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Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks

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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
EAN: 0075679268129
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: April 09, 1996
Sales Rank: 8825
Studio: Atlantic / Wea



Disc 1:
  1. I'm Just a Bill - Frishberg, Dave
  2. Three Is A Magic Number - Blind Melon
  3. Conjunction Junction
  4. Electricity, Electricity
  5. No More Kings - Ahrens, Lynn
  6. The Shot Heard 'Round the World
  7. My Hero, Zero
  8. The Energy Blues - Newall, George
  9. Little Twelvetoes
  10. Verb: That's What's Happening
  11. Interplanet Janet - Ahrens, Lynn
  12. Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
  13. Unpack Your Adjectives - Newall, George
  14. The Tale of Mr. Morton - Ahrens, Lynn
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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Title: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Street Release Date: 04/09/1996
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Genre: ROCK/POP COLLECTIONS

Amazon.com:
The beauty of Schoolhouse Rock in its original Saturday morning run (1973-85) was that kids watching couldn't tell whether the catchy three-minute cartoon jingles were meant to be commercials, shows, or something else entirely. That enabled overexposed TV youth to learn without realizing it between episodes of Scooby Doo and Fat Albert. Then the Brady Bunch generation became the alternative nation, and the innocence with which they took in these grammar, history, and math lessons was lost. Now comes the obligatory tribute album, Schoolhouse Rock Rocks--pleasant enough, but full of postmodern yuks and missed-the-point nostalgia that aim to celebrate but instead drain the joy from childhood memories.

Though it's somewhat interesting to hear Pavement turn 'Mo More Kings' into lo-fi krautrock or Moby make 'Verb: That's What's Happening' into industrial techno-pop, the performers who most successfully preserve Schoolhouse Rock's edutainment viability are those who are most cartoonish to begin with: Ween ('The Shot Heard 'round the World'), Biz Markie ('The Energy Blues'), and Daniel Johnston ('Unpack Your Adjectives'). The problem remains, nonetheless: Any revamping of these songs implies Schoolhouse Rock somehow needed to be made hipper. That none of these songs is better than its original proves how very unhip '70s kids have grown up to be. --Roni Sarig





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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Effective tribute album better for fans
If you liked the groovy educational kids show you will perhaps pick and choose through this decent ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - great CD For teaching students
This is an extremely useful cd in teaching students their multiplication tables and parts of speech. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - what a great cd
I bought this years ago, thinking it was the original. Recently I broke it, and that brought me to Amazon. ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Don't. Just don't.
The heartfelt/fun/educational twist is just lost in the souless renditions by these bands to fulfill some sort ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - childhood flashbacks
great covers of the unforgettable and educational songs from the 70's cartoons by rockin bands.

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