The Cosmopolitans, ‘(How to Keep Your) Husband Happy’ (1980)

With its squealing Farfisa, Southern-accented shoutsinging, and frantic, frugging rhythm, this plucky novelty track resembles nothing so much as a great lost B-52’s B-side. The jangle-pop pioneer and future R .E.M. producer Mitch Easter helps out on guitar and drums as Jamie Sims and Nel Moore read 13 real rules off the back cover of a 1964 instructional album by TV fitness personality Debbie Drake. Kitsch has rarely sounded this subversive.