Teddybears

Of all the cameos on the Teddybears' Soft Machine full-length, Neneh Cherry's "Yours to Keep" read-through is the Abba-est. By the coda, she's so enchanted with the thing's happy-ass-ness that she breathes a satisfied, geeky "yeah!" as the final sound. These guys have quickly become more important to TV advertising than subliminal genital images, and if it's of use to you, their "Different Sound" backgrounds Intel's omnipresent Core processor commercial. — Eric W. Saeger