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by **Rubellan** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 11:12 am

While I had the 45's for "Whip it" and "My Sharona" when I was 10 years old, my first New Wave obsession was seeing "I ran" by AFOS on MTV the day I got it in roughly May 1982. I was instantly in love and cleaned the house to get the cash to buy the LP. I

by **Bitter Almonds** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:24 pm

It's a toss up between Culture Club, The Eurythmics, and Duran Duran [:)] Didn't get into Depeche Mode, Yazoo, NewOrder, and Erasure until much later when I decided to collect music as a hobby.

by **Oslo** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 7:50 pm

When I, as an 11 year old boy reading Spiderman magazines in my friends room, listening to Speek and Spell by Depeche Mode back in 1981. An older friend of us had recorded the lp to a cassette.
We also lisened to Kraftwerk and Simple Minds. Since then, m

by **Flesh for Nicky** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:37 pm

The Clash, Squeeze, Talk Talk.

by **2Nu** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:56 pm

Was going to start a thread but found this one.

The first bands/Albums from the NW era that hooked me were Blondie (Parallel Lines), The Cars (Candy O),David Bowie (Scary Monsters) and Squeeze (Argybargy)
However, My first (and argueably) NW Group t

by **manekineko** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:40 pm

Elvis Costello. I've always been attracted to geeky guys. Even after thirty years he's still pretty damn sexy!

by **newwavepop** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:50 am

musically i would say A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, there first 2 albums were incredible, but they werent much to look at.
i also loved MEN WITHOUT HATS first ep and album.
but visually it was definately duran duran, the pre rio duran were so stunning to a kid.

by **human clone** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:34 am

New Order

by **ben_at_work** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:37 am

Music wise the first obsession was B-52's, i forget how old i was but when i heard rock lobster, that was it.

As far as obsession as to who i thought was hot, it was Patty smyth, there was a time in high school that i would only date girls that were p

by **mygreen** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:44 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by ben_at_work[/i]
<br>Music wise the first obsession was B-52's, i forget how old i was but when i heard rock

by **schwenko** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:07 am

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by **Cerebrus** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:15 am

DEVO, my dad has a lasordisk by them and he wanted me to watch it a few years ago for god knows why. I immediatly fell in love and surrounded myself with all the DEVO info i could gather. About a week after my dad bought me a B-52's CD and that was all I

by **Abercrombie-Ai** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:20 am

Watching "people Are People" on my dad's Beta in '90.[:)]

by **nowhere girl** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:24 am

My first NW obsession was with the B-52s. When I was a kid, my parents would take the whole family to Fedco once a week or so, and I would browse the record section for over an hour(back then it was reasonably safe for a kid to be alone in a section of a

Website · by **Natephish** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:10 am

Duran Duran. I heard Freezepop (modern synthpop) in a music video game and really liked the song I heard. I ended up buying the CD and LOVING it. After reading up on their influences, I saw Duran Duran. The only thing I remembered about them was that

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