Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of

it's an extreme longshot that anyone here has heard it, but i have an 80s lp by a band call sponsors (s/t) which is absolutely brilliant--ten tight, hooky sorta new wavy guitar power pop gems. from what little i've been able to glean, they were from new york and the lead singer (who's amazing) was reputedly 14 years old. there's a few videos of their songs on youtube, one of them called in and out of love.

my second pick is jules shear, the third party, which features only his voice and marty wilson piper from the church (blurred crusade connection?) on very basic acoustic. the songs are great--funny/poignant--and i like that he printed the chords on the liner notes. i read that this was was one of his label's lowest-selling albums ever, although shear was very successful as a hit songwriter for the bangles, cindy lauper and the like.

lots of great picks, though i'd agree that many aren't especially obscure (who needs rules, right?). a few more:
love nut, bastards of melody--a power pop masterpiece with really big hooks and tight playing. great cover of "green tambourine". (the principal's subsequent band, myracle brah, is also excellent, if overly beatle-esque). available on spotify.
the neats, crash at crush--intense, loud folk rock not too far removed from rem. the singer has a really deep, cool voice. i've never seen this stuff on cd, but well worth tracking down.

the lyres were fantastic-- the frontman was genuinely demented. i dug all the boston bands of that era--the real kids, the neighborhoods (whose "high hard one" would fit nicely on this forum), mission of burma (who are still around), volcvano suns...

armstrod, i saw o positive in boston (the ratskeller maybe?) and they were great-i still remember 'em from 30 years ago. the throbbing lobster label was the place to be back then. any memory of the primotons or cowboy mouth (different from the louisiana band of the same name; this was insanely hooky devo-ish pop with weird synth parts).