Heartbeat City/Door to Door
(bonus tracks on Heartbeat City include a b-side and two 12" mixes, and on Door To Door two demo versions that were previously released on the Rhino box set)

Panorama/Shake it Up
(bonus tracks include covers of Bowie's "Funtime" and The Nightcrawlers' "Little Black Egg")

The Cars/Candy-O/Rock Goes to College (DVD)
(The Cars includes all of the content from the out-of-print US Deluxe Edition, plus two tracks from the Rhino box set. Candy-O contains one b-side. The DVD is the band's appearance on Old Grey Whistle Test and a live concert)

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The Cars/Candy-O/Rock Goes To College

Product Description
Formed in 1977, The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synth-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which would flower in the early 1980s. With production by Queen’s Roy Thomas Baker, The Cars released six albums between 1978 and 1987, all of which went platinum or multi-platinum in the US and around the world. In the UK and Europe also, the band had hit after hit, starting here with the first three tracks on the first album: “Just What I Needed”, “My Best Friend’s Girl”, and “Good Times Roll”.

This package includes “The Cars” (1978), all fourteen bonus tracks (demos and live versions) from the long-deleted Deluxe Edition of the album, and two songs previously exclusive to the “Just What I Needed” compilation. Second album “Candy-O” (1979) was home to hit singles “Let’s Go” and “It’s All I Can Do”. The bonus track is a non-album b-side. The extensive booklet features the lyrics, photos and annotation.

The DVD includes the band’s first appearance on BBC TV’s legendary “Old Grey Whistle Test” and the entirety of their “Rock Goes To College” live concert at Sussex University. The two encore performances were not broadcast and have remained unseen until now!

Disc 1: CD
1. Good Times Roll
2. My Best Friend’s Girl
3. Just What I Needed
4. I’m In Touch With Your World
5. Don’t Cha Stop
6. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight
7. Bye Bye Love
8. Moving In Stereo
9. All Mixed Up
10. Good Times Roll (Live)
11. My Best Friend’s Girl (Demo)
12. Just What I Needed (Demo)
13. I’m In Touch With Your World (Demo)
14. Don’t Cha Stop (Demo)
15. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight (Demo)
16. Bye Bye Love (Demo)
17. Moving In Stereo (Demo)
18. All Mixed Up (Demo)
19. Take Me Now (Demo)
20. Cool Fool (Demo)

Disc 2: CD
1. They Won’t See You (Demo)
2. Take What You Want (Demo)
3. Wake Me Up (Demo)
4. You Just Can’t Push Me (Demo)
5. Hotel Queenie (Demo)
6. Let’s Go
7. Since I Held You
8. It’s All I Can Do
9. Double Life
10. Shoo Be Doo
11. Candy-O
12. Nightspots
13. You Can’t Hold On Too Long
14. Lust For Kicks
15. Got A Lot On My Head
16. Dangerous Type
17. That’s It

Disc 3: DVD
1. Just What I Needed
2. Good Times Roll
3. I’m In Touch With Your World
4. My Best Friend’s Girl
5. Movin’ In Stereo
6. All Mixed Up
7. Nightspots
8. Bye Bye Love
9. Don’t Cha Stop
10. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight
11. Candy-O
12. Hotel Queenie
13. Best Friend’s Girl
14. Just What I Needed

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Panorama/Shake It Up

Product Description
Continuing Edsel’s Cars re-issue programme. This package contains their third and fourth albums (from 1980 and 1981), the last to feature production by Queen’s Roy Thomas Baker, and platinum sellers again.

They includes the hits “Touch And Go”, “Shake It Up” and “Since You’re Gone”. The bonus tracks include the band’s covers of David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s “Funtime” as well as The Nightcrawlers garage band classic, “The Little Black Egg”.

The extensive booklet features the lyrics, photos and annotation by Alan Robinson.

Disc 1
1. Panorama
2. Touch And Go
3. Gimme Some Slack
4. Don’t Tell Me No
5. Getting Through
6. Misfit Kid
7. Down Boys
8. You Wear Those Eyes
9. Running To You
10. Up And Down
11. Don’t Go To Pieces

Disc 2
1. Since You’re Gone
2. Shake It Up
3. I’m Not The One
4. Victim Of Love
5. Cruiser
6. A Dream Away
7. This Could Be Love
8. Think It Over
9. Maybe Baby
10. The Little Black Egg
11. Funtime

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Heartbeat City/Door To Door

Product Description
Continuing Edsel’s Cars re-issue programme. This package contains their fifth and sixth albums, from 1985 and 1987, their last two before taking an extended sabbatical that only ended earlier this year.

The albums include the hits “You Might Think”, “Magic”, “Hello Again” and the perennial classic “Drive”, made eternally famous during the Live Aid broadcast in July 1985.

The bonus tracks include a non-album b-side, two remixes and two demos.

The extensive booklet features the lyrics, photos and annotation by Alan Robinson.

Disc 1
1. Hello Again
2. Looking For Love
3. Magic
4. Drive
5. Stranger Eyes
6. You Might Think
7. It’s Not The Night
8. Why Can’t I Have You
9. I Refuse
10. Heartbeat City
11. Breakaway
12. Hello Again (12” Remix Version - Vocal)
13. Hello Again (12” Dub Version)

Disc 2
1. Leave Or Stay
2. You Are The Girl
3. Double Trouble
4. Fine Line
5. Everything You Say
6. Ta Ta Wayo Wayo
7. Strap Me In
8. Coming Up You
9. Wound Up On You
10. Go Away
11. Door To Door
12. Leave Or Stay (1977 Demo Version)
13. Ta Ta Wayo Wayo (1977 Demo Version)

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I was excited until I saw they were two-fers. They look like absolute crap and the two-fer of The Cars/Candy O is a mess with all the bonus cuts from The Cars appearing on both Disc 1 and 2. Yuk.
I'll have to pass sadly. Seems Edsel is going nuts with two-fers now which I cannot stand.

Yeah, it's really weird that the Cars/Candy-O set has the bonus tracks from The Cars album continuing onto Disc 2, with Candy-O not starting until halfway through the disc. Would it have killed them to put one extra disc in there so that Candy-O got a disc of its own?

Still, these sets have some interesting rarities. I'm surprised it has taken this long for the Cars catalog to get reissued with bonus tracks (aside from the 1st album and the few rare cuts on the Rhino box set).

Any word if these are remastered?

I have the original albums and I have the anthology, so I see no need for these.

The series will mark the CD debut of the dub version of "Hello Again".

I would have interest in the Cars/Candy-o DEPENDING on price. 2 fers don't bother me at all.

I just picked up the MoFi Gold OMR of "Candy-O". I doubt any of these could come close to the MoFi version audio quality.

Bump: these just went up for pre-order at Amazon. I've added links to the first post, and also brought in-house the tracklistings and other release details which Morgan had linked to at the Edsel/Demon site -- that information now directly follows his opening post.

I wonder if the Heartbeat City has the original tracks crossfading into one another like the original LP. The AF Gold version caused quite a stir because of the the tracks being seperated.

God, let's hope so!

I wish they would release shooting for you. Did that ever show up anywhere (besides a n Alan Vega cover)?

ok... i get it, i get it. nifty new re-packaging.
and i'm happy to see a few rarities on cd from the "heartbeat city" genre.
but here's me being hypercritical:
there was a remix of "i'm not the one" included on the original single-disc GH.
it's a real shame it's not being included in this series.

Supposedly, The Cars also recorded a version of the Jules Shear song "All Through the Night", but never released it. Elliot Easton played guitar on Shear's Watch Dog album in 1983, where the song first appeared. Of course, Cyndi Lauper later recorded her own version of the song, and had a Top 5 hit in 1984.

And that's not even mentioning "Tonight She Comes..."

They were supposed to release rare hits compilation by Rhino. It was in Ice & had a release date. It was pulled at the last minute and we got an expanded first album. Anyone know what tracks were going to be on it? I remember a track called "Don't Tease on Me." What was that?

"Tonight She Comes" was exclusively for The Cars Greatest Hits album of 1985, so where would they put it? It wasn't from any album sessions. It is on the excellent sounding comp Complete Greatest Hits from 2002 as well.
Great song-and what a fantastic guitar solo-one of my all-time favorites by anyone. I remember Elliot Easton saying the solo is so detailed because they spent more time recording that one song than they did the whole first 2 albums.
I've never bought a two-fer, ever, but I may make a change here because I don't ever see any new US remasters coming for The Cars catalogue which is ridiculous. Rhino is dead.

It's also found on the "Just What I Needed" anthology from 1995.

These have been pulled in the UK due to liscensing issues. Not sure if they're still coming out here in the US, but Amazon.com still has them up for now.