightspots." The extended intro to this song - with Elliot Easton's great guitar lick - just has to be one of the most sublime moments in rock. And although every other reviewer has already mentioned it, the segue between "Shoo-Be-Doo" and the title track, like sex, is shiver-inducing. It will have you coming back for more and more, skipping back to that last few seconds of the first song as you crank the volume higher and higher until your ears bleed, just to get your fix of that first note of "Candy-O." I swear, it's like crack. The other songs are merely great. And unlike the first album, there isn't a stinker in the bunch. Sure, "The Cars" is a masterpiece and "Panorama" and "Shake It Up" have their merits, but "Heartbeat City," while a good pop album, is not the Cars I had grown and loved and played air guitar to on my tennis racket. And the less said about "Door To Door," the better. It was "Candy-O" that made me believe rock and roll was heaven-sent. Those first two Cars albums ROCKED, pure and simple. I just wish they'd get their due because, damn, that was a good band. Without "Candy-O" and The Cars (with a little help from Blondie and Devo), rock and roll might never have bridged the gap between guitar and synthesizer/keyboards. The Cars proved you could have both AND rock. Buy Candy-O today. Your musical health depends on it.

Candy-O, I need you still....
22 years, 6 cassettes, and 1 CD later, this album is still part of my driving collection. I can never get tired of it, and will continue to wear it out and replace it as long as I live. From start to finish, this album is rich in sound and word. Ric and Ben sharing vocals provide the trademark Cars sound. David's rhythmic, tight drums, Elliot's fantastic guitar licks, and Greg's experimental electronic sound all make this album a classic, in my book. Pay particular attention to "Since I Held You", and "Got a lot on my head". These songs stand out as classic hook-driven tunes conceived with careful forethought. Most of all, it reminds me of a time when you had to have talent to get a recording contract.

Best Second Album by Any Band Ever!
I must enthusiastically agree with all the other customer reviewers who raved about this CD. Most classic rock stations play a lot of tracks from the Cars' debut album, but Candy-O remains my favorite.

Each and every song on this CD is catchy and makes you want to turn the volume up a notch or two. I'm personally not that crazy about "Nightspots", which I consider the weakest track on the disc, but it's still listenable. "Shoo-Be-Doo", with it's segue into the title track, and "Dangerous Type" get my vote for the best tracks on the disc. The latter song conveys a sense of darkness and foreboding, as if something really bad is going to happen if singer Ric Ocasek keeps up his relationship with the girl in the song. Greg Hawkes' mesmerizing keyboard work is at its best in this track, as well as "It's All I Can Do".

Last but not least, the cover of "Candy-O" gets my vote as one of the most erotic album covers of all time. The cover art by Antonio Vargas, who illustrated for Playboy in the 60's and 70's, is incredible. I'd have bought the CD just for the picture alone, but guess what? The music is fantastic too!!