The Cars • The Cars
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab/Elektra MFSL 1-274
33-RPM 180 g LP
The Cars is the eponymously-titled debut album by the late 1970s and 1980s synth rock group. It contains nine tracks, including the hit singles Good Times Roll, My Best Friend’s Girl, and Just What I Needed. It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker and originally released in 1978, selling more than a million copies by the end of that year.
Sound quality is pretty good considering the genre. I have a copy of the original version of this album which also sounds good, so I was interested in comparing them. Fortunately, the Mobile Fidelity version more than holds its own against the original, taking the sound quality up at least a notch or two.
Mobile Fidelity have done their usual great job with the packaging, too: The Cars comes in a gatefold sleeve made from heavy cardboard. Also, as one would expect from a premium product like this, the disc is as flat as a pancake and the record’s surfaces are dead quiet. Recommended, then, and I can’t wait to get my hands on Mobile Fidelity’s other The Cars reissues.