{"id":2491,"date":"2011-07-26T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2011-07-26T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T18:56:14","slug":"the-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2492\" title=\"The-Cars-Move-Like-This-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Cars-Move-Like-This-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Cars-Move-Like-This-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Cars-Move-Like-This-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE CARS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Move Like This<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Concord]<\/p>\n<p>From Weezer in the \u201990s to the Strokes and OK Go today, countless bands have realized what classic-rock radio never forgets: The Cars were pretty great. The Boston quintet built one of the era\u2019s finest discographies during the \u201970s and \u201980s, making New Wave palatable for people without spiky hair. A quarter-century after stalling out, the Cars return with <em>Move Like This<\/em>\u2014more a restoration project than the unveiling of a new model. Eighth-note basslines and geek-chic synths come standard, making \u201cToo Late\u201d and \u201cSad Song\u201d zip like vintage hits \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Girl\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s Go,\u201d respectively. The absence of late bass player Benjamin Orr is unfortunate, but the man driving the Cars has always been Ric Ocasek, a singer-songwriter still comfortable behind the wheel. Some of his lyrics reveal a man perplexed by modern times, but Ocasek should know as well as anyone that the more things change, the more they stay the same. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CARS Move Like This [Concord] From Weezer in the \u201990s to the Strokes and OK Go today, countless bands have realized what classic-rock radio never forgets: The Cars were pretty great. The Boston quintet built one of the era\u2019s finest discographies during the \u201970s and \u201980s, making New Wave palatable for people without spiky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,650,1634,1969,1968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}