Artist	Song
Elvis Costello	Pump it Up
The Records	Starry Eyes
Joe Jackson	Sunday Papers
Flash and the Pan	Man in the Middle
Steve Forbert	Going Down to Laurel
Nick Lowe	Cracking Up
John Cougar	I Need a Lover
Bram Tchaikovsky	The Girl of my Dreams
Cheap Trick	I Want You to Want Me
Sniff N the Tears	Carve Your Name on my Door
Gary Myrick and the Figures	Meaningless
Romantics	Tell it to Carrie
Single Bullet Theory	Keep it Tight
Blondie	Fade Away and Radiate
The Cars	My Best Friends Girlfriend
Talking Heads	Take it to the River
Ian Hunter	It Ain't Easy When You Fall/Shades Off
Ian Dury and the Blockheads	Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

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Off to college and still tied to the radio. College Radio instead of Local Fm radio but still radio and still worth listening to. At some point radio became unbearable for me but not yet. Starting to branch out by raiding roommates record collections and hitting used record stores with some free spirited music lovers. Single Bullet Theory was purchased by a roommate solely on the basis of the squirt guns on the album cover. The same with Flash and the Pan only with Frisbees. David Byrne's catatonic performance of Take Me to the River on SNL captivated us all. Ian Dury was discovered because Aerosmith played Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll as set up music at their concert. And Ian Hunter became my idol. The best concert I attended in this era was Ian Hunter and Johnny Cougar. Ian's first solo album is still most often the answer to the question: What is your all time favorite album?

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