For the last month or so I've listened to [1]The Cars fairly regularly.
I think it's the change of the season as I've always associated them
with summer.
When I was a young pup, knee high to a garden snake, my Californian
brothers brought many an otherwise unknown band to our midwestern home.
Van Halen, Rush, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, and others were in the mix.
The more heavy metal of the bunch I discarded.
[2]Rush was the first of those bands I embraced. One of my friends in
my Connecticut high school was a big Rush fan. When I started working
many years later for a Canadian company Rush again entered my listening
life.
[3]Van Halen, and later Van Hagar, became frozen in that late 80's to
90 moment when they were everywhere.
And then there was The Cars.
The Cars was like a less overplayed and better version of what
[4]Journey was doing at the time (also part of my brothers' music mix).
Journey stayed ever present on US radio from the Rock to Classic Rock
to the oldies station where they live today.
I recall having one of their tapes, [5]Heartbeat City, when the family
road tripped across the western US on holiday in the mid 80's. Then
they dropped off my radar.
I'm caught a bit off guard by the high regard in which I hold The Cars
today.
Who cares. It's summer (in the Northern Hemisphere)!
Also on:
[6]Twitter
__________________________________________________________________
My original entry is here: [7]Moving in Stereo. It posted Thu, 03 May
2018 13:22:34 +0000.
Filed under: personal,
References
1.
http://www.thecars.org/
2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band)
3.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen
4.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_(band)
5.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbeat_City
6.
https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/992032516839272450
7.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1075
