The Yellow Album

Greg Haver cowrote and produced "Ten Commandments of Bart". ==Album artwork==

The Yellow Album cover artwork, illustrated by Bill Morrison (although signed by Matt Groening as with all Simpsons promotional art), is a parody of the cover art for the Beatles album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, replaced with characters from The Simpsons''. In 2005, the artist and designer Kaws (commissioned by Nigo) created The Kaws Album, a "traced interpretation" of The Yellow Album. In 2019, Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong sold The Kaws Album for 115.9 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $14.7 million U.S. dollars, a new auction record for the artist at the time. Yellow Album artist Bill Morrison felt "ripped off" by this, re-igniting a conversation about the appropriation of commercial illustrations for fine art (see Roy Lichtenstein). ==Critical reception==

There was some hype leading up to the release of the album. Entertainment Weekly writer David Browne said he "eagerly await[ed]" it in March 1993, a month before it was set to be released. Nevertheless, the album received mixed to negative reviews. The Star-Telegram compared the album to the South Park album Chef Aid, arguing that "the subversion [included in The Simpsons and South Park] is only skin-deep, especially when both shows thrive on the type of money-grubbing merchandising that results in junk like Chef Aid: The South Park Album and The Simpsons The Yellow Album, both released just in time for Christmas." The Tampa Bay Times said the album "is an uninspired collection whose best feature is a too-tiny takeoff on the cover of ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''," noting that songs such as "Ten Commandments of Bart" sounded dated, though others like "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" are praiseworthy. ==Track listing==

"My Name Is Bart" is a bonus track only found on promotional copies of the album. ==Cast==

• Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown • Julie Kavner - Marge Simpson, Patty and Selma Bouvier • Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson • Yeardley Smith - Lisa Simpson • Hank Azaria - Apu Nahasapeemapetilon • Harry Shearer - Otto Mann • Russi Taylor - Martin Prince ==References==