Music was all over the place in the 1970s and 1980s: punk, acoustic, disco, the Eagles, the Doobie Brothers, Minnie Riperton, Blondie, Phoebe Snow, Foghat, the Talking Heads, the B52s.
But there was a moment in 1985 when New Wave and dance music and rock ‘n roll and crazy hairstyles were in exact alignment.
Ladies and gentleman: Ric Ocasek and the Cars sing “Tonight She Comes.”
Enjoy.
Okay, students of Rock & Roll Academy: whatever happened to rock & roll? Did it die in the 1960s? Were the Doors rock & roll? What about the later Beatles? What about Talking Heads?
I think there are still a couple of bands that are playing something that Dick Dale and Bill Haley would recognize. Maybe the Black Keys, nowaydays. And maybe even this song, from the early 1980s, from the Cars.
Shake it up!
This is one of those bizarre 1980s songs that we thought (in those days) were ultra-hip: Gary Numan paces around like a mad scientist wearing heavy mascara, under unflattering neon lighting, delivering nasal paranoid lyrics, while the rest of the band members stare at him without emotion.
I think maybe it is ultra-hip.
Enjoy.
