The Cars Unlocked: The Live Performances

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The Cars Unlocked: The Live Performances
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The Cars
ReleasedOctober 17, 2006 (2006-10-17)
RecordedVarious
VenueVarious
Genre New wave
Length56:20 (CD)
LanguageEnglish
Label Warner Music Entertainment

The Cars Unlocked: The Live Performances is a 2006 live album and video of American new wave band the Cars released by Warner Music in 2006. The album has received mixed reviews due to the mixed quality of the source material.

Contents

Reception

Greg Prato of AllMusic gave the album a positive review, with the editorial staff awarding it four out of five stars. Prato praises the diversity of the video choices while criticizing some of the quality of the recordings, summing up that it is "a most welcome addition to the Cars' discography". [1] At DVD Talk Jon Sinnott recommended "skip it" due to poor audio and video, although he praised some of the performances. [2] For PopMatters, Adam Besenyodi echoes the sentiments that the actual audio-video quality is low but it serves as a valuable document of the band, with songs ranging from "good" to "unwatcheable"; he recommends that the CD edition "shouldn't be skipped". [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Ric Ocasek, except where noted.

DVD

  1. Intro
  2. "My Best Friend's Girl"
  3. "I'm in Touch with Your World"
  4. "Let's Go"
  5. "The Hotel"
  6. "Gimme Some Slack"
  7. Tokyo Sound Check
  8. "Up and Down"
  9. "Just What I Needed"
  10. "Dr. G"
  11. "Don't Cha Stop"
  12. "Moving in Stereo" (Greg Hawkes, Ocasek)
  13. "Through to You"
  14. "Candy-O"
  15. "You Might Think"
  16. "Drive"
  17. "Night Spots"
  18. Sound Check
  19. "Tonight She Comes"
  20. "Magic"
  21. "Shake It Up"
  22. "Good Times Roll"

CD

  1. "Magic" – 4:28
  2. "Let's Go" – 3:42
  3. "Touch and Go" – 4:59
  4. "Drive" – 3:54
  5. "My Best Friend's Girl" – 3:39
  6. "Tonight She Comes" – 3:51
  7. "Moving in Stereo" (Hawkes, Ocasek) –4:25
  8. "You Might Think" – 3:15
  9. "Just What I Needed" – 3:27
  10. "Good Times Roll" – 3:34
  11. "Hello Again" – 3:58
  12. "Double Trouble" – 4:11
  13. "Night Spots" – 3:31
  14. "Heartbeat City" – 5:26

Personnel

The Cars

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References

  1. ↑ "The Cars Unlocked: The Live Performances". AllMusic . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ Sinnott, Joe (October 17, 2006). "The Cars Unlocked – The Live Performances". DVD Talk . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Adam, Besenyodi (December 13, 2006). "The Cars: The Cars Unlocked". PopMatters . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
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