15 Best The Simpsons Songs Ever
You work all day for some old man, sweat and break your back? Let these great songs cheer you up.
While you wouldn’t necessarily associate The Simpsons with musical numbers, over the years they’ve slowly became a key part of any given season. So much so that by Season Nine, the show had an entire clip show (All Singing, All Dancing) dedicated to the various songs Springfield has featured. Seeing as we’re now in Season 30, they’ve had a lot more tunes since.
Some of these songs are crucial parts of their episode’s narratives, helping tell the story more efficiently and effectively, but even those that do seem more like time fillers in an episode running short are still funny and more than worth a rewatch.
The great thing about some of these musical numbers is that they give some of Springfield’s other stars a chance to shine. Naturally, the Simpsons feature too, but the likes of Apu, Mr Burns, and even Kirk Van Houten makes appearances as well.
There have been some great songs in Springfield over the years, many of them crucial parts of iconic episodes. Even with a top fifteen, there was fierce competition for places.
15. Everybody Hates Ned Flanders
Dude, Where’s My Ranch certainly won’t go down as one of The Simpsons’ best episodes, but in Everybody Hates Ned Flanders they have a little bit of Springfield history.
As is their way all too often post Golden era, the eventual story of the episode has nothing to do with a set up that goes on for far too long. Like the title suggests, The Simpsons go to a Dude Ranch. The reason? To get away from Homer’s hit record Everybody Hates Ned Flanders, which is so astronomically popular that it’s being covered by the likes of William Shatner and gets an extended salsa mix.
Homer never appears to receive any money for this, and the song itself gets a set up with Homer being annoyed at Flanders’ intrusion as he tries to write a new Christmas song.
For all the episode has flaws, the song itself is pretty good. Talking Heads member David Byrne is involved in the recording in the show too, giving it a professional vibe, although in real life he had no hand in the creation. It’s not necessarily as funny as some of the later ones here, but it’s more developed and well rounded.