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[Mister Obvious]

In my opinion the whole nine yards was perfect, everything they did.

I think that may have been part of the problem. Lange was too much of a perfectionist. The drum machines had to be millisecond precise. And that thing he does with the layered vocals to make them sound extra fat. I think he had just finished Def Leppard's Pyromania when he did Heartbeat City. The Cars had a more natural sound up until that point.

Well I totally respect that guy's obsessive qualities...

Nobody who ever worked on any Cars album ever did anything wrong.

And that's pretty magical bro.