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Posted By Anonymous
It's about time somebody reviewed this album!

Volcano is a good album, but sort of unbalanced. It's got several strong and memorable songs, but also a bunch of others that seem brewed from a different batch. "Fins", "Boat Drinks", and "Volcano" are of course Buffett classics and alone make the album worth getting. "Sending the Old Man Home" is sort of reminiscient of what he had been doing up to this point. The other songs show a noticeable change in approach from the preceding studio album ("Son of a Son of a Sailor"). I guess Jimmy felt like trying something different. He succeeded, but that might not be a good thing...

Posted By headparrothead
Recorded at Air Studios on the island of Montserrat (yes the one with the spewing volcano), this album has its day in the sun. It was also the second album by any artist to be recorded at that studio. With all the power on VOLCANO it's a wonder that it didn't get a warmer reception. Most "official" critics didn't like it and many fans didn't like the different sound compared to his earlier works. But then how many artists have always stayed on the straight and narrow?
"Fins" is one of the best songs for audience participation and "Volcano" rivals "Fins" for the position of "hottest track" on the disc. "Treat Her Like a Lady", "Sending the Old Man Home", and "Survive" are all great ballads that deserve more time in the concert rotation. "Stranded on a Sandbar" picks up where "Cowboy in the Jungle" leaves off and "Lady I Can't Explain" is another song you can file in the Buffett Buttshaker Bin. The early days seem to come out in "Dreamsicle" and "Chanson Pour les Petits Enfants" or "song for the little children" is a song that should be played to your own children before they go to bed each night.

score: 5 of 5 coronas

Posted By VOLcano
This album always reminds me of the summer of '80, after graduating high school. I spent that summer over in the Outer Banks and had a blast of the beaches there! I must have bought three cassette tapes of this because I kept wearing them out.

Posted By Tommy MacLuckie
Weak in comparison to all of the previous albums. Although it has stellar tracks - Stranded On A Sandbar, Sending The Old Man Home, it's not as solid as SOASOAS or Havana Daydreamin' or CILCIA. But then again, it might be, considering Riddles In The Sand and Last Mango In Paris. Anyone ever notice the badly played guitar in the intro of Volcano? Whoever is playing it is not playing with the rest of the music. 3 out of 5.

Not bad. It is a great collecion, and it would beat almost any other cd ever made. But there is just something missing. I absolutely LOVE every single song on this cd, but for some reason I must say it is only an AVEREGE JB cd. Not up with mango and Flordays. But it is still worth $13!

Once agin I must change my post about this album. It is starting to grow on me. It is becoming one of JB's strongest. He really sounds relaxed in thsi album. I love it, I give it a 9/10

On 2002-06-29 18:11, PHat Matt wrote:
Once agin I must change my post about this album. It is starting to grow on me. It is becoming one of JB's strongest. He really sounds relaxed in thsi album. I love it, I give it a 9/10

Matt your the best. Reviewing an album that may have been released before your parents were born. btw, I agree with both assessments. it kinda grows on ya

A CD I listened to quite a bit when I first picked it up, but doesn't get much rotation on my disc changer these days. I don't know why, I don't think there is a bad song on Volcano. I absolutely love Stranded on a Sandbar, Lady I Can't Explain, Boat Drinks, Dreamsicle, Fins, and Volcano. Two years later, I'm still not sure what to think about Treat Her Like A Lady, Survive, and Sending the Old Man Home. But overall, a bery solid effort, and a great album to end the 1970s with.

Ranking 5 out of 5 stars

Heard it 1st on an Album Rock station's "album hour" on the way home from a midnight work shift-the WEEK it was released-in 1979. Theres a photo of Jon Scott (local DJ) in an FM100 t shirt on the vinyl album inside cover.

I still have the LP (and all the others ever produced) keep em just for the artwork...

I remember that night well-a local roller followed me halfway home and I had to turn down the stereo (8 track player/FM in dash radio-really boss in 1979) every time I came to a stoplight.

Bought the album the next day and the rest is as they say, history.
Capn Rick

Finally Found this cd, been dying to have it and i LOVE it!