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I think these are my two very favorites (though it's so hard to narrow down, really). I love Blue Heaven Rendezvous on Barometer and Creola on Floridays.

Not bad albums per se but definitely not my favorites.

Which are your favorites?

DiamondLil wrote:Which are your favorites?

Jimmy covering the Drive-By Truckers covering Jimmy's "Big Rig"...

I Love both of these albums.... in fact my new license plate reads:

FLORIDZ

or

FLRIDAZ


I cannot recall how I ordered.... wish it would get here soon!!!

RinglingRingling wrote:

DiamondLil wrote:Which are your favorites?

Jimmy covering the Drive-By Truckers covering Jimmy's "Big Rig"...

Hi Ringling! Calypso Poet here...that name was taken on this board... I posted a nice response to you on the other board (Can you believe it?) in case you haven't read it yet...

Big Rig is a GREAT song! Heck they're all great.

DiamondLil wrote:Which are your favorites?

Mainly the early stuff such as White Sportcoat, Living & Dying In 3/4 Time, A1A, etc. I like all of his albums to varying degrees but feel he pretty much reached his peak songwriting-wise very early on.

ToplessRideFL wrote:I Love both of these albums.... in fact my new license plate reads:

FLORIDZ

or

FLRIDAZ


I cannot recall how I ordered.... wish it would get here soon!!!

That's great!!!!!! I'm going to have to get a vanity plate for mine; I just bought my first Jeep. By the time I'm done with it it's going to feel like you're on the beach just getting in and sitting down. Hee hee

I just love the steel drums on that album. Plus it reminds me of the days when my dad had a houseboat and we'd go cruising up and down the river listening to Floridays and Volcano.......ahhhhhhhh, good times, good times.

Jahfin wrote:

DiamondLil wrote:Which are your favorites?

Mainly the early stuff such as White Sportcoat, Living & Dying In 3/4 Time, A1A, etc. I like all of his albums to varying degrees but feel he pretty much reached his peak songwriting-wise very early on.

Yes, I agree, his most "inspired" work seemed to come in the 70s and 80s for sure from a songwriting standpoint. I love all the albums you mentioned! I forgot that Changes is one of my very favorites, maybe more than Barometer Soup. I knew I'd think of others later on and go, Dang, wait a minute, what about that one! Hee hee

I love Floridays... the song Floridays is my favorite!!!

tdparrothead wrote:I love Floridays... the song Floridays is my favorite!!!

That is a great song! I love the lyrics to it; definitely inspired stuff.

I am SO excited right now because in my band we started learning Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit last night, so I got to practice singing lead on it for the first time (different album I know, but I just had to share. Hee hee!) That's one of my all-time favorite songs of his.

Floridays...what album is that

Floridays
MCA - 1986

1. I Love the Now
2. Creola
3. First Look
4. Meet Me in Memphis
5. Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More
6. Floridays
7. If It All Falls Down
8. No Plane on Sunday
9. When the Coast Is Clear
10. You'll Never Work Is Dis Bidness Again

[source: Key Lime Cafe]

btwxt the two, this is my favorite, and the best example of Buffett's post-hair songwriting skills-

Barometer Soup
MARGARITAVILLE/MCA - 1995

1. Barometer Soup
2. Barefoot Children
3. Bank of Bad Habits
4. Remittance Man
5. Diamond as Big as the Ritz
6. Blue Heaven Rendezvous
7. Jimmy Dreams
8. Lage Nom Ai
9. Don't Chu-Know
10. Ballad of Skip Wiley
11. The Night I Painted the Sky
12. Mexico

same source

bravedave wrote:Floridays
MCA - 1986

[source: Key Lime Cafe]

I didn't know that discography was there. Thanks!!!

Favorite songs on Floridays are First Look and No Plane.

Favorite Album is One Particular Harbour

Next Fave is Barometer Soup

Favorite Live Album is You Had To Be There

Favorite Songs are That's What Living is To Me and Tin Cup Chalice

It would be nice to see some new fan reviews of the old stuff here...and the new stuff.

When the Coast is Clear is one of my all time favorite Buffett songs!!!

i love mexico

Barometer Soup is a great album I love Dont Chu Know, Lage Nom Ai and JB's cover of Mexico

Barometer Soup is definitely one of my favorite albums. There is honestly no song which I ever feel the need to skip over.

We love Barometer Soup! Mrs. TR wants Barefoot Children to be the song on the CD alarm clock. I think it's a great choice.

However, since I do not have a copy of Floridays, my opinions might not matter as some will now declare I am not a true parrot head