Vinyl Record
Various Artists - Muppets: The Green Album
Various Artists - Muppets: The Green Album on LP vinyl. A 2011 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2011
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2011 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Muppets: The Green Album is a tribute record with a wonderfully odd brief: take songs associated with Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo and the rest of the Muppet universe, then let alternative and indie-pop artists treat them as real songs rather than novelty relics. Originally released in 2011, the album arrived around a renewed wave of Muppets attention and turns nostalgia into a cross-generational handoff. OK Go bring kinetic cleverness to the Muppet Show Theme Song, Weezer and Hayley Williams approach Rainbow Connection with affectionate sincerity, and artists such as My Morning Jacket, The Fray, Alkaline Trio, Sondre Lerche and Andrew Bird reveal how flexible the material can be. The pleasure is not irony alone. The best versions understand that Muppet songs have always lived between jokes and deep feeling. The album works because it lets adult listeners smile at childhood memory while admitting that some of those melodies still land with real tenderness.
The Green Album matters because it translates Muppet music into the language of 2000s and early-2010s indie and alternative pop without flattening the original charm. It shows how songs built for felt characters can survive as covers, tributes and sincere pop performances.
For collectors, this is a distinctive Disney-adjacent tribute album rather than a standard soundtrack. The draw is the artist lineup and the reinterpretation of familiar Muppet songs, especially Rainbow Connection and the Muppet Show Theme Song in modern pop-rock settings.
Alternative-pop tribute album with playful covers, indie-rock guitars, polished pop arrangements, sentimental ballads, comic warmth and a balance of childhood nostalgia with adult affection.
Recommended for: Collectors of Disney, Muppets and modern tribute albums; Fans of Rainbow Connection and the Muppet Show Theme Song; Listeners who enjoy indie artists reworking beloved screen music.
When did Muppets: The Green Album first come out? Muppets: The Green Album was originally released in 2011. What kind of album is it? It is a various-artists tribute album, with contemporary bands and singers covering songs associated with the Muppets. Who appears on Muppets: The Green Album? The album includes artists such as OK Go, Weezer with Hayley Williams, My Morning Jacket, The Fray, Alkaline Trio, Sondre Lerche and Andrew Bird.