"Shakedown, 1979... cool kids never had the time...."
1979 LP pressing of Candy-O in VG+. Oh my Lord this sounds good.. Made me smile right off the hop at Let's Go. Pick one of these suckers up if you haven't, thank me later. Elektra X5E-507 Canadian pressing.
Silent as ever, huge dynamics, the drums absolutely dropkick you in the chest, the guitar and cymbals are crisp and clear, vocals are up front and precise without being shrill or harsh. 5 stars, and I'm Edna Krabappel when it comes to marking records for SQ.
If anyone is curious like I was about the "
Vargas" at the bottom right; "The album cover was painted by artist
Alberto Vargas, who was known for his paintings of pin-up girls that appeared in
Esquire and
Playboy magazines in the 1940s through the 1960s. The idea to hire Vargas came from drummer David Robinson, the band's artistic director and a collector of pin-ups. The 83-year-old Vargas had retired several years earlier but was persuaded to take the assignment by his niece, who was a fan of the Cars. The painting, depicting a woman sprawled across the hood of a car, was based on a photo shoot directed by Robinson at a
Ferrari dealership. The model, coincidentally named
Candy Moore (famous for having played
Lucille Ball's onscreen daughter on
The Lucy Show), briefly dated Robinson afterward." Some of those paintings still sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I can see why! I'm a femme and I want to date her too
