Secret Mission did the obvious thing and invited fifteen Japanese bands to breathe new life into some of M.O.T.O.’s finest songs: “Dance Dance Dance to the Radio,” “Shitty Kids,” “Gonna Get Drunk Tonight,” and “Magic Words.” Let it be known: “Magic Words” is one of the catchiest songs ever written. In fact, anyone who begs to differ hates good music and should be teleported to Venus sans spacesuit. If you’re like me, you regularly return to M.O.T.O.’s jukebox of juvenile pop gems, so these covers are a damn good reason to get these songs stuck in your head all over again. Although the covers are faithful, Boys Order electrifies “Deliver” with a chorus so infectious it requires penicillin to cure, and The Let’s Go’s “Choking on Your Insides” invigorates a particularly glum M.O.T.O. tune by increasing the cute factor by a million. Honestly, there are no stinkers in the lot. The Master of the Obvious himself, Paul Caporino, closes the compilation by covering “Do the Dip” from M.O.T.O.’s “Turn Your Head and Cough”—just don’t sing the chorus at work: “I do the dip when there’s cum on the dancefloor.” –Sean Arenas (Secret Mission, secretmissionrecords.com)