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Thoughts on this album/video?

Top 10 Songs

1. Yellow Bird - Jeff gets co-lead vocals
2. England Swings
3. Tom Love-Eatin - catchy chorus
4. Alabama Jubilee - catchy chorus
5. On Aunt Nellie’s Farm
6. Go Far, Big Red Car - the Sam equivalent of In the Big Red Car We Like to Ride, I’d say
7. Let’s Cook! - admittedly repetitive, but it’s still pretty catchy
8. Sound Your Funky Horn - catchy chorus
9. Rag Mop - catchy chorus
10. Sleep Safe My Baby

Honorable Mentions: Clean Your Teeth, That’s What You Call Digestion

My thoughts:

I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I’m in the camp that does like this video/album. Though not as much as YMMFLD or Pop Go the Wiggles. Like YMMFLD, there is a wide array of variety/creativity in the visuals and songs. I especially love the visuals of Go Far, Big Red Car. It’s reminiscent of TV Series 2 IMO. 

Even if the green screen can be a bit distracting (then again, the original Wiggles had this problem too with their green/blue screens). And physical sets of Wigglehouse and Dorothy's house would have been more appropriate.

This seems to be the Sam equivalent of Yummy Yummy with an emphasis on food & eating. The weekly food songs were taken from their Wiggly Waffle Sprout block from 2009, others were taken from 2008 (Clean Your Teeth and Wash Your Hands), and then there’s the usual covers (Yellow Bird, Sound Your Funky Horn, etc) or songs from other countries (Tom Love Eatin is based on Barnyards of Delgaty from Scotland).

I picked the songs that had the most catchy rhythms/choruses or ones I liked the most. (You’ll see the words catchy chorus several times in this top ten list) The songs about weekly foods and having a laugh are all identical.

Mic Conway (Australian children’s entertainer and occasional voice of Wags the Dog) adds flavor (no pun intended) with his sound effects and co-wrote a few of these songs. And the other guest stars, Mental As Anything and Tom McGlynn keep this video engaging as well (even though I’m not a fan of the latter’s song).

Some Fun Facts:

• Aunt Nellie is played by the Wiggles’ educator, Kathleen Warren.
• And one of the dancers is James Arthur Chen, one of the former Taiwanese Wiggles.

Previous Discussions: Wiggle Time, Yummy Yummy, Big Red Car, Wake Up Jeff, Wiggledance, The Wiggles Movie, Wiggly Wiggly Christmas, Wiggle Time & Yummy Yummy 1998, TV Series 1, Toot Toot, TV Series 2, The Wiggly Big Show, It's a Wiggly Wiggly World, Yule Be Wiggling, Hoop Dee Doo! It's a Wiggly Party, Wiggly Safari, Wiggle Bay, TV Series 3, Whoo-Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins, Top of the Tots, Cold Spaghetti Western, Live Hot Potatoes, Santa's Rockin'!, TV Series 4, Sailing Around the World, Here Comes the Big Red Car, It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!, TV Series 5, Splish Splash Big Red Boat, Wiggledancing Live in the USA, Racing to the Rainbow, Top 10 Original Wiggles Videos, Top 10 Original Wiggles Albums, Wiggledancing Live in Concert, Getting Strong, Dorothy the Dinosaur TV Series 1 and 2, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party, Pop Go the Wiggles, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, TV Series 6, Sing a Song of Wiggles, The Kingdom of Paramithi, The Wiggles Big Big Show, Go Bananas, Hot Poppin' Popcorn, Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus, Hot Potatoes The Best Of the Wiggles, Dorothy the Dinosaur TV Series 3

This was so fun!

Since I did a similar post for Chisholm McTavish, I decided to do the same for the band’s early years. Say, 1991-1996.

What do you feel as some trends/recurring aspects in this era in terms of their albums, videos, and concerts?

For context, the albums and videos between these years are

• The Wiggles 1991 album
• Here Comes a Song
• Captain Feathersword: The Friendly Pirate
• Wiggle Time 1993
• Yummy Yummy 1994
• Big Red Car
• Wake Up Jeff!
• Wiggledance (even though the video was released in 1997)

I've attached photos to better explain your comments.