Apparently it is self disclosure weekend at Balloon Juice, and I have another secret I feel the need to share. Yes, I love the dead and feat, yes I am a child of the Rolling Stones and Zeppelin, I adore the Talking heads, and the first albums I bought were Yes and the Who, but there is another band I have secretly loved my whole life. These guys:
Obvious references to Fast Times and Phoebe Cates will be ignored, but I have just always loved these guys. They do not make my list of most complete albums, but The Cars (1978) and Candy-O (1979) are rock and roll achievements in my opinion. And let’s not even talk about Heartbeat City, where we start to veer into the Van Halen era of Dave TV with David Lee Roth when VH was an actual rock and roll band singing about Mean Streets and not just a bunch of wimpy fucking Hagar sell outs. For some reason, I’ve always felt like I should keep my love of the Cars a secret, sharing it only with JSF.
It’s so easy…