Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition Remastered) The Cars

• 1 Hello Again (2018 Remaster) 03:46
• 2 Looking for Love (2018 Remaster) 03:51
• 3 Magic (2018 Remaster) 03:57
• 4 Drive (2018 Remaster) 03:54
• 5 Stranger Eyes (2018 Remaster) 04:24
• 6 You Might Think (2018 Remaster) 03:04
• 7 It's Not the Night (2018 Remaster) 03:48
• 8 Why Can't I Have You (2018 Remaster) 04:03
• 9 I Refuse (2018 Remaster) 03:15
• 10 Heartbeat City (2018 Remaster) 04:30
• 11 Breakaway (2017 Remaster) 03:48
• 12 Hello Again (Remix) 05:56
• 13 Hello Again (Dub Version) (96kHz) 06:11
• 14 Drive (Demo) 04:46
• 15 Stranger Eyes (Early Version) (96kHz) 06:16
• 16 It's Not the Night (Early Version) (96kHz) 03:43
• 17 One More Time (Early Version of "Why Can't I Have You") 04:00
• 18 Baby I Refuse (Early Version of "I Refuse") 03:54
• 19 Jacki (Early Version of "Heartbeat City") 04:17
• 20 Shooting for You (First Version) (96kHz) 04:37
• 21 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) (96kHz) 05:23
• 22 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) [Alternate Mix] (96kHz) 04:03
• 23 Hello Again (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:58
• 24 Looking for Love (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:57
• 25 Magic (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:01
• 26 Drive (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:05
• 27 Stranger Eyes (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:56
• 28 You Might Think (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:09
• 29 It's Not the Night (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:44
• 30 I Refuse (Early Version) (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:07
• 31 Heartbeat City (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 04:01
• 32 Breakaway (Early Mix) (44.1kHz) 03:58
• 33 Shooting for You (First Version) [Early Mix] (44.1kHz) 04:08
• 34 Shooting for You (Re-Recorded Version) [Early Mix] (44.1kHz) 04:41
• Live in Housten 1984: Remastered in 96kHz
• 35 Hello Again (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:01
• 36 It's Not the Night (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:58
• 37 Touch and Go (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:02
• 38 Candy-O (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 02:44
• 39 Good Times Roll (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:34
• 40 Jimmy Jimmy (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:39
• 41 Moving in Stereo (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:33
• 42 Just What I Needed (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:38
• 43 A Dream Away (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:38
• 44 Cruiser (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:10
• 45 Drive (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:01
• 46 You Might Think (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:10
• 47 My Best Friend's Girl (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:43
• 48 Magic (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 04:26
• 49 Let's Go (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 03:45
• 50 Heartbeat City (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:11
• 51 You're All I've Got Tonight (Live at The Summit, Houston, TX, 9/11/1984) 05:05
• Total Runtime 03:36:29

Info for Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition Remastered)

Celebrating over 40 years since its original release, Heartbeat City remains The Cars’ most commercially successful album, certified 4x platinum in the US and charting worldwide. Produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange, it features six hit singles including “Drive,” “You Might Think,” and “Magic.”

When it came to their fifth album, THE CARS were seasoned hitmakers, but the band must have felt stagnant in terms of creative approach. Cue changes – slight softening of sound and the invitation sent to Mutt Lange, whose pop expertise would supplant Roy Thomas Baker’s perspective applied to the ensemble’s previous platters – which made “Heartbeat City” a firm favorite with worldwide audience. While their first four longplays came in on a yearly basis, this one appeared three years after “Shake It Up” that spawned a few memorable songs, yet those would pale in comparison to “Drive” – and there’s no better reason for choosing the group’s offering from 1984 as inaugural work for deluxe treatment of their catalogue.

Heartbeat City (Deluxe Edition) highlights the album sessions with a demo for the Top 10 hit “Drive,” along with unreleased recordings of tracks like “Stranger Eyes” and “Jacki” (later renamed “Heartbeat City”). The set also includes multiple versions of “Shooting For You,” an outtake from the 1980s Panorama that was revived during the making of Heartbeat City.

The set also features a complete concert recorded at The Summit in Houston on September 11, 1984. Originally released on VHS and Laserdisc as The Cars – Live 1984-1985, the performance appears on CD for the first time here, expanded to include previously unreleased versions of “Candy-O” and “My Best Friend’s Girl.” The band opened the show with “Hello Again” and packed 17 songs into a 70-minute set that featured half the new album, including “You Might Think” and “Magic,” alongside earlier hits like “Good Times Roll” and “Let’s Go.”

Ric Ocasek, vocals, guitar
Ben Orr, vocals, bass
Elliot Easton, guitar, vocals
Greg Hawkes, keyboards, vocals, Fairlight CMI programming
David Robinson, drums, Fairlight programming

Digitally remastered

Please Note: This album consists of different sampling rates. See track list - behind each track you'll find the sampling rate.

The Cars
In many ways, The Cars were the prototypical American new wave band of the 1980s. Barging into a pop-music scene then overwhelmed by English New Romantic pretty-boy bands, The Cars’ highly polished, chrome-plated four-on-the-floor rock ’n’ roll charged up the charts like a souped-up Camaro racing to the checkered flag—with the band’s Alberto Vargas-designed album art glinting like metal-flake paint on a hot rod.

Cars co-founders Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr had been writing songs and forming bands together since 1972, when they first teamed as two-thirds of the folk trio Milkwood (whose one album also featured Cars’ future keyboardist Greg Hawkes). In 1974, Ocasek and Orr joined with Elliot Easton to form the legendary Boston band, Cap’n Swing, which lasted but a year. Finally, in 1976, the trio called in Hawkes and ex-Modern Lovers drummer David Robinson, and The Cars were ready to roll.

The Cars, released in the spring of ’78, spun off three hit singles (“Just What I Needed,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” and “Good Times Roll”) and graced the charts for more than two and a half years, eventually going platinum six times over. Their debut was so successful, in fact, that Elektra delayed the release of the band’s 1979 follow-up, Candy-O, for several months. Candy-O, 1980’s Panorama, and 1981’s Shake It Up each, in turn, went platinum, and the latter’s title track became the group’s first Top 10 hit. Along the way, Ocasek began establishing a reputation as a producer, working with such bands as Suicide, Bad Brains, and Romeo Void.

After Shake It Up, the band members took a break, with Ocasek, Orr, and Hawkes all recording solo albums. It must have done them good, for their next album, Heartbeat City, became their most successful. Released in 1984, Heartbeat City sprang to #3 on the album charts and produced four Top 40 singles (“You Might Think,” “Magic,” “Drive,” and “Hello Again”). These singles also broke new ground visually with their inventive, computer-animated videos, which each received heavy rotation on the then-nascent MTV.

The next two years found the band on another extended leave (with solo albums from Ocasek, Orr, and Easton), followed by 1987’s only somewhat successful Door To Door. The Cars disbanded in February 1988. Ocasek went on to release seven solo albums and produced some of the biggest names in ’90s rock. Easton took to the road with Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Orr, after a long and painful battle, succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2000.

The Cars legacy continued in to the 21st century with the release of a live concert DVD, a double-disc deluxe edition of their classic self-titled debut album, and the ultimate Cars collection, Complete Greatest Hits.

This album contains no booklet.