Vale Ric Ocasek

[Papa G]

Surprised nobody has mentioned this. The Cars had some catchy tunes, but far and a way Ric's greatest achievement was marrying Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova

 

[IAMDASH]

The man could write a catchy pop-rock song that's for sure. He clearly also batted way above his average!

 

[DaRick]

I kind of liked his dorky, insecure, rhythmic, syllabic signing style.

The Cars were a good band. Maybe not a great band - they rode a lot on their singles. I really liked Elliott Easton's guitar solos - the man was an underrated guitarist and gave The Cars that hard-rock edge that gave their music a bit more edge than many of their New Wave contemporaries had. On most of my favourite Cars songs he contributes a tasty solo, sometimes with a Robert Fripp-like style.

Top 5 favourite Cars songs:
1) Tonight She Comes
2) Touch and Go
3) Since You're Gone
4) Dangerous Type
5) Shake It Up

Honourable mentions to Moving In Stereo, Just What I Needed, It's All I Can Do, Good Times Roll, You're All I've Got Tonight, My Best Friend's Girl, Let's Go, Drive, Magic and You Might Think (no coincidence that many of these are from their debut album - my favourite Cars songs are on other albums, but they have the most 'good' songs on their debut and so I think that's their best overall).

RIP.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Wrote some really good music and one of the few 'pop' acts I enjoy.