Songoftheday 9/24/14 - Going round and round cuz you can't get off your feet, going round and round still taking all the heat...

The Cars - "I'm Not The One"
from the album Greatest Hits (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 4

Today's Song of the Day comes from the American new-wave/power-pop band the Cars, who released their greatest hits album in 1985 and already had scored another top-10 pop hit with "Tonight She Comes". For its followup they released another cut from the hits set that was originally an album cut on their 1981 record Shake It Up. "Tonight She Comes" was given a "fresher" remix and released as a single, and became their next hit...

"I'm Not The One" became the twelfth top-40 pop hit for the Cars in March of 1986. The single also climbed  to #29 on the Mainstream Rock and #24 on the Adult Contemporary radio chart in Billboard magazine. Internationally the single was a minor hit in Canada and Australia.

It may not be one of their best-remembered songs, but it's a nice atmospheric piece and I always like "second chance" hits...

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...and here's the Cars from their 2011 tour in Philly...

Up tomorrow: the White Witch is impatient.