Pop Kulcher

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Ultimate Bubblegum (2-cd set)

Side A
Artist Song
Rock 'n' Roll Double Bubble Trading Card Co.  Bubble Gum Music 
Partridge Family  Come On, Get Happy 
Abba  Does Your Mother Know 
Lemon Pipers  Green Tambourine 
The Turtles  Elenore 
Jackson 5  I Want You Back 
Katrina & The Waves  Walking On Sunshine 
1910 Fruitgum Co.  Simon Says 
Sweet  Wig-Wam Bam 
The Archies  Waldo P. Emerson Jones 
Dressy Bessy  Jenny Come On 
The Clique  Superman 
The Monkees  Cuddly Toy 
Apples in Stereo  If You Want To Wear a Hat 
DeFranco Family  Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat 
Michael Carpenter  Time To Change 
Banana Splits  I Enjoy Being a Boy 
Bay City Rollers  Saturday Night 
The Go-Go's  We Got The Beat 
Ohio Express  Chewy Chewy 
Wondermints  Knowing Me, Knowing You 
Manfred Mann  My Name Is Jack 
The Minders  Yeah Yeah Yeah 
Neil Diamond  Cherry Cherry 
Tommy James  Draggin' the Line 
Bow Wow Wow  I Want Candy 
Frente  Open Up Your Heart & Let The Sun Shine In 
Matthew Sweet  Scooby-Doo 
Of Montreal  Spoonful of Sugar 
Tommy James & The Shondells  I Think We're Alone Now 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
The Monkees  Monkees Theme 
Partridge Family  I Think I Love You 
Cliff Hillis  Dizzy 
The Archies  Sugar Sugar 
Juliana Hatfield & Tanya Donnelly  Josie & The Pussycats 
Abba  Waterloo 
Crazy Elephant  Gimme Gimme Good Lovin' 
The Brady Bunch  It's a Sunshine Day 
Dressy Bessy  Lipstick 
Lovin' Spoonful  Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind 
Jackson 5  ABC 
Ohio Express  Yummy Yummy Yummy 
Neil Diamond  I'm a Believer 
First Class  Beach Baby 
Liz Phair & Material Issue  Banana Splits Theme 
Lemon Pipers  Rice is Nice 
Sweet  Little Willy 
Marbles  Sun To Shine 
The Cowsills  The Rain, The Park & Other Things 
Manfred Mann  Mighty Quinn 
Bay City Rollers  Rock & Roll Love Letter 
Beagle  Love Grows Where Rosemary Goes 
The Third Rail  Run Run Run 
Matthew Sweet  Pennies From Heaven 
The Go-Go's  Our Lips Are Sealed 
The Archies  Bang Shang a Lang 
The Hombres  Let It All Hang Out 
The Minders  Better Things 
The Who  Barbara Ann 
Redd Kross  Bubblegum Factory 

Comment:

Let me say up front that the concept, not to mention about 2/3 of the songs, are ripped off directly from the esteemed Sean Lally. Still, I had a few things lying around that I'd never listen to if I didn't compile them somewhere, and it made sense to tuck them in amongst Sean's picks. So here's my take on the genre, silly 2:30 pop songs, all jangle and little buzz, guaranteed to bring a smile across your face. For better or worse, it's become my 6-year-old son's favorite part of my vast music collection, so I've ended up listening to this far more than I would have liked, but for some reason I just can't get the kid all that interested in Yo La Tengo and Pavement. At least not yet -- maybe when he's 7.
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zachrobbins
Date: 4/22/2003
whoa
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krautfreak
Date: 4/22/2003
goddamn, dude -- what an outta control sugar fix! some real beauts here, man.
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Bear
Date: 4/22/2003
Lush! but surely YLT have made the odd bubblegum moment?
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Sean Lally
Date: 4/22/2003
You'll get no complaints from me here, that's for sure. I found that I had to lay off the stuff after making my mixes. I really like your picks here. I'm especially fond of: Banana Splits, Ohio Express, 1910, Sweet, and hell, all of 'em! BG mixes are great because you don't have to suffer through entire albums by the "artists", though I think that the Archies' albums are pretty solid (among others). I like it. 'Nuf said!
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p the swede
Date: 4/22/2003
I like it too, great stuff to cheer anyone up with
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Rob Conroy
Date: 4/22/2003
This looks amazing, Marc. A really great cross-generational bubblegum sampler/summation.
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Adobe Sound Lab
Date: 4/22/2003
Why, I'd pay $23 for this!
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Mo Twang!
Date: 4/22/2003
It's fab!
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Saaf
Date: 4/22/2003
Great sugar buzz. I like the more recent stuff, which is spot-on. I think Liz Phair doing Josie completes the circle.
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Moe
Date: 4/22/2003
This looks totally great Marc, but at the same time I'm a bit disappointed, since I had my own bubblegum mix in the works. Oh well, such is life. Love the combination of old and new stuff. No wonder your kid digs this stuff. I hope he never outgrows it.
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Moe
Date: 4/22/2003
So are those pieces of bubblegum or ear plugs in the picture? I assume the latter would come in handy for hardcore Joy Division fans if they were exposed to this mix! ;)
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greaseball1
Date: 4/23/2003
I once looked at my earplugs through a microscope at work...I wouldn't recomend this to any one...I change them alot more now....Sweet mix by the way,literally.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 4/23/2003
Sticky but tasty.
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Wow...talk about guilty pleasure land. Lots of fun stuff, and very well compiled. Nice work.
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valis
Date: 4/23/2003
SUPERBUBBLE!!! (I'm with the young Master, Ion: I hope your son never grows out of this stuff either.., a great springboard to power pop and all that comes after....)
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popkulcher (Marc Fagel)
Date: 4/23/2003
I'm assuming the picture depicts those god-awful pieces of gum you used to get on Halloween, just a notch above Bit O' Honey on the loser Halloween hand-out category. I get a lot of my cover art illustrations just by typing buzzwords into a Google image search. This popped up when I searched "bubblegum."
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laufi
Date: 4/23/2003
wonderful!
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Skinny Robbie
Date: 7/2/2005
I'd buy this collection if I saw it in the store. Your kid has good taste!