The Cars Reunion!

[My_Two_Cents]

I realize this article is several months old, but this is the first I've heard of the reunion, and I heard ~40 seconds of one of their new songs on the radio this morning. Ocasec's voice and the band "sound" has not changed a bit in 25 years, though I'm sure Orr's guitar will be missed.

The Cars were one of my favorite bands in HS (and still are), and I'm really looking forward to the new 'album'.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/185254

It's been 23 years since the Cars split, but the band is finally hinting at a reunion. On their official Facebook page, the band posted a photograph of the surviving members — singer Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, drummer David Robinson and guitarist Elliot Easton — gathered together in a Boston studio surrounded by their instruments. "I hate to be vague, but I really can't say," keyboardist Hawkes told the Boston Globe when asked whether the band was reuniting. "It's a crazy world." A rep for Ocasek did not immediately return Rolling Stone's request for comment, but a link on the band's Facebook to a story about the reunion rumors is accompanied with the following note: "Anyone in the mood for a reunion by the Cars?"

When RS caught up with Ocasek in Feburary, he said he was working on new material that was "a surprise." He added that the new songs are "more mature, because I'm older now." "It's hard to write songs these days, it's hard to have hope," he said.

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The Cars, one of the most popular New Wave bands thanks to a string of hits that included "My Best Friend's Girl," "Just What I Needed" and "Let's Go," last recorded together for 1987's Door to Door. While reunion rumors have popped up in the years that followed, any hope of a full-on Cars reunion was dashed when bassist-singer Benjamin Orr died of pancreatic cancer in 2000.

Since the band's breakup, Ocasek has carved out a notable career as a producer, recording with everyone from Weezer to No Doubt to Guided by Voices. In 2005, Hawkes and Easton recruited Todd Rundgren to form the critically maligned New Cars, but that project hit the brakes in 2007.

[CaptainYoda]

Apparently this was all over the news yesterday. The Cars are one of my all time favorite bands. I have every one of their CDs (and LPs for that matter.) And this news is super exciting. I would love to see a new album and a tour. I had tickets to see the cars back in 1987, but the concert was postponed and eventually cancelled because the band broke up.

I will definitely see them this time around if they do tour, but Ben Orr will be missed.

[SDon1969]

This is great news, Ric, thanks!

My favorite Cars tune, "It's All I Can Do".