Just what I needed, My Best Friend’s Girl and Good Times Roll have never left the airwaves becoming staples of album-oriented and classic rock radio. All three songs, while never going any higher than #27 on the singles charts in America all became classics. The self-titled debut featured three singles, two of which hit the top forty. The band and legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker created a masterpiece that fused rock, pop and synthesizers that perhaps more so than any other record set the tone for the early 80’s new wave heyday.
Anytime you talk about the history of New Wave it should be mandatory that you also have to talk about the first album from The Cars which was released on June 6, 1978. Some will even go back further and bring up names like The Velvet Underground, The Modern Lovers, and The New York Dolls. Bands like Talking Heads, Television and Blondie will always be mentioned, and rightfully so. When music historians and writers talk about the history of New Wave, the mid-seventies scene at CBGB’s night club in New York will always come up.
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