Given that there's an infinite supply of nerdy teens and NPR show hosts, They Might Be Giants will always be with us, as they've been for 30 (!) years. Nanobots sounds like old-school, duo-style TMBG (catchy pop heroics mixed with jingle-length songlets) made by a full band. Topics include tiny robots, calling a woman "Mom" and being on fire. They can only keep this up for a few more decades.

“Tonight's the Night”

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."