VeggieTunes: Songs From The Hit Video Series VeggieTales

The animated veggies' first collection of song is a must for anyone who has fallen in love with their videos. The only complaint is the length--or lack thereof (the disc clocks in at a scant 25 minutes). The 16 songs are from the first 3 VeggieTales videos: Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, Are You My Neighbor?, and God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! The musical selections are not as solid as the second volume of tunes, but these songs put VeggieTales on the map: "God Is Bigger (Than the Boogie Man)," "Love Your Neighbor," and "The Hairbrush Song," among them. Cocreators Phil Vischer and Mike Nawrocki have a wonderful sense of musical diversity and certainly have more fun with their Christian-lite message than most. Take the lyrics from the counter-melody number "Oh No! What We Gonna Do," which finds the wise men plotting against Daniel: "We could throw him in the Tigris, let him float awhile / Then we'll all sit back and watch him meet a hungry crocodile." --Doug Thomas