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Life's the same except for my shoes
Life's the same, you're shakin' like tremolo
Life's the same, it's all inside you
It's so easy to blow up your problems
It's so easy to play up your breakdown
It's so easy to fly through a window
It's so easy to fool with the sound
It's so tough to get up
It's so tough
It's so tough to live up
It's so tough on you
Life's the same, I'm moving in stereo
Life's the same except for my shoes
Life's the same, you're shakin' like tremolo
Life's the same, it's all inside you
Life's the same, I'm moving in stereo
Life's the same except for my shoes
Life's the same, you're shakin' like tremolo
Life's the same, it's all inside you
Bill, you HAVE TO go back to playing All Mixed Right Up immediately after Moving In Stereo! It's such a great couplet.
I concur.
The Cars are my favorite band. 'All Mixed Up' is as good as any song on their self titled debut album. The climax that builds up and is then released at the end of the song is glorious, and it is the perfect ending to a near perfect album.
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1978-1979
What a densely explosive period for music.
The Cars, The Pretenders, The Clash, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Springsteen, Blondie (who else ya got?).
And this awkward stoner boy HS senior in Massachusetts had WBCN playing ALL OF IT!!!
Totally with you except for the pot. Didn't smoke much back then (or ever) but yeah it was a pretty cool time for music and movies.
RIP BCN The Rock of Boston...
What a densely explosive period for music.
The Cars, The Pretenders, The Clash, Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Springsteen, Blondie (who else ya got?).
And this awkward stoner boy HS senior in Massachusetts had WBCN playing ALL OF IT!!!
Bill, you HAVE TO go back to playing All Mixed Right Up immediately after Moving In Stereo! It's such a great couplet.
yes, please!
Still no joy. :(
I hear ya. Bill's a hardass these days...
Hmmm...
DANG
NOT TODAY
Still no joy. :(
Great song, but doesn't seem complete without All Mixed Up
It's all inside you
Hi Brad! You know how cute I always thought you were?
Doesn't anybody knock any more?!
Sad to think Ric Ocasek and the girl on the album cover are both deceased. I guess time marches on.
and benjamin orr, the bassist and guy on vocals... love them all
wow, what a smile!
Kind of a bummer that cover was forced on the band.
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wow, what a smile!
Bill, you HAVE TO go back to playing All Mixed Right Up immediately after Moving In Stereo! It's such a great couplet.
DANG
NOT TODAY
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nice back to back Cars great album well done RP
saw them twice in Toronto...great shows really tight band
We all felt blessed to have this to drive to school to, on cold, snowy winter mornings. We all felt grateful to have this to jam to, beer and joint in hand, after school, whether holed-up in our cars, riding out the weather, or outside of them, tossing the Frisbee in the park. The Cars were the soundtrack of our adventures, and we depended upon them with fondness and devotion. Ric, and Ben, may we always stay Moving In Stereo with you! Thanks, RP, for keeping the vibe alive!
Wow. 100% ditto in Boston.
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Giggty....
Wait till the next one: it seems Bill likes to follow it up with "All Mixed Up"
...as it should be!
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Me too! We probably saw the Cars in concert a dozen times that year! Along with our other Boston locals, Aerosmith and J. Geils.
Who didn’t have a crush on Phoebe Cates?
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No biscuit today, but cream instead. Strange brew, indeed.
Again 3 years later.
MIND = BLOWN
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Wait till the next one: it seems Bill likes to follow it up with "All Mixed Up"
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Hi Brad! You know how cute I always thought you were?
MIND = BLOWN
![banana split](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/bananasplit.gif)
Dare I say one of the finest debut albums of all time? Saw them in SF shortly after this came out and may I say it changed nearly everything.....drugs helped, but what a tight band.......mind blowing.
Summer of '79 too!
upgrade to an 8
This came on and - as it always does - I was immediately in the summer between high school and college. A very short, intensely weird window in my life, but not without it's high points. This album was in constant rotation everywhere and their particular flavour of tasty synthpop ushered in what would become New Wave in our circles. Stirs up many twisted but fun memories.
This was the only 8track that would play on the bus I rode to middle school and high school, (but I rode a bicycle mostly by then except for a month after breaking my leg)
We were about to pick up my crush when this came on. Pretty blonde.
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Always love a good thematically relevant transition
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A man who left something good behind when he moved on!
Missed by pop culture? The Cars were hugely popular in the 80s, and this tune in particular, associated with one of the great pop movies of the 80s.
Uh, not where I'm from! They were huge. Were you in Outer Mongolia around the time of the Cars?
Missed by pop culture? The Cars were hugely popular in the 80s, and this tune in particular, associated with one of the great pop movies of the 80s.
![dance](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/eusa_dance.gif)
I remember Poplar Creek. Saw Sting there and a few other bands I can't remember. Cool place...too bad it's gone. It was a pretty decent venue to see a band.
No biscuit today, but cream instead. Strange brew, indeed.
I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
LowPhreak wrote:
Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
25demayo wrote:
Today Bill gets a biscuit. Moving in Stereo followed by All Mixed Up.
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25demayo wrote:
Unfortunately no biscuit today.
JeriF wrote:
Biscuit today!
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No biscuit today, but cream instead. Strange brew, indeed.
Spot_69 wrote:
I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
LowPhreak wrote:
Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
25demayo wrote:
Today Bill gets a biscuit. Moving in Stereo followed by All Mixed Up.
![{#Clap} {#Clap}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/eusa_clap.gif)
25demayo wrote:
Unfortunately no biscuit today.
Biscuit today!
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36 years later, and there's no sign of it slowing down.
Brandon Flowers mentioned that scene when he inducted the Cars into the R&R H-O-F.
Spot_69 wrote:
I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
LowPhreak wrote:
Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
25demayo wrote:
Today Bill gets a biscuit. Moving in Stereo followed by All Mixed Up.
![{#Clap} {#Clap}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/eusa_clap.gif)
Unfortunately no biscuit today.
Yes, this song is indelibly linked to that Fast Times In Ridgemont High scene in my brain.
Spot_69 wrote:
I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
LowPhreak wrote:
Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
Today Bill gets a biscuit. Moving in Stereo followed by All Mixed Up.
![{#Clap} {#Clap}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/eusa_clap.gif)
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Yes, I too was hoping Bill would hear our pleas, but alas. Maybe he feels if he caves to pressure on this one, he might feel like he'd have to on other musical one-two punches? Ah well, it's a rare and minor miss in the grand scheme of RP.
Alas, maybe your pleas are being properly disregarded with no other rationale than, "because they should be".
Such a great album!. I remember after listening to what's now called Classic Rock for years, hearing this album and just being blown away by the "new" sound.
Yes.
And I laugh at all the Fast Times references in the other notes on this song.
Ah, the good ol' days.
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Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
Yes, I too was hoping Bill would hear our pleas, but alas. Maybe he feels if he caves to pressure on this one, he might feel like he'd have to on other musical one-two punches? Ah well, it's a rare and minor miss in the grand scheme of RP.
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Ah yes, THAT'S it!
+1
They had a great run. I feel like they pushed the radio rock genre to its absolute limit at a time rock and roll had lost its way. Every band since has basically been trying to reinvent or rediscover older forms. The Cars by contrast were the last classic rock band to be original - if that males any sense.
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I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
Feels like we're Moving In Mono, not Stereo?
I also feel cheated every time that happens.
Bad Bill - no biscuit.
I pass the microphone to Mr Dunning–Kruger
Though, I'll make exception for some shoes
Where is All Mixed Up?!?
This isn’t proper!
I feel cheated!
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