Post #318673 by Thomas on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 5:03 PM

A Jimmy Buffett thread! Such a guilty pleasure -- kind of like listening to Abba's "Dancing Queen" at high volume (come on, admit it...).

I was interested in Tiki and Exotica before I knew more than 3 Buffett songs. The "scene" as far as I'm concerned is other people with whom I don't concern myself a great deal. Mr. Buffett's body of work though: selectively, of course, I respect and admire it. Selectively -- much of the most well-known material, often cited by Buffett-haters, is:
annoying, or
vulgar, or
cliche'
...or some combination of all three. "Cheeseburger"?"Why don't we get drunk..."? I'm with you all the way: trite, lowbrow, dated, and what's more often with a grating, high-pitched voice.

If you only know a few of such Buffett songs and wonder why any intelligent person would bother with him, and you have a few idle moments to skim song lyrics, you might enjoy the content of some of these songs (below). Will you suddenly begin singing the praises of Jimmy Buffett? Very unlikely. But at least you'll have a sense of a "there" being there.

Practical suggestion: Google: < ________(song title) buffett lyrics >

An idiosyncratic selection of titles, in chronological order, all but maybe one or two written or co-written by Jimmy Buffett:
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They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More
The Wino and I Know
Stories We Could Tell
A Pirate Looks at Forty
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
Tin Cup Chalice
The Captain and the Kid
Cowboy in the Jungle
Sending the Old Man Home
I'm Growing Older But Not Up
Somewhere Over China
When Salome Plays the Drum
If I Could Just Get It On Paper
We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
Twelve Volt Man
La Vie Dansante
First Look
Nobody Speaks to the Captain No More
King Of Somewhere Hot
That's What Living is to Me
Carnival World
Take Another Road
Off to See the Lizard
Boomerang Love
Lone Palm
Six String Music
Quietly Making Noise
Barometer Soup
Barefoot Children in the Rain
Remittance Man
Don't Chu-Know
School Boy Heart
Oysters and Pearls
Altered Boy
Someday I Will
Far Side of the World
Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
Coast of Carolina
Window on the World
Coastal Confessions
Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On