Hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPsbB952ewI

Hear it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAuZiSGLmvY

If you gave up on liking the TMBG kids music because of NO! (which was forgettable outside of 2 cuts) give them another shot.Give it 3-4 spins and you’ll be singing along:

“Zeros…..zeros mean so much”
“There’s only 1 everything…”
“We want cake! Where’s our cake?”
“Six knows how to stand on its head..”
“On Monday, I never go to work…”
“Nine pirate girls…pirate girls…pirate girls”
“Grab a circle with both hands and twist it, that’s an 8…”
“High five..UP TOP!...low five..DON’T STOP!..slap me five…WOO!...down low…too slow”

Besides teaching the basic 1-10 numbers, TMBG also teaches a little beginning addition, the concept of placeholders (in “Zeros”) and days of the week.

I’ll need to spend more time with this before I can write a proper review but it’s a return to form after the AWFUL “Barenaked Ladies are Me” (easily my least favorite BNL release ever). At this point, I can safely say it’s better than that one and EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE. Maybe better than STUNT. Worth hearing for BNL fans.

The band’s name stands for either “Mother, Father, Sister, Brother” or “Muthaf_ _in’ Sons of B_hes” depending on which story you believe.

I don’t care if Kenner was first, it just LAYS there. Both Cannibal and the Headhunters and Wilson Pickett are much better renditions of the song. There’s a reason Kenner’s isn’t the one with the airplay.

Got into record collecting because I’d grown up liking this album (I got to play my dad’s old copy of it on my Sears record player) and wanted a listenable copy and it wasn’t on CD yet. The album continues to be quite listenable with not only the hit title track but a nice cover of the Kinks’ “Dandy”, lovely ballad “East-West”, plaintive “No Milk Today” (touching despite its goofy imagery), rollicking “Saturday’s Child” and “Jezebel” and many other singalongs (“Rattler”,”You Won’t Be Leaving”,”Gaslight Street”)

I’ll stick with the Carl Carlton and Robert Knight versions on this one I think.

OK so it’s very textured instrumental alt rock. Sounds quite a bit like U2 circa THE JOSHUA TREE. Only problem is…there’s never any moments musically that really stand out a la the slowly builds to a charge “Where the Streets Have No Name” or the subtle menace of “Bullet the Blue Sky”.

I’m not sure what the big deal is here…

OK if there’s a genre I’m REALLY weak on, it’s dance music in general. Read this trying to see if maybe I’ve given it undeservedly short shrift. The jury is still out on that (I’m “consuming” a ton of videos on YouTube of the suggested songs in the club playlists at the end of the book from Shoom, Paradise Garage and others) but it was a good interesting read that managed to explain to me what the heck “Northern soul” actually means (this had been an enigma to me even as an oldies fan for a long time).