What's wrong with Jimmy Buffett? - Beyond Tiki

K Kanekila Member Safety Harbor, FL Joined: Aug 07, 2004 Posts: 185	K Kanekila Posted posted on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 6:35 AM How many times on the East Coast (fellow east coast Tiki Centralites know what I'm talking about) has something been proclaimed a tiki bar when it is nothing more than a thatched bar serving up $1.00 Budweiser longnecks, margaritas from a Slurpee machine, clientele looking for their next sexual conquest and blasting that southern twanged Jimmy Buffet from every available speaker. It needs to stop! If its called a tiki bar than damnit, make it a tiki bar!! No reggae, no Jimmy Buffet, no mariachi, no Cuban music, no dance music, no Guns and Roses nothing but the soothing artificial Polynesian lull of exotica and the caressing embrace of tikis. This makes sense to me. IMO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with JB. Or Bob Marley. Or Tito Puente. Or... whoever. There are times when exactly what I AM in the mood for is JB, or Marley, Puente, etc. Context IS everything, and if you want to keep your theme polynesian, then JB, BM, et al don't really fit that. I like to listen to baroque music in the morning. Not Berlioz. Not Mahler. Not Schoenberg! But what do these classical stations do? They play a friggin' Mahler symphony right after a sweet Telemann concerto! I enjoy a good Mahler symphony, but not at 8:00 in the morning. It's like eating a Thanksgiving dinner for breakfast. Music is like food to me. I won't serve a dinner of Thai soup, enchiladas and mashed potatoes and gravy (all foods I love to eat). They're all great - in context - but not so much served all together. IOW, not complementary. Same goes with music to me. If one is going to go thematic, then it makes sense to stay with the group, as it were, and keep it true to your theme. But, if eclectic is your thang, then do that! Just realize that whatever theme you're going for has now been watered down. With that said though, I also have a hard time when people start getting a little too Nazi about the whole thing. It's all meant to be fun, and goose-stepping just isn't much fun. That's what day jobs are for. Besides, it really starts to burn your hips after awhile! :) E komo mai... have a drink... relax... Just my .02... I could be totally wrong. YMMV...

How many times on the East Coast (fellow east coast Tiki Centralites know what I'm talking about) has something been proclaimed a tiki bar when it is nothing more than a thatched bar serving up $1.00 Budweiser longnecks, margaritas from a Slurpee machine, clientele looking for their next sexual conquest and blasting that southern twanged Jimmy Buffet from every available speaker. It needs to stop! If its called a tiki bar than damnit, make it a tiki bar!! No reggae, no Jimmy Buffet, no mariachi, no Cuban music, no dance music, no Guns and Roses nothing but the soothing artificial Polynesian lull of exotica and the caressing embrace of tikis.

This makes sense to me. IMO, there's absolutely nothing wrong with JB. Or Bob Marley. Or Tito Puente. Or... whoever. There are times when exactly what I AM in the mood for is JB, or Marley, Puente, etc. Context IS everything, and if you want to keep your theme polynesian, then JB, BM, et al don't really fit that.

I like to listen to baroque music in the morning. Not Berlioz. Not Mahler. Not Schoenberg! But what do these classical stations do? They play a friggin' Mahler symphony right after a sweet Telemann concerto! I enjoy a good Mahler symphony, but not at 8:00 in the morning. It's like eating a Thanksgiving dinner for breakfast.

Music is like food to me. I won't serve a dinner of Thai soup, enchiladas and mashed potatoes and gravy (all foods I love to eat). They're all great - in context - but not so much served all together. IOW, not complementary.

Same goes with music to me. If one is going to go thematic, then it makes sense to stay with the group, as it were, and keep it true to your theme. But, if eclectic is your thang, then do that! Just realize that whatever theme you're going for has now been watered down.

With that said though, I also have a hard time when people start getting a little too Nazi about the whole thing. It's all meant to be fun, and goose-stepping just isn't much fun. That's what day jobs are for. Besides, it really starts to burn your hips after awhile! :)

E komo mai... have a drink... relax...

Just my .02... I could be totally wrong. YMMV...

Post #164924 by Kanekila on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 6:35 AM