Candy

Previous reviews left me with trepidation as they were posted before my item arrived in Australia... but happy generally.. I have high end audio equipment and disc 1 sounds better than original and not overly compressed but not that much different,disc 2 a revelation at times with new takes on songs ingrained on my mind for 30 odd years.... buy it.... Ben Orr is gone and this is a seminal tribute to his memory

Really worthwhile purchase, all the original album songs sound great and the extras are well worth having.

Perfect!

Going to review all four of the Cars Extended Vinyl Editions.First The Cars first self-titled album was NOT made into an “Extended Edition”, but instead a “Deluxe Edition” was released in 1999 on CD only. So don’t bother looking as of March 2021.The Extended Editions include:Candy O – 1979Panorama – 1980Shake It Up – 1981Heartbeat City – 1984All were released in 2017 and 2018. All are now gatefolds (Heartbeat City was always a gatefold LP) . Along with early demos and other mixes, the LP gatefolds include new and different pictures and graphics. If only including three sides of music – the fourth side is stamped with a Cars logo appropriate with that album.The sound is the re-mastered the is not to different for the original album / CD. Which damn good at the time. Please see picture for all Extended Edition gatefolds.

I love The Cars since I first heard there debut album, they aren’t the most amazing band in the history of music but they just seem do things well. I liked the first 4 albums but once the got to there biggest commercial success HBC it was slick and it sound like the cars but this early stuff just had some special going on I can’t put my finger on it but they were just a tight rock/pop/new wave band. But in the next breath the last album the put out Blue Note minus lead singer Ben Orr was excellent or maybe I was just being nostalgic and away good album and great remaster with bonus tracks, quiet as a mouse pressing also