Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
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Free Music Review: Know what you're buying
Hit: 4 Stars
DON'T buy this album yet! If you think this is the original Schoolhouse Rock, it's not. (Given some of the reviews below, apparently some people are a little too quick on the "buy" button while visiting Amazon.com.) If you're looking for the originals, there's several different versions of the original recordings available at Amazon. Go up to the search window, type in "schoolhouse" and go buy one of them.THIS album is actually a mid-1990s remake disk, with various "alternative" and otherwise bands doing their riffs on the original Schoolhouse Rock. Some of the tracks -- Biz Markie's languid "Electricity" -- are a real hoot, some -- the Lemonheads' "My Hero, Zero" -- are very faithful to the original, and a few -- "Little Twelvetoes" by Chavez -- are just kind of a mess.
A similar album, "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits," is much more successful, with a better category of performer generally -- some of the performers on this seem to be there for their brand name recognition, not for any particular ability on their part -- and a wider selection of television tunes to choose from.
Having said that, so long as you know what you're getting here (a novely album of Schoolhouse Rock COVERS by 1990s' alternative rockers), this is a fun album for your collection ... especially if you already own the aforementioned "Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits" CD.
Free Music Review: Not what you remember
Hit: 1 Stars
This CD is awful and my kids hate it. If you are expecting the understandable tunes you remember from childhood -THIS IS NOT IT!! It is much to "rock" for the tastes of my children. I intend to file it someplace and try purchasing the other CD's. This one was a HUGE disappointment, particularily after the build up I gave it before we listened to it.Free Music Review: Very disappointed!
Hit: 2 Stars
I bought this CD thinking that I'd be enjoying all those great "Schoolhouse Rock" songs in a new format. And it is in a new format, but I'm not enjoying them. I think these songs are definitely best in their original form and should remain that way. It seems to me that most of the bands just mutilated the songs. That's why I was surprised to see that many 4 and 5 star reviews! Also, my one last complaint is that the bands don't always sing the exact same lyrics as the original, yet they include the original lyrics with the CD, so it's kind of hard to sing along with. As for me, I'm selling this CD and buying the box set of all the originals!Free Music Review: Fun, fun, fun
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is a fun way to escape the reality of modern music. I used several songs for skits at my graduation party almost two years ago and they were a huge hit. My friends and I still get a good laugh listening to it every now and then. How can anyone deeply analyze or criticize something like this? I didn't grow up on Schoolhouse Rock, but it seems to me that it's not something to be picked apart or taken too seriously. It was supposed to make education fun, and this cd is simply bringing it back. True, the songs don't sound exactly the same as they used to, but that's the whole idea. And my six year old sister still walks around the house sometimes singing "Conjunction Junction." This album will ad a nice flavor and interesting twist to anyone's music collection.Free Music Review: Let's not go overboard
Hit: 3 Stars
I was amused to see all the 5-star reviews of this disc. I love Schoolhouse Rock; I of course grew up with it, and really liked the catchy tunes parlaying little history lessons, multiplication tables, etc. But the Amazon reviewer has it right; there's not much on here that surpasses the charm of the originals. The best of the remakes bear the personal stamp of the bands that play them, especially Deluxx Folk Implosion's sarcastic "I'm Just A Bill", Goodness' rocking version of "Electricity, Electricity", "Little Twelvetoes" by Chavez and Skee-Lo's hip-hop rendition of "The Tale of Mr. Morton". My exceptions would be Pavement's "No More Kings"--slowed down to a dirge and full of their low,low-key humor (though I like the revamping of the line "We're gonna run our country our way--run it into the ground!", and Moby whose "Verb: That's What's Happening" sounds like he just turned on the drum machine and left it running--no variance. The others (Better Than Ezra, Blind Melon, for ex.) play it fairly straight, and are fine, but probably would only be of interest to the devoted. I listen to this every now and then, and my young son likes it as well.