Unlike some CDs spawned from TV shows, there's not a lot to recommend SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Album to listeners who don't set their clocks by the Nick cartoon. But in a culture as Sponge-ified as ours has become in the six years the series has been airing, does it really matter? The resounding, Squidward-sanctifying answer is No. Songs like "Bubble Beat Box" and "Jelly Fish Jam" have their limitations, sure--for one thing, they seem to last a split second, vamoosing before a 9-year-old can really get her groove going. And it's not as though our rectangular friend was able to recruit...
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