The CARS Live - shit I thought I ordered The Corrs Live. Never mind, I've been a fan of the Cars since the late '70s up until Ric Ocasek left when the group just fell apart.

    This live concert was recorded for the German TV show Musikladen and if nothing else, shows have much recording and fold back techniques have developed over the last 23 years. The sound quality has a potential that was never quite realized - everything's there but just not in the right amounts.

    They play 11 songs live including Let The Good Times Roll and Candy-O plus some others I've never heard before (or ever want to hear again). Apart from the historical value of seeing The Cars on the eve of their only European tour, there's not much here for anyone. Except if you're a bass player and haven't seen a Vox semi-acoustic bass before.

    The absolute killer here is a section in the special features called a CD Sampler. One might assume we could hear a selection of Cars tracks to whet our appetite so I sat down to enjoy 10 tracks only to get really pissed off when I found out each track only ran for 20 seconds before fading out !

Warning Will Robinson - Avoid this one like the Plague.