What song got you listening to New Wave?

[tory]

I was in the 6th Form (i.e my final year) in 1977 in a posh Sydney school, and my friends and I were blown away by such songs as Peaches by the Stranglers and Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols. I was already in a band, and suddenly we realised that it

[bobbylove]

Just to give it an anglocentric spin, here are the records that first tipped me on to New Wave. I didn't really know what New Wave was at the time. I knew I liked them but didn't know why! They were all hits in the UK and they would have been performed on

[KYYX4ever]

>>Then, in 1980, KZAM ("Modern Music, Modern Mono") played post-punk plus New Wave power pop, Devo, Fabulous Poodles, Any Trouble, Echo & the Bunnymen and Seattle's own power pop quartet, the Heats ("I Don't Like Your Face").

In 1983 KYYX became "The

[devildog]

It was 1979 and I was 12 years old. I first heard Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him" on WBAB on Long Island. At the same time, I listened to a 45 single by some strange sounding guy named Elvis Costello. The song was "(I Do Not Want To

[wallofboingo]

At the tender age of 21, I regret that I couldn't have been around when New Wave was at its peak. About 5 years ago, Halloween night 1999 in fact, they played a song that changed my musical taste forever on the local Seattle 80's radio station. The song w

[BeauBeau]

When I was a sophomore or junior in high school, I discovered WLIR by accident. Or maybe someone recommended it. I really can't remember.

I do remember that one of the first songs that hooked me was that Way of the West song, "Don't say that's just fo