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40 Yo Gabba Gabba! Songs That Stand the Test of Time
If you can’t appreciate a ska song about tidying up called “Pick It Up,” then you have no joy in your life.
I love that the show reached for a musical style that doesn’t always get a lot of acclaim or radio airplay and that kids got to enjoy a song that either reflected their culture at home or was perhaps their first introduction to mariachi. The Postmarks didn’t leave much of a mark on the indie-rock world, but they should still be incredibly proud of themselves, if only for this polished and poised jangle-pop song, which uses a toy piano and whispery lyrics to capture the simple joy of having a balloon. would have a band or performer come on to do a song that they’d written outside the world of the show, whether it was Paul Williams’s “Rainbow Connection” or Cornelius’s “Count Five or Six.” These were generally excellent, but we made the decision to exclude them from this list, just because it felt unfair.
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