Justin Roberts - Meltdown!
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Free Music Review: CATCHY!
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought it for my year old twins, but my husband knows all of the words! Very catchy and fun. Free Music Review: Very cute, but not my personal fave
Hit: 3 Stars
Nice job Justin Roberts - cute CD (but I like the They Might Be Giants kids CDs much better... can't articulate why, just do). Free Music Review: really fun
Hit: 4 Stars
I like this CD alot- not quite as much as I hoped I would after being inspired to buy by his song on the Putamayo Folk Playground CD- which we loved. But still, it's a great kids CD and is in heavy rotation at our house.Free Music Review: Yay, we love justin roberts!
Hit: 5 Stars
Justin Roberts is the best ever! We all love his music and even us parents listen to his CD when the kids aren't around. It is smart, clever, catchy, and just plain good music. I love how his style changes from song to song but he never sings down to kids. His concerts are also amazing if you can catch one.Free Music Review: Great Music
Hit: 5 Stars
"Someone" asked me just the other minute what "I really like."
Really, really, like...humm...let me think.
1st grade teaching lets me be "allowed" to like a lot you wish you could admit, you know?
Like snowflakes, holidays, best friends, mail.....stickers.
Gel pens, sure.
Well, in answer, I really like every song on this CD, and just discovered it recently. The six year olds in my class, very discriminating musical children known best for double cupcake pencil beating on desktop solo party singing shows, laughed all the way through.... learning of course how to pin things on your brother, celebrating the sister you've always known you wanted. So many great lyrical lines catch for me on this one, and for them too. They voted down my favorite James Taylor collection for this, that tells you right there..
I wear glasses and so do three of my kids ( at school, one at home) ....now we have a song to celebrate just HOW COOL WE ARE with banjo no less.....put it on, dance in a circle when you have to get out the specs. Look we wear glasses! Teachers lighten up that affective filter. Go purple plum rosy warm. Try this CD. Get happy with these tunes. I know my class loves this and when a little one in another class got glasses before the break they hauled her in and sang this to her. Yeah, really.
So it's a lovely collection, I think today my favorites are the Imaginary Rhino ( "southern sweet tea, Albuquerque, bring my bonnie back"....lyric pieces in a song- I admire this more than you know) and Koala Bear Diner which sings to eucalyptus but manages to sound like Luca...my son's name. I actually cry a little on that one...The word work here for children coiled around lovely musical snatches of banjo, hammond organ, ukulele, mandolin, just support great writing. Meltdown is perfect for my class this year (and I hate to say why but we have a little tantrum monster- there is "someone" who really needs this tune in my classroom this year),and the song about a Dad and child building a sandcastle ("Sandcastle")you really need to listen to this one. I took my own kids all their lives to build sandcastles, in front of those waves. It seems to float to the love of those experience both for child and parent. A anthem to growing up, you know if I'm not careful I'll sit here and write about every song which is pretty unfun if you haven't yet heard the music.
Except it opens with a song "Chalk" I played as we chalked up a storm....it is such a unique way to write about this.
"Outside our house, the neighbors just gawk(or maybe not)
Why can't they see there's a museum on our block
All the grown ups they just stand around and talk
I chalk, I ch-ch-ch chalk"
So give it a try. Really I think your child will love to sing along. I can sing along, another wonderful thing to note. No matter how hopeless you can dance, get silly, flop, float, skip, sing, yes that too.
Where was I not to know about this artist?
Just a Minute.....a friend here on Amazon once noted in a review something about kids waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for momma on the phone. More than Just A Minute , what a great answer. A child saying...hey, what about this waiting?
And if you are welcoming a new child to the family....sing along with Cartwheels and Somersaults....
I can't stop myself
"Well we never really knew
How much we needed you
Before you came into our lives
Things were pretty nice
All the presents 'round the tree
Were mostly meant for me
But if that
s how its got to be
We'll split them evenly
Because you're worth it, maybe more
Cause now we're doing cartwheels and somersaults
And it's all your fault, yeah it's all your fault
It's you we love......."
It gets me.
Tear.
Go buy this. Koala diner. Come on now. Do it.