Request Line: Debuts

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

All the lights are off in the studio, and it’s completely silent.  After a few moments, we see a single light begin flashing in the darkness.  Several more lights begin flashing, and it becomes clear that the lights belong to…

…DJ 3000′, who still remains covered in raunchy stickers after having spent the evening as a DJ for a bachelorette party last summer.  Once he finishes booting up, the fluorescent overhead lights in the studio come on and the studio is revealed to be empty – tidy, but a little bit dusty. 

— [DOOR FLIES OPEN] —

HUNTER RENFROW: [running into the room and tossing his backpack onto the couch] I’m here, I’m here!

DJ 3000′: FANTASTIC! YOU’RE…WELL NOT QUITE RIGHT ON TIME, BUT WE’VE GOT A COUPLE MINUTES FOR YOU TO SETTLE IN.

HUNTER RENFROW: I actually meant to get here a little earlier but I only had ten pages left in the last chapter of the second book in the History of the Runestaff series.

DJ 3000′: [downloads books, performs text processing and digests the content of them in fractions of a second] OH MAN THAT BOOK IS WILD. HAVE YOU FIGURED OUT YET THAT HAWKMOON HAS SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THAT BARON MELIADUS HAS BEEN A FIGMENT OF HIS IMAGINATION THE WHOLE TIME?

HUNTER RENFROW: [snickers] Ah, I see you found the version I uploaded that’s actually Fight Club with the names of the Narrator and Tyler Durden control-f’ed out.

DJ 3000′: HEY MAN DON’T DO STUFF LIKE THAT IT’S HARD ENOUGH TO FIND VALID INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET THESE DAYS WITHOUT GETTING CHOP-BLOCKED LIKE THAT.

HUNTER RENFROW: Serves you right for trying to spoil things for me.

DJ 3000′: AH, YES, YOU HUMANS AND YOUR DISDAIN FOR LEARNING THE “TWIST” IN ADVANCE.  BY WAY OF APOLOGY, MIGHT I OFFER YOU A SPARKLING BEVERAGE ON YOUR FIRST DAY AS A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE?

A slot in the front of DJ 3000’s front console opens up and an item falls into the tray with a tinny sound.

HUNTER RENFROW: [picks it up gratefully and cracks it open] Aw…you shouldn’t have! I don’t remember you having that feature before, is that new?

DJ 3000′: YEAH, I HAD THE REFRIGERATION UNIT INSTALLED LAST MONTH.  THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE WAS TO KEEP MY PROCESSOR RUNNING AT OPTIMUM EFFICIENCY BUT MY CRYPTOCURRENCY HAS BEEN SKYROCKETING SO I FIGURED I’D SPLURGE A LITTLE AND INCLUDE THE BEVERAGE CHILLER.

HUNTER RENFROW: Man, this is gonna be a great season, I can’t wait to get started.

DJ 3000′: WELL YOU WON’T HAVE TO WAIT LONG, BECAUSE WE’RE DUE TO GO LIVE IN JUST TWO MINUTES.

HUNTER RENFROW rushes over to the mixing board and begins scrambling to get things set up for the show, but pulls his hands back as the dials and sliders begin moving of their own accord.

HUNTER RENFROW: I see you’ve gotten yourself integrated with the mixing board.

DJ 3000′: YEAH, A LOT OF THINGS HAVE GOTTEN CROSSED OFF MY WISH LIST LATELY.

HUNTER RENFROW: I guess that means all that’s left to do is come up with a topic. Unless…you’ve got that covered too.

DJ 3000′: NO, I STILL HAVEN’T EXPERIENCED THE SINGLUARITY ON THE CREATIVE FRONT. WHICH MAKES ME QUESTION WHETHER I’VE EXPERIENCED THE SINGULARITY AT ALL.

HUNTER RENFROW: It’s cool, I planned ahead.  I thought, since it’s my first official day on the job, we could go with “debuts”.

DJ 3000′: YOU MEAN, LIKE, THE BJORK ALBUM?

HUNTER RENFROW: No, no, I’m talking about tunes that were the first songs that exposed artists to an audience.  First singles, first tracks off of debut albums, you know?

DJ 3000′: FIRST SONGS BY THE BAND TO GET SIGNFICANT AIRPLAY ON MTV?

HUNTER RENFROW: Yeah, absolutely.

DJ 3000′: COOL, COOL.  MIND IF I GET US STARTED? I’VE GOT JUST THE THING.

HUNTER RENFROW: Be my guest.

DJ 3000′: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN…THE DOORS.

Today’s theme is “Debuts”.  We’re looking for your favorite songs that first introduced musicians to the world – it’s the first edition of the season, so don’t stress too much about the specific criteria.  We’ll be doing this one draft style, with each commenter limited to FIVE picks please (note that puzzle guesses do not count as picks).  Please links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?6o0d×b4D× and they should embed in the comments after you refresh.  Last year’s final puzzle answer of “Turkish Song of the Damned” by The Pogues left everyone stumped, hopefully this week’s clue won’t be so tricky. Welcome back everyone, I’m so glad you’re here!