Though Freema Agyeman's snark line made me fall for her a little bit more.

Gary Numan had a massive impact on New Wave for a few songs, though New Wave didn't seem to last. It did help make 80s music awful though.

I don't think the -ish is needed. They are/were a core Anarcho-punk band.

The Selector are pretty great, and put on a hell of a show. Toots and the Maytals just another level of cool.

Chumbawamba being the classic example. Staple Anarcho-punk band that almost inexplicably charted.

Katrina and the Waves is one of those 'big in Canada' bands from the UK that wouldn't qualify for this list at all. 'Red Wine and Whiskey' on my regular playlist.

My son laughed. And got excited at the exciting bits.
(and I have a dozen kids in my house howling at Mater and the Ghost Light)

My son spent a good year wanting to be a race car when he grew up. (he was pretty little).
I think any judgement on Cars has to consider it made a lot of little people very happy.

Have to be careful with that. There was a nice enough fox out back near the garbage. Couple of drinks, blackout, nightmare.

Old answer was likely the friends who saw the Clash in '82 but I was too shy to ask to come along. Or maybe Public Enemy shortly after Fear came out, but in the group going was one of the rare people I loathed.

Plus you could play the KISS version of King.

Worse yet, the Jutes. Let us not speak of them again.

"No, of course not. Not North Wales. That's ridiculous.

Tracyann Campbell. I'd be crushed

NP, and sorry if that sounded picky or snotty.
In the spirit of the thread, a long ago pleasure I am never likely to feel again is that feeling of being properly wasted in a club that you feel completely safe in, listening to 'Green Onions'. Unique.

As a casual lover of Northern Soul, I think you mean 'the second time' or 'when Soft Cell had a hit with'. I remember hearing it first as the Soft Cell hit, but definitely prefer the Gloria Jones now.

I actually like the Mick Jones / Lily Allen version. Her voice sounds more like a child left behind. 'Stay Free' was never my favourite either, but Police and Thieves is solid when I am in a Clash mood.

It was fine, slightly better then most for sure. Didn't top Madness; 'Our House' was pretty big in 1982. Apparently The Monks were only really loved by Canadians, and we still had track like 'Echo Beach' kicking around the edge of mainstream radio.

It was the isolated vocal track on YouTube for me. Beyond the incredible vocal talent it shows, it also has that 'huh, so that's what cocaine actually sounds like'

(with the notable exception if you heard 'Rock the Casbah' first while it was a hit)