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Ric Ocasek of The Cars found dead at home
wnd.com ^ | 9/16/2019 | unknown

Posted on 09/16/2019 7:44:33 AM PDT by rktman

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To: circlecity

Yep, he’s another one in the Dead Pool. I’m amazed he’s made it this far.


21 posted on 09/16/2019 8:04:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

He’s exactly 10 years older than me...............


22 posted on 09/16/2019 8:04:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: rktman

Ocasek made some great music. RIP.


23 posted on 09/16/2019 8:06:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: circlecity

Ozzie has some bizarre gene that let him drink as much as he does. He had his blood tested. He really should be dead.


24 posted on 09/16/2019 8:06:16 AM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: rktman

You know, for some reason growing up, I’ve always thought the group The Cars made the song Cars.


25 posted on 09/16/2019 8:07:04 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: gaijin

He hadn’t ditched his 2nd wife yet.


26 posted on 09/16/2019 8:08:52 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: rktman

27 posted on 09/16/2019 8:09:18 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Gary Numan - Cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99fRdfVIOr4


28 posted on 09/16/2019 8:10:27 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: rktman

Condolences to family and friends of Ric Ocasek. R.I.P., sir. Thanks.


29 posted on 09/16/2019 8:23:25 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: be-baw

Ditto. I really liked The Cars music. As I remember it, it was just plain fun music. Maybe not the defining rock of the Rolling Stones or AC/DC, not the rock-with-a-message of U2 (until they went completely bonkers)... I’ll admit I really only followed them through their first 3 or 4 albums or so... I just looked them up and their later work is unfamiliar to me.


30 posted on 09/16/2019 8:37:14 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: circlecity
Didn't someone post this url before about the coming death of rock stars?
31 posted on 09/16/2019 8:46:49 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
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To: rktman

whos next ¿?


32 posted on 09/16/2019 8:48:29 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: rktman
We can celebrate a successful life.

Wealth, fame, popularity. Fun.

Anyone who marries a Victoria Secret model, has achieved special status in my eyes.


33 posted on 09/16/2019 8:49:30 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: be-baw
Ocasek was in his mid-30s when The Cars hit it big back in 1978. At the time, mid-30s was considered ancient in the rock world so Ocasek really played down his age and was able to project a youthful, even "cool" New Wavish image. In other words, he and his band fit right in with the younger, New Wave bands at the time (i.e. The Police; Blondie; Elvis Costello & The Attractions).

Bear in mind that Mick Jagger was pretty much the same age as Ocasek and yet he and the Stones were already considered dinosaurs when The Cars were breaking out. Who knew back in 1978 that the Rolling Stones were still in their early period!

Anyway, The Cars have always been one of my favorite bands. I came of age during their short run. I was just hitting puberty when their debut album came out and I got married the year of their last record ("Door to Door"). In between was high school and four years in the Marine Corps.

They only put out five proper albums but each of them could have been another band's Greatest Hits album. Pretty much everything they put out was catchy and radio-friendly. There was a time during 1978 when you could turn the dial on any FM radio dial and come across a Cars song playing. That first album was that good. Every track could have been a hit. Their follow up "Candy-O" was almost as good, marred only by that experimental "shooby-doo" track. That track did not age well. But most everything else did - the music of The Cars sounds just as fresh today as it did back then.

After the Cars, Ocasek put out some really good solo stuff that's worth checking out. I would put his "This Side of Paradise" up there with any Cars album.

Ocasek then went on to work with a lot of other bands and projects including most notably Weezer (of "Buddy Holly" fame).

34 posted on 09/16/2019 8:49:48 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

They were a wonderful group. I can’t believe he’s gone.


35 posted on 09/16/2019 8:52:44 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SamAdams76

Saw the Cars in Buffalo late 70’s I’m guessing. Had some fine music.


36 posted on 09/16/2019 8:53:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BeauBo
Paulina Poroskova was in a mildly entertaining movie ("Her Alibi") with Tom Selleck


37 posted on 09/16/2019 8:59:37 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: fishtank
Mick had a lot of health issues this past year - better hang on to this version, just in case...


38 posted on 09/16/2019 9:08:27 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: RummyChick

Good god that kid is queer as a $3 bill, and Ric looks like an old woman.


39 posted on 09/16/2019 9:21:55 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai

That’s your comment about someone who just died? How freakin’ shallow can you get?


40 posted on 09/16/2019 9:50:17 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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