Only a year removed from chaining themselves to the walls of the One-Hit WonderDome with Happy Together, jaded L.A. fun boys The Turtles stopped listening to their handlers and created an underrated thematic classic centered around fictional bands performing songs of various genres popular at the time. Battle of the Bands is a gold nugget mined from one-hit hindquarters. And it must be celebrated.

A group of working-class Bergen County Italians transform into zombie male strippers and form one of the coolest bands ever. This self-titled compilation (a.k.a. Collection I) was released by Glenn Danzig himself three years after the band broke-up, but it's the best single disc appetizer offering of the Misfits original run.

This week's ep is up early because myself, Jose and Bemba have to travel to Mexico for business. 1970's David Bowie is one of the greatest musical runs ever - but we begin with the Bowie's never-before-told quest to create his 1983 midlife crisis pop manifesto - Let's Dance.

Ry Cooder, one of classic rock's greatest journeymen convinces Malian legend Ali Farka Touré to forget about his rice farm for a month to create one of the coolest albums ever under the 'world music' categorical tag.

Years before getting the indie gold star with Before Today, Beverly Hills trust fundie Ariel Rosenberg recorded a couple hundred cassettes-worth of home made pastiche psychedelic bacterium while in high school and college. Loverboy was the fifth LP extracted from this low-fi/highly-invigorating cassette cache. It's my favorite of Phase I Ariel Pink - probably because it's the only one I own on vinyl. Also - we play Cupid and pop the cherry on the Cryofab Rejuvenation Machine II.

The two most staph-infected former members of the New York Dolls get stranded in England with their new band and unload an absolute classic. One of my very favorite two sides of vinyl everrrrr.

During the 1960's - in the wake of a Coup d'état and weird middle-of-the-night Presidential pushup challenges from JFK, Brazil started pumping out some of the most wonderful music ever created - Série Samba Soul is an obscure ray of delight from the early years of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira).

Doors-lovin' Liverpudlian sassboys Echo & the Bunnymen made a single-hander of LPs during the 1980's that are all solid. My favorite is number two - Heaven Up Here - Post-punk poundery that is perfect for soundtracking your BDSM adventure. If that's your thing - pervert.

Harry Hosono's tropical-themed Japanese jamboree from 1978 is the perfect album to put on if you ever find yourself dosed on acid at a Lu’a. Paraiso was Hosono's fourth LP released under his own name - but also the unofficial birth of Tokyo city pop forefathers the Yellow Magic Orchestra.

During the summer of '92 - amidst the official transition of rock and roll power from the Hair Hunx to the Grunge Hunx - the Gin Blossoms dropped the lovable New Mis' - a dryly joyous Mangina Music masterpiece that stands out by not standing out at all.