Since You're Gone

"Since You're Gone"
Single by The Cars
from the album Shake It Up
B-side	"Think It Over" (US) "Maybe Baby" (UK)
Released	March 8, 1982
Recorded	Syncro Sound, Boston 1981
Genre	New wave rock
Length	3:30
Label	Elektra 47433
Songwriter(s)	Ric Ocasek
Producer(s)	Roy Thomas Baker
The Cars US singles chronology
"Shake It Up" (1981) "Since You're Gone" (1982) "Victim of Love" (1982)
The Cars UK singles chronology
"Shake It Up" (1981) "Since You're Gone" (1982) "Think It Over" (1982)

"Since You're Gone" is a song by the American rock band The Cars. It was released as a single from their fourth album, Shake It Up.

Composition

According to the liner notes of Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, "Since You're Gone" is an example of "[a] more playful quality ... in Ocasek's writing", with a Bob Dylan impersonation "adopt[ed] when delivering [the line 'You're so trachea-ress!']"^[1] Guitarist Elliot Easton plays a guitar solo that "paid homage to King Crimson leader Robert Fripp[.]"^[1]

Release

In 1982, "Since You're Gone" was released as the second single from Shake It Up, following up on "Shake It Up". The song, backed with "Think It Over" in the US and "Maybe Baby" in the UK, peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 24 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.^[2] The single was followed by "Victim of Love" in US, and "Think It Over" in Britain.

Like many other songs by The Cars, "Since You're Gone" had a music video created to accompany it, starring Ric Ocasek "moping around an empty apartment".^[3] The video received adequate airplay on MTV at the time.^[3]

References

1. Milano, Brett. Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology. Rhino.
2. "The Cars: Awards". AllMusic. Rovi. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
3. Guarisco, Donald. "Since You're Gone". allmusic.com.