In 1979, The Cars’ second studio album, Candy-O, featured the hits “Let’s Go” and “It’s All I Can Do,” but it was the album’s final track that would take on a life of its own. “Dangerous Type” was never released as a single, but its hypnotic guitar riff and cool, understated vocals helped turn the album closer into a fan favorite that endures 47 years later.
Written by Ric Ocasek, “Dangerous Type” features a memorable riff seemingly inspired by the T. Rex classic “Bang a Gong (Get It On).” In the Studio With Redbeard even described the repetitive riff as “a musical nod to T. Rex’s Marc Bolan.”
Billboard also weighed in, noting that The Cars made “inspired use of one of the genre’s defining riffs”—as well as an understated chorus that is repeated throughout the song. Ocasek “runs through the four-line hook”— “She’s a lot like you/the dangerous type/she’s a lot like you/come on and hold me tight”— 10 different times during the song’s four-and-a half minutes, according to Rolling Stone.
Ocasek once explained his songwriting style, admitting to Rolling Stone, “We’re not what you’d call a free-form jam band. We try to be precise and tight, but that doesn’t make our music ‘stiff or ‘calculated.’ My way of songwriting — even if it seems overly obsessed with form and structure — is just as emotional to me as soul music may be to someone else.”
As for “Dangerous Type’s” glam-rock swagger mixed with an undercurrent of anxiety, Ocasek told High Fidelity, “That’s because I’m probably a very anxious person.”
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The Cars guitarist Elliot Easton revealed that the band began playing “Dangerous Type” on tour before it was recorded, and that he perfected his guitar solo during those shows.
“We’d been playing the song live,” Easton told Guitar Player. “The first album was out, and so we were touring, but we weren’t introducing too many new songs that weren’t on the [first] album. ‘Dangerous Type’ was one of the few that we were playing then, and I’m sure that I started blocking out what I was going to do for the solo. I just refined it and nailed it down for the record, which we did in L.A. Cherokee Studios.”
Nearly 50 years after its release, “Dangerous Type” remains a beloved part of The Cars’ catalog—a fan-favorite deep cut with a hypnotic guitar hook that continues to captivate listeners decades later.
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