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by **Grayson** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:19 pm

Ministry's "Revenge" from their "With Sympathy" album in 1989, it blew me away hearing it on tape in a friends car. I know "With Sympathy" was released in 1983 but I had never heard it until '89 while in college. Up until I heard it I had dabbled in a lit

by **golfer** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:16 pm

I guess it had to something from Talking Heads 77,any T.H. really...any one song????? I dunno

by **scramjet** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:08 am

English Beat - Jeanette
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw
Tears for Fears - Mad World
Yaz - Nobody's Diary
Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I had a Photograph)

I got in a little later than Jimbo, but had the same feeling th

by **FearOfGhosts** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:40 am

[quote]Originally posted by Jimbo
[br]What was the first song you heard that made you go "WOW"?

For me it was hearing "Warm Leath

by **ExRat** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:39 am

I think for me it was probably one of the Cars earlier songs. Possibly "Don'tcha Stop" or "My Best Friend's Girlfriend". That really awakened me to another alternative to some of the crap that my brothers and sisters were listening to at the time. My sist

by **WoodlandParkPunk** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:14 am

The Cars first album as well as the Knack

by **Frayo** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:48 am

Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing...

The very long and insainly detailed about how it all started.

I was sitting in the floor one day (I think my gf was there too)...and it was running through advertisements for an 80s CD compilation. The second son

by **Jimbo** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 2:23 pm

I liked a lot of New Wave music prior to The Normal, but I just did not know it yet. [:p]
I had heard of the term before (from maybe 1978) but did not really connect it with anything. With me you could say that Devo, The B-52's, Blondie, Talking Heads (I

by **Dave** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:16 pm

Great question Jimbo! For me, it must have been '78/'79, because by '80 I was buying lots of NW albums (Squeeze, XTC, Police). To my best recollection...

Blondie - "Heart of Glass" (didn't know it was NW though)
Cars - "Let's Go" (enough to buy my f

by **audiofool** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:12 am

Great thread Jimbo !

H'mmmm lessee.... it was probably on a night visiting friends in Kitchener Ontario in 1980-1 (?), listening to cfny-fm when I heard the remix of The Human League's Love Action, Japan's Television, Pete Shelley's Homosapien, The Str

by **I. M. He** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:38 am

Good question... although it's like the old Robin Williams joke: "If you remember the sixties, you weren't there"
Let's see... at the time I first took notice (-78/79-) it was:
Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
The Cars - My Best Friends

by **2Nu** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:48 pm

There Were More Than One
David Bowie-'Fashion' (That whole album got my attention)
Elvis Costello-'Pump It Up' (Another Great Teen Self Dating Tune)[}:)]
Flying Lizards-'Money' (My R&R Friends Thought I Had Musically Gone 'Round The Bend)
B-52's- 'Pla

by **dead_irony@yahoo.com** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 2:39 pm

I was about eight when I saw Blondie play some late night talk show. I went nuts for Debbie Harry and begged and begged for the album. I think my mom ended up listening to it more than I did, which is saying a lot since my mom is a classical music fan who

by **fortyfives** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 6:29 am

Rachel Sweet - Cuckoo Clock

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?

Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Clash - Garageland

Shoes - Tomorrow Night

In High School (bac

by **rewindmylife** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:29 am

I was 11 years old driving with my friend's older sister and she had on 'LIR. P.I.L.'s "Rise" came on the radio and I started listening to the words. I thought what is this? "I could be wrong, I could be right...I could be black, I could be white"???

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