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Little Different
Barry Louis Polisar
Little Different
Genre: Children's Music
 
  •  Track Listings (17) - Disc #1

One of a dozen or so reasons to love Barry Louis Polisar's A Little Different is its ability to entertain unflaggingly and at full throttle on two levels. Polisar not only jointly captivates parent/child combos with scanda...  more »

     

CD Details

All Artists: Barry Louis Polisar
Title: Little Different
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rainbow Morning Music
Release Date: 1/7/2003
Genre: Children's Music
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 780938663439

Synopsis

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One of a dozen or so reasons to love Barry Louis Polisar's A Little Different is its ability to entertain unflaggingly and at full throttle on two levels. Polisar not only jointly captivates parent/child combos with scandalous songs such as "I Don't Brush My Teeth and I Never Comb My Hair"--in which the protagonist confesses that "The teacher never calls on me / I'm almost sure she'll faint / She says my grammar's good enough / But I'm almost sure it ain't"--he also cleverly draws every last listener in with inclusive lyrics such as "Who got a boo-boo / You got a boo-boo / I got a boo-boo, too." Accessibility aside, though, Polisar proves on this album that, despite a 10-year lapse between albums, he's firmly in command of his customary hilarity. To wit, there's "These Are Not My Children" ("My kids don't drop cookie crumbs / When they eat a snack / My kids wear clean underwear / My kids don't talk back"), "I Still Don't Like Asparagus" ("I still don't," he helpfully points out in the liner notes), and "Bad Guys Broke into Our Car," a true-life tale of a bizarre burglary. But that's playing favorites. Each of this album's 17 tracks is genuinely funny, and as if that weren't enough, its music--especially Ray Tilkens's guitar work, though Polisar's toilet flushes and horse hooves are also memorable--is outstanding. Polisar may be "A Little Different," but that's what makes him and, by extension, this album wonderful, and worthy of a much wider audience than what they've found so far. --Tammy La Gorce
 

CD Reviews

Very funny
02/28/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)

"we love song #3 called "These are not my children." It says "these are not my children; my kids are polite. I think someone switched them, in the middle of the night." We like to sing it because it's very funny."