Dizzy

Lunch Money | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Squirrel Mechanic Records
• ASIN: B001QERK5C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,364 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lunch Money: It Feels Like Love, March 21, 2009

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J. Day "or whatever" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dizzy (Audio CD)

There are so many things I love about Lunch Money. Each song on the albums Silly Reflection and Dizzy feels like a beloved friend, all with their own personalities. The music travels from style to style, hitting all the best parts in danceworthy rock, jazz vocals, punk, and quiet, contemplative, putting-your-life-to-a-soundtrack languour. My almost-two-year-old son and I have great fun singing and moving to it. As if the music itself weren't enough of a treat, Molly Ledford's lyrics are the most delicate poetry that manages to take its place in our daily lives rather than remain in a yellowed volume somewhere. She bemusedly investigates language ("do you go bananas? or do you go pears?"); pop culture ("keep on truckin'",dinosaurs on pajamas); childhood ephemera that nevertheless becomes the most long-lived mythology in an adult life (dropping Barbie shoes down the register, taming a balloon, sheets so old they feel like silk); and the secret thoughts and associations of a child that are the best stuff, in fact, of poetry (the wonder of an umbrella, reading that "feels like love"). Thanks for sending one of the wayward balloons to the Empire State, Molly!

Lunch Money makes children's music not by condescending in an adult's conception of a child's "gibberish," but by talking to a child in his/her own language and perspective. That makes this music fun and relevant for a child who sings along. And when it's done right, as it is here, how absolutely renewing, inspiring, and luminous it is for the adult who listens with love, chin propped on palm.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lunch Money, Dizzy - A great record!, September 30, 2009

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Thomas W MEnzer "Tom" (Lakewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dizzy (MP3 Download)

I love this record and play it for my 9month old daughter nearly every night before, during and after bath time. Her favorite songs are "It only takes one night to make a balloon your friend" and "Are you a rabbit?". The music is good and the songs are sweet and often touching. They make my baby happy and I am so happy that we are already sharing music.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NPR is fair in their review., March 8, 2009

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L. Tang "Er Ye" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dizzy (Audio CD)

refreshing to kids and tolerable to parents (fairly enjoyable to me).

I believe the album jumped from nowhere to #103 on March 7th 2009 and further up to #61 on the 8th is largely due to NPR All Things Considered favorable review this past Friday, the 6th. I enjoy it myself, so does my son. This is just a great idea appreciated by a lot of people. Well done, Lunch Money! Well done, Stefan Shepherd!