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Talking Simpsons - The Simpsons Sing The Blues With Alex Navarro (Patreon)

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2020-05-20 04:00:02
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As we reach the end of our first season re-evaluation, we've got Giant Bomb's Alex Navarro to help us with the Simpsons' platinum album, The Simpsons Sings The Blues! At the height of Bartmania, Matt Groening, Jim Brooks, and David Geffen brought together a huge list of famous musicians to make an album about our favorite Springfieldians. Learn how the 1990 album happened, the famous (and infamous) folks who secretly worked on it, AND the stories behind the music video for Do The Bartman and Deep Deep Trouble, all in this week's podcast!

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papa.pokeman

Alex Navarro! Finally, we get the Talking Simpsons x The Hotspot crossover the world has been asking for!

Alex Irish

If you’re revisiting Simpsons Sing the Blues now, does this mean you’ll go deep on the obscure and belatedly released Yellow Album in the future? That was a mess of an album I’d love to see under the Talking Simpsons scope

Kevin Bunch

The dread of the Mel Gibson episode is palpable

Bennett Billard

As a kid, I listened to various "night tapes" my dad made, ranging from 60s hits to Dr. Demento broadcasts to tv/movie audio. Regular albums, too, of course, and Simpsons albums/show compilations were among them. Despite merchandising being this album's primary purpose, I have a strong nostalgia for it all the same. There are some wonderful performances on here (despite "feeling their way through"), a solid backing band and great song choices for the characters (especially Mr. Burns). Of course, I'm holding it up to a pretty low standard overall, but I do get a kick out of it. If nothing else, this album got us a studio version of "Moanin' Lisa Blues." "Soul Stew" was a bit of a mess, though, and thanks to you for letting me know why.

Cody F

Sheesh, Nancy Cartwright deserves a grammy for stepping up to the plate for this junk

Bennett Billard

Bart saying Nintendo seems odd, as I absolutely consider him a SEGA kid.

Jack Christmas

This was a really fun episode. I wouldn't have thought to do it, but it works. 👍 Looking forward to Season 11 too, though does this mean there won't be Season 10 Wrap Up or Deleted Scenes episodes after all? I can't recall if you already answered this at some other point, so apologies if I'm prompting you to repeat yourselves here.

Joe Hodgson

Geffen records was even bigger than you probably remember. I know it happened with multiple artists, though I only recall a specific one, but David Geffen would refuse to put his logo on a release if he objected to the material. The band Danzig, I think owing to it perhaps being associated with the Satanic Panic of the 80s or maybe just because Rick Rubin was the producer, released 4 albums and an EP through Geffen without the association ever being acknowledged on the physical releases. Rubin was also producing Slayer and I'm assuming the same is true of that band's releases from the same era (late 80s/early 90s). With Randy Newman, he was basically known as the guy who couldn't with an Academy Award for his songwriting and there was some sense that he had been getting snubbed over the years. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he just really believed in his song that lost to The Little Mermaid, and when Toy Story came calling he said, "Fuck it, I'll just re-submit that song from a few years ago and this time they'll realize their mistake in snubbing me for that dumb fish cartoon! Ha Ha Ha!" Of course, it didn't work, but old Randy did eventually win for Monsters Inc. a few years later.

Frank Grimes

The Beasties were correct, had Paul's Boutique come out later (91 and on) the sample clearance would have been obnoxiously high. 91 was when the landscape for Hip-Hop and sampling was changed forever when Biz Markie was sued for an unauthorized use of a sample. After this, major labels have to clear samples, or face consequences. Most recently Juice WRLD was sued by Sting for the Lucid Dreams sample. Some underground acts like Doom get around this by chopping up the sample beyond recognition or they're so small and unknown of an act that it isnt worth pursuing legal action.

Taskbaarchitect

In 1990, most of my American education knowledge was a mish-mash of various sitcoms and whatnot, so I knew that Americans "majored" in subjects at school. I had no idea what that actually meant so I just assumed it was your best subject. Until this podcast, I never once questioned that Nancy Cartwright's speedy line-reading was anything other than: "I'm the kid that majored with a 'C' in Art / Last name Simpson, first name Bart."

Professor Gascan

My favorite thing about this and the Yellow Album (hoping you guys decide to cover that one later) is they clearly have no idea if Bart is supposed to be the cool rock n roll kid or the hip rap kid so they just have him do both.

Richard Mccarthy

This episode unlocked an embarrassing memory: when this album was released (I was 11 or so) I demanded a family meeting where I rapped Deep Deep Trouble and had my dad recite Homer's lines. Bless my parents for indulging my deeply cringeworthy adolescent flights of fancy.

Mikey Cox

I completely forgot about this album but I listened to it a ton when I was 10. Can only imagine the cringe I’m about to feel when you guys discuss it. Am looking forward to your teen simpson years discussions. I think they’ll be a lot more fascinating than people might imagine.

Harry Thornton

Oh my god, I remember listening to this album over and over as a kid! I had the CD version. And a correction: Mojo Nixon, not David Johansen, was Toad in the Mario movie. They were both in the Car 54 movie, and I think that’s where the confusion came from. And funnily enough there IS another connection to Car 54 and Mario beyond the movie: The theme song for that series was used in a 1983 Mario Bros. commercial that you guys have probably seen before.

Angel Young

In Deep Trouble, I always thought Homer said, "Now you can't go/do the mow jo." I prefer Deep Deep Trouble over Do the Bartman. I actually liked Sibling Rivalry (don't ban me from patreon) as a kid. Maybe it's because I like Broadway. Also, as a middle child (youngest child at the time), I ate that song up. Bob blew my mind with that You've Got a Friend In Me / I Love to See You Smile discovery. Lisa sung the theme song to Fox's Roc (God Bless the Child.) When Roc used it, we were all singing to it because of this album. I wish Harry Shearer could have an entire album with Mr. Burns singing. I would listen to it all day. Well the Harry Shearer who actually put his heart into his work not the crotchety old man who is only doing The Simpsons for a paycheck Harry Shearer.

Kat Heagberg

I missed this one when it first came out but “Songs in the Key of Springfield” was a family car staple for me as a young teen. At some point I borrowed this from the library thinking it was the same thing — more songs from the show — popped er’ in the ol’ boom box and was like “what is this shit?” I appreciate it a lot more now, though, especially after this episode.

Sabrina

Farewell, Season 1. Bob, I will miss your unabashed Gibbs hate. A couple of episodes ago you called him a freak and I laugh every time I think about that.

nina matsumoto

90% of the time they played a Simpsons music video on MuchMusic, it'd be Do The Bartman. I had nothing against that video, but Deep Deep Trouble was such a rare treat. I always wished they'd play it more often! (And I agree it's the better song.) Of course, now I can watch any music video any time I want, however many times I want... yet, am I going to check out the Deep Deep Trouble MV again? *shrugs* Meh! This also unlocked a memory deep within me -- I used to get the rhyme "now you can't go, to the boat show" stuck in my head all the time because of that weird rhythmic cadence. And now it's been stuck in my head all day! Thanks!

Andrew

Re: "Nine and One" and "There Are a Few Things" from the Wiki entry for "Deep, Deep Trouble," I think you've been had. Those b-sides were added to the page recently (in September 2019) by an anonymous editor who made some other non-sequitur edits to Simpsons-related pages. The IP address for the edit traces to Greece; "Dokeka Kai Ena" may be a misspelling of "Dodeka Kai Ena," which translates to "Twelve and One." (It is also the name of a Greek pop song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mifk-VTQ2A )