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The Cars: Heartbeat City (Elektra)

Laura Fissinger, Creem, July 1984

HEARTBEAT CITY is a heavy duty history lesson. First: the Cars had more to say about what rock sounds like now than almost any other band of their era still living to tell the tale. And second: maybe living to tell the tale is not the best part of the deal.

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