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Pop Fly | 
 enlarge | Artist: Justin Roberts
Label: CARPET SQUARE
Category: Music
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1156
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 6
UPC: 796873035927
EAN: 0796873035927
ASIN: B001543LOM
Release Date: April 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Pop Fly | | • | She's a Yellow Reflector | | • | Big Field Trip | | • | Henrietta's Hair | | • | The Backyard Super Kid | | • | From Scratch | | • | Stay-at-Home Dad | | • | She Sits | | • | Giant-Sized Butterflies | | • | Kickboard, Baby, Yeah | | • | Fruit Jar |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
WE LOVE JUSTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 16, 2008
They just get better and better! Not only wonderful for the kids but the adults love it also. Thanks again for another great album. Opps I dated myself by saying album.....
We love this CD! July 5, 2008
I can't say enough good things about Justin Robert's CD, Pop Fly. My kids (ages 2 and 4) LOVE it. We listen to it in the car and at home all of the time. I love it, because it doesn't get tiresome and annoying (like most kid's music).
Pop Fly is a great song (and it perfectly describes the feeling of standing below that Pop fly!). Henrietta's Hair is very funny. Stay at home dad is a great song, too. Giant-Sized Butterflies talks about how you feel on the first day of school (I wish I had a song like that to listen to on my first day of school).
You won't regret buying this CD!
My 4-year-old says 5 stars...best Justin Roberts to date June 6, 2008
To all the parents, I like to call Justin Roberts the Bare Naked Ladies of children's music. I enjoy listening to it almost as much as my son. We had the pleasure of seeing Justin Roberts, et al, perform the week Pop Fly was released. We picked up the CD at the show and listened to it on the way home. This is the only CD that my son asks for by name and, having seen the songs performed live, does all of the associated hand gestures ("She's a Yellow Reflector"). To me, it's a must buy!!
home run June 5, 2008
Count me among those adults who keep listening to this after dropping off the kids. The tunes are irresistably catchy, and the lyrics are funny and, at times, tender and sweet. Everyone in my house --including kids 2.5 and 5 -- simply adores this CD! We've each got our favorite: the littlest composed her own interpretive dance to "Pop Fly," my 5 year old loves "Kickboard Baby," and my husband is partial to "Henrietta's Hair." And I'll admit to getting choked up while listening to "Giant Sized Butterflies," a very tender song about the first day of school. But there is not a single song on this CD that I don't love listening to.
I've only discovered Justin Roberts in the last couple of months, but I'm hooked. This is everything kids music should be: great tunes, relevant themes, funny and thoughtful lyrics, musically outstanding.
The Sgt. Peppers of Children's Albums June 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have heard the future of children's music and it is Justin Roberts.
As the father of an eight-year old girl and a six-year old boy, it's a challenge to find something they'll enjoy listening to that doesn't make me physically ill. When I was their age, I was listening to my brother's Beatles 45's. In the seventies and eighties I discovered Elvis Costello, Squeeze and REM--intelligent lyrics wrapped around glorious melodies.
Enter 45-year old father of two. The music of Justin Roberts and his Not Ready for Naptime Players respects all three of us. While I thoroughly enjoy all of Robert's albums, "Pop Fly" is his finest to date. It is the "Sgt. Pepper's" of children's albums.
Lyrically, Roberts takes my children to places where challenges must be faced--to the outfield, on a field trip or to a first day at school. But he also takes them to places of simplistic beauty--grandma's kitchen or their own backyard.
Musically, Roberts hits a strong sixties vibe on this one. There is the Beatle-esque lilting on "Pop Fly," the Dylan-esque tangles of "Henrietta's Hair," the Memphis Horns on "She's a Yellow Reflector," and the Beach Boy harmonies on "Kickboard, Baby, Yea." Each track is perfectly crafted.
On the last cut, "Fruit Jar," Roberts rolls out what may be the most beautiful song of the year. It's a gentle, almost prayer-like wish for a child to find perfect love in an imperfect world. Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris would have loved this one--though I doubt they could have done it better.
But the real test for "Pop Fly" comes AFTER I drop the kids off at school. Rather than switching over to my own music, I keep listening all the way to work. Yep, it's that good. You--and your kids--will love this one.
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