Just as school is getting out, School House Rock comes waltzing in. What an 80's flashback. I remember watching this while getting zombified to saturday morning cartoons over an icy bowl of Cocoa Puffs. The 3 min educational series were spread out during the morning line up on ABC, sprinkling bits of grammar, science, money, politics, computers, and math into the mind melting antics of Bugs Bunny and friends. As you can imagine, the parents loved the learning, the kids loved the songs, and before you know it boom - It's popculture! fast forward into the 90's and you have Prince Paul's sampling "Three Is The Magic Number(1)" for De La Soul's track of the same name. Fast forward into the 2000's and you have aNYthing sampling the fonts for their own shirt line. As the title Multiplication Rock suggests, this is the math series and features 11 songs about my worst subject. The songs are charming and stars the Van Morrison-like vocals of Bob Dorough. Check out the ill guitar sample and groove on "Little Twelvetoes(2)," the funky toe tapping feel of "I Got Six(3)," the 70's rock feel of "Elementary, My Dear(4)" and the jazzy funk on "The Four Legged Zoo(5)." Great for anyone with a longing for nostalgia, mixtapes and samples, and of course those of you with kids.

reviewed by C'mish