It’s called Acquired Taste, it’s out next Tuesday, May 9, and it’s by our most popular band: Various Artists!

Acquired Taste compiles 25 videos from such fresh-faced upstarts as Sleater-Kinney, Low, Mudhoney, the Shins, Wolf Parade, Iron and Wine, yadda yadda yadda. Eye these please:

01 The Shins – "New Slang" (directed by Lance Bangs, 2001)
02 Ugly Casanova – "Things I Don’t Remember" (directed by Yuri A, 2002)
03 Iron and Wine – "Southern Anthem" (directed by Sam Beam, 2003)
04 The Postal Service – "Such Great Heights" (directed by Josh and Xander, 2003)
05 Hot Hot Heat – "No Not Now" (directed by MK12, 2003)
06 Constantines – "Nighttime/Anytime" (directed by Ante Kovac, 2003)
07 Iron and Wine – "Naked as We Came" (directed by Sam Beam, 2004)
08 The Thermals – "How We Know" (directed by Your Mom, 2004)
09 The Album Leaf – "On Your Way" (directed by Fluorescent Hill, 2004)
10 The Postal Service – "We Will Become Silhouettes" (directed by Jared Hess, 2005)
11 The Shins – "Pink Bullets" (directed by Adam Bizanski, 2005)
12 Low – "Death of a Salesman" (directed by Marc Gartman, 2005)
13 Jennifer Gentle – "I Do Dream You" (directed by Paolo Franciosi, 2005)
14 The Helio Sequence – "Don’t Look Away" (directed by Fred Armisen, 2005)
15 Kinski – "Wives of Artie Shaw" (directed by Whitey McConnaughy, 2005)
16 Sleater-Kinney – "Entertain" (directed by Molly and Mariah, 2005)
17 Sleater-Kinney – "Jumpers" (directed by Matt McCormick, 2005)
18 Rosie Thomas – "Pretty Dress" (directed by Molly and Mariah, 2005)
19 Chad VanGaalen – "Clinically Dead" (directed by Chad VanGaalen, 2005)
20 Love as Laughter – "Dirty Lives" (directed by Chad VanGaalen, 2005)
21 Fruit Bats – "Lives of Crime" (directed by Greg Brown, 2005)
22 Wolf Parade – "Shine a Light" (directed by Matt Moroz, 2005)
23 The Elected – "Not Going Home" (directed Nik Fackler, 2006)
24 Rogue Wave – "Publish My Love" (directed by Matt Lenski, 2006)
25 Mudhoney – "It Is Us" (directed by Whitey McConnaughy, 2006)

* Sub Pop: http://www.subpop.com/