" Since You're Gone " is a song by American rock band The Cars. The album was released as the second single from their fourth album, Shake It Up .
Video Since You're Gone
Composition
According to liner notes Just What I Need: The Cars Anthology , "Since You're Gone" is an example of "[a] more pleasurable quality... in Ocasek", with Impersonation Bob Dylan "adopted [ed] when delivering [the line 'You're so trachea- ress!']" Guitarist Elliot Easton played a solo guitar that "paid homage to King Crimson's Robert Fripp [.]"
Maps Since You're Gone
Release
In 1982 "Since You're Gone" was released as the second single from Shake It Up , as a follow-up to "Shake It Up". The song, backed by "Think It Over" in America and "Maybe Baby" in the UK, reached # 41 on Billboard Hot 100 and # 24 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The single was followed by "Love Victims" in America, and "Think It Over" in the UK.
Like many other Car songs, "Since You're Gone" has a music video made to accompany him, starring Ric Ocasek "moping around the empty apartment". This video received adequate airing on MTV at the time.
Reception
"Since You're Gone" has since been praised by many music critics. AllMusic critic Donald Guarisco describes the song as "a solid show for [a strong balance between advanced thinking and classic pop writing], using high-tech settings and the irony of new waves to breathe new life into ballad power", going on to call it "a solid blend of rock ballad bombast and new wave futurism that charts just beyond the Top 40 pop chart." Greg Prato, also AllMusic, says "melancholy" Because You're Gone "remains one of Ocasek's best stories about heartbreak ".
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References
External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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