All Mixed Up (The Cars song)

"All Mixed Up" is a song by the Cars and the final track on their 1978 self-titled debut album. It was written by bandleader Ric Ocasek.

"All Mixed Up"
The single release of the song in the Netherlands
Single by the Cars
from the album The Cars
B-side"You're All I've Got Tonight"
Released1979
GenreRock, new wave
Length4:14
LabelElektra 46014
Songwriter(s)Ric Ocasek
Producer(s)Roy Thomas Baker
The Cars Netherlands singles chronology
"Just What I Needed"
(1978)		 "All Mixed Up"
(1979)		 "Let's Go"
(1979)
The Cars track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Good Times Roll"
  2. "My Best Friend's Girl"
  3. "Just What I Needed"
  4. "I'm in Touch with Your World"
  5. "Don't Cha Stop"
Side two
  1. "You're All I've Got Tonight"
  2. "Bye Bye Love"
  3. "Moving in Stereo"
  4. "All Mixed Up"

Background

On the album, "All Mixed Up" is bridged together with "Moving in Stereo". Released as the B-side to the single "Good Times Roll", the song has received widespread airplay on American FM rock radio stations, and is generally played together with "Moving in Stereo" on AOR and classic rock radio stations. The song also saw single release in the Netherlands, backed with "You're All I've Got Tonight" (also from The Cars.)[1]

"All Mixed Up" features bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals in the studio version, though Ocasek sang lead vocals on the demo version. The song afforded Hawkes a chance to step away from his many synthesizers and play the closing saxophone solo, the only one in the Cars' discography. "All Mixed Up" also featured the Mu-Tron Octavider pedal, which Benjamin Orr recalled he "had to have."[2]

Other versions

References
  1. ""All Mixed Up"/"You're All I've Got Tonight"". 45cat.
  2. "The Cars interview".



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