Ridiculously Obscure and Ironic Children's Albums

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So what did you make of Lance Link and The Cattanooga Cats? Just got them in the post. What do you make of them?

― S Samson, Monday, 10 March 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Was this before or after he was in The Evolution Revolution?

A Lance Link lunchbox just went for $61 on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-LANCE-LINK-METAL-LUNCH-BOX-KIT-THERMOS-1971_W0QQitemZ6219502607QQcategoryZ1410QQcmdZViewItem

― everything, Friday, 11 November 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

The Shaggs
The Langley School Music Project

and some like that (adult children's): Pianosaurus, Ivor Cutler

― antonio, Friday, 11 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

The Shaggs
The Langley School Music Project

those are NOT ridiculously obscure or ironic.

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone got that Trojan Reggae Kid's box set?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 11 November 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

whatever - they meet my cardinal rule of obscurity, whereby 0 in 10 american people has heard of them...

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 11 November 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

how many of those 10 people listen to npr?

― Mrs. Genius McGuruchakra (and her secret knowledge) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

i mean, probably two?

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 11 November 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

I've been looking for a medley I heard by the "Mini-Pops" for a couple of weeks, I think they were a popular british kids group.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

also KXLU(www.kxlu.com), a local station, has an excellent children's music show on Wednesday evenings

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 11 November 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

I join the spoilsports:

"Frank Zappa called the Shaggs "better than the Beatles." In 1996, Rolling Stone named the album one of the 100 "most influential alternative releases of all time."

Last year, RCA Victor re-released "Philosophy of the World." And in December, Tom Cruise's production company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, optioned a story about the band that had appeared in The New Yorker. A spokesman for the company said it's too early to talk about the negotiations. "

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

This is worth rejoicing over, a stunning example of one of the 100 Christian ventriloquism Marcy LPs:

http://www.bizarrerecords.com/galleries/marcy/MarcyHome.jpg

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

It's ironic because the girl loves the doll more than the mom.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

In the grand scheme of things, the Shaggs are obscure.

However not "ridulously obscure" by any stretch of the imagination. Or "children's music."

Wait, what's this thread about again?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

I think the Mini-pops were actually Canadian, although pretending to be British perhaps? (not to be another spoilsport but they aren't very obscure either).

Did Captain Groovy And His Bubblegum Army get around to releasing an album?

― everything, Friday, 11 November 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, now they were seditious!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

hooray for mini-pops! i've got an mp3 of them doing "cruel summer" -- did matt fluxblog post that one?

― teeth marks on your tongue (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

And in December, Tom Cruise's production company, Cruise/Wagner Productions, optioned a story about the band that had appeared in The New Yorker. A spokesman for the company said it's too early to talk about the negotiations. "

This was aaages ago (five years?). What happened since?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

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