It's Alive! (The New Cars album)

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It's Alive!
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 6, 2006
RecordedCenter Staging Studios, Burbank (live); Big Brother Studios, Los Angeles (studio)
Genre New wave, pop rock
Length71:49
Label Eleven Seven
Producer The New Cars
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 54/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly C− [3]
Pitchfork 2.8/10 [4]

It's Alive! is the only album released by The New Cars. The album features fifteen live tracks, twelve of which are songs known as being performed by the original Cars. The remaining two, "I Saw the Light" and "Open My Eyes", were popularized by New Cars member Todd Rundgren ("Open My Eyes" was originally performed by Rundgren's earlier garage rock group, Nazz). The album ends with three new studio tracks, recorded especially for this release.

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Critical reception

It's Alive! was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 54 based on 8 reviews. [1]

In a review for AllMusic, critic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "It's Alive functions as a good appetizer for the tour: it's not earth-shaking, but it's far better than nearly any other reunion of this kind." [2] At Pitchfork , Mark Hogan explained: "The first hour or so of It's Alive is perfect for Cars fans so diehard they'd not only pay for a live album of songs they mostly already own, but a live album 20 years after the fact with only two original members and a different lead singer." [4]

Track listing

It's Alive! track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Just What I Needed" Ric Ocasek 4:11
2."Let's Go"Ocasek3:49
3."Candy-O"Ocasek2:49
4."You Might Think"Ocasek3:12
5."My Best Friend's Girl"Ocasek4:12
6."I Saw the Light" Todd Rundgren 3:02
7."You're All I've Got Tonight"Ocasek5:23
8."Not Tonight"
3:33
9."Drive"Ocasek4:04
10."Moving in Stereo"
  • Ocasek
  • Hawkes
5:14
11."Shake It Up"Ocasek3:45
12."Dangerous Type"Ocasek4:24
13."Bye Bye Love"Ocasek5:01
14."Open My Eyes"Rundgren3:01
15."Good Times Roll"Ocasek4:55
16."Not Tonight" (Studio track)
  • Rundgren
  • Hawkes
  • Easton
3:25
17."Warm" (Studio track)
  • Rundgren
  • Hawkes
  • Easton
4:03
18."More" (Studio track)
  • Rundgren
  • Hawkes
  • Easton
3:46

Personnel

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