C/D: The Cars "Panorama"

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I say overlooked classic. Full of inventive, catchy and solid tracks. Bursting with feelings of paranoia, insecurity and sarcasm. Could this have been The Cars' "Pinkerton"?

ILM.. you take over

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

it's ok. predictable hipster favorite (just like arrival is everyone's favorite abba album). what's wrong with the s/t and candy-o?

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i'm just tired of "overlooked" albums that aren't really

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Well, Pinkerton is catchy, inventive, and full of solid tracks. Panorama is not.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Everything up until Heartbeat City is a blur for me, because I only had the Greatest Hits album growing up. Which songs are on Panorama again?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

"Touch And Go" sums up the Cars in a most succinct fashion.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 31 July 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

My second-favourite Cars LP after the debut. "Down Boys" and "Getting Through" are two of their fastest-ever songs (for what that's worth), "You Wear Those Eyes" and "Running To You" two of the prettier ones, and "Touch And Go", "Panorama" and "Down Boys" are just plain weird. (Of course, my favourites from the first two LPs were the two strangest, "I'm In Touch With Your World" and "Shoo Be Doo".)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 31 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

"Touch And Go" and "Gimme Some Slack" are two of my favourite Cars songs. The album as a whole might not be classic, but those songs are.

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Sunday, 31 July 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

"Up and Down" is awesome.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

This was the record I was playing when my dad told me John Lennon had been shot.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

"touch and go" is terrible and one day you'll all realize this.

― i can move move move any mountain (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

side one

panorama
touch and go
gimme some slack
don't tell me no
getting through

side two

misfit kid
down boys
you wear those eyes
running to you
up and down

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

gee I thought I liked this record the best of all of them, but boy oh boy I don't wanna be called a hipster! haha, candy-o it is!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Candy-O is a better album than Panorama for sure. But my post is really about calling out Panorama for what it is: a real wonderfully eclectic record that needs to be listened to again. It will then be acknowledged for it's classicness.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I swear they had to have been listening to Wire before making this album. Now if I can find proof...

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Saturday, 12 August 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok. predictable hipster favorite (just like arrival is everyone's favorite abba album). what's wrong with the s/t and candy-o?

i meant the visitors when i posted this.

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 August 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't this album their poorest seller until Door to Door?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

If poor sales = dud, then a lotta folks 'round here like a lotta duds.

― Sweat Loaf (Sweat Loaf), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

That's not what I suggested; but since you ask, it is striking that the first two albums were mega-sellers and Shake It Up and Heartbeat City redressed the balance. Sometimes the little boys and girls understand.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 12 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't this album their poorest seller until Door to Door?

This question made me curious - I knew they'd sold a lot of albums, and according to the RIAA database Candy-O has been certified 4 x platinum, and Panorama merely platinum. I'm really surprised Candy-O had that much appeal.

― LC (Damian), Saturday, 12 August 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

In the Cars' case the sophomore-album-as-commercial-and-artistic-consolidation paradigm worked in spades.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 12 August 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

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