{"id":725,"date":"2007-04-17T04:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/15\/bye-bye-love\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:03:47","slug":"bye-bye-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cars were one of those bands I was always kind of ambivalent about.\u00a0 It took me a few years to realize why; the songs Ric Ocasek sang, I really didn’t much care about. Bassist Ben Orr, on the other hand, sang the cool stuff.<\/p>\n

And when it came to the Cars, there was no cooler song than this one!<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 It seems the copyright police struck overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, anyway – I remember seeing the Cars in live appearances later on in their career\u00a0(during and after the Panorama <\/em>era)\u00a0 where they looked like they could barely tolerate each other.\u00a0 The last time I saw them was probably on SNL in ’87, doing “Touch and Go”; the band visibly hated each other, and ground through the song with all the spark and zing of a late-afternoon staff meeting.<\/p>\n

The vid I linked, though, was from a German concernt in about 1978, doing “Bye Bye Love”.\u00a0\u00a0 The band was young and kinetic; the song centered on Elliot Easton’s spare but incendiary guitar and Dave Robinson’s Keith-Moonish drums (great on the album, better live).\u00a0 On the album, “Bye Bye Love” is one of the most perfect pop records of all time.\u00a0 Live, played by a band that still could leave it all out on stage, it’s a thrill.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0 you’ll have to take my word for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cars were one of those bands I was always kind of ambivalent about.\u00a0 It took me a few years to realize why; the songs Ric Ocasek sang, I really didn’t much care about. Bassist Ben Orr, on the other hand, sang the cool stuff. And when it came to the Cars, there was no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}