The best The Cars covers - Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes...

NME's Mark Beaumont made a selection of best covers of songs by Ric Ocasek's The Cars, to mark the passing of the new wave rock visionary. There are: soft rock standard 'Drive' covered by songwriter Matt Pond PA, new wave nugget 'My Best Friend's Girl' in a "gurning grunge" treatment by Nirvana, "a primal, drum-led approach" on 'You're All I've Got Tonight' by Smashing Pumpkins, "slowcore shuffle" of 'All Mixed Up' by the Red House Painters, and a "stand-off between Jarvis [Cocker] and Julian" Casablancas in 'Just What I Needed'.