>>964976
I'm an American. And while I will give The Preamble massive props, because I'd never be able to remember the Preamble without it, I do not agree that it sounds like a real song. In fact I'd say it sounds less like a real song than most other School House Rock songs. I'll also give props to I'm Just A Bill for being a genuinely informative lesson on how law is made in the United States, and to Sufferin' 'Til Suffrage for being the catchiest and most fun song of the bunch.
I mostly dislike America Rock because it reads like a goddamn propaganda film, and I can't separate the music from the rhetoric. Elbow Room is especially bad in this respect, and puts a happy face on a particularly bloody and horrible time in our history.
Science Rock, in my opinion, has the most knockouts in terms of both good songs and good education. Victim of Gravity is my personal favorite, but I should also give props to Electricity Electricity and Do The Circulation for being both catchy and informative. And of course it's hard not to like Interplanet Janet.
Math Rock is weighed down a fair bit by the fact that it's mostly just times tables, which aren't very interesting. But it makes up for this by throwing in some interesting mathematical tricks, and with some really great songs. I Got Six and Lucky Seven Sampson being the best in terms of song structure, and special props should be given to Naughty Number Nine for teaching that oh-so-convenient ten minus one trick, as well as being a pretty good song. Little Twelve Toes should be given tons of praise for a relatively easy to understand introduction to non-base-ten number systems, which I never understood at the time, but memories of which helped me immensely when learning such things later in life. The actual song was just OK though.
Looking back, I probably should have said Math Rock = Grammar Rock instead. Grammar Rock has more than its fair share of classics. But on the other hand, Math Rock is more consistently good. Grammar Rock is basically half good, half mediocre or bad. They saved their biggest knockouts for the big important ones though: Verb: That's What's Happening and A Noun is a Person Place or Thing. Super catchy, super informative, great videos. Unfortunately Noun has to be knocked down a peg for missing "Idea", but that wasn't part of the elementary curriculum at the time so it can be forgiven for that. Conjunction Junction is an eternal classic, although I'm not a huge fan of it; the chorus is strong but the verses are pretty weak. I like Interjection a fair bit for the humor value, and The Tale of Mr. Morton hits the feels pretty hard. Most of the rest of the songs are pretty forgettable.
Money Rock is mostly just boring, both in terms of lessons and songs. To be fair, Economics is at its heart a very very difficult subject to make interesting for kids, and they tried their best, but it just wasn't there. Where The Money Goes was at least a little funny and catchy but not nearly on the level of my favorites. It's mostly just a flatline.
Never saw Earth Rock, and looking at the titles of the songs and the fact that it was made in 2009, I get the feeling that I should stay far away from it.