View Poll Results: Is CARS a sucky song or not?
It sucks.
10
15.63%
It is NOT an overlong and repetitious exercise in dreary monotony.
51
79.69%
"I didn't think it was possible, but it both sucks and blows." -Bart Simpson
3
4.69%
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Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
09-06-13, 10:22 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
I would have voted but you forgot the "Easily in my top five songs of all time" option.
It's a superb tune and I recall vividly where and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It's like my own "JFK got shot" moment. Sure, his nasally monotone vocals are an acquired taste, but the man managed to make a classic album basically using a single synth preset. Genius!
It's a superb tune and I recall vividly where and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It's like my own "JFK got shot" moment. Sure, his nasally monotone vocals are an acquired taste, but the man managed to make a classic album basically using a single synth preset. Genius!
09-07-13, 05:51 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
I would have voted but you forgot the "Easily in my top five songs of all time" option.
It's a superb tune and I recall vividly where and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It's like my own "JFK got shot" moment. Sure, his nasally monotone vocals are an acquired taste, but the man managed to make a classic album basically using a single synth preset. Genius!
It's a superb tune and I recall vividly where and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It's like my own "JFK got shot" moment. Sure, his nasally monotone vocals are an acquired taste, but the man managed to make a classic album basically using a single synth preset. Genius!
09-07-13, 07:00 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
I like it.
I was barely 15 years old when it first came out.
Hearing it brings back a lot of fond memories from those days.
I was barely 15 years old when it first came out.
Hearing it brings back a lot of fond memories from those days.
09-07-13, 10:20 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
I have 2 of his LPs: Replicas and Pleasure Principle. The song that first turned me onto Gary Numan was his tune Are 'Friends' Electric?
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09-07-13, 10:30 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
It's a superb tune and I recall vividly where and what I was doing the first time I heard it. It's like my own "JFK got shot" moment. Sure, his nasally monotone vocals are an acquired taste, but the man managed to make a classic album basically using a single synth preset. Genius!
Also, a bit of trivia..."Cars" was a top 20 hit in three consecutive decades in the UK. It reached #1 in 1979, #16 in 1987, and #17 in 1996. I disagree. It's 2013 and "Cars" still sounds like it's from the future.
09-08-13, 02:48 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
I don't think it sucks at all, but it's probably my least favorite track on PP. Goddamn, that album is just spectacular.
09-08-13, 02:58 PM
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09-08-13, 03:52 PM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
"Fame" is a funk song. I love Bowie, and he did make music that heavily influenced new wave, but "Fame" and the Young Americans album is blue-eyed soul and funk, not new wave.
09-08-13, 06:29 PM
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09-08-13, 11:06 PM
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Holy crap, that was awesome! Thanks!!
09-16-13, 03:31 PM
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09-17-13, 05:16 AM
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Re: Poll: Gary Numan's "CARS", Does it suck or not?
Massively great from the first second to the last. While some other acts were toying around with this sound, you cannot understate the impact a song like this had from the exposure on radio. It's a fully formed masterpiece and I feel stupid even having to say that.
10-08-13, 08:10 PM
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10-08-13, 10:02 PM
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10-09-13, 06:42 AM
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