Okay, song number 23, here we go.
"A song you would use as your entrance music for a sporting event."
So, this song I think more of an entrance music to a full team, and not just me. It's on a lesser known Pink Floyd album, Meddle. It's a totally underrated album that should get a little more love. One of These Days is the very first song on the album, and it doesn't have any lyrics. It's all just music that starts out quietly with wind blowing, and then starts adding in the other instruments, and half way through the song really starts to rock.
I feel like requesting another song that I always think of when I'm at a baseball game and the players get up to bat, and the office plays a song that the player has chosen, if it were me I would have.....
The chorus, "Bang Bang Bang Bang, Vamanos Vamanos" is so cool to think of when hitting a ball out of the park. I saw Clutch open up for Coheed and Cambria back about ten years ago. Dang, it seems like it wasn't that long ago. If you are in need of the lyrics, there is a lyrics video on YouTube as well. I just linked the music video. This particular song by them sounds kind of like ZZ Top. It's a great song.
Okay. So, I am a huge huge huge fan of The Simpsons. I have friends that haven't watched it very much, despite it's being the longest running scripted show in TV history. I remember when they came out in 1989, their first episode was a Christmas special, and the episodes after that started at the beginning of 1990. They have 31 seasons, and are still contracted for two more. You could watch two episodes a day, and it would take over a year to watch every episode.
I have a lot fond memories watching The Simpsons at my grandma's house on a tiny TV on a desk next to the dinner table. No, it was the breakfast table, anywho, it's the same table. That little joke about the table comes from a great episode. Anyway, usually it was me, and my cousins Stewart, Matt and Jed. I still remember tons of laughs shared with them. Unfortunately, my cousin Stewart passed away of a rare cancer in 1998 when I was finishing up my junior year of high school. I have some great memories watching The Simpsons with him, and when I re-watch those old classic episodes, I remember all the jokes he laughed at the hardest.
I had a lot of friends that weren't even allowed to watch The Simpsons because they were told they were really bad because it showed a dysfunctional family and sometimes there was a D or H word. It's interesting to go back and watch the first few seasons of The Simpsons, and how tame and mild it compared to anything else out there today. I know The Simpsons are dysfunctional, but the love they have for each other is really evident. Homer can be a selfish idiot, but there are some great episodes where you respect him for how loyal he is to his wife and kids. I would love to go back in time and show my friend's parents episodes of South Park, or Robot chicken, or Beavis and Butt-Head, and Family Guy, and then show them an early episode of The Simpsons, and ask them which show was the most wholesome.
Since we are currently staying home during a pandemic, there is a lot of time to kill. And since The Simpsons is the number one show on the Disney+ streaming service, I told my friends I would recommend three episodes from the first 12 Seasons of The Simpsons. After season 12, it went way downhill, but much to everyone's surprise, around season 22, it started getting better and better. It's not where it was in the first 12 seasons, but it's still the number one animated show on TV that is still better than the best episodes of Family Guy. That's right, I said it. Family Guy is only funny for maybe a few seconds of a joke, like the National Geographic Special of Firetrucks, or "Damn Nature, You Scary" on BET. Don't judge me on that second one.
I will only do one season a post, and since it's the first one and I had to explain why I love the show and why I wanted to do a list, It will be my only other subject in this blog, but like the song challenge, I will post other things after Simpsons episodes suggestions, and I may not do Simpsons suggestions every post, so Don't stop reading for 12 posts!
The Simpsons: Season One
Episode 1. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
The animation is different than what we have gotten used to, and the characters are also off, but this is the first episode to kick things off. Like I said, it's a Christmas special. The Simpsons were a quick little cartoon segment on The Tracy Ulman show before they got their own TV show, and it was funny, but the animation was really crude at that time. But they are still pretty funny.
Episode 2. Bart the Genius
In this episode, Bart switches his aptitude test with another student's test and gets put into a gifted program at the school, where he doesn't fit in.
Episode 13. Some Enchanted Evening
In this episode, Homer and Marge decide to go out to dinner, dancing, and to a motel to spend the night, leaving the kids home with "The Babysitter Bandit" who Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie see on the "America's Most Armed and Dangerous" TV show. This one is my favorite in season One.
There you go! Celebrate the 4th of July safely, but wholeheartedly. I'll be back soon with another blog post. Jump on Disney+ and check out my recommendations or leave a comment telling me which ones you like the most.
Vamanos vamanos!!!
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