THE YELLOW ALBUM : THE SIMPSONS

THE YELLOW ALBUM : THE SIMPSON'S : This album is rather hard to classify. Musically. there is nothing to relate to The Beatles at all. The only relation to The  Beatles was the "Sgt' Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band' cover, the title which was clearly a parody of 'The White Album" and the photographs of The Simpsons in Sgt. Pepper's costumes. Music wise, there was nothing to tie it to The Beatles at all. The Simpsons was a widely successful TV cartoon show that have all The Beatles except for John Lennon guested on its show Session musicians playing unknown on albums have been done before. The Archies, The Partridge Family, The Monkees, etc. I've liked them all but The Simpsons came just a bit too late for my taste. Musically, there was nothing real interesting here except for one outstanding track which teamed Linda Ronstadt singing a duet with Homer Simpson on the old Willie Nelson standard 'Funny How Times Slips Away.' It was this song that stayed in my mind long after I've returned this Cd to the shelf.. The second song that I like is The Eurythmics old hit 'Sisters Are Doing It By Themselves' done by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson with Lisa Simpson. Probably it was the participation of the professional singers that lifted the songs a notch higher. The rest of the songs, 'Love ?', 'Twenty Four Hours A Day' and 'The Ten Commandments Of Bart' are quite enjoyable without being memorable. There's even some fun rap numbers notably "Anyone Else' and 'She's Coming Out Swingin' and 'Every Summer With You.' I got this Cd at a discount. No way I'm gonna buy this at the normal price. DOP : 2nd July 2011.