Camp Lisa Lisa Loeb

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  • Release Date: 06/03/2008
  • Label: Barnes Noble Consign
  • UPC: 634457199927
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Camp Lisa

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Camp Lisa

1LISTENAre You Ready for the Summer? 1:21
2LISTENGoing Away 3:28
3Woodchuck #1 0:23
4LISTENThe Wake Up Song 1:11
5LISTENBest Friend 2:44
6LISTENGrandma's in the Cellar 0:41
7LISTENThe Disappointing Pancake 3:21
8Woodchuck #2 0:19
9LISTENHome on the Range 3:39
10LISTENFather Abraham 2:06
11Woodchuck #3 0:11
12LISTENLove Is a Rose 2:07
13LISTENPeanut Butter and Jelly 1:06
14LISTENWhen It Rains 3:42
15LISTENThe Cookie Jar Chant 1:32
16LISTENThe Cookie Jar Song 2:13
17H.A.P.P.Y. 0:06
18LISTENIt's Not Goodbye 3:36
19LISTENLinger 2:12

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Editorial Reviews

The triumph of Lisa Loeb's second children's album (following her first, Catch the Moon, made with Elizabeth Mitchell) is that it is narrowly focused. As the title Camp Lisa suggests, this is a thematic collection of songs about going away to summer camp. Some of its selections, including "Home on the Range," are the sorts of numbers that have been heard around the campfire for generations. Others, including "Ready for the Summer" (from the movie Meatballs) and Neil Young's "Love Is a Rose," have been repurposed from other origins. Among the Loeb originals are pop/rock winners like "Wake Up Song" and the Beatlesque "It's Not Goodbye," the latter treating the inevitable if heartbreaking end of camp for the year. Loeb is joined by lots of enthusiastic children as well as friends including Maia Sharp, Jill Sobule, and Steve Martin, who contributes banjo playing to the shaggy dog story "The Disappointing Pancake." Camp Lisa is an album that will delight any children going to camp and any grown-ups who have ever been to camp. [A Barnes & Noble Exclusive was also released.] ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi All Music Guide

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!by Anonymous

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September 27, 2010: Here I am at Camp Lisa. Now I remember why I always hated camp. First off, Lisa Loeb is obviously just cashing in on the 'make a kids record' trend that so many other artists have followed. In some cases it makes sense, because those artists actually have KIDS. Lisa does not. In fact, the last time I saw her she was selling out her own love life via a tacky reality show, trying to land a guy. I guess it didn't work out too well, because now she's hanging out with us kids. The album is collection of camp-related or themed songs - as you would guess by the title - but there are only 9 original songs here - all cowritten with two other people. And of those 9 only 2 are worth listening to more than once...'Best Friend' and 'When It Rains'. And even then, they just sound like stuff she usually does. Otherwise, we're treated to super-short and throwaway things like 'H.A.P.P.Y.' - all five seconds of it - three annoying takes of the 'Woodchuck' tongue-twister, and other songs that nobody knows who wrote or want to hear again like 'The Cookie Jar Song'. Her unenthusiastic version of the Sharon, Lois and Bram classic 'Peanut Butter' makes me *want* to have a peanut allergy. Don't get excited about the 'special guests' they tell you about in the brochure. Steve Martin only gently plucks away during the confusing-but-meant-to-be-quirky 'Disappointing Pancake' - nothing like the banjo he *used* to play during his standup routines in the late 70s. Jill Sobule, Nina Gordon and Kay Hanley only show up in background vocals, and only once apiece. What a gyp. Makes me want to put frogs in Lisa's sleeping bag. If this is meant to tap the nostalgic nerve of those who actually went to camp, it fails. My camp experience was never like this, and I would have tied anyone to a tree if they made me sing 'Home On The Range.' Parents will not enjoy this and I doubt kids will really go for it. Lisa doesn't sound excited or interested - she sounds tired, and slightly aloof of the whole thing...the same way she sounds when singing about men who don't understand her. It's not enough to just appear cutesy, you have to believe it. What happens at camp stays at camp.

Disappointed Not Like Lisaby Anonymous

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September 27, 2010: I was very disappointed in the album. Not even one song was worth listening to. My niece wanted to change CD before half through it. Not very interesting or inventive lyrics. Should have listened to samples- but I have never been disappointed with her work before. What happened? Oh I sent it back!


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