The Simpsons: The Yellow Album

the simpsons: the yellow album

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The much-anticipated follow-up to their classic The Simpsons Sing the Blues and Songs in the Key of Springfield, The Yellow Album brings Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Marge, and Homer Simpson to a whole 'nother level of the game. Accompanied by a diverse selection of backup musicians (including George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars), the Simpsons take aim at a number of genres, from Bart's affection for rap ("Love?" and "The Ten Commandments of Bart"), Lisa's AOR duet with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart for the Eurythmics cover "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" to Homer's sensitive cover of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Linda Ronstadt. Homer's range is limited. Bart's diction is spotty. But Apu (the Kwik-E-Mart proprietor) and the Squishees are the big surprise. Their cut, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day," is an embittered piece of working-class electro-funk that rivals the best in modern protest music (Springsteen, eat your heart out.) --Rob O'Connor

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The Simpsons: The Yellow Album

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Were the Simpsons ever on MTV?
Worst Simpsons album ever!
And Now For Something Completely Different.
A Nice Frisbee but Terrible Music Wise
This ROCKS!!!

The Simpsons: The Yellow Album
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Manufacturer: Geffen Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000FEOB
Release Date: 2005-05-23

Tracks:

Love?
Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves
Funny How Time Slips Away
Twenty-Four Hours A Day
Ten Commandments Of Bart
I Just Can't Help Myself
She's Comin' Out Swingin'
Anyone Else
Every Summer With You
Hail To Thee, Kamp Krusty

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The much-anticipated follow-up to their classic The Simpsons Sing the Blues and Songs in the Key of Springfield, The Yellow Album brings Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Marge, and Homer Simpson to a whole 'nother level of the game. Accompanied by a diverse selection of backup musicians (including George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars), the Simpsons take aim at a number of genres, from Bart's affection for rap ("Love?" and "The Ten Commandments of Bart"), Lisa's AOR duet with Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart for the Eurythmics cover "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" to Homer's sensitive cover of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Linda Ronstadt. Homer's range is limited. Bart's diction is spotty. But Apu (the Kwik-E-Mart proprietor) and the Squishees are the big surprise. Their cut, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day," is an embittered piece of working-class electro-funk that rivals the best in modern protest music (Springsteen, eat your heart out.) --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Were the Simpsons ever on MTV?.......2007-02-20

I don't know if they ever were (at least for this album), but it does seem they should be doesn't it. This album has ten tracks of simpson-like fun with multi genera (yes like the taxon) song style action. If you like the simpsons you'll give it about a 3 3/4 if you can figure out how.

Worst Simpsons album ever!.......2004-10-27

The Simpsons first album wasn't that good, but it did manage to turn a profit. So they naturally recorded a follow up album soon afterwards. Apparently the record company wasn't too impressed with the results, because there was a slight delay in the release of the album. And by "slight" I mean approximately six years. To be fair to those record company executives who held back it's release, the album does have a few problems. The main one being that it's not funny. Let me repeat that: IT'S! NOT! FUNNY! At all! The whole album is pretty much a disaster. The first album was merely mediocre, but this one is downright bad. The "highlight" here is probably "She's Coming Out Swinging", where Lisa works with George Clinton's P-Funk All-Stars. That track is not too unbearable. As for the rest of the album, the less said the better. To quote Bart Simpson, "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows."

And Now For Something Completely Different........2004-09-02

THE YELLOW ALBUM is more similar in style to the first Simpsons album, THE SIMPSONS SING THE BLUES. The songs on this album aren't any of the tunes that have been played on the show before. Instead, the cd is a regular album with the cast singing songs with musical stars (Linda Ronstadt, the P-Funk All-Stars). Several genres of music are covered from rap to blues to country to pop. Even though there are a lot of fun pieces, the best song on the album is "Twenty-Four Hours A Day" sung by Apu and his back up singers known as The Squishees. "Twenty-Four Hours A Day" contains a musical variation of everything that makes the Simpsons, the Simpsons. I also enjoyed "Every Summer With You", which is basically a love duet sung by Homer and Marge. Lisa takes a swing at some rocking blues with "She's Comin' Out Swingin'" and Bart and Lisa revel in sibling rivalry in "Anyone Else". THE YELLOW ALBUM isn't the best Simpsons album out there and not every Simpsons fan will like the cd. However, it does have a lot of fun songs and I liked it more than THE SIMPSONS SING THE BLUES.

A Nice Frisbee but Terrible Music Wise.......2003-10-12

Like the Simpson's Sing the Blues this album has one good song and the rest very terrible fillers. Hail to Thee Kamp Krusty is pretty good as it has a fair number of characters singing in it. Twenty Four Hours a Day sung by Apu is about working in the Quikie Mart and is all right but a bit too long. The rest however are just plain terrible when you consider there has been some pretty good songs on the actual show sung by the characters. I love the TV show. The creators and writers on the Simpson's write hilarious stuff every episode. This is obviously just a release to make money album as they have put no effort into it whatsoever. Very disapointing. Don't waste your money.

This ROCKS!!!.......2003-10-03

All the people who thought this CD was a waste of money are sooo wrong. this CD rocked. The only thing I don't like is in "Anyone Else" Bart says "I need a playmate" Since when does he say that? And he sounds squeky. but great song. Overall, if your a Simpsons fan BUY THIS CD. also buy the other 3 CDs BYE!

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