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This was my 1st Buffett album. I had just completed my 1st year of college and was all into this girl from Georgia. Anyways she came up to NY to visit for a week and we were driving to a Yankees game. It was actually turned out to be the last game of the season before Major League Baseball went on strike.

So were driving down the Palisades Parkway when she says she wants to put in a tape of some music she thought I would enjoy.

The album was Fruitcakes. I was hooked!!! We must have played the tape a thousand times that week as we doing various activities

The album did unleash that Carribean Soul of mine.

The girlfriend eventually became an ex, the tape eventually fell apart but I became a fan on that day and have never looked back. 20 or so concerts, visits to various Margaritavilles and 2 trips to the Keys and 3 trips to the Carribean have been such life changeing events.

The music of Jimmy Buffett has been the soundtrack of my life since the ride on the Palisades.

I can see how "Fruitcakes" would hook you. In my opinion it may be his best studio album, and it's certainly one of my very favorites, along with "Far Side of the World" and "You Had to Be There".

this album is brilliant and creatively speaking jimmy and the band where at the top of their game. the combination of great lyrics. steal drums,horns and acoustic guitars really blended perfectly on this and again on barometer soup.i wish he would return to that kind of musical vibe! 5 stars all the way!

This was a fun album, although I really liked the mellow stuff. "Lone Palm", "Six String Music" were my favorites.

My ex-girlfriend and I had broken up prior to this. We used to listen to JB all the time. After she left, I just stopped listening. Then for whatever reason, I picked this up and it brought me back

Well, I can't say that this is one of my favorite albums. It's got 5 tracks that I consider to be good or really good and the rest are throw aways in my view. I love Lone Palm and Frenchman for a Night and I like Love in the Library, Quietly Making Noise and Apocalypso. Delaney Talks to Statues is okay and everything else I skip.

It's unfortunate that it's got a bad song on it that starts with the word Vampires. This is when Jimmy really started to go downhill in terms with his albums containing clunkers. He would perfect it with Cultural Infidel and really hit a home run with Math Suks and a grand slam with A Party At The End Of The World. Why he insists on doing songs like this I'll never understand. They really detract from the albums.

JustDucky wrote:It's unfortunate that it's got a bad song on it that starts with the word Vampires. This is when Jimmy really started to go downhill in terms with his albums containing clunkers. He would perfect it with Cultural Infidel and really hit a home run with Math Suks and a grand slam with A Party At The End Of The World. Why he insists on doing songs like this I'll never understand. They really detract from the albums.

Not that they were great songs, but I did not mind them. They were just fun songs I thought. Maybe he recorded them to remind us all not to take life so seriously.

I thought he already did that with tunes like Lone Palm and Fruitcakes and Six String Music yet alone a plethora of other tunes. Why do bad ones? That's all I'm wondering.