Cap'n Swing - Bye Bye Love

[electrovox1212]

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[tjeebrown]

I like the Cars version much better! I can't believe Cap'n Swing would rip them off like this!

[Gina97xls]

@tjeebrown uuuuh... Capn Swing IS The Cars... pre-Cars....

[excelsior544]

Imagine a group sounding this fresh today. Any Captain Swings out there???? So many cool influences, especially Love's "Orange Skies."

[BabsTen]

I looooooove it !!!!!!!! Thanks Slance 1 for sharing.

[Ticona2]

wow, and I thought I saw everthing from the Cars, great stuff

[BigTruckAA]

@decodynamo.....Ditto

[BigTruckAA]

Wow

[DokterZ]

I prefer the Cars version, but it is always cool to her demo/early versions of songs. Every once in a while you hear one that is substantially better than the final version.

[eartant]

Cool ! I always find it interesting to hear a version of a song that's been drilled into my head done totally different ! Sorta early Roxy Music/Television sounding.

[jac9413]

good job

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[pf7912]

so this is how the musical group THE CARS started

[KURTHUNT]

The Cars sounded so fresh, I always wondered where they got their sound. Who were their influences? I always guessed it was probably Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, The Beatles, Kinks, Roxy Music. Never would have guessed Lou Reed and Captain Beefheart!!!! Too weird.

[susannahque]

This is different because it was the 70s  the music is fun and i remember seeing

them in the 70s I love it!!!

[electricangelorr]

I wonder if when the cars tour this summer, if Ric will sing Bye Bye Love and will it sound like this?? I'm not sure if I really like this or not. i am so partial to Benjamin singing it with his sultry voice:) I guess we have to wait and see!

[jingleburp]

It never did and has not again with this new album. Seems like Ric and the band are running low on cash and need to infuse their bank accounts again. That's what this album sounds like...sorry. I'm not alone by any stretch in thinking this.

[jingleburp]

They lost that - for whatever reason - on Panorama and NEVER got it back. Instead of evolving themselves and their music, they slipped into comfort and adopted a style with almost a pop pattern to it. They had so much potential. And every single album I kept hoping for that "eye of the tiger" mentality and heartfelt intensity to return.

[jingleburp]

renc2000

Come on...Duran Duran????Are you frickin kidding me??? That's like saying Sheena Easton was great until she changed...or Right Said Fred. Bands like that were nowhere near the level of The Cars. Initially, The Cars music (first 2 albums) was totally and completely brilliant. Each song seemed to have a drive and urgency and a soul where they meant every single word sung and every note played. Go back and listen...you will feel the intensity on those 2 albums.

[decodynamo]

@jingleburp

Many will remain fans based on their initial 'rush' with a given band. A few with the right radar will notice when things change, and you have nailed it with your observation, regarding this band. I wanted SO MUCH to love Panorama, but even as an 18-year-old, I knew they'd 'lost the plot', and I moved on. Even so, this many years on, it's such a treat to see them in their pre-MTV live splendor, performing songs from two of the finest albums ever made in the history of rock. Thanks!

[LuckyDeb61]

This is Ric singing lead and not Ben. Sorry, I like the way Ben does it much better.

[Pinkfloyd75100]

it kind of sounds like the Doors

[jingleburp]

The previous 2 comments are meant to be read together.

[jingleburp]

Please drop the formula writing and go back to the feeling and heart you had in the first 2 albums, get Roy Thomas Baker or another great producer and create something to be remembered by and to be proud of. It sounds like you've run out of money and are desperate to release anything to make you solvent again.

[renc2000]

@jingleburp

Sorry, I have NO idea what you're talking about. And I believe that many will disagree with you. Ric TOTALLY kept the formula on "Move like this". He just threw in some modernized twists here and there. BIG DEAL! There will always be disgruntled fans like you that expect absolutely no changes whatsoever. At least they weren't like Duran Duran and COMPLETELY changed everything about their sound & totally changed their approach.

What I would like to hear is more E. Easton's solos.

[jingleburp]

My GOD this absolutely shows how a great producer(Roy Thomas Baker) can hear a crappy version of a song, see and feel the greatness potential of the song and give direction to make it a real ass-kicking, awesome hit song. Ric Ocasek if you are reading this, I've listened to the new stuff (Blue tip & Sad Song) and I'm not impressed. I'm sure I'm not alone.

[bat115]

2:59-3:03 sounds like the Doors.

[pullbackbaby]

Wow, this is an oddity. thanks

[ambermum]

Wow! What a gem! I love when these raw, early gems are unearthed and posted - thank you for sharing! 

[Slance1Himself]

@ambermum No problem man, glad to help! :)

[stevehauk]

Ha ha Greg always looks so gay!

[mrJimCharles]

So what year is this, 1976? Man Ben had the best bess sound and all the way back then! I wonder what kind of amps he used

[teknokrat1]

@mrJimCharles not totally sure ben played bass in cap'n swing.

[3Dxxxx]

i had no idea that this song was released before the cars!!?? wow.... such a trip to hear this tripped out version!!! :) very cool!!! this is a jazz/rock/progressive version!!

awesome!!!

[largelester]

looking for the new wave

[MajorHawke]

wow!!! would u look at that, beautiful to hear a diffrent version, beautiful solos too, like the regular better but wow!! i would classify the genre of this version as plain out rock and roll, no pop or new wave just rock

[LukePeetsMusic]

still ric ocasek and ben orr, though

[dunskie]

Man the keyboards sound so out of place. Greg really brought it all together.

Thanks for posting.

[drnrg31]

The spng is basiaclly the same, except the bridge, which sounds a bit too meloncholy in this version.

[1malmis]

Interesting.

[putzengiler]

I played with keyboard player ,Danny for a short while around '81 in a bar band...He is now in Gov't Mule. And the Cars/Cap't Swing are sadly long gone.I guess patience pays off. He lost his keyboard spot to Greg Hawkes when Cap'n Swing morphed into the Cars. Anyway pretty cool demo.

[chetumallil]

Please  put it in, english

[stuco]

They really improved when they redid it. The song is pretty much all here though. I don't like that egyption keyboard tone very much.

[caraphyllis]

Great piece of history - I love hearing how they evolved the sound I associate with the Cars: stripped down to the essentials, and with that unique attitude. Didn't Elliot play with Cap'n Swing or did he join after this cut?

More, please.

[ladybluluv]

cool but strange version of this song, especially after hearing the The Cars version, which I like much better. I love Ben's singing way more in The Cars.

[waxywillie]

Cool psychedelic version...Thanks !!

[numanboy]

UNBELIEVABLE...I've been searching for Cap'n/Swing for... oh about 30 YEARS!!! WOW!

[Slance1Himself]

No problem! It's comments like yours that make my heart glow with being happy for a person :)

[drumdude1000]

The drumming on this track is not David Robinson. It's too busy. I agree also, that it doesn't sound like Greg Hawkes playing keys. I think that David, then Greg were the last two that joined the band.

[aw100626]

Very cool !!!! Thanks for the post.

[wfelixluck]

Cap'n Swing was actually the second Ocasek/Orr-related outfit to record. The first was called Milkwood, and they released an LP ("How's The Weather") on Paramount in 1973.

[tiefhals]

The evolution of songs -- especially classics like this -- is so interesting. Sometimes the demos/outtakes are the best versions!

[railfan456789]

Help! Slance, the cars were cap't swing first?

[Slance1Himself]

Yeah man, it was their first band. Only Ric and Ben were there though(from the cars)

[clarioncall77]

Elliot Easton was there too

[Slance1Himself]

I got it wrong, but there was Ric, Ben and Gred(from the cars, only them)

[Slance1Himself]

Greg*

[dbkparm]

THis is fucking Great!!!!

Thanks for posting the early/pre Cars stuff. I'm glad I found it!!!!!

[22tothlg]

just stumbled on this ,wow ! while it is not the precise sound the cars had it is still great to experience. thanks from a long time cars fan!

[yumeoibito22]

Bye Bye Love is one of my most favorite Car´s song...

This Ric´s vocal version is completely different from The Cars´s.

I prefer Benjamin Orr´s good voice for this song, his passion, + Car´s song arrangement much more.

But it´s interresting to know how the Cars developed the song based on an old staff for debut.

Thanks for posting.

[9682482]

I could be wrong, but I think this is one classic example of the 70s being an era of music being blended from late 60s psychedelia

and 80s progressive and punk rock. Awesome song. I miss Ben, but he left a legacy behind.

[mojorisen74]

I like it,it's weird!

[kneejerk]

this is capn' swing pre cars 1976

[aconchobhar]

note, ric sings lead on this one, not bad either

[thesongisover]

thanks for posting all this rare cars stuff

[Slance1Himself]

No prob :)

[thetaybackshow]

very cool

[Slance1TheComedian]

yah