What Buffett songs make you melancholy?

parrothead216 · Post by **parrothead216** » October 7, 2005 5:57 am

[/color][/b]My wife were just listening to a CD that I burned for a friend to give her some Buffett to listen to and some of the songs make you really feel up and happy, but we wondered.........What Buffett songs make you sad?

Some of ours are

1) Banana Republics
2) When The Coast Is Clear
3) Changing Channels

What are yours?

12V-man · Post by **12V-man** » October 7, 2005 6:45 am

ph216 - the 3 you list are 3 of my favorite 'ballad-type' songs. I would also add (as 'sad songs') these:
1) If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
2) Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More
3) Souvenirs
4) Captain & the Kid
5) Death of an Unpopular Poet
6) He went to Paris

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » October 7, 2005 7:34 am

I don't know if they make me sad.... but Survive and APL@40 always make me think.... and usually can make me cry.... but in a good... honest.....gut wrenching way...... honest way...

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » October 7, 2005 7:52 am

A Pirate Looks at 40
She's Going Out of My Mind

There are others but those two came to the top of my head.

krusin1 · Post by **krusin1** » October 7, 2005 8:44 am

Truth is, none of the songs I can think of are truly sad.

I think of APL@40, He Went to Paris, If the Phone, Lovely Cruise, and many others. True, there's some sadness in each, but each one is also a hopeful song.

Seems like the general attitude is that some bad things have happened, but it's gonna be ok, and all in all I've got nothing to complain about.

IMHO, that's one of the best things about JB - "one has to learn having fun is just smiling through the changes in lattitudes, changes in attitudes."

Ol'_'96'er · Post by **Ol'_'96'er** » October 7, 2005 8:46 am

Biloxi
In the Shelter (the original version)
Frenchman for the Night

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » October 7, 2005 8:48 am

For whatever reason I listened to Defying Gravity alot right after my best friend, Heather was killed in a car wreck 4 years ago.. So whenever I hear that song I get a bit misty....

Caribbean Soul · Post by **Caribbean Soul** » October 7, 2005 8:57 am

He Went To Paris does it for me.

It was a friend and fellow PH's favorite song ... and he died much too young.

PHAW Webmistress · Post by **PHAW Webmistress** » October 7, 2005 9:04 am

Survive

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » October 7, 2005 9:13 am

PHAW Webmistress wrote:Survive

Me too.

And Souvenirs.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » October 7, 2005 9:32 am

Whatever he does as the last encore. It means the show's over and I have to go home.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » October 7, 2005 9:34 am

LIPH wrote:Whatever he does as the last encore. It means the show's over and I have to go home.

I thought you'd say any show that Heather isn't on stage....

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » October 7, 2005 9:35 am

The Captain and the Kid

Listening to Elvis Imitators can make you pretty sad.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » October 7, 2005 9:36 am

CaptainP wrote:
LIPH wrote:Whatever he does as the last encore. It means the show's over and I have to go home.
I thought you'd say any show that Heather isn't on stage....

Well, there's that too.

SharkFeathers · Post by **SharkFeathers** » October 7, 2005 9:42 am

False Echoes gets me every time.

Goodman · Post by **Goodman** » October 7, 2005 9:51 am

Pacin the Cage- kudos to Bruce Cockburn

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » October 7, 2005 10:10 am

Not sad, necessarily, but introspective, and a little melancholy...

Changing Channels
When the Coast is Clear
She's Going Out of My Mind
Stars Fell on Alabama
Pacing the Cage
He Went to Paris
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Defying Gravity
Someday I Will
Survive
Coast of Carolina
Trip Around the Sun
Distantly in Love
False Echoes
Captain and the Kid
Lovely Cruise
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar

Anybody got a tissue?

Jahfin · Post by **Jahfin** » October 7, 2005 10:23 am

"Survive" only makes me sad because it sucks so bad. Hell, even Buffett referred to it as his "Billy Joel song" in the liner notes to Volcano. By the way, that's not meant as a slight to either fans of "Survive" or Billy Joel, it's just my personal opinon of the song.

Otherwise, his songs don't really make me melancholy but like others have said, perhaps a little introspective. Particularly: "Captain and the Kid" (will always remind me of my Dad, we had the song played at his funeral services) "That's What Living Is To Me" and "He Went to Paris" just for starters..

nycparrothead · Post by **nycparrothead** » October 7, 2005 10:25 am

Jahfin wrote:"Survive" only makes me sad because it sucks so bad.

I disagree, but that comment still just made me LOL..

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » October 7, 2005 10:32 am

nycparrothead wrote:
Jahfin wrote:"Survive" only makes me sad because it sucks so bad.
I disagree, but that comment still just made me LOL..

Haha. Me too! I like Billy Joel, so maybe that's why I don't think Survive sucks!

I think for xmas I'm gonna send Jah BJs (pun intended) greatest hits.