| Night Spots | |
| Artist: | The Cars |
| Album: | Candy-O |
| Released: | June 13, 1979 |
| Recorded: | 1979 at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles |
| Genre: | New wave, hard rock |
| Length: | 3:15 |
| Label: | Elektra |
| Producer: | Roy Thomas Baker |
"Night Spots" is a 1979 song by The Cars from their second studio album, Candy-O. It was written by Ric Ocasek.
"Night Spots" was a leftover from The Cars' first album, The Cars. The original version, recorded around the time of The Cars, according to the liner notes, "has a sinister, stripped-down feel that anticipates the more experimental direction of later Cars music." This version remained unreleased until it appeared on the Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology compilation album.[1]
"Night Spots" has generally received positive reception. AllMusic critic said that the band "rocks out on ... 'Night Spots'", and in the Billboard review of Candy-O, "Night Spots" was noted as one of the "best cuts".[2] [3] Rolling Stone critic Tom Carson said, "In 'Nightspots,' Greg Hawkes' synthesizer jabs and jumps like the flashing lights on a rainy, late-night highway, and the tune's hopped-up rhythms and stuttering singing have a tense, jittery momentum that's exactly right."