Video: The Cars - Moving In Stereo & All Mixed Up - Live (1979)

NICK DERISO: Ric Ocasek, the rail-thin co-leader of the Cars, spent months going through VHS and Betamax tapes to compile this sweeping video retrospective. I'm sure that he simply set out to pay tribute to his old band. Until very recently, that's been sorely needed: New wave, then mainstream, the Cars for a while seemed to make almost no ripple on successive generations -- despite selling 30 million records and charting 20 Top 40 singles. Only with the belated debuts of acts like the Killers and Weezer has this band's influence become obvious. But [...]