Talking Simpsons - The Yellow Album With Alex Navarro
Added 2024-08-21 04:00:06 +0000 UTCJust as we did for The Simpsons Sing The Blues, we're joined by Alex Navarro from Nextlander to discuss the other novelty album from Springfield. Yes, it's time for us to cover the barely-released oddity The Yellow Album! And we're chatting about it just when it was planned to be released, between the fourth and fifth seasons. But why was it released in 1998? How was there a lost Prince song on it? Who worked on it and who held it back for six years? After a lot of research, we have answers to all that, and then we review all the songs in one epic podcast full of love and commandments!
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Sorry but I'm gonna defend KAWS a little bit. That Simpsons Yellow Album cover parody (plus a series of paintings he did based on couch gags) were commissioned by a private collector (Nigo of A Bathing Ape) for his personal collection. They weren't meant to be for commercial sale. It's possible Nigo gave him the album cover and said "base it on this." The fact that it went for so much at an auction and Morrison wasn't attributed (which does suck! I feel for him there) is a problem with the art world; I wouldn't blame the artist. KAWS himself has said he doesn't think his work is worth that much on resale. Whether you think his style of art is valid or not, I think this bit of context is important. Also, because this was a resell of a commissioned piece, I don't think KAWS got any of that auction money? (please correct me if I'm wrong) Like selling a Simpsons cel -- the original animator & cel painter doesn't get a cut of the profit. By the way, KAWS used to work in animation, painting backgrounds! (My opinion is his stuff is kinda cool, especially the sculptures of his original character that's a subversion of Mickey Mouse. I don't think his paintings are worth $15 million, but the worthiness of art is a debated topic with no end in sight. And keep in mind, he used to do "illegal" art -- street graffiti, so it's interesting how his work is considered "high art" now. Even Morrison has stated he believes KAWS's work has legitimacy; he considers it Dadaism.)
nina matsumoto
2024-08-30 14:45:10 +0000 UTCSince you said this CD is 76 minutes as is, I'm betting the pitching up was a result of them just speeding up the master tape in order to shorten the run time to fit on a CD.
Donald Egan
2024-08-29 13:48:48 +0000 UTCI keep coming back to The Bart Zone from Treehouse II- Otto passes a cardboard promo for 'The Simpsons Go Calypso!' to which Otto remarks that this is really getting out of hand. Does this qualify for Simpsons-predicted-it? UPDATE: Henry just made the same Calypso analogy 😂
Rob MacBride
2024-08-27 03:24:58 +0000 UTCYou guys question if kids in 1998 would know "Do The Bartman"... I'll have you know it was played frequently on Radio Disney at the time, with the word "damn" edited out.
rubber cat
2024-08-24 06:08:23 +0000 UTCHoly shit this album is terrible. I'm glad I live on the other side of the world and never heard of it before now, despite being an avid Simpsons viewer at the time. That Bart/Lisa song is 100% 'The Chipmunks Do Meatloaf', it's awful. With everything you mentioned and the audio provided it sounds like the speed/pitch up was done post-mastering - I wonder if they reviewed it before finally releasing it and decided that it was too down-beat for the go-go late 90s and that it needed pepping up, and gave some poor schmuck $50 to do it. What a disaster of a release.
pimento
2024-08-23 11:10:18 +0000 UTCThese songs are absolutely excruciating, great episode
Alex
2024-08-23 10:43:59 +0000 UTCA+ commentary and research, F- for introducing me to these god-awful songs.
Vance Jericho
2024-08-23 02:49:29 +0000 UTCNow that the dust has settled, who had the better Yellow Album, Simpsons or SpongeBob?
Patio
2024-08-23 02:33:40 +0000 UTCHenry is close. On the George Lucas Talk Show Amy Iriving recalled while flying with her then husband Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Linda Ronstadt, George was quote “sucking face” with Linda Ronstadt the whole flight.
mail daddy
2024-08-22 15:23:17 +0000 UTCI think I avoided the Yellow Album at the time because I thought it was Beatles inspired. After the abomination that was Looney Tunes Sing the Beatles a couple years prior I realized i had better uses of limited allowance money. (I did have that Dinosaurs album too. I forgot about that thing til you brought it up in the episode)
Patrick McClafferty
2024-08-22 12:38:31 +0000 UTCWhen I listened to it the first (and only ) time I was listening to it closely enough to realise the “chipmunk” sound but when I was listening to the podcast on my weekly shop trip … holy cow man 🐿️🐿️
Alistair Shand aka Bongo
2024-08-22 10:46:42 +0000 UTCAll Patrons should check their bills at the end of the month. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2024-08-21 22:44:47 +0000 UTCWow - what an episode. I can’t remember the last time I said “Fuck me!” out loud, so many times. With all the reclaiming of older media going on, I would genuinely love to hear a critical defence of this execrable pile of music. I’m certain there must be people out there that, unironically, love this album, and I’d love to hear how you walked down the aisle to ‘I Just Can’t Help Myself’, or buried a loved one to ‘My Name is Bart.’
Harry Boucher
2024-08-21 22:43:14 +0000 UTCThe cel you mention at the end also says “welcome fish police” bizarre
kid presentable
2024-08-21 19:20:12 +0000 UTCThese songs fucking suck and I almost feel like you should have charged more for this one.
Erin Hardy
2024-08-21 18:26:38 +0000 UTCHoo boy that Homer/Marge duet is BRUTAL. It sounds like Abe singing with Bart’s “He sure can!” impression of Marge. You guys nailed it, this is an album made for absolutely no one.
Robert Flaxman
2024-08-21 17:31:28 +0000 UTCI clutch my songs from the key of Springfield harder having heard this episode. Thank you talking simpsons team for listening to this album so i wouldnt have to.
Gerardo P
2024-08-21 16:22:23 +0000 UTCmy poster says 2005 so I wonder if they drew two versions or if the poster is not based on the album art but they’re pretty similar otherwise
kid presentable
2024-08-21 16:14:05 +0000 UTCI have a poster of the yellow album and the Krusty doll says “welcome fish police” not “welcome ren and stimpy”
kid presentable
2024-08-21 15:19:38 +0000 UTCI have been waiting for this for so long I can't belive it's finally here
Covey M.
2024-08-21 15:18:42 +0000 UTCReleased a couple of days before my birthday it took me to last week (£3) to listen to this album - was it worth the wait ? Not on your nelly 😮 worst album in yellow ever
Alistair Shand aka Bongo
2024-08-21 09:00:26 +0000 UTCThese are the podcast crossovers I live for.
thatcamjones
2024-08-21 06:22:36 +0000 UTC
