The Currency Of Pop. Week 1. Ep 3.

After 1977, punk or whatever, changed very quickly and a lot of very original sounding music started to come out. Most if played by that man Peel. Apparently it was called "post-punk" but we didn't really have a name for it back then, it was just good.
My great friend Adam was of a similar mind as me when it came to music and we used to swap records, tapes of Peel shows etc. I think Adam had more money than me because he always had some ace new records every time I went round. There was a lot of electronic music coming out of Northern towns like Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool as well as a bunch of Essex-based types. It all sounded very new and very exciting. This, by a Sheffield band called Cabaret Voltaire, was one of the best.

Nag Nag Nag/Is That Me (Finding Someone AT The Door Again?) Rough Trade RT 018.
(It was a close call between this and The Normal's TVOD/Warm Leatherette).

The music of the time was synthesizer/drum machine based, the lyrics could be as obtuse as you liked. Once again it was all incredibly exciting, and at times we felt that nobody else in the world knew or understood this music. We were incredibly naive, but it didn't matter as I expect everyone else who heard it felt the same way.