Aim for PERFECTION on 80s Album CHURNED Out 5 BIG Hits but KILLED OFF Iconic Band--Professor of Rock

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Coming up, it’s 80s power pop at its best. The Cars and their 5th studio album Heartbeat City it sold 5 million and churned out 5 big hits.. But it didn’t come easy for this lead song from the album. In fact, it was a lifetime in the making… Or at least that’s how it felt to it’s band. Used to kicking out albums on the fly, their first four albums were a breeze to record. However, their fifth? That was a different story. Teaming up with meticulous producer and master of sonic sorcery, Mutt Lange, Heartbeat City took over a year to complete. And it took a devastating toll on the Rik Ocasek and Benjamin Orr and the band. Maybe even breaking them up for good. Tempers flared. Plane tickets were bought… and this seminal 80s record was in danger of not getting done. So was it all worth it? Well, if you’ve heard the album and today’s song, You Might Think you know that it was. In fact, it’s cutting edge music video is one of the 80s best and it beat out the biggest selling music video of all time Michael Jackson Thriller ! Get the story next.

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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by The Police, and Hysteria by Def Leppard.

Today we are giving the honor to the 1984 Cars’ classic: You Might Think, from their fifth studio album Heartbeat City.

You know we’ve covered The Cars several times before, and every time I come back to them I am reminded that they are a band the defies category.… Throughout their career, they consistently defied convention. Somehow they were both a singles and an albums band, and in the process mixing the essentials of new wave and rock with undeniable hooks and pop-driven sing-along choruses. Nobody sounds like them….

The line up was comprised of the late great Ric Ocasek on guitar and vocals, the incomparable Benjamin Orr on bass, keyboard extraordinaire Greg Hawkes, the under-appreciated Elliot Easton on guitar, and the talented David Robinson on drums. Through their first four records The Cars would write enough classic tracks to fill multiple greatest hits albums. And in fact, as I have said before, their debut album listens like a greatest hits record. A very abbreviated roster their iconic catalog includes Just What I Needed, My Best Friend’s Girl, Moving in Stereo, Let’s Go, Touch and Go, and Shake It Up.Like I said, that’s the abbreviated version.