These suburban guitar geeks nailed their sound in 1980 with Crazy Rhythms' "Raised Eyebrows": two post-punk guitars chopping up a jagged surf riff, weird percussion clatter, tension building until it all explodes into a climactic power-strum rave with three dudes yelping, "The glory, glory, oh, oh!" in incoherent joy. Rhythms remains an indie-rock landmark, but the less famous Good...

These suburban guitar geeks nailed their sound in 1980 with Crazy Rhythms' "Raised Eyebrows": two post-punk guitars chopping up a jagged surf riff, weird percussion clatter, tension building until it all explodes into a climactic power-strum rave with three dudes yelping, "The glory, glory, oh, oh!" in incoherent joy. Rhythms remains an indie-rock landmark, but the less famous Good...

Starting with its title, the New Jersey cult band's third album evidences all the laconic ambivalence toward the big time we've come to expect from a band that took six years between its first two albums. Amid the typically fervent strumming and rhythms of "The Undertow," singer-guitarist Glenn Mercer deadpans, "I'm being tempted and I don't mind it." For the Feelies, that amounts to their version...