44. The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike (2005)
A mixture of Sesame Street, ice lollipops and party-poppers, only party-poopers could resist this album. So many samples, so little time, 'Thunder Lightning Strike' clocks in at just over half an hour. My main memory of this album was teaching school-children in Italy and putting this on in the classroom while they were doing arts and crafts and they would just perk up and start dancing around. At the end of those summer camps, we'd have to put on some theatre to the parents to show just how much - or little - English they'd learnt. I was a pretty lenient teacher and I had a very rumbustious class and the show 'American Space Idiots' that the children wrote, was equally inspired by Greenday, John Lennon's quest for peace and wacky superhero sci-fi. A postmodern shambles. Luckily 'Thunder Lightning Strike' tied everything together and everyone went home absolutely buzzing.
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