 Candy-O (1979) [ larger cover art ] |
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Can I touch you
Are you out of touch
I guess I never noticed that much
Geranium lover
I'm live on your wire
Oh come and take me whoever you are
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Oh inside angel
Always upset
Keeps on forgettin'
That we ever met
Can I bring you out in the light
My curiosity's got me tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
Oh she's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Museum directors
With high shaking heads
They kick white shadows
Until they play dead
They want to crack your crossword smile
Oh can I take you out for awhile, yeah
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type, alright
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Tonight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
Tonight
She's a lot like you
Come on and hold me tight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on hold me tight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
Come on hold me tight
Tonight
She's a lot like you
The dangerous type
She's a lot like you
(fade)
| stephw (From The Great White North) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 11:33 Thank you for playing The Cars, one of my favorite bands in high school.  |
| junebaby65 (Cleveland, OH) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 11:33 Killer guitar solo!  |
| asilbuch (NoVA) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 11:32 Back seat of a car...... |
| Ballzak | Posted: Mar 14, 2013 - 17:37 BLADERUNNER wrote: I bought this album when it first came out, and, to this day, i still look at the Vargas girl before i notice the car. Car??? |
| Jacquetta (Kelowna, BC) | Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:28 At my first rock concert (Trooper, Vancouver BC) this album was played while waiting for the show. I was hooked and bought it next day. Husband and I still love the album. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 11:22 DaveInVA wrote: Though I never liked the Talking Heads I've always liked the Cars and this is one of my favs..  Interesting. This is catchy. Never became fond of the Talking Heads. |
| Kaisersosay (Mighty Mighty Bostown) | Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:55 Music Hall, 1979, Boston... |
| Kaisersosay (Mighty Mighty Bostown) | Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 06:54 Music Hall, 1979, Boston... |
| Stingray | Posted: Oct 06, 2012 - 07:55 I'm shy to admit that I like it! |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Sep 07, 2012 - 08:35 Mrs Poacher collects original (well, originally printed) Vargas images like on the cover. I approve and encourage as much as I am able. |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 13:55 BLADERUNNER wrote: I bought this album when it first came out, and, to this day, i still look at the Vargas girl before i notice the car. i hope i never grow up!!
I can still remember how it felt to take the album out of the sleave and put it on the turntable. For you see, I was 6 and it was the first time I was allowd to play a record by myself. I also think it was the first time I consciously knew I liked girls. |
| BLADERUNNER (Port City on the Cape Fear) | Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 12:39 BLADERUNNER wrote: I bought this album when it first came out, and, to this day, i still look at the Vargas girl before i notice the car. i hope i never grow up!! there's a car in the picture? |
| spiritfla (Land O Lakes, FL (I still miss Austin)) | Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 12:39 BLADERUNNER wrote: I bought this album when it first came out, and, to this day, i still look at the Vargas girl before i notice the car. i hope i never grow up!! I've owned this album since it came out....I don't think I EVER saw the car. Who knew?! |
| spiritfla (Land O Lakes, FL (I still miss Austin)) | Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 12:38 timeless... |
| coloradojohn (Tokyo till Jan. 29, then it's back to Rocky Mtn Way!) | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 05:36 That guitar solo just RIPS IT! I mean, WOW! it goes way out along the edge of things at light-speed and then seamlessly turns back into the song again, and after all these years, I STILL never want it to end...timeless brilliance and verve from creative genius at its peak (and from a time in my life when I sure needed and appreciated it) — thanks, RP! |
| BLADERUNNER (Port City on the Cape Fear) | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 05:26 I bought this album when it first came out, and, to this day, i still look at the Vargas girl before i notice the car. i hope i never grow up!! |
| tutakea | Posted: Dec 29, 2011 - 02:00 i do like some songs from them. this one does NOT belong to that list :-( there is a thin line between "fun" and "just tooo much", which is definitively crossed here |
| iTuner | Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 11:23 Jelani wrote: Hmmm...though I love this band and album and it's cover artist, I never really took note of the artwork. That seems to be a '72 Ferrari 365 GTC4 that she's on the hood of. I can't believe anyone would let that happen. It is a cool thing though. Ferrari's are the best. When this album came out the 365 GTC4 was a nice used car, not like the stupid speculator money that they cost now. I must be old, looked at the car first on the cover. |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 17:51 one of the first concerts I attended... these guys were UNEXPECTEDLY loud ...  |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: Jul 24, 2011 - 08:05 I agree...this song, this tape, this band was playing in my '70 Cutlass almost every day the entire summer of '79! Rippingly good music! I am also happy to attest that their new album shows they can and do still Move Like This! Put it on and turn it way up! How invigorating it feels to be jamming to The Cars again like a crazed teen who can't get enough! YEAH! Synth80s wrote: One of my favorite tunes from the era. A good mix of the herky jerky rock of late '70s Cars with a nod to where they were headed on more synth-oriented albums in the '80s. The original Cars, minus Ben Orr sadly, are coming back with a new album this Spring called "Move Like This." The release date is May 5, 2011 and song samples are available on The Cars' Facebook page. They sound damned good!!! |
| p2h2d2 (On the Lake) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 12:44 Jelani wrote: Hmmm...though I love this band and album and it's cover artist, I never really took note of the artwork. That seems to be a '72 Ferrari 365 GTC4 that she's on the hood of. I can't believe anyone would let that happen. It is a cool thing though. Ferrari's are the best. LOL...this album came out while I was in college and this is the first time I have noticed the car. Funny how age changes perceptions. On second though, I am scaring myself. |
| Synth80s (*Beautiful* Southern California (cough, choke, honk)) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 12:43 One of my favorite tunes from the era. A good mix of the herky jerky rock of late '70s Cars with a nod to where they were headed on more synth-oriented albums in the '80s. The original Cars, minus Ben Orr sadly, are coming back with a new album this Spring called "Move Like This." The release date is May 5, 2011 and song samples are available on The Cars' Facebook page. They sound damned good!!! |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 12:42 Hannio wrote: There's a car? |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Apr 20, 2011 - 12:41 Jelani wrote: Hmmm...though I love this band and album and it's cover artist, I never really took note of the artwork. That seems to be a '72 Ferrari 365 GTC4 that she's on the hood of. I can't believe anyone would let that happen. It is a cool thing though. Ferrari's are the best. There's a car? |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Feb 16, 2011 - 15:45 Hmmm...though I love this band and album and it's cover artist, I never really took note of the artwork. That seems to be a '72 Ferrari 365 GTC4 that she's on the hood of. I can't believe anyone would let that happen. It is a cool thing though. Ferrari's are the best. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Oct 13, 2010 - 13:28 Great song from their best album! 8 -> 9! |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Oct 13, 2010 - 13:26 Ric Ocasek's 'Time Bomb' or 'Out of Control' should make the rotation sometime..great music  I'd upload it, but I only own it on vinyl.. |
| PA1749 (Jim Thorpe, PA) | Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 18:47 From a time when album artwork served a purpose. I remember picking up "The Wall" just because of the cover. Little did I know what was inside would change my life. This cover could easily serve more than one purpose.  |
| anabel | Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 18:46 Love it! |
| LPCity (Salt Lake City, Utah) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 18:15 Fantastic Song! Always fun to play live with a band if you could pull it off, just have each additional band member adding their vocals as the song builds near the end and CRANK the volume up. Of course we always struggled with how to end it. Can't really do the fade out ending live... |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Aug 10, 2010 - 18:09 Oh... Hell... Yes... |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 21:23 i remember thinking "so the girl on the cover is 'dangerous type' huh?'" (little did I know, then, that a small-chested, freckle-faced girl could be one....) |
| (former member) | Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 21:23 nagsheadlocal wrote: Heh - I'm with you on that. While I liked the Heads I never got the ecstatic nature of their critical reviews - altho a few critics have since downgraded their original scores. The Cars were a great little band and Elliott Easton was an under-rated guitarist. You want to check out The New Cars, then. Todd Rundgren, Elliott Easton, Prairie Prince, Kasim Sulton, and Greg Hawkes. GREAT stuff. |
| Tosko (Akron, Ohio) | Posted: May 07, 2010 - 07:32 Nice song and album from my youth. I remember staring at the cover for an inordinate amount of time. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: May 07, 2010 - 07:30 Though I never liked the Talking Heads I've always liked the Cars and this is one of my favs.. |
| flyboy50 (Austin TX) | Posted: May 07, 2010 - 07:30 MEOW !! Tim_in_N_FL wrote: Pussy Galore, I presume?  |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 07, 2010 - 07:28 "geranium lover"?? Nurse! My ear drops, please! |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Apr 05, 2010 - 14:54 illinimax wrote: What a killer guitar solo. Nicely done Mr. Easton. One of the unsung heroes of 80's rock.  |
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Apr 05, 2010 - 14:52 jbunniii wrote: Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. Maybe the circles I ran with at the time but the Cars always topped the Talking Heads. I also agree with somebody below who said they have held up much better over the years. |
| Marr (Houston (dreaming of Austin)) | Posted: Feb 01, 2010 - 12:03 jbunniii wrote: Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. Oddly enough, Jerry Harrison of the TH's and David Robinson of the Cars were in a band together (Jonathan Richmond's Modern Lovers) before moving on. |
| sirdroseph (Outer Mongolia) | Posted: Feb 01, 2010 - 11:51 Killer drums and bells too; one of my all time Cars favs no doubt!  |
| illinimax (Chicagoland) | Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 16:27 What a killer guitar solo. Nicely done Mr. Easton. |
| Tim_in_N_FL (Florida) | Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 16:26 Stefen wrote:  Pussy Galore, I presume? |
| gormeister (Commonwealth of Virginia) | Posted: Nov 30, 2009 - 16:25 fantastic! |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:33 is it really 30 years old? wow... |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:17 jbunniii wrote: Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. Heh - I'm with you on that. While I liked the Heads I never got the ecstatic nature of their critical reviews - altho a few critics have since downgraded their original scores. The Cars were a great little band and Elliott Easton was an under-rated guitarist. |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:16 jbunniii wrote: Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. I like this too but I wouldn't eat bread at your house. |
| DaveInVA (In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:15 jbunniii wrote: Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. I agree. I generally don't like David Head/Talking Byrnes but the Cars I like.. |
| swruch (Central Joisey) | Posted: Oct 30, 2009 - 07:14 One of the first pieces of vinyl I ever owned... Thanks again, Bill. |
| jbunniii (San Jose, CA) | Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 17:20 Although it would have been desperately "uncool" to say so in the 1980s, the Cars were far better than the Talking Heads. Most of their stuff has aged better, too. Candy-O still sounds fresh today. |