The Budos Band sprinkle some Ethiopian jazz into their menacingly-infectious sophomore album released on Daptone Records at the height of retro-soul revivalism in 2007. Full-time funk from a part-time band.

* The Budos Band live in the Netherlands in 2008 *

https://youtu.be/IkgD6AwsPZM?si=3hfoNHuY1jBqnQtk

* Musicawi Silt by Hailu Mergia *

https://youtu.be/r9pLeol6A9s?si=iPIf20IT-hUzJije

John Cale's scrappy solo debut recorded the year after leaving the Velvet Underground. His half century of creating high art out of low living begins here with Vintage Violence.

The Meat Puppets third album - the Kirkwood brothers fire out a catchy collection of psychedelic swingers that help keep weirdness to the front of the American music underground in 1985.

An affectionate curation of the disco-funk-fueled music made by Cameroonian Jo Bisso during his half decade living in America.

Three southern girls that met at band camp bring their garage rock gravitas north to New York City and record a ripper more potent than the purest line of Appalachian meth.

The Whole Damn Thing live from Maxwell's in Hoboken 2010 - Look at little Jessi holding that big CHOOCH guitar -

https://youtu.be/3lYdlaEg2zY?si=b0sFRCxXmy7xJeUX

Be Your Bro from second album -

https://youtu.be/TyVs4B26_P4?si=bHrJbKgAo6Gr5tWl

The sunshine pop banger debut from The Mamas & the Papas - a devilish foursome who soundtracked the summer of love before being drowned out of the cultural zeitgeist by the electric guitar gods.

The 'should-woulda-coulda' sixth album from retro-revivalists The Brian Jonestown Massacre - led by the emotionally-compromised Anton Newcombe.

Anton going berzerk at the Viper Room 1996(?)

https://youtu.be/jSm5optFVUw?si=BOI8pzeljh_jJylr

Anton going berzerk in Australia in 2023

https://youtu.be/3MKRAzCkJfM?si=06lmZxqMulq4sRaA

Despite the occasional TMC (Too Much Chuck) moments, Introduce Yourself is a fun listen and criminally-ignored glance at a weird underground band right before they blast off toward the MTV universe.

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*** 1988 music video for Anne's Song ***

https://youtu.be/w7dD-JJJytM?si=LIiZIEqkhU89jQfk

Aerosmith's breakthrough third album is proof that hard work pays off - even while wearing a bedazzled, penis-flattening pelican unitard.

Oh, Inverted World is a vivid, pop masterpiece that provides indie-cred to the men who make mangina music.