Double vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this classic album from the new wave/rock quintet. Released on June 13, 1979, Candy-O is The Cars' second album. The band recorded again with Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker (he also produced The Cars' first album). It hit #3 on the U.S. Billboard album chart and the first single, "Let's Go", took The Cars into the top 15 on the Billboard hot 100 singles chart for the first time. Candy-O is an RIAA certified 4X platinum album in the U.S. alone. This expanded edition includes previously unreleased monitor mixes, the unreleased track "They Won't See You" and more.
M**H
An honour to Ben Orr...
Previous reviews left me with trepidation as they were posted before my item arrived in Australia... but happy generally.. I have high end audio equipment and disc 1 sounds better than original and not overly compressed but not that much different,disc 2 a revelation at times with new takes on songs ingrained on my mind for 30 odd years.... buy it.... Ben Orr is gone and this is a seminal tribute to his memory
M**N
Great album
Really worthwhile purchase, all the original album songs sound great and the extras are well worth having.
A**N
Five Stars
Perfect!
9**N
Deluxe package - well done
Going to review all four of the Cars Extended Vinyl Editions.First The Cars first self-titled album was NOT made into an “Extended Edition”, but instead a “Deluxe Edition” was released in 1999 on CD only. So don’t bother looking as of March 2021.The Extended Editions include:Candy O – 1979Panorama – 1980Shake It Up – 1981Heartbeat City – 1984All were released in 2017 and 2018. All are now gatefolds (Heartbeat City was always a gatefold LP) . Along with early demos and other mixes, the LP gatefolds include new and different pictures and graphics. If only including three sides of music – the fourth side is stamped with a Cars logo appropriate with that album.The sound is the re-mastered the is not to different for the original album / CD. Which damn good at the time. Please see picture for all Extended Edition gatefolds.
C**A
Early Cars Awesome
I love The Cars since I first heard there debut album, they aren’t the most amazing band in the history of music but they just seem do things well. I liked the first 4 albums but once the got to there biggest commercial success HBC it was slick and it sound like the cars but this early stuff just had some special going on I can’t put my finger on it but they were just a tight rock/pop/new wave band. But in the next breath the last album the put out Blue Note minus lead singer Ben Orr was excellent or maybe I was just being nostalgic and away good album and great remaster with bonus tracks, quiet as a mouse pressing also
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