Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits by Original TV Soundtrack (CD, Dec-1995, MCA Records USA)

Toy collector, that's me. I'm not a psycho collector, just an old LA punk whos always collected little toys and nik naks to put up around the house. I'm pretty nostalgic, watch old cartoons, hum their tunes, you know...

All of a sudden I remembered this CD and when it came out in the mid-90's. I found it for a great price here on ebay, and waited eagerly for it's arrival. When it did, of course I had to "test" it...

Bands like the Ramones, Violent Femmes, Reverend Horton Heat, Sublime, and The Murmers, were all off the "grunge" radar at the time, and these little known bands were my play favs. Some had been around for a while, others with Sympathy for the Record Industry, etc...So when I saw the ads at the Hollywood Virgin store next to an equally awesome poster for the CD "If I were A Carpenter" (songs by great alt. bands of 70's Carpenters covers), I said "I got to have it!"


Starting with the Tra La La song (from 60's Banana Splits show) sung by Liz Phair, it's enough to get you moving and singing along, after all if you're picking this up, you know the words...Sponge does a decent version of Speed Racer, and the Archies Sugar Sugar covered by Semisonic is just darn sweet. Collective Soul does The Bugaloos, Matthew Sweet does a 70's guitar omage to the original 60's Scooby Doo theme, The Ramones version of the dark, eerie, 60's cartoon Spiderman theme is their usual buzzsaw (kids now probably think they wrote it themselves) and Butthole Surfers' Underdog = Amazing!

I could keep going, most of the CD's great till about track 13, The Fat Albert Theme, crappily done by Dig (remember them? Of course not), Face to Face's Popeye the Sailor had heart but honestly some of these guys were out of their element. Tripping Daisy's Sigmund the Sea Monster (the Sid and Marty Kroft 70's live action) was pretty forgetable (had to look it up) but then even though I watched Sigmund I was more of a Dr. Shrinker fan.

Some bands you could tell really put some heart into these songs, others tried to hard to play them to their own style, and some just sounded like they were trying to make a buck (Helmut doing Gigantor for one, like those guys even remembered it, but I'm biased by the old Dickies version). The rest of the album starts to slow down with bands like Sublime, who great in their own right, shouldn't have done Hong Kong Phooey. However the Toadies doing the Goolie Get Together definately brought memories of that cartoon back, and the Murmers version of H.R. Puffnstuff was great as well. The fact they threw in the Happy Happy Joy song from 90's Ren and Stimpy should show just what a huge impact they were at the time but so wrong for this tribute. Perhaps the guys in Wax thought that was a Saturday morning cartoon and sent in in so late they just threw it in.

The point is, this is an album of songs from old cartoons, songs some of us can never, ever forget. Songs that bring back bitter but mostly sweet memories of Saturday mornings, Capn' Crunch, Life cereal, Tang, Evil Knevel, Oscar Meyer, Zips sneakers, Toosie Roll, and Hostess' Twinkie the Kid commercials...Some of these bands actually got hits out of these (Violent Femmes, The Ramones), but the idea for this album was one of love and nostalgia. Frankly, it pulls it off.....

I grew up with these songs on Saturday morning. AS a kid we didn't have cable or video games we just had the 3 channels and these unique cartoon characters.The weird thing is these cartoons (most of them) were only on for a couple of years but it seemed forever, That is all.

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Songs remind me of my children when they were little. This is actually the 2nd c/d I bought of this, the first one I had bought used and scratched shortly after. My grandchildren enjoy listening to the music in my car so I bought it again!

Listening to it now, amazing conglomerate Punk and post punk acts spanning since the 70's coming together to cover some of the tunes to their favorite Saturday morning cartoons!

The CD sounds great and I got in just a few days I bid on the cd on Feb 18 and got the Cd on Feb 23 that was fast . I decided to buy it because it was cheap .

It reminds me of when I was a kid on Saturday mornings,watching all of those old cartoons.They don't make them like that anymore.

This album is as much fun as an album can be. Buy it, play it, love it. All the groups really get the job done. I am mighty glad I bought it.

What a GREAT Blast from the Past!! Surely brought back some great memories from childhood. Highly recommended for children of the 60's & 70's.

This is one of the best covers albums of all time, Funny, Nostalgic and Hard Rockin! This is a real tribute to the cartoons which all us Generation X`ers grew up on....... Johno

The Ramones take on the popular Spiderman theme song is amazing. This album has a great melting pot of different bands playing the coolest theme songs from Saturday morning cartoons.

I love this CD. All the songs take me back to Sugar Corn Pops in front of the TV on Saturday morning in my pj's. This is actually the 2nd time I have purchased this CD. My original was destroyed, I couldn't find it anywhere locally, So I am very pleased to have found it here. I don't know any of the bands that play on the CD but think that they all did great work with the songs they perform.

my whole family loves this cd young and old, it still has a cool punk rock mentality to it though! Does not have bad language and even tweens think the whole cd is cool they still play some of these cartoons on cartoon network and boomerang. check it out

some killer mostly filler my favorites arethe tra-la-la song and Open Up Your Heart And Let The Sun Shine In - Frente! (from "The Flintstones")
12. Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) - The Violent Femmes (from "The Jetsons
you realy had to grow up in the 70;s in front of a telivision on saturday morning to like cthis