Last week my mail bin was overflowing with Rockabye Baby! CDs, which are collections of “lullaby renditions of [insert popular rock band here]” (including the Cure, Nirvana, and Led Zepplin). They’re pretty much as horrific (while still fascinatingly hilarious) as you’d imagine. And let’s not forget Devo 2.0, which is a bunch of kids performing Devo songs (thank Disney for that one).

Well now the Ramones are getting the kid-friendly treatment. Go Kart Records will release Bratz on the Beat: Ramones for Kids November 21. (And thankfully, it has nothing to do with these Bratz, which are the worst possible cartoons/dolls parents could subject their children to.)

With timeless Ramones classics such as “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Rock ‘N’ Roll High School,” and “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” kiddified by the Gabba Gabba Hey Singers, each song features kids singing all the choruses and background parts. An amazing array of artists signed on to sing the leads, including Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio), Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls), Brett Anderson (The Donnas) Jack Grisham (TSOL), Blag Dahlia (The Dwarves), Jim Lindberg (Pennywise), Nick Oleveri (Mondo Generator, Queens of The Stone Age), Tony Reflex (Adolescents) and Josie Cotton (of the 80’s hit “Johnny Are You Queer?”).

I’m all for getting kids to listen to, create, and love rock and roll, but this is just weird! Then again, I’m not a parent and I don’t have to suffer through child-friendly music, so maybe it’s actually a good thing to have an alternative to the kiddified Top 40 crap like Smashmouth and Britney Spears. Plus, a portion of the disc’s proceeds will be donated to St. Jude’s Children Hospitals. Still, a chorus of kids singing “1-2-3-4/Cretins wanna hop some more/4-5-6-7/All good cretins go to heaven”? Joey probably never saw that coming…