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by **elektrikblu** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:25 am

Hey Jimbo

My first song was also "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal. I heard it at Hurrah's in NYC 1979 while waiting for the B-52's to perform a midnight show. Only thing was I couldn't tell what the lyric was. I thought it was "Warm Leather Ass" duh. I

by **BHols** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:37 am

LOL! @ Warm Leather Ass. I played that record ad-nauseum when I first found a copy of it & that's what my mother used to call it.
I can still hear her saying, like it was yesterday
"You're not going to play that Warm Leather Ass record again are you? B

by **nimzoid** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:42 am

For me it had to be "Mad World" by Tears for Fears... I had been listening to bands like the Clash, the Damned, Pistols, etc... Then that song hit and I thought the synth sounds were out of this world... to bad most of the eighties got really cheesy after

by **MikeP** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:54 am

Like so many others, my initiation was The Cars 1st album.

Songs that got me revved up for the explosion to come:
"Just What I Needed" - The Cars
"Cars" - Gary Numan
"Freedom of Choice" - Devo
"Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes

I think either "Don'

by **tborg1987** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:55 am

LOL the first songs that got me started into new wave was "cars" and "fascination" because they are the first songs on wave 103. Plus i remember seeing the new wave dance hits comercials when i was small

by **bpdp3** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:55 am

Wasn't a song, but it was the cover of the Police 'Outlandos'. Just so raw, weird looking, I had to hear it (had never even heard "Roxanne" before buying it). Then it was the cover of "London Calling" (who the hell could resist that image??).

The fi

by **denlahoya** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:41 pm

Half a Person on WLIR. My friends were into wave but I was still stuck on classic rock / heavy metal. I was forced into listening to it then it grew on me.

by **randy** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:43 pm

Had to laugh reading Jimbo's response about not knowing who had done "Psycho Killer". The same thing happened with me. I actually first heard it in local clubs being covered by local bands--it was many weeks later that I stumbled across the song title on

by **LaBooCA** » Sun May 23, 2004 11:02 am

Definitely The Cars!

by **hexicon** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:02 pm

KISW, the hard rock station in Seattle, started playing punk/post-punk acts like the Clash and Elvis Costello around 1979, along with some of the power pop stuff like the Knack and the Records. I was thirteen and my favorite songs were "Green Shirt," "Wa

by **SwampThing** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:28 pm

Hexicon,

KJET 1600 was another good station. I also remember the Seattle band "Visible Targets" as being a great New Wave act. I thought they would make it big time, but they didn't. Thanks for striking up fond memories of Seattle radio.

BTW - Wh

by **Frayo** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:09 pm

Whoa. I so did not even exist when most of this stuff happened. I cant even imagine an era when regular people would buy Devo records cause they were new and cool and stuff. These days, nobody knows who they even are!

They had a fairlight CMI in one of

by **Frau_Blucher** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:30 pm

[quote]Originally posted by SwampThing
[br]Hexicon,

KJET 1600 was another good station. I also remember the Seattle band "Visibl

by **christsmasher** » Mon May 24, 2004 2:28 am

I grew up in a European household, and my Dad was something of an audiophile. He had a whole room devoted to his hi-fi equipment and a WALL of vinyl and reel to reel tapes. Pretty crazy.

He loved Kraftwerk, and played them a lot, along with Can, Silv

by **ghosty** » Mon May 24, 2004 12:43 pm

It was "Message In A Bottle" by The Police. I was 8 years old and it was the first song my Mom played for me that was'nt Billy Joel.

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