Almost Alice (by Various Artists, Alternative Rock)

Some complex and semi-not so happy songs, but its mostly good alternative rock. No cursing or stuff like that, but it's all based on the already strange, and made stranger by Tim Burton, world of Alice in wonderland. Some songs about unhappiness, but you can always overlook that. It' all good music. Enjoy!

First of all, I must make a correction to what was said in the review by commonsense. Avril Lavigne's song "Alice" is one of the best on the CD. It could have gone without the Owl City song, that's not even real music, that's a computer. Now that I have that out of the way, let's talk about the different versions of the CD. If you buy the CD on iTunes, yes it's perfectly acceptable for any age, aside from drug+alcohol references. The Hot Topic version of the CD (which is what I bought) has one song on it that pushes it a little, which is "Sea What We Seas" by Never Shout Never. He's a fantastic artist, but he likes to swear. He says 'Life is just a melody so why don't all the p*ssy people come along and sing it with me." and sings it repeatedly about 10 or so times. But other than that, it's a great song.

I too disagree with the commonsense review, both my 10 year old daughter and I think the best song on the CD is Avril Lavigne's song "Alice". My daughter's other favorites are "Follow Me Down" and "Tea Party". My inspiration to write this review, was to warn about annoying lyrics in the Kerli song "Tea Party". On first listen I deemed the album 'not over the line', but giving the song "Tea Party" a real listen I find the lyrics, while not crossing the line, are annoyingly and unnecessarily close to it. Lines like "Just try and nibble on my biscuits" - OK, kind of funny double meaning. But then, "Let's be non commissional, Got my elbows down, pinkies up, that's the way you sip my cup" - not so funny, parent radar alert. Then finally, "fatha mucka, try to show some class" - now wait right there. I know she REALLY didn't say it, but does the music have to stop right as she says it, so it's as clear as day what it sounds like she's saying?. The review says "Language: Not An Issue". All in all, that's not enough for me to discourage hearing the CD, I like a few songs myself. But compared to that song, the Grace Potter cover of Grace Slick's "White Rabbit" even with its sneaky 60s drug references seems tame, at least it has real Alice references. Maybe that's all I'm looking for, if your going to write the song like that, be sneaky or clever about it.