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The music video explored the controversial topics of sex and violence (mostly the former) that were being featured in music videos at the time. It was played in medium rotation on MTV for a few months, [ 12 ] before reaching heavy in October, [ 13 ] and ended up spending at least 23 weeks on the playlist.
"You Might Think" is a song by American rock band the Cars from their fifth studio album, Heartbeat City (1984). The track was written by Ric Ocasek and produced by Mutt Lange and the Cars, with Ocasek also providing the lead vocals.
The band is also tied to the Texas music movement and, to a lesser extent, the Oklahoma-based Red Dirt music scene. Every year, the band, in conjunction with their brothers and fellow musicians in Reckless Kelly, host the Braun Brothers Reunion in Idaho to celebrate the music and different artists from the genre.
The Boxcars were founded by Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Keith Garrett, John Bowman, and Harold Nixon.They released their debut self-titled album in 2010 and were nominated for numerous International Bluegrass Music Awards the year after. [2]
The core guitar riff that "Dangerous Type" is centered on resembles the T. Rex song, "Bang a Gong". [1] [2] The song features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals.AllMusic critic Tom Maginnis compared the song to "All Mixed Up", a track on The Cars' self-titled debut album, as they both were the final track on their respective albums, with both tracks "vamping on an upsweep of grand chord changes as the ...
At the 49th Grammy Awards, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.The same night, Newman's work for Cars won for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 34th Annie Awards. [1]
"Touch and Go" and "Panorama" were the Cars' first music videos. The Cars admired the humor of the videos that Chuck Statler directed for Devo , and Statler directed these two video for the Cars. In the "Touch and Go" video, the band plays their instruments in an unexpected setting, an amusement park. [ 6 ]
Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic described the song as "one of the Cars' finest experimental tracks," noting that it "sounds like a new wave update of Eno-era Roxy Music." [2] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated "Moving in Stereo" combined with "All Mixed Up" as released on the album as the Cars' all-time greatest song. [5]