greetings from 2024, just found this, and WOW, am blow away by the beauty, simplicity, depth of the performance. Thank you Ric for this great performance. RIP brother
This version is simply amazing, I wish Ric would make an acoustic album with all the great cuts the Cars did. A big thanks to who posted this up. Ric Ocasek is one of my personal favorites.
Yes I am guilty of playing his music over and over until I got sick of it and then all this time later and I am doing it again.After he died I have gone over it all again and I now can see why I loved them from the start of it all.I was a teenager when they first came out and now at 58 I love the music just as much.
So beautiful, there is an innocent anguish in the layers of his voice. More perfect voices don't hit the same heartstrings. Almost like Winnie the Pooh's voice 🤗
The test of a great song, one singer, one acoustic guitar, if the song still captivates it's not all hooks / bells and whistles, but a truly great tune.
Back in the early 70's when Ric and Ben were doing two man shows with just an accoustic guitar and bass, I can imagine they did just this scenario more than once, and possibly with this song too.
I have always loved this song, and this acoustic version is so beautiful I just saw The Cars in Boston. Ocasek has a beautiful voice, different from Benjamin Orr's voice. Still, my favorite band because they were different and had great diversity in their songs.
I never knew Ric could play acoustic guitar... RIP Every time I hear this, I think of Adam Sandler reading Valentine's Day cards in 3rd grade in "Billy Madison"... this is a beautiful version :(
the studio recording of this with the keyboard stuff with Greg Hawkes was pure mesmerizing and utterly melancholic & prefer this better with Drive , but this acoustic version done by Ric, brings it more closer to intimate and deeper somber mood and ambient to it....thank you for the music sir...will surely miss you.
Listen to this Talent! He didn’t even need a band. Amazing! Thanks Ric! You will be missed and remembered! This is painful for me since I’ve been a Fan since 1978! I grew up on the Cars and the Police! Even though your gone now your Music will live on! RIP Ric and Ben-Two Great Singers! Maybe your Reunited up there in Heaven now! That would be Nice. 🔥💥🎸😎
AmusedChild yeah, I know. I live and breath the cars. Not the same though as if they did the cars hits. I do like the way they do “everyday” buddy hollies song, before they formed the cArs
Holy smokes! I am a HUGE Cars fan, and I really like their sound. I generally prefer the produced, electronic style, but this is really good. Ocasek does an excellent job with just a guitar and a bass line.
A great version of a great song. Rick sang with such a sense of irony, both in his voice and his lyrics. .................he is sorely missed. This is such a classic.
I'm finding that these "Acoustic Sessions" seem to be much more intimate.....and in this particular case quite sentimental too....I'm Thankful to have been around as a Passenger when The Cars were driving up and down my Street as a youth back in The MTV Days.....Stay Strong All
It's heart-rending to lose your music heroes. R.I.P. Ric. Thanks for rocking my childhood and teen years. You and Ben can now continue to make more music on the Other Side of the veil. Looking forward to hearing new Cars material again from you both someday.
>Ocasek has a beautiful voice - I agree, but it took him all the way up 'til the Shake It Up album (from which comes this song) before he really hit his stride. For the first three albums, he had this *affectation*, a sort-of "bratty" tone. Then came Shake It Up, and from "Since You're Gone" to "Maybe Baby", he sang with much more heart, and a sort of purity emerged. He sang "I'm Not The One" especially beautiful, and "Why Can't I Have You" from Heartbeat City is another good example.
Excelente versión, suena perfect, Rick Ocasek, trasciende en el tiempo con esta hermosa interpretación, un deleite a los oídos (que agradable escucharla).
Oh you're SO lucky!!! A strange irony that I had tickets to see them in Sacramento.... couldn't believe I got them......but they split & cancelled the concert. A deep and abiding disappointment in my life ☹️😊🤗. hoping there is a reason for it in the timeless cosmos lol
I just read in Rolling Stone online that the Cars have finished a reunion album. Ocasek said half the songs would have fit Ben's voice and since they wanted only original band members working in the studio he just sung them himself rather than get an outsider involved.
is there more to this, is this taken from something? i would love to hear an entire set of Ric doing songs like this. i always love this stuff because you get to hear what the song actually sounded like when Ric first presented it to the band, and then you get to see what the other guys added to it and made it the great song we all know and love.
Many people don’t know that both Ocasek and Ben Orr began as a folk singing duo in the 60’s. They (and their songs) were repackaged as quirky, New Wave with the help of a new band and PRESTO...The Cars were born!
Tru dat. At least for the verse. But honestly, the chord progression is in a million songs, and I can;t believe I'm saying this, but I think the vocal line is more interesting than Dear Prudence.
great song, beautifully rendered here... both things are true: yes the rest of the band did put brilliant "meat on those bones" AND yes the compositions stand simply and brilliantly on their own.. it's that combination that really makes the cars so unique... thank you for posting!
Again, the high school clique decided to finally induct the Cars. What a blast the debut was, the mixture of old and new and of course..your songwriting. ..Alienation is the craze..
