Here's your chance to review Jimmy's new album.
My favorites are Everybody's Talkin' and the reggae version of In the Shelter. I really like the re-recorded version of He Went to Paris and Capt and the Kid.
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Meet Me in Margaritaville
I agree with Bamafan. I thought I had a defective CD at first. Now I know the tinty noise in the live songs is just the acoustic guitar. Other than that I really love the sound quality of these great songs. I would have loved to see Manana, Lovely Cruise, and Wino and I Know, but I can't ask for everything!
Take Care and FINS WAY UP!!
By the way, great show last night! LOVE THOSE TIKI'S!
Take Care and FINS WAY UP!!
By the way, great show last night! LOVE THOSE TIKI'S!
If you leave it then somebody else is bound to find that treasure, that moment of pleasure, when yours, it could have been- "Happily Ever After", JB
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SMLCHNG wrote:I happen to like it a lot!It's very enjoyable... so many of my favorites on there!! Just my own personal taste, I would have rather seen Southern Cross on it, and not Brown Eyed Girl. But I really enjoy the NEW songs and NEW RECORDINGS!!! It's a keeper!!
I agree with Penny, I prefer Southern Cross of Brown Eyed Girl any day.
I love that Last Mango in Paris is on it too!
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Jimmy in a Creative Slump
A little "venting session" that has been building up over the years:
I really liked "Far Side of the World," but am getting a little tired of hearing cover-song after cover-song from Jimmy. Where is the new material hiding? If I hear "Another Saturday Night" or "Brown Eyed Girl" at another concert, I am going to go cry.
When will Jimmy hit a creative stride again, like he did in the Fruitcakes/Banana Wind/Barometer Soup trio? I think that was the last time he was truly inspired and responsible in his song writing. These albums triggered the the new generation to start loving and buying his older stuff. Everything after those three have been cover songs and "just ok" original songs (besides "Tonight I Just Need My Guitar" - that is one of his best ever, but once again, co-written with Mac). What happened to the lyrics and harmonic explosion that went into songs like "Only Time Will Tell," "Bob Roberts Society Band," and "Lage Nom Ai." I'm not sure Jimmy even realizes how good his voice, creativity, and amazingly relaxed ambiance he created were at that time. Buffett has said in the past that when making the album, "Volcano," he tried to think of how he went about making the magic of "A1A." Perhaps he needs to lock himself up in a hut with just a guitar on a secluded island, and try to get back to what is in his head and at the tip of his fingers. No more songs like "Altered Boy" should ever get onto a fully-produced album! I bet he wrote that in the studio in 15 minutes, with "cling-on, yes-men" telling him how great it was the whole while. I still haven't made it completely through that song!
Re-doing your 1970's songs with new flair is a decent idea, but mixing them into a "Best Of" album might be out of place. Simply picking up where "Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads" left off might have been a better idea for the "Ultimate Collection - 1990's Style" You don't have to always use original versions of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" as your anchors. I think real Parrotheads would have embraced an album without any of those 'overplays'. When you are Buffett, you are going to be on the Billboard charts for album sales for the first week released, and then divebomb. That's the "Parrothead Blind Buying" effect.
Some positives: the new version of "He Went to Paris" with the piano was very well-done; "A Pirate Looks at 40" live recreated that feeling I get at the concert whenever he (Mac) plays it; and "In the Shelter" had a great slant on it too. "Knees of My Heart" was great, but sounded too much like the first version. The cheesy introduction for "Son of a Son of a Sailor" gave me a bad first impression to the song, whose vocals sounded amazingly close to the version that appeared on "Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays."
So do I think Buffett's next albums will get creatively better? Yes, I think they will. When he wrote, "Where Is Joe Merchant," that might have spurred a lot of the inspiration that piggy-backed onto the Fruitcakes/Banana Wind/Barometer Soup creativity. The new fiction novel coming out next fall may help him to repeat the cycle.
After that, I would like to see him scale back from his other hundred projects and take a couple months solely for writing Jimmy Buffett songs. Stay acoustic, take chances, and tell stories about people you know or look up to.
Thanks - please agree or disagree with me. I am interested to see if others have been thinking the same things.
Tim Rodems
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I really liked "Far Side of the World," but am getting a little tired of hearing cover-song after cover-song from Jimmy. Where is the new material hiding? If I hear "Another Saturday Night" or "Brown Eyed Girl" at another concert, I am going to go cry.
When will Jimmy hit a creative stride again, like he did in the Fruitcakes/Banana Wind/Barometer Soup trio? I think that was the last time he was truly inspired and responsible in his song writing. These albums triggered the the new generation to start loving and buying his older stuff. Everything after those three have been cover songs and "just ok" original songs (besides "Tonight I Just Need My Guitar" - that is one of his best ever, but once again, co-written with Mac). What happened to the lyrics and harmonic explosion that went into songs like "Only Time Will Tell," "Bob Roberts Society Band," and "Lage Nom Ai." I'm not sure Jimmy even realizes how good his voice, creativity, and amazingly relaxed ambiance he created were at that time. Buffett has said in the past that when making the album, "Volcano," he tried to think of how he went about making the magic of "A1A." Perhaps he needs to lock himself up in a hut with just a guitar on a secluded island, and try to get back to what is in his head and at the tip of his fingers. No more songs like "Altered Boy" should ever get onto a fully-produced album! I bet he wrote that in the studio in 15 minutes, with "cling-on, yes-men" telling him how great it was the whole while. I still haven't made it completely through that song!
Re-doing your 1970's songs with new flair is a decent idea, but mixing them into a "Best Of" album might be out of place. Simply picking up where "Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads" left off might have been a better idea for the "Ultimate Collection - 1990's Style" You don't have to always use original versions of "Margaritaville" and "Come Monday" as your anchors. I think real Parrotheads would have embraced an album without any of those 'overplays'. When you are Buffett, you are going to be on the Billboard charts for album sales for the first week released, and then divebomb. That's the "Parrothead Blind Buying" effect.
Some positives: the new version of "He Went to Paris" with the piano was very well-done; "A Pirate Looks at 40" live recreated that feeling I get at the concert whenever he (Mac) plays it; and "In the Shelter" had a great slant on it too. "Knees of My Heart" was great, but sounded too much like the first version. The cheesy introduction for "Son of a Son of a Sailor" gave me a bad first impression to the song, whose vocals sounded amazingly close to the version that appeared on "Buffett Live: Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays."
So do I think Buffett's next albums will get creatively better? Yes, I think they will. When he wrote, "Where Is Joe Merchant," that might have spurred a lot of the inspiration that piggy-backed onto the Fruitcakes/Banana Wind/Barometer Soup creativity. The new fiction novel coming out next fall may help him to repeat the cycle.
After that, I would like to see him scale back from his other hundred projects and take a couple months solely for writing Jimmy Buffett songs. Stay acoustic, take chances, and tell stories about people you know or look up to.
Thanks - please agree or disagree with me. I am interested to see if others have been thinking the same things.
Tim Rodems
RodemsTim@hotmail.com
Auggie,
Greetings:
Very well said. As much as I love Jimmy, and a Buffett cover tune is alot of times better than the original, some new original songs would have a welcomed addition. I also agree that he left alot of great songs from the 90's off this album. But this album was supposed to be the songs he personally liked.
To me a live Buffett album always caputres the energy of the show, perhaps he could have added more of these. Despite all the critism, I will wear this CD out listening to it.
Maui Jim
Greetings:
Very well said. As much as I love Jimmy, and a Buffett cover tune is alot of times better than the original, some new original songs would have a welcomed addition. I also agree that he left alot of great songs from the 90's off this album. But this album was supposed to be the songs he personally liked.
To me a live Buffett album always caputres the energy of the show, perhaps he could have added more of these. Despite all the critism, I will wear this CD out listening to it.
Maui Jim
I don't know much about the music industry, only enough to be dangerous, but I recall reading somewhere that this album was to fulfill an MCA obligation (his label in the 70's and 80's). I am looking at the CD now and see both Mailbox records and MCA on the cover.
I have often read that bands sign up for a multi record deal which may include an original album.......plus a live album, or greatest hits album. An album that gets the label alot of bang for the buck. Good sales volume, low production cost. Often times it coincides with who owns the rights to the music.
MCA was Buffett's label in the 70's, when he was starting out way back then, he may have sold them the rights to the songs. Hence you see mostly 70's and 80's music on here.
Jimmy had his own label in the 90's when all the "NEW" stuff came out.
I have often read that bands sign up for a multi record deal which may include an original album.......plus a live album, or greatest hits album. An album that gets the label alot of bang for the buck. Good sales volume, low production cost. Often times it coincides with who owns the rights to the music.
MCA was Buffett's label in the 70's, when he was starting out way back then, he may have sold them the rights to the songs. Hence you see mostly 70's and 80's music on here.
Jimmy had his own label in the 90's when all the "NEW" stuff came out.
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I finally found time after school today to pick up this collection, and I must say that I couldn't ask for more. I know everyone is disapointed with no computer stuff, older songs, and so on, but I truely love this collection. I like the fact that it's more than just his greatest hits, but also some of his best songs as well (Barefoot Children, We Are the People, etc). Overal, simply outstanding. Phins way, way up!
"In the morning when you rise, aren't you glad to be alive?"
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It is on the last page of the insert. And all it says is go to www.radiomargaritaville.com and click on the Meet me in Margaritaville link.Stephan wrote:I just want to know where the computer stuff they promised is. No cdrom stuff on either disk.
The album is awesome.
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Meet Meet at The Bank
I agree 100% with Augie Parrothead. We parrotheads are blind and obsessed when it comes to JB and Mr. JB knows it-that is why he can come out with cover tunes and rerecord the oldies over and over again. I wished that he would "write some new songs like the old songs." If not, record some of the other creative songs by other artists that are out there like Larry Joe Taylor, Brent Burns, Jim Orris, Micahel McCloud, Living Soul, Kevin Mulvenna. Jim Hoehn, Key West The Band, Sunny Jim, etc etc.
Meet Me In Margaritaville
Well, hell, here is one for you all. Inspired by The Rolling Stones' Forty Licks earlier this year, I came up with this before MMIM was ever mentioned. It covers every record he's released with exception to the two lamest LPs - Last Mango In Paris and Riddles In The Sand. A partial revue of MMIM follows:
Jimmy Buffett
Forty Bottles Of Beer In The Boat
1970 - 2002
Disc 1
1. Margaritaville (live T,Th,S)
2. Fins
3. Coconut Telegraph
4. Havana Daydreamin'
5. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
6. Fruitcakes (edit)
7. Barometer Soup
8. Jamaica Mistaica
9. Beach House On The Moon
10. Far Side Of The World
11. Somwhere Over China
12. Floridays
13. Off To See The Lizard
14. Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
15. Volcano
16. One Particular Harbour
17. Christmas Island
18. Another Saturday Night
19. Island Fever
20. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Disc 2
21. Southern Cross (live)
22. I Will Play For Gumbo
23. Boat Drinks
24. Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
25. Migration
26. Rancho Deluxe
27. Ace
28. I Can't Be Your Hero Today
29. I Love The Now
30. Jamaica Farewell (live)
31. California Promises
32. Pre-You
33. Twelve Volt Man
34. Come Monday
35. Wonder Why We Ever Go Home (live)
36. Why Don't We Get Drunk
37. Nautical Wheelers
38. Pencil Thin Mustache
39. Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit
40. Tin Cup Chalice
Personally, it's quite a compilation of tunes. I left on some of the usual - Margaritaville, Fins, but included more of the album title tracks and some favourite album tracks in general, and of course, tracks from the nineteen nineties and the twenty hundreds.
Here is my own version of how MMIM could have been better. Notice some of the tracks are not the new versions:
Jimmy Buffett Meet Me In Margaritaville
Alternate Track Selection MCA/Marg era
DISC ONE
1. Margaritaville
2. Migration
3. Growing Older But Not Up
4. Southern Cross - live
5. Meet Me In Memphis
6. Fruitcakes
7. We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
8. Somwhere Over China
9. Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami
10. Jamaica Farewell - live
11. Tin Cup Chalice
12. Pencil Thin Moustache
13. Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
14. Coconut Telegraph
15. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
16. Floridays
17. Fins
18. Why Don't We Get Drunk
19. Off To See The Lizard
20. One Particular Harbour
DISC TWO
1. School Boy Heart
2. Nautical Wheelers
3. Volcano
4. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
5. Take Another Road
6. Jamaica Mistaica
7. In The Shelter
8. Havana Daydreamin'
9. Boat Drinks
10. Don't Chu Know
11. Saxophones - alternate version
12. Cowboy In The Jungle
13. Barometer Soup
14. Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More
15. Bob Roberts Society Band
16. Island Fever
17. Everyone’s Talkin’ - new recording
18. The Captain And The Kid - alternate version
Same, only making it an actual 40 tracks, just like Forty Licks. Those two extra tracks and one less cover kind of open it up a bit.
Jimmy Buffett Meet Me In Margaritaville
Alternate Track Selection 40 tracks
MCA/Marg era
DISC ONE
1. Margaritaville
2. Migration
3. Growing Older But Not Up
4. Southern Cross - live
5. Meet Me In Memphis
6. Fruitcakes
7. We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
8. Somwhere Over China
9. Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami
10. Jamaica Farewell - live
11. Tin Cup Chalice
12. Pencil Thin Moustache
13. Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
14. Coconut Telegraph
15. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
16. Floridays
17. Fins
18. Why Don't We Get Drunk
19. Off To See The Lizard
20. One Particular Harbour
DISC TWO
21. School Boy Heart
22. Nautical Wheelers
23. Volcano
24. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
25. Take Another Road
26. Jamaica Mistaica
27. In The Shelter
28. Havana Daydreamin'
29. Boat Drinks
30. Everybody’s Talkin’
31. Saxophones - alternate version
32. Cowboy In The Jungle
33. Barometer Soup
34. Wonder Why We Ever Go Home
35. Lone Palm
36. Island Fever
37. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
38. Bob Roberts Society Band
39. Banana Republics
40. The Captain And The Kid - alternate version
I think Meet Me In Margaritaville is interesting at best but overall a bit overdone. With the original version of Margaritaville’s lyrics on You Had To Be There and hyped as the lost verse on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, why not give us the unedited studio version with the cut out (lost) verse? Disc One is great, with exception to Cheeseburger, Jolly Mon, Last Mango and Brown Eyed Girl. I like the live Holiday - it’s slightly different than the LP version. Everybody’s Talkin’ is fantastic. SOASOAS is just a studio version of the live version from Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. Knees Of My Heart - why did he bother to just cover it? Why not do like he did for In The Shelter - which is not as good as the original version or the version on CIL, CIA or the excellent revamping of Saxophones (it almost sounds like he got Morning Forty Federation to play the horn licks). Do we really need another version of Pirate Looks At Forty? No. Do we need a live version of Desperation Samba when we could have a live version of something a little more substantial like Floridays, Ballad Of Spider John, Death Of An Unpopular Poet, among many others? The one thing that is interesting is that Jimmy Buffett did throw in some curve balls with the new recordings and the live recordings, even if the live tracks sound like they’re being played through a conch shell.
As for the lack of Island Records or Mailboat Records, well, Far Side Of The World, tracks, MCA can’t issue anything with those tracks because they don’t own the rights - yet there is a discography at the back of the album that includes the Island and Mailboat albums. MCA could release 10 compilations covering everything except the first two albums, Rancho Deluxe and the Island and Mailboat albums. Christmas Island was the last record for the MCA contract. MCA probably had been planning some kind of release for this year, heard he was recording old tunes again, and struck a deal - your new Mailboat versions of our old MCA tunes with a shitload of other MCA tunes.
I recall Jimmy saying when T,TH,S came out that he wanted to beat MCA to the punch with a live greatest hits. Looks like MCA caught up with him. Whether there are more tunes in the ‘Boat from the so called Buffett Buffet sessions, I think MCA should use this double album as a vehicle to promote the long overdue remastered, repackaged, (and finally, ha ha) rereleased albums - with extra unreleased tracks, including those on the box set - from 1973 through 1996. One would think that MCA would have done that by now.
Email me at tommymacluckie@hotmail.com if you’d like to see the list of my version of Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads volume 2.
PS I got MMIM for $19.99 ($21 something with tax) at Wherehouse Music.
Tommy MacLuckie
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jimmy Buffett
Forty Bottles Of Beer In The Boat
1970 - 2002
Disc 1
1. Margaritaville (live T,Th,S)
2. Fins
3. Coconut Telegraph
4. Havana Daydreamin'
5. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
6. Fruitcakes (edit)
7. Barometer Soup
8. Jamaica Mistaica
9. Beach House On The Moon
10. Far Side Of The World
11. Somwhere Over China
12. Floridays
13. Off To See The Lizard
14. Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
15. Volcano
16. One Particular Harbour
17. Christmas Island
18. Another Saturday Night
19. Island Fever
20. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Disc 2
21. Southern Cross (live)
22. I Will Play For Gumbo
23. Boat Drinks
24. Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
25. Migration
26. Rancho Deluxe
27. Ace
28. I Can't Be Your Hero Today
29. I Love The Now
30. Jamaica Farewell (live)
31. California Promises
32. Pre-You
33. Twelve Volt Man
34. Come Monday
35. Wonder Why We Ever Go Home (live)
36. Why Don't We Get Drunk
37. Nautical Wheelers
38. Pencil Thin Mustache
39. Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit
40. Tin Cup Chalice
Personally, it's quite a compilation of tunes. I left on some of the usual - Margaritaville, Fins, but included more of the album title tracks and some favourite album tracks in general, and of course, tracks from the nineteen nineties and the twenty hundreds.
Here is my own version of how MMIM could have been better. Notice some of the tracks are not the new versions:
Jimmy Buffett Meet Me In Margaritaville
Alternate Track Selection MCA/Marg era
DISC ONE
1. Margaritaville
2. Migration
3. Growing Older But Not Up
4. Southern Cross - live
5. Meet Me In Memphis
6. Fruitcakes
7. We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
8. Somwhere Over China
9. Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami
10. Jamaica Farewell - live
11. Tin Cup Chalice
12. Pencil Thin Moustache
13. Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
14. Coconut Telegraph
15. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
16. Floridays
17. Fins
18. Why Don't We Get Drunk
19. Off To See The Lizard
20. One Particular Harbour
DISC TWO
1. School Boy Heart
2. Nautical Wheelers
3. Volcano
4. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
5. Take Another Road
6. Jamaica Mistaica
7. In The Shelter
8. Havana Daydreamin'
9. Boat Drinks
10. Don't Chu Know
11. Saxophones - alternate version
12. Cowboy In The Jungle
13. Barometer Soup
14. Nobody Speaks To The Captain No More
15. Bob Roberts Society Band
16. Island Fever
17. Everyone’s Talkin’ - new recording
18. The Captain And The Kid - alternate version
Same, only making it an actual 40 tracks, just like Forty Licks. Those two extra tracks and one less cover kind of open it up a bit.
Jimmy Buffett Meet Me In Margaritaville
Alternate Track Selection 40 tracks
MCA/Marg era
DISC ONE
1. Margaritaville
2. Migration
3. Growing Older But Not Up
4. Southern Cross - live
5. Meet Me In Memphis
6. Fruitcakes
7. We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
8. Somwhere Over China
9. Everybody’s Got A Cousin In Miami
10. Jamaica Farewell - live
11. Tin Cup Chalice
12. Pencil Thin Moustache
13. Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
14. Coconut Telegraph
15. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
16. Floridays
17. Fins
18. Why Don't We Get Drunk
19. Off To See The Lizard
20. One Particular Harbour
DISC TWO
21. School Boy Heart
22. Nautical Wheelers
23. Volcano
24. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
25. Take Another Road
26. Jamaica Mistaica
27. In The Shelter
28. Havana Daydreamin'
29. Boat Drinks
30. Everybody’s Talkin’
31. Saxophones - alternate version
32. Cowboy In The Jungle
33. Barometer Soup
34. Wonder Why We Ever Go Home
35. Lone Palm
36. Island Fever
37. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful
38. Bob Roberts Society Band
39. Banana Republics
40. The Captain And The Kid - alternate version
I think Meet Me In Margaritaville is interesting at best but overall a bit overdone. With the original version of Margaritaville’s lyrics on You Had To Be There and hyped as the lost verse on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, why not give us the unedited studio version with the cut out (lost) verse? Disc One is great, with exception to Cheeseburger, Jolly Mon, Last Mango and Brown Eyed Girl. I like the live Holiday - it’s slightly different than the LP version. Everybody’s Talkin’ is fantastic. SOASOAS is just a studio version of the live version from Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays. Knees Of My Heart - why did he bother to just cover it? Why not do like he did for In The Shelter - which is not as good as the original version or the version on CIL, CIA or the excellent revamping of Saxophones (it almost sounds like he got Morning Forty Federation to play the horn licks). Do we really need another version of Pirate Looks At Forty? No. Do we need a live version of Desperation Samba when we could have a live version of something a little more substantial like Floridays, Ballad Of Spider John, Death Of An Unpopular Poet, among many others? The one thing that is interesting is that Jimmy Buffett did throw in some curve balls with the new recordings and the live recordings, even if the live tracks sound like they’re being played through a conch shell.
As for the lack of Island Records or Mailboat Records, well, Far Side Of The World, tracks, MCA can’t issue anything with those tracks because they don’t own the rights - yet there is a discography at the back of the album that includes the Island and Mailboat albums. MCA could release 10 compilations covering everything except the first two albums, Rancho Deluxe and the Island and Mailboat albums. Christmas Island was the last record for the MCA contract. MCA probably had been planning some kind of release for this year, heard he was recording old tunes again, and struck a deal - your new Mailboat versions of our old MCA tunes with a shitload of other MCA tunes.
I recall Jimmy saying when T,TH,S came out that he wanted to beat MCA to the punch with a live greatest hits. Looks like MCA caught up with him. Whether there are more tunes in the ‘Boat from the so called Buffett Buffet sessions, I think MCA should use this double album as a vehicle to promote the long overdue remastered, repackaged, (and finally, ha ha) rereleased albums - with extra unreleased tracks, including those on the box set - from 1973 through 1996. One would think that MCA would have done that by now.
Email me at tommymacluckie@hotmail.com if you’d like to see the list of my version of Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads volume 2.
PS I got MMIM for $19.99 ($21 something with tax) at Wherehouse Music.
Tommy MacLuckie
New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Favorite Boat Drink: Pizza Port Carlsbad- Poor Man's IPA & Zombies
- Location: San Diego, CA
I love hearing constuctive criticism...both good and bad...it's great!!
I am pleased with the CD...The only thing I would've done differently is replace "Bob Robert's Society Band" with either...
"The Wino and I Know"
"The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful"
"Far Side of the World" or
"My Lovely Lady".
The best of the New, Live, or New reworkings are:
Holiday---my favorite on this collection, Robert G. is great!
The Captain and the Kid
In The Shelter
He Went To Paris
The Pascagoula Run
Desperation Samba---sounds good!
Volcano---I liked the changed lyrics...especially because he doesn't rip on landing in San Diego on this one!!
Saxophones--this really kicks...but for some reason, I still like the old one.
Everybody's Talkin'---I love this song and Buffett does a good job....but I still can only picture Nillson's version in my mind...
I don't think Son of a Son of a Sailor is very good on here...it's much to slow and lacks emotion...
Knees of my Heart is O.K. but doesn't add much to the original...
Sail on Sailor is a song I personally don't care for....There are much better Beach Boys songs to sing...It's just not infectious enough.
A Pirate Looks at Forty is good...but I'd rather have Fingers!
That's my view....Thanks to Jimmy for continuing to provide us with so much entertainment for all these years...This parrothead appreciates it!!!
I am pleased with the CD...The only thing I would've done differently is replace "Bob Robert's Society Band" with either...
"The Wino and I Know"
"The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful"
"Far Side of the World" or
"My Lovely Lady".
The best of the New, Live, or New reworkings are:
Holiday---my favorite on this collection, Robert G. is great!
The Captain and the Kid
In The Shelter
He Went To Paris
The Pascagoula Run
Desperation Samba---sounds good!
Volcano---I liked the changed lyrics...especially because he doesn't rip on landing in San Diego on this one!!
Saxophones--this really kicks...but for some reason, I still like the old one.
Everybody's Talkin'---I love this song and Buffett does a good job....but I still can only picture Nillson's version in my mind...
I don't think Son of a Son of a Sailor is very good on here...it's much to slow and lacks emotion...
Knees of my Heart is O.K. but doesn't add much to the original...
Sail on Sailor is a song I personally don't care for....There are much better Beach Boys songs to sing...It's just not infectious enough.
A Pirate Looks at Forty is good...but I'd rather have Fingers!
That's my view....Thanks to Jimmy for continuing to provide us with so much entertainment for all these years...This parrothead appreciates it!!!
1ST CONCERT: SAT. AUG 6, 1988 - PACIFIC AMPHITHEATRE, COSTA MESA, CA - LOGE 11 SEC 2 ROW U SEAT 42 $20.35
SHOWS: DAVID-31, STEFANIA-27, SHANE-11, EMMA KATE-7
PARROT HEAD SINCE 1984
SHOWS: DAVID-31, STEFANIA-27, SHANE-11, EMMA KATE-7
PARROT HEAD SINCE 1984
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tvphcmooch
- Newbie
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Is it worth the cost?
I belive that Jimmy and his group of travelers have once again provided me and others with hours of enjoyment. I sit here typing and toe taping to some Great Old Songs redone and remembered from a diferent point of view. Thanks for all the moments that I look foward too. $17.99 @ Hastings [/b]
May the wind always be to your back and your beer be cold. We all can't be Jimmy, but we can share his dream.
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A1APHAN123
- Southeast of disorder
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- Joined: December 13, 2001 7:00 pm
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- Location: North Canton, Ohio
I like the compilation, but like every Parrothead, I think some songs should have been included, and some left out, and the ones that weren't re-done, should have been. A live "Margaritaville" would have been an improvement over just using the original studio version. Where was "Stars On The Water"? Where was "Boat Drinks"? Where was anything from "Far Side Of The World", which I felt was his best release in years? This could have been done better, but it wasn't done bad, and the insert was great!
"Good cigars, good rum and beautiful women are the key to a long life." Gregorio Fuentes, 1897-2002.
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brahmafear
- Overkill
- Posts: 1014
- Joined: April 12, 2002 8:00 pm
- Favorite Buffett Song: Brahma Fear
- Number of Concerts: 15
- Favorite Boat Drink: Cajun Martini
- Location: NC 36° 05' N 79° 57' W
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Let''s face it Jimmy will never be able to please all of us on a greatest hits CD. I'll tell you my feeling though. It's great. The new recordings and the live ones make this CD real close to hearing Jimmy in concert. I think this is a wonderful CD. It makes me long that much more for his next. Fellow parrotheads let's give Jimmy his due, we needed this CD as much as we needed new stuff. Fins up and don't let your blender run dry!
