Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117333 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.com
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

It's alright...
So if you are expecting something like "The Simpsons Sing the Blues", you are getting that, but not at the same time.

This album is the same idea as sing the blues, has that awesome album cover, but musically is pretty weak. The vocals and lyrics are not bad, but the background music is really like bad eighties pop.

If you are a hardcore fan of The Simpsons, I recommend it, but only under that condition.

Were the Simpsons ever on MTV?
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!
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."