Comments on: Music Review: They Might Be Giants, “Here Come the 123s”

By: Shira

Shira — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:59:42 +0000

FYI: They’re selling “Goin’ Quackers” as an MP3 download on amazon.com for $9.49. It is just as good now as it ever was!

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:11:07 +0000

Quakers rock.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:27:45 +0000

1) what’s wrong w/ explaining what “booty” is?
2) sven, i just KNEW that you asked him to convert that quackers LP so that our son would listen to it. awesome. thanks.
3) quakers. ha. that would be like 40 minutes of silence, right? and then about five minutes of some strange anecdote, then a cough, then fade to silence again. or something like that.

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:22:25 +0000

er, oops. I meant “Goin’ Quackers”

nothing against the Quakers aka The Religious Society of Friends

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:06:42 +0000

I have two words for all of you

“Goin’ Quakers!”

courtesy of the Disney Cast, released 1980. Truly a masterpiece. He’s a waddling crazy guy.

By: Chase

Chase — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:08:42 +0000

You weren’t kidding about this TMBG, Jorge. It’s terrific – and a DVD for the kiddies, to boot!

Oh, poor naive Susan – you will learn. Some tenets of kiddie pop culture are just unavoidable. Personally, I don’t really have a problem with the Wiggles. Barney is a different story, but then again, my 2-year-old daughter only brushes her teeth because BARNEY would approve. She doesn’t seem as impressed by seeking her parents’ approval.

Ultimately, I can’t fault the kiddie music if it’s educational, benign and interesting to the children. Sure, I’ve seen enough of that prancing Captain Feathersword to make my blood run cold, but, hell, the Wiggles are rock stars in my household. And I don’t have to worry about explaining what “booty” means to any rugrats.

By: staticblog

staticblog — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:30:14 +0000

I hoped that it would be true, but it’s the unfortunate side effect of socialization — i.e. day care. I’m incredibly happy with my son’s facility: they keep television to a minimum. But kids pass around toddler culture like the flu.

Some things like The Doodlebops and Barney and Friends don’t exist in Mommy and Daddy’s world — they might exist at school in small doses, but we simply don’t have that stuff. The Wiggles, on the other hand, was my mistake — a fellow parent who’s been through this three times gave them the thumbs up. In truth, the stuff is fairly benign, but I personally find it irritating, and forget about having any kind of video representation of them at home — tain’t gonna happen.

On the plus side, my son goes around the house singing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” So there’s progress.

By: susan

susan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:24:17 +0000

here comes the probable voice of naivety…..if you don’t play the wiggles or doodlewhatevers, you’re kid will never know what he’s missing, right? i don’t think that i ever heard anything but buddy holly or the beatles’ rubber soul or linda ronstadt until i got my own radio in like fourth grade.