On his first solo LP, 1983's 'Beatitude,' Ric Ocasek rounded up some of the offbeat rockers whose records he'd produced and came up with a set of arty oddities. The record felt surprisingly tentative and uneven – the work of an ambitious bandleader uncertain about which direction to take on his own. Beatitude was met by a collective shrug from the record-buying public, and perhaps that's why...