{"id":2504,"date":"2010-01-11T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:17:01","slug":"the-untouchables-2-starring-the-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-untouchables-2-starring-the-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Untouchables 2, Starring The Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U can’t touch this!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a recent thread on Richard Thompson<\/strong><\/a>, of all artists, Townsman dbuskirk questioned the Hall’s lack of interest in discussing The Cars<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Kinda shocked there aren’t more Cars defenders here. Roy Thomas Baker’s production stirred my soul when I first heard it. The debut is a wonderfully sequenced record….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first thought that came to my mind was, Do The Cars need defenders?<\/em> For me, the Untouchables<\/strong> status of The Cars, that is, the lack of critical debate over their output, requires no explanation or analysis. Unlike Peter Gabriel<\/strong>, whose untouchable status I found puzzling<\/a>, The Cars never promised more than they delivered AND<\/em> they had the good sense to get out of the game before they could no longer deliver within the narrow confines of what they did so well. I’m not suggesting that the second through fourth Cars albums are on par with the first one, but they worked within their system and maintained a high quotient of completely soul-less pop confections. <\/p>\n

Did anyone who found that first Cars album the hookfest that it was bum out when the subsequent albums failed to reach that high a level? I don’t think so, but maybe Young Townsman dbuskirk suffered a serious letdown following the release of Shake It Up<\/em>. More likely, I suspect we accepted the best songs from the next few albums for what they were, never thinking that the band had it in them to do any better. Better yet, they never opened themselves up to criticism by trying to be anything they weren’t. There was never a “serious” Cars album or a “back to the basics” Cars album or a foray into World Music or any other nonsense that The Police<\/strong>, for instance, would try. I believe The Cars should be complemented for this, whether it was intentional or not.<\/p>\n

Does this make sense? Are there any other artists who got in and out of the game and delivered to the best of their humble abilities before letting any fan down?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U can’t touch this! In a recent thread on Richard Thompson, of all artists, Townsman dbuskirk questioned the Hall’s lack of interest in discussing The Cars: Kinda shocked there aren’t more Cars defenders here. Roy Thomas Baker’s production stirred my soul when I first heard it. The debut is a wonderfully sequenced record…. The first […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}