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"The debut album that plays like a Greatest Hits album" is an old rock-journo cliché, but sometimes that's what you have to go for -- and damn, the Cars' debut album qualifies better than just about any major release of the late '70s. Only three singles were officially released, but every one of its nine cuts (save the supremely weird breather "I'm in Touch with Your World") feels like it could've been one of those three. Now: Guess how high those singles charted? Believe it or not, more or less nowhere. Sure, "My Best Friend's Girl" peaked at #3 in the UK right when New Wave was taking England by storm, but back in the States it stalled out at #35, with its followup "Good Times Roll" one notch too low to even make the Top 40.
