Something for Thursday

It’s always amazing to me what random stuff people will suddenly be talking about on social media. The last few days I’ve seen chatter as millennials and GenZers discover “Schoolhouse Rock”, those wonderful animated shorts with memorable songs that taught us things back when we were otherwise watching cartoons on Saturday morning and flooding our bodies with sugary cereal. Ahhh, those were the days.

Anyway, this isn’t even the first batch of “Schoolhouse Rock” nostalgia that I can remember! The first wave came in the mid-90s, when Gen X rediscovered all those old cartoons and songs. There was a CD boxed set of them all, made to look and feel like a school binder that we all remember, and there was a separate disc that I did buy of popular bands of the time doing covers of the most popular Schoolhouse Rock songs. I probably still have that disc sitting in a box someplace…and it was actually a fun album! Hearing all those familiar old catchy-as-hell educational tunes done through the prism of 90s alt-rock? Good times, those.

Here is Better Than Ezra with “Conjunction Junction”. (The sound takes a bit to start up.)

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