He recorded a rough version of the riff on a cassette player. He had no idea he had written it.
When he listened to the recording in the morning, there were about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and “then me snoring for the next forty minutes”.
A lot of new wave was pretty cerebral. Revenge of the Nerds didn’t come from nowhere.
I’m happy there are people that thoroughly enjoy this, such as yourself. I just don’t connect to it as anything other than jarring and unpleasant.