Me? I was a suburban kid from Northern California. We grew up on bad cheap hair farm bands and the occasional Heavy Metal dinosaur who came out of retirement to pay for rehab, or his Scientology bill. At the time, I found New Wave to be "unmanly" and punk to be, well, meaningless to me.

So it wasn't until I graduated college and joined the Peace Corps that I first heard "Do the Strand" by Roxy Music. I traded tapes (cassette tapes, remember them?) with other volunteers and ended up with "Street Life."

So here comes this discordant, atonal, yet rhythmically sound madness. I swore it had to be some 80's post punk band so I looked at the label. Nope! 1973-muthafucka! I literally did a double take. I mean these guys weren't simply ahead of their time, in many ways their first four albums are STILL ahead of their time.