Speaking of
Spinal
Tap, as I was
in my last post, I'm
reminded that they once called themselves The Originals, only
to discover that there was already a band called The
Originals. So they changed their name to The New
Originals, which is both funny and ironic. And sad; funny and
ironic and sad. (Geeze, now I sound like
a Python routine.)
I mention this because my first reaction to The New Cars is
that they ain't the same as
the
old Cars. They sound like a cover band, doing
Ric
Ocasek's vocals as if they'd never heard the real thing, or at
least didn't appreciate the sound that made them a success. Sad,
really. Not as sad as The New Originals, but not good.
(And I'll mention in passing that the band's name caught my attention
largely because I'm about to pick up my own new car. Which I hope
will be better than this one. And which is wholly irrelevant to the
theme of this blog, not that that's stopped me before.)
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