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The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
The hippest label in Chicago asked each of their artists to record a kid's song. The result is an eclectic mix of 26 songs some rather twisted about everything from strange food concoctions to stinky diapers. This is truly alternative children's music. Details, details - Various Artists - Ages: 5 and up - Genre: Pop/Rock, Folk, Blues/Jazz - Original Release Date: July 18, 2002 - Running Time: 62:13 Track Listing1. Red, Red, Robin - Rosie Flores2. Senor El Gato - Kelly Hogan3. Hinky Dinky Dee - One Riot One Ranger4. Big 1-0 - Alejandro Escovedo5. Godfrey - Robbie Fulks6. Camptown Races7. Down In The Arkansas - Jim & Jennie8. Don't Wipe Your Faces On Your Shirt - Cornell Hurd Listen 9. Snowball - Handsome Family10. On Top Of Spaghetti - Jane Baxter Miller11. I Am My Own Grandpa - Asylum Street Spankers12. It's Not Easy Being Green - Rex Hobart13. Cartoon Chicken14. Three Billy Goats Gruff - Carolyn Mark15. Three Little Fishes - Jon Rauhouse16. Crazy Dazy - Chris Ligon17. The Weasel, The Bean. - Split Lip Rayfield18. The Fox - Waco Brothers19. Cheese, Peas - Nora O Connor Listen 20. Turkey In The Straw21. Funky Butt - Devil In A Woodpile22. Crawdad Song - The Meat Purveyors23. Down On The Farm - Kim Lenz24. Little Red Riding Hood - Freakwater25. Rubber Duckie - Kelly Hogan Listen 26. Lullaby - Trailer Bride
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Customer Reviews for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
Review 1 for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
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Would you recommend? Yes
MissM
Location - Rock Island, IL
Number of Kids - 1
Age of youngest child - 0-1
Age - 30-39
December 1, 2008
Does it have to be a kids cd??
"Confession time:
We bought this while I was still pregnant and listened to it at least once a week before our little one even arrived. Now that he's here, we listen to it in the car all the time (along with some other of his favorites). It is catchy, intelligent and I have no problem with the idea of our son blaring this from his bedroom in a couple of years."
We bought this while I was still pregnant and listened to it at least once a week before our little one even arrived. Now that he's here, we listen to it in the car all the time (along with some other of his favorites). It is catchy, intelligent and I have no problem with the idea of our son blaring this from his bedroom in a couple of years."
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Review 2 for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
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Would you recommend? Yes
Fefe
Location - Downers Grove
Number of Kids - 1
Age of youngest child - 0-1
Age - 30-39
November 12, 2008
The cover speaks for itself
"I bought this CD because I loved the cover art so much. The music is as great as the cover! My husband puts this CD on all the time and the songs make us laugh. You can't help but sing along to many of the songs."
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Review 3 for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
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Would you recommend? Yes
Anonymous
Location - Iowa City
Number of Kids - 2
Age of youngest child - 5-7
Age of oldest child - 5-7
Age - 30-39
July 30, 2008
Phenomenal!!!
"This is the best kids' cd ever! We bought it and every kid that has come over since then has ended up buying a copy! The songs are great for both kids and parents alike - I still laugh at them!! Absolutely great - highly, highly recommend!!"
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Review 4 for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
June 4, 2008
The Bottle Let Me Down: Various Artists
"Chicago's Bloodshot Records is known for their insurgent country, or some other name for music that sounds like country but sounds nothing like Nashville. With their 2002 compilation The Bottle Let Me Down: Songs for Bumpy Wagon Rides, Bloodshot could easily have staked their claim to "insurgent kids music." (Or, even more marbly-mouthed, "y'all-kid-ternative.")
With a broad range of "adult" artists (from Alejandro Escovedo to Freakwater to Nora O'Connor and Steve Frisbie -- partner in Frisbie with Justin Roberts accomplice Liam Davis) and a collection of both kids' classics and originals, it's hard to summarize the 26-track, 63-minute album. But the one word that keeps coming back to me as I think of the CD is fun. On many kids' albums from "adult" artists, you get the feeling that the musicians are deigning to play this "kids' music," and it shows in a song that, well, isn't much fun to listen to. Not here -- the musicians are having fun playing these funds, and it shows. The Waco Brothers' spirited take on the folk classic, "The Fox," and the Asylum Street Spankers' punked-up bluegrass version of "I Am My Own Grandpa" shows no signs of "well, let's make a track for the kiddies." They're making tracks that any music fan would appreciate, kids not excluded. The Cornell Hurd Band's original "Don't Wipe Your Face On Your Shirt," is an amusing plea for respectability most parents will relate to, while Escovedo's live version of his "Sad & Dreamy (The Big 1-0)" (with the chorus of "I'm the big 1-0 / Candy just doesn't taste as sweet anymore") will ring bells with the tween set.
Like you would expect from an album produced by an "insurgent country" record label, many of the tracks are not sanitized. Carolyn Mark's fun retelling of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" doesn't sand off the rough edges of the story, for example, and Devil in a Woodpile's swampy cover of Mississippi John Hurd's "Funky Butt," is just what you might expect from the song title. And while most tracks stay safely on the parental side of appropriateness, Robbie Fulks' "Godfrey" (about a sickly, unemployed magician) and Freakwater's innuendo-filled "Little Red Riding Hood" are probably way on that other side. The parents themselves will probably like those songs while thinking repeatedly, "Should I fast-forward? I should probably fast-forward. Right? Tell me I'm right."
Some of the tracks are appropriate for kids as young as three, though the album is appropriate for kids who are as old as 10 as well.
In the end, this is a solid album with no weak tracks. Your kids won't even know that they're being exposed to a great collection of bands and songs, they'll just love these energetic renditions. And so will you. It's probably the best compilation of adult-musicians-doing-kids-music out there; its status as a minor classic (or even a major one) is deserved. Highly recommended."
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Review 5 for The Bottle Let Me Down Various Artists
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Would you recommend? Yes
Spleen
Location - Knoxville, TN
Number of Kids - 1
Age of youngest child - 2-4
Age - 30-39
May 8, 2008
It is not your typical kids album
"Eclectic is a great descriptor of this album. You may not enjoy every song but you will find most get stuck in your head for days. There is a little something for everyone's taste on this CD, both kids and parents. I am now intrigued about how cheese, peas, pickles and bananas with some mayo would taste. I doubt it would be as good as the song. Try it... you'll like it."
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