I Love Trash

"I Love Trash" is Oscar the Grouch 's most popular song. It was 1st sung in Sesame Street Season 1. The song was re-taped several times as the Oscar puppet evolved.

In a Season 29 episode Oscar sang "Grouches Love Trash" a variation of this song to his niece Irvine. In episode 3891 his old friend Felix the Grouch sang a variation called "I Love Cleaning" while Oscar sang "I Love Trash". Yet another variation occurs when Oscar 's trash can  was grown to a larger size & the lyrics were adjusted to accommodate.

Oscar also sang the song during an appearance on The Bonnie Hunt Show.

Steven Tyler recorded a new version for the album release of Elmo palooza.

A brief portion of the song was also sung by a group of socks in Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic, during Oscar 's imagination sequence where Sesame Street is turned into a vast garbage dump.

On Plaza Sésamo, a Multimonstruo who loves trash, performed a rock version of this song.

Trash mentioned

 * A sneaker that's tattered & worn. It's all full of holes & the laces are torn. Given to Oscar as a newborn baby by his mother.
 * Some newspaper 13 months old with smelly, old fish wrapped inside.
 * A clock that won't work
 * An old telephone
 * A broken umbrella
 * A rusty trombone

Lyrics
Oh, I Love Trash!

Anything dirty or dingy or dusty!

Anything ragged or rotten or rusty!

Yes, I Love Trash!

If ya really wanna see somethin trashy look at this!

I have here a sneaker that's tattered and worn!

It's all full of holes and the laces are torn!

A gift from my mother the day I was born!

I love it because it's trash!

Oh, I Love Trash!

Anything dirty or dingy or dusty!

Anything ragged or rotten or rusty!

Yes, I Love Trash!

Here's some more rotten stuff!

I have here some newspaper 13 months old!

I wrapped fish inside it; it's smelly and cold!

But I wouldn't trade it for a big pot o' gold!

I love it because it's trash!

Yes, I Love Trash!

Anything dirty or dingy or dusty!

Anything ragged or rotten or rusty!

Yes, I Love Trash!

Now look at the rest a this junk!

I've a clock that won't work!

And an old telephone!

''A broken umbrella, a rusty trombone!  And I am delighted to call 'em my own!''

I love 'em because they're trash!

Oh, I Love Trash!

Anything dirty or dingy or dusty!

Anything ragged or rotten or rusty!

Yes, I Love, I Love, I...Love Traaaaaaaaassssssh!

Audio

 * The Sesame Street Book & Record (1970)
 * Goin' for a Ride/I Love Trash (single, 1970)
 * I Love Trash/Up & Down (single, 1970)
 * Let a Frown Be Your Umbrella (album) (1974)
 * Hit Songs of Sesame Street (1974)
 * I Love Trash/Grouch's Lullaby (single, 1976)
 * 10th Anniversary Album (1978)
 * Muppet Masquerade (1978)
 * The Best of Oscar the Grouch  (1983)
 * My Record (1983)
 * Sesame Street Celebrates! (1994)
 * Platinum All-Time Favorites (1995)
 *  Oscar 's Trashy Songs (1997)
 * Sesame Street Best (1997)
 * Just Friends (1997)
 * Elmo palooza! (1998, performed by Steven Tyler)
 * The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999, performed by Steven Tyler)
 * Songs from the Street (2003, both Oscar & Steven Tyler versions)

Video (1969 version)

 * Old School: Volume 1 (2006)
 * Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)

Video (1973 version)

 * Elmo 's Sing-Along Guessing Game (1991)

Video (1991 version)

 * Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years (1993)

Video (other versions)

 * Elmo palooza (1998, Chorus only)
 * The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Sing and Play (1999, "Grouches Love Trash" version)

Online

 * Sesamestreet.org 1991 version: (Part of the street scene included)

Publications

 * The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems & Pictures (1983)
 * The Sesame Street Song Book (1971, 1992 & 2007 editions)
 * Sesame Street Unpaved (1998, lyrics & pictures from 1991 version)