've been listening to this band called The Names and their 1982 album, Swimming, the past couple of days. Since modern music is terrible, I find that there is plenty of good music from the past out there for me to discover.
I found the band through a Christmas compilation disc called Ghosts of Christmas Past released by the Les Disques du Crepuscule label. I was looking for music by Winston Tong, who is also on that album and does a humorous version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
I was nine when Swimming came out and there was no commercial Atlanta station who would have been playing this album then. I suppose it was possible that the Georgia State University station, WRAS, might have played them since that was the year the station became known as Album 88 or The Georgia Tech station, WREK, could have played them.
At that age in 1982 I was listening to WZGC Z-93. The music I would have heard that was in any way similar would have been Human League's Dont You Want Me or anything by The Police.
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