Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks

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Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks is a tribute album based on the Emmy Award-winning animated TV series, Schoolhouse Rock!. It was released by Atlantic/Hollywood Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs from the series performed by popular music artists. There was also a promo-only 7" single distributed to promote this album featuring the Man or Astro-man? track and the Pavement track. This single was pressed on yellow vinyl. "Three Is a Magic Number" was one of the last recordings made by Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug overdose in October 1995.

A portion of the sales of the album went to the Children's Defense Fund.

Track listing

1. "Schoolhouse Rocky" - Bob Dorough and Friends
2. "I'm Just A Bill" - Deluxx Folk Implosion
3. "Three Is a Magic Number" - Blind Melon
4. "Conjunction Junction" - Better Than Ezra
5. "Electricity, Electricity" - Goodness
6. "No More Kings" - Pavement
7. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" - Ween
8. "My Hero, Zero" - The Lemonheads (with Melissa Auf der Maur and Gibby Haynes)
9. "The Energy Blues" - Biz Markie
10. "Little Twelvetoes" - Chavez
11. "Verb: That's What's Happening" - Moby
12. "Interplanet Janet" - Man or Astro-man?
13. "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here" - Buffalo Tom
14. "Unpack Your Adjectives" - Daniel Johnston
15. "The Tale of Mr. Morton" - Skee-Lo

Single tracks

Side A

• Pavement - "No More Kings"

Side B

• Man or Astro-man? - "Interplanet Janet"

Reception

Reception to Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks was generally very positive, with Entertainment Weekly rating it a B+ and commenting on the surprising charm and high quality contributions by the popular young artists.