Pros: Many very funny songs
20 Classics and One New Silly Song Equal Over an Hour of Silliness
Cons: I disagree with
a few of the songs included here
The Bottom Line:
Silly, silly songs
That will make you smile and laugh
Sit back and enjoy
20 Classics and One New Silly Song Equal Over an Hour of Silliness
It had been a while since VeggieTales released a compilation
of their silly songs. But that’s just
what they’ve done with If I Sang A Silly Song. It collects what are
considered the best silly songs as voted on by fans. While there are many classics here, obviously
my tastes don’t agree with the vast majority of fans.
The “plot,” and I use the term loosely, involves a telethon
were people are voting in with suggestions for a brand new silly song. While we wait for the results to be tallied,
we are treated to the top 10 silly songs of the last decade. Basically, they play back to back with a
brief stop to check in with the phone banks about half way through. We get such fun songs as “Pants,” “Goodnight,
Junior,” “Monkey,” and “The Biscuit of Zazzamarandabo.” And this is where my bias comes into play the
most. I’m not a fan of “Sport Utility
Vehicle” or “Gated Community,” both of which make the list. I can think of two or three that should have
replaced them. On the other hand, we do
get the very funny “Sippy Cup.”
But when those initial 10 songs have played, the votes
aren’t all in yet, so they run the top ten silly songs from the first
decade. There were fewer videos back
then, so these are most of the songs we all know and love. And they are true classics. We’ve got songs like “The Hairbrush Song,”
“His Cheeseburger,” “The Song of the Cebu ,”
and the very first silly song ever, “The Water Buffalo Song.” There are really only two songs from that
first decade I don’t care for, and one of them is missing. The other makes it way too high up the list,
but it’s not number one. And speaking of
which, the results this time are different from the initial time they let the
fans rate the silly songs – 10 years ago.
Finally, all the calls have been totaled and tallied and we
get a new silly song. The subject? Well, I’ll leave that for you to
discover. They really did have a fan
poll on the internet to create this silly song, and it’s fun. I’d actually heard some people reference it
recently, so I was glad to be able to see it.
Most fans already have the majority of these songs in their
collection from their initial DVD releases.
Still, for kids who love the music, it’s nice to have a place to just
pop it in and see all the songs with very little else. The video is 72 minutes long, and it’s mostly
the songs.
Unlike other VeggieTales entries, this one doesn’t have a
message or a moral. It’s just silliness
for silliness sake.
And they are plain fun.
I stuck this in to watch while my roommate was home. He wound up watching all of them with me even
though he intended to go do some stuff in the other room. That’s just how much fun they are for
adults. Kids, the intended audience,
love them just as much.
But watching songs done over 20 years makes one thing very
obvious - man have computer graphics changed.
The modern songs look good and sharp.
It’s not quite Pixar quality, but it’s still very good. However, when you get to the older songs, the
rough edges and the jerky movement becomes very obvious – more obvious since
they are side by side. But considering
that animation was done 20 years ago, it’s pretty understandable why they look
that way, and kids won’t really notice.
They’ll be having too much fun.
And I will give the voice cast credit. They can sing without breaking
character. In fact, at times their
singing adds to the fun of the song.
So if you want a collection of silliness, be sure to check
out If I Sang A Silly Song. The silliness is infection, and that’s all of
the fun.
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