Serious Survey: Favorite JB Songs

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Serious Survey: Favorite JB Songs

Post by CaptainP »

Help me out here, I'm actually doing some research on this.

I need to know your TOP TEN favorite Jimmy Songs.

*Please list ONLY TEN.
*They do not need to be in order, but I would like to know which song is your #1 Favorite Song
*Please do not list more than ten. Do not list 9 and say "These are tied for #10. TEN ONLY!

Thank you for your co-operation.
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Post by CaptainP »

#1 One Particular Harbor
When the Coast Is Clear
Jimmy Dreams
Barefoot Children In the Rain
It's My Job
The Wino And I Know
Migration
Island
Island Fever
Lone Palm
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Post by buffettbride »

Including or not including cover songs?
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Post by DeactiveCarib »

#1 Twelve Volt Man

the other nine
Changing Channels
Changes in Lattitudes, Changes in Attitudes
All The Ways I Want You
Migration
Far Side Of The World
Woman Goin' Crazy On Caroline Street
Grape Fruit / Juicy-Fruit
Everybody's Talkin'
One Particular Harbor


there is a problem with this survey. My favorite JB songs change on almost a daily basis, depending on my mood. I think almost every JB song is excellent, so what i gave you were today's favorites, but it changes often. 12v Man is almost always up there though, so thats consistent.
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Post by Mr Play »

#1 - Pirate Looks at Forty

2-10
African Friend
He Went to Paris
Cowboy in the Jungle
Coast of Marseilles
Banana Republics
Changes in Latitudes
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Dreamsicle
Lovely Cruise
It was a pleasure and a hell of an evening
Truly was our night to win
But the authorities insist on my leaving
Take care my American friend
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Post by buffettbride »

#1 Little Miss Magic

2-10
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One Particular Harbor
Love in the Library
CILCIA
Tin Cup Chalice
Pirate Looks @ 40
Come Monday
Pencil Thin Mustache
Window on the World (not sure if this counts, so substitute Island if needed)
We are the People

<----------------Didn't hesitate to pick my #1 song.
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Post by LIPH »

#1 Changing Channels

and the other 9, in alphabetical order
A Pirate Looks At 40
Havana Daydreamin'
Margaritaville (go ahead, laugh :lol:)
Migration
One Particular Harbour
Son Of A Son Of A SAilor
The Captain & The Kid
Tin Cup Chalice
Trying To Reason With The Hurricane Season
what I really mean . . . I wish you were here
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Post by Jahfin »

Good luck, some folks around here seem to have a problem following guidelines no matter how easy you may make them.

Here's mine (although the entire list changes constantly):

#1 The Captain and the Kid

The rest in no particular order:

A Pirate Looks At 40
Brahma Fear
Landfall (live version from You Had To Be There)
That's What Living Is To Me
Coast of Carolina
I Love The Now
Something So Feminine About A Mandolin
Life Is Just A Tire Swing
The Great Filling Station Holdup
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Post by halfpint6924 »

1. Tin Cup Chalice

Why don't we get drunk
Cheeseburger in Paradise
Margaritaville
Come Monday
Son of a son of a sailor
Trying to reason with the hurricane season
Pencil thin mustache
Boat drinks
Fins
God grant me the serentity.............
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Post by BilltheLizard »

#1 One Particular Harbor

2-10

Tin Cup Chalice
Far Side Of The World
Delaney Talks To Statues
Wino And I Know
Floridays
Love And Luck
Off To See The Lizard
Chanson Pour Les Petits Enfants
Great Heart

As many others have said, this list changes all the time.
I've got coastal confessions and a few more, how about you?
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Post by fairhopeparrot »

Wow! It is really hard to choose just 10!

#1 Favorite:
One Particular Harbor

Top 9 Favorites (in no order):
Coast of Marseilles
A Pirate Looks at 40
School Boy Heart
Tin Cup Chalice
When the Coast is Clear
Stars on the Water
The Weather is Here
Boat Drinks
Wino and I know
And all across the harbour
Night lights shinin' in
It looks just like stars on the water

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Post by Uncle John »

Much like everyone else, my list changes on a daily basis as well

1. The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

The rest - in no particular order

2. Come Monday
3. Coast of Carolina
4. Delaney Talks to Statues
5. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About
6. Far Side of the World
7. Distantly In Love
8. Great Heart
9. Happily Ever After (Every Now and Then)
10. If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

-It pains me to leave off Changing Channels, Who's the Blonde Stranger, Jolly Mon, Boat Drinks, and the other hundred of my favorites, but those are my ten (today, anyway.)
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Post by semitruths »

Yep ........ my list changes all the time too but the ones that constantly are near the top are:

1) Beyond the End

2-10)....
Great Heart
No Plane on Sunday
Come Monday
Desperation Samba
Far Side of the World
Semi-True Story
I Love the Now
Life is Just a Tire Swing
Only Time Will Tell
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Post by pbans »

#1 Pirate looks at 40

Pacing the Cage
CILCIA
Little Miss Magic
Incommunicado
It's My Job
Coast of Carolina
We are the People.....
Boat Drinks
Lone Palm

BUT.....like almost everyone else, the list is subject to change without notice.....
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Post by YuppieParrothead »

UGH!!! Too hard to do. I wasted way to much time in my day paring down this list. I had to take some incredible songs off. Here is my final list (I apologize to all of the great songs I am leaving off. I hope that I'll still be allowed to listen to them and that I'll be forgiven).

#1 Banana Republics

Followed by:

That's What Living Is To Me
The Weather Is Here...
We Are The People
It's My Job
CILCIA
Far Side Of The World
OPH
Semi-True Story
Cousin in Miami
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Post by buffettbride »

Gosh!! I wonder how many revisions I will have to do!!! My #1 will ALWAYS be the same.
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Post by honeysucklevine »

#1- Tin Cup Chalice

the other nine are:
Lone Palm
Delaney Talks to Statues
Migration
Lovely Cruise
One Particular Harbor
The Pascagoula Run
Cuban Crime of Passion
Barefoot Children in the Rain
They Dont Dance Like Carmen No More
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Post by TheSecretsInTheCrust »

#1 Banana Republic

#'s 2-10 in particular order
Island
One Particular Harbor
SOASOAS
Come Monday
Migration
A Pirate Looks At 40
Anything, Anytime, Anywhere
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About

now it caould all change next week :wink:
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Post by LIPH »

buffettbride wrote:Gosh!! I wonder how many revisions I will have to do!!! My #1 will ALWAYS be the same.
I won't have to do any revisions, I'm always right. :lol:
what I really mean . . . I wish you were here
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Post by A1A BOUND »

#1- GREAT HEART (LIVE)
SCHOOL BOY HEART
THE WEATHER IS HERE
TIN CUP CHALICE
LIFE IS JUST A TIRE SWING
WINO AND I KNOW
WHEN THE COAST IS CLEAR
SURVIVE
TREAT HER LIKE A LADY
LOVE AND LUCK
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