"Tonight She Comes" is a 1985 song by The Cars

The Cars

The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...

, from their Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits (The Cars album)

Greatest Hits is a six-time platinum-selling compilation album by the new wave band The Cars. It was released in October 1985 on Elektra Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Ric Ocasek.# "Just What I Needed" – 3:43...

album. It was released as a single in October 1985, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in January, 1986. Although the song reached number one on the Top Rock Tracks charts (where it stayed for three weeks), it proved to be a straightforward pop song, although having a near hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 standards guitar solo. It was The Cars' fourth and last Top 10 hit.

"Tonight She Comes" was the first of two songs to be released as a single from their Greatest Hits album; a remixed version of "I'm Not the One

I'm Not the One

"I'm Not the One" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, from their fourth album, Shake It Up. It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, with the whole group repeating "going round and round" throughout the song.-Overview:...

", previously recorded in 1981 for the album Shake It Up, was the second.