2000 Great Songs #1199: Moving In Stereo
There's no denying The Cars ' 1978 eponymous album is one of the all-time great debuts, a damn-near-perfect merging of power pop and nascent new wave, all polished to a fine enough sheen to make both genres safe for American audiences. But it's also an album I almost never listen to, nearly every track rendered rather dull from complete oversaturation during my youth. But I still find the deep cut "Moving In Stereo" pretty cool. The slower, more psychedelic track got much less radio play that the record's fistful of singles, giving it a bit of novelty--at least until Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out four years later. The song's connection to that unforgettable Phoebe Cates scene, one of the most enduringly perfect needle drops ever, has made it all but impossible to hear without flashing back to the film. (This was then recreated for a new generation when the song was deployed in season three of Stranger Things .) But if I can just get past all tha...
