Heartbeat City: Deluxe Edition
The Cars
The Cars’ penultimate album and biggest commercial success is coming back in a box set. Rhino reissues the group’s Heartbeat City as a 4CD/1LP set, a year-delayed 40th anniversary celebration that’ll include the original album on CD and vinyl alongside a wealth of bonus material (including tracks featured on previous expanded editions of not only this album but 1980’s Panorama). Highlights include the non-album B-side “Breakaway,” remixes of the single “Hello Again,” a number of early versions and demos (including one of standout track “Drive” as well as “Shooting for You,” a Panorama outtake revisited during the Heartbeat sessions) and even an early mix of the whole album. The set is capped off with a live set recorded at The Summit in Houston, TX during the promotional cycle for the album, released in part as a longform video four decades ago and featured here with additional material. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes pens new track-by-track liner notes, and drummer David Robinson (who also designed all the band’s album covers) offers his recollections in a new essay. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
