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“Dangerous Type” by The Cars

From the album Candy‐O (1979)

“Dangerous Type” by The Cars appears on 18 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1982 and 2023. It was first released in 1979 on the album Candy‐O. Its best result is #104 on the 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,311 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns
9stations
#104best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1982–2023years charted

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"Dangerous Type" gets the last word on Candy-O, the Cars' second album, from 1979: Ric Ocasek wrote it and sings it, and it struts in on a riff that's a close cousin of T. Rex's "Bang a Gong". Ocasek and Elliot Easton play the guitars, Benjamin Orr the bass and David Robinson the drums and percussion, with Roy Thomas Baker producing for Elektra and Geoff Workman engineering.

AllMusic's Tom Maginnis paired it with "All Mixed Up", which closed the band's debut: both vamp over big, rising chord changes while the band's whole sound swells until the tape can't hold any more. It was never a single, but the fans claimed it anyway, and it has turned up on compilations like Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology and Complete Greatest Hits.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1982 247 95.5 KLOS KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) 499
1988 471 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1998 409 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
1999 816 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2011 851 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2012 890 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2013 283 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2013) 500
2013 216 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2014 342 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 400 (2014) 400
2014 316 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 104 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2015) 499
2015 215 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 259 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2021 500 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2021) 499
2022 450 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s 908
2022 345 WMGK WMGK Philly 500 (2022) 500
2022 286 100.7 KSLX KSLX Arizona 500 (2022) 500
2023 928 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015

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