The Simpsons: The Yellow Album | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 88565
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 24480
UPC: 720642448021
EAN: 0720642448021
ASIN: B00000FEOB
Release Date: May 23, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Private collection. Listened once
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| Tracks:
| • | Love? - The Simpsons, Clivilles, Robert | | • | Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves - The Simpsons, Lennox, Annie | | • | Funny How Time Slips Away - The Simpsons, Nelson, Willie | | • | Twenty-Four Hours a Day - The Simpsons, Martin, Jeff | | • | The Ten Commandments of Bart - The Simpsons, Groening, Matt | | • | I Just Can't Help Myself - The Simpsons, Ramos, Duran | | • | She's Comin' Out Swingin' - The Simpsons, Clinton, George | | • | Anyone Else - The Simpsons, Boylan, John | | • | Every Summer With You - The Simpsons, Boylan, John | | • | Hail to Thee, Kamp Krusty - The Simpsons, Jean, Al |
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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
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It's alright... May 6, 2008
William Hoffknecht (Fernley, NV)
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? February 20, 2007
John M. Stewart (Angwin, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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! October 27, 2004
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
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. September 2, 2004
tvtv3 (Sorento, IL United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
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 October 12, 2003
James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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