The Like load up their sharp, peppy tunes with zillions of pop references — Tracey Ullman, the Four Tops, Toni Basil, Duran Duran, just to name a few. And with good reason. They're children of the music industry; drummer Tennessee Thomas is the daughter of Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, and guitarist Elizabeth Berg's dad is a former Geffen exec (Charlotte Froom left after the band's 2005 debut). They wield their prodigious knowledge in organ-heavy girl-group confections spiked with catty New Wave toughness. "Walk of Shame" and "Narcissus in a Red Dress" indulge in easy high school irony, and "Fair Game" gets into incestuous boyfriend-swapping: "Switching partners like a square dance/Just watch where you're going."

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."