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Cars (song)

This article is about the 1979 Gary Numan song. For other uses, see Cars (disambiguation).

"Cars"
Single by Gary Numan
from the album The Pleasure Principle
B-side
Released21 August 1979 [1]
Recorded1979
StudioMarcus Music AB, London
Genre
Length3:58
LabelBeggars Banquet
Songwriter(s)Gary Numan
Producer(s)Gary Numan
Gary Numan singles chronology
"Cars"
(1979) 		"Complex"
(1979)
Audio sample
Music video
"Cars" on YouTube

"Cars" is the first solo single by English musician Gary Numan. It was released on 21 August 1979 and is from his debut studio album The Pleasure Principle. The song reached the top of the charts in several countries, and is Numan's most successful single.[4]

The song was the first release credited solely to Gary Numan after he dropped the band name Tubeway Army, under which he had released four singles and two LPs, including the number one UK hit "Are 'Friends' Electric?", and its parent album Replicas. Musically, the new song was somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented than its predecessors, Numan later said that he had chart success in mind: "This was the first time I had written a song with the intention of 'maybe it could be a hit single'; I was writing this before 'Are "Friends" Electric?' happened."[5] He has since described "Cars" as "a pretty average song".[6]

In the UK charts, it reached number 1 in 1979, and in 1980, it hit number 1 in Canada two weeks running on the RPM national singles chart[7][8] (29 weeks in the top 100), his only single to chart there. The single was first issued in the US in February 1980, where it peaked at #4 on the Cash Box Top 100 and #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on June 7, 1980, remaining at that position for three weeks.[9] Although Numan had a string of hits in the UK, "Cars" was his only song in the American pop charts.

  1. ^ Parker, Lyndsey (20 August 2019). "Synth pioneer Gary Numan talks life after 'Cars': 'Around 2008-2009, I got dark'". Yahoo.com. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b Mason, Stewart. "Cars review". AllMusic. "Perhaps the most iconic intro of the entire synth-pop era... the throbbing, repetitive synths of "Cars" are all most listeners know of Gary Numan, especially in the US, where it was the musician's only Top 40 hit." "That said, it was arguably the first true new wave hit single in the United States."
  3. ^ Kato, Yoshi (2016). "Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 445.
  4. ^ Huey, Steve. "Gary Numan Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  5. ^ Stephen Webbon & Gary Numan (December 1985). "Complete Gary Numan UK Discography". Record Collector (76): 15.
  6. ^ Green, Thomas H (19 May 2012). "Q&A: Musician Gary Numan". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  9. ^ Tomasovic, Jerry (2 January 2013). "Billboard Hot 100™". Billboard. Retrieved 6 November 2023.

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