Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks is a tribute album based on the Emmy Award-winning animated TV series, Schoolhouse Rock!. It was released by Atlantic/Hollywood Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs from the series performed by popular music artists. There was also a promo-only 7" single distributed to promote this album featuring the Man or Astro-man? track and the Pavement track. This single was pressed on yellow vinyl. "Three Is a Magic Number" was one of the last recordings made by Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug overdose in October 1995.
A portion of the sales of the album went to the Children's Defense Fund.
Track listing
Schoolhouse Rock: Grammar - Unpack Your Adjectives Music Video - The classic adjective song from Schoolhouse Rock! This song was written by one of the original founders of Schoolhouse Rock, our friend George Newall, and performed by Blossom Dearie. For...
- "Schoolhouse Rocky" - Bob Dorough and Friends
- "I'm Just a Bill" - Deluxx Folk Implosion
- "Three Is a Magic Number" - Blind Melon
- "Conjunction Junction" - Better Than Ezra
- "Electricity, Electricity!" - Goodness
- "No More Kings" - Pavement
- "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" - Ween
- "My Hero, Zero" - The Lemonheads (with Melissa Auf der Maur and Gibby Haynes)
- "The Energy Blues" - Biz Markie
- "Little Twelvetoes" - Chavez
- "Verb: That's What's Happening" - Moby
- "Interplanet Janet" - Man or Astro-man?
- "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" - Buffalo Tom
- "Unpack Your Adjectives" - Daniel Johnston
- "The Tale of Mr. Morton" - Skee-Lo
Single tracks
- Side A
- Pavement - "No More Kings"
- Side B
- Man or Astro-man? - "Interplanet Janet"
Reception
Reception to Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks was generally very positive, with Entertainment Weekly rating it a B+ and commenting on the surprising charm and high-quality contributions by the popular young artists.
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