Posted: February 23, 2000 12:26 pm
Posted By Anonymous
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Posted By Frank
This is an excellent cd! Just the song "It's My Job" make it worh owning!
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Posted: February 25, 2000 4:44 am
Posted: March 23, 2000 1:35 am
Posted By JR
This is a good album, kind of like "Volcano" but better. The song "It's My Job" sucks though, perhaps the only one that's not up to par.
This is a good album, kind of like "Volcano" but better. The song "It's My Job" sucks though, perhaps the only one that's not up to par.
Posted: June 10, 2000 9:48 pm
Posted By headparrothead
"If you don't want it printed...don't do it".
This disc is strong from beginning to end. "Coconut Telegraph" and "The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful" are the two upbeat songs on here and are terrific stories. The rest of the disc is extraordinarily mellow and is a bit of an open door into the more serious side of jimmy's psyche. "Incommunicado", a song about getting back in touch with yourself, reflecting on your own life and mortality. It's a song that really makes you think, much like "It's My Job". Originally written and recorded by Mac Mcanally, it becomes an excellent cover tune that has the same flavor as "Cowboy in the Jungle" and "Stranded on a Sandbar". I used to work on a loading dock and when the snow would come blowing in and the bone-chilling cold along with it, this song often came to mind. "Growing Older But Not Up" has a tongue-in-cheek feeling to it that can fill you with some nervous laughter about personal injury. One of the best songs to watch fireworks to is "Stars Fell on Alabama"--even if you aren't in Alabama. The song was written 12 years before Jimmy was born and to date is the only song Jimmy has recorded that is older than he is. The fact that he recorded it shows a heightening in his maturity level. This quality continues to be displayed in "Island" where loneliness abounds and in "Little Miss Magic" where the reality of fatherhood becomes an epiphany.
One day I will learn to play the guitar and should my wife ever have a daughter this is the first song I will play for her and in her room there will be a slowly revolving ceiling fan.
score: 5 of 5 coronas
"If you don't want it printed...don't do it".
This disc is strong from beginning to end. "Coconut Telegraph" and "The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful" are the two upbeat songs on here and are terrific stories. The rest of the disc is extraordinarily mellow and is a bit of an open door into the more serious side of jimmy's psyche. "Incommunicado", a song about getting back in touch with yourself, reflecting on your own life and mortality. It's a song that really makes you think, much like "It's My Job". Originally written and recorded by Mac Mcanally, it becomes an excellent cover tune that has the same flavor as "Cowboy in the Jungle" and "Stranded on a Sandbar". I used to work on a loading dock and when the snow would come blowing in and the bone-chilling cold along with it, this song often came to mind. "Growing Older But Not Up" has a tongue-in-cheek feeling to it that can fill you with some nervous laughter about personal injury. One of the best songs to watch fireworks to is "Stars Fell on Alabama"--even if you aren't in Alabama. The song was written 12 years before Jimmy was born and to date is the only song Jimmy has recorded that is older than he is. The fact that he recorded it shows a heightening in his maturity level. This quality continues to be displayed in "Island" where loneliness abounds and in "Little Miss Magic" where the reality of fatherhood becomes an epiphany.
One day I will learn to play the guitar and should my wife ever have a daughter this is the first song I will play for her and in her room there will be a slowly revolving ceiling fan.
score: 5 of 5 coronas
Posted: August 7, 2000 3:15 pm
Posted By Anonymous
JR.....
IT'S MY JOB SUCKS? are you nuts?????
JR.....
IT'S MY JOB SUCKS? are you nuts?????
Posted: September 19, 2001 3:58 am
ditto hph. "Incommunicado" is also a great song about getting away from it all. "Island" is one of my all-time favorites and I sometimes refer to my own daughter as "Little Miss Magic". I have a friend whose all-time favorite is "The Weather is Here..." CT took me a while to warm up to but now I love it. Also, what parrot head worth his salt hasn't referenced "Growing Older, But Not Up" at some point.
"It's My Job" does NOT s***. "Math Suks" from BHOTM sucks.
"It's My Job" does NOT s***. "Math Suks" from BHOTM sucks.
Posted: May 13, 2002 7:24 pm
9 out of 10
Posted: October 27, 2002 1:21 am
Another one of his better albums. This is one of my favorites I ecspecially love the Weather is here.... that song always puts a smile on my face
Posted: October 27, 2002 8:22 pm
I burned this cd stupidlly, and then lost it but i bought it today and now i remeber how much i love this album! 
Posted: January 20, 2004 9:54 pm
Excellent album...worth it for It's my Job and Island
Posted: September 26, 2005 11:50 pm
I first bought this album in '96, I think on cassette. It was probably the third album I bought after "Songs" and "feeding Frenzy" I have to say that to this day it is still one of my favorite Buffett albums to this day. There isn't a weak track on this album. "It's My Job" is one of my all time favorites and I am dying to hear it live one day. There isn't a bad song on this whole album.
10 out of 10!!!!!!!!!!!
10 out of 10!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: September 26, 2005 11:53 pm
When my older daughter was very young, oh so many years ago, I rocked her to sleep with this cassette, finishing off with LMM.
Posted: October 8, 2006 2:56 am
4 stars. Really good album.