Last night I dreamed that I lived in an alternate universe in which the Turtles were universally acclaimed the greatest and most influential band of all time and that The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands was hailed as pop music's finest achievement.

die Schildkrötenwelt!

Yes! It was the album's 50th anniversary and everywhere I went there were critics doing retrospective analyses and fans describing the first time they heard it and there were deluxe 180-gram vinyl reissues...

You see the resemblance, right?

And in the meantime, Sgt. Pepper's was in the cutout bin alongside Pablo Cruise and REO Speedwagon.

Lotus, THIS was the Battle of the Bands:

I was totally expecting the word 'reptile', not 'band'

That was the twist ending!

as i was starting reading the plurk, upon the first mention of "Turtles" i was thinking teenage mutant ninja turtles....which also would have been slightly different.