"Moving in Stereo" | |
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Song by the Cars | |
from the album The Cars | |
Released | June 6, 1978 |
Recorded | February 1978 |
Studio | AIR (London, UK) |
Genre | |
Length | 4:43 |
Label | Elektra |
Songwriter(s) | Ric Ocasek, Greg Hawkes |
Producer(s) | Roy Thomas Baker |
The Cars track listing | |
9 tracks | |
Audio | |
"Moving in Stereo" on YouTube |
"Moving in Stereo" is a song by the American rock band The Cars. It appeared on their first album, The Cars , released in 1978. It was co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr.
Although not released as a single, except in the UK where it was the B side of 'My Best Friends Girlfriend', "Moving in Stereo" received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States, often coupled with the song "All Mixed Up" which it segues into on the album. [3] The song continues to receive airplay on classic rock radio stations. [4]
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] Classic Rock History critic Emily Fagan rated it as the Cars 7th best song sung by Orr, saying that it "captures a sense of disorientation and ennui, with Orr delivering lyrics that seem to drift between reality and a dreamlike state." [6] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Dave Swanson rated it as the 4th best Benjamin Orr Cars song, stating that "the atmospheric mood of the track puts the listener in a late night, post-psychedelic haze." [7]
A demo version recorded in 1977, featuring only Ocasek and Hawkes, was released on The Cars: Deluxe Edition in 1999.
An instrumental portion of "Moving in Stereo" was used prominently in the 1982 feature film Fast Times at Ridgemont High , in which it accompanies Judge Reinhold's character's fantasy of Phoebe Cates's character removing her bikini top while embracing him. [2] [7] Although the song was popularized in the movie, it was not included on the soundtrack album.
"Moving In Stereo" was one of the last songs Nirvana played live. [9]