BARENAKED LADIES - Snacktime! Review

I'd like to think that my offhand comment 7 months ago ("Why has this band not recorded a kids' CD?") was the genesis of Snacktime, the first kids' music album from Canada's Barenaked Ladies. The band, after all, recorded the album in November and December of last year, a good month after my comment. I gotta tell you, if I was somehow responsible in some tiny way for the album, released tomorrow, that would justify a lot of my work here at Zooglobble -- this is one fun set of songs. (Note: I'm not delusionary enough to suggest that I actually am. But it's nice to dream, eh?)...full text Parents! There is finally a children's CD that does not want to make you pull your hair out after five minutes!

Barenaked Ladies have put together a 24-track CD that will keep you and your children entertained, if only to see what they are going to sing next.

They begin with "7 8 9," a song composed around the riddle, "Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because seven ate nine." It will make you chuckle....full text The first full-length children's album by Canadian pop stalwarts Barenaked Ladies, Snacktime! reveals what is both enchanting and a little bit irritating about the often witty, sometimes silly, and usually melodically catchy pop band. Musically, all the Barenaked touchstones are here: '70s singer/songwriter, AM pop, indie rock, folk, alt-rock, and even some quirky electronic-based romps....full text