Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
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Brand: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKSEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-09
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- I'm Just a Bill - Frishberg, Dave
- Three Is A Magic Number - Blind Melon
- Conjunction Junction
- Electricity, Electricity
- No More Kings - Ahrens, Lynn
- The Shot Heard 'Round the World
- My Hero, Zero
- The Energy Blues - Newall, George
- Little Twelvetoes
- Verb: That's What's Happening
- Interplanet Janet - Ahrens, Lynn
- Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here
- Unpack Your Adjectives - Newall, George
- The Tale of Mr. Morton - Ahrens, Lynn
Music reviews of Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
Music Review: Effective tribute album better for fans
Rating: 3 Stars
If you liked the groovy educational kids show you will perhaps pick and choose through this decent sized compilation of mostly 90's alternative acts covering some learning fun, but few songs possess the power to transcend fanboy roots (most artists welcome the warm cheesy style found in the show) and simply stand on it's own musically ala Blind Melon's "Three Is A Magic Number", where even multiplication tables sung by Shannon Hoon sound sincere.
Description of Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Title: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Street Release Date: 04/09/1996
Genre: ROCK/POP COLLECTIONS
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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