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Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
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Media Type: CD
Artist: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Title: SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! ROCKS
Street Release Date: 04/09/1996
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP COLLECTIONS
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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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Effective tribute album better for fans
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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.
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great CD For teaching students
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This is an extremely useful cd in teaching students their multiplication tables and parts of speech. It also has Science and Social Studies songs.
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Highly recommend for educators and others who grew up on the originals. Recently I broke it, and that brought me to Amazon. What a great cd. Plus, when you drill in the original, then play these updated songs, you get some real interest. I bought this years ago, thinking it was the original. I teach 5th grade, and most of what is on this album (can we call them that anymore)., I can use in our studies.
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This compilation manages to make some non-involved advertising creep happy without giving anything to the kids. They'll be "practical" soon enough. The heartfelt/fun/educational twist is just lost in the souless renditions by these bands to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation. Trust your kids to find the heart of the originals.
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great covers of the unforgettable and educational songs from the 70's cartoons by rockin bands.
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