It was The Ramones. Namely the song "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do". I was probably 14 or 15, and I got a Ramones shirt for my birthday. I was embarrassed that I didn't really listen to them and wanted to be "legit" and familiarize myself with the music before I wore the shirt...so no one would ask me questions about The Ramones resulting in awkward stammering about how I just got the shirt and didn't really know their music.
That was the first song of theirs that I heard, strangely, after buying a Best Of anthology or something, and I listened to it so many times on repeat before even listening to anything else on the CD.
It definitely made an impression on me. I loved it.
I mean, I suppose before then I listened to Queen, David Bowie, and things like that, but I wouldn't consider them punk at all.
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