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Released
  
April 9, 1996

Genre
  
Pop

Release date
  
9 April 1996

Label
  
Lava Records

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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.

Contents

A portion of the sales of the album went to the Children's Defense Fund.

Track listing

  1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" - Bob Dorough and Friends
  2. "I'm Just a Bill" - Deluxx Folk Implosion
  3. "Three Is a Magic Number" - Blind Melon
  4. "Conjunction Junction" - Better Than Ezra
  5. "Electricity, Electricity!" - Goodness
  6. "No More Kings" - Pavement
  7. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" - Ween
  8. "My Hero, Zero" - The Lemonheads (with Melissa Auf der Maur and Gibby Haynes)
  9. "The Energy Blues" - Biz Markie
  10. "Little Twelvetoes" - Chavez
  11. "Verb: That's What's Happening" - Moby
  12. "Interplanet Janet" - Man or Astro-man?
  13. "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" - Buffalo Tom
  14. "Unpack Your Adjectives" - Daniel Johnston
  15. "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.

    Songs

    1Schoolhouse Rocky (original theme music)Bob Dorough0:14
    2I'm Just a BillDeluxx Folk Implosion3:26
    3Three Is a Magic NumberBlind Melon3:14

    References

    Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks Wikipedia
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