Jimmy Buffett - Far Side of the World
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Artist: Jimmy BuffettEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Music Label: Mailboat Records
Soundtracks:
- Blue Guitar
- Mademoiselle Voulez-Vous Danser
- Autour De Rocher
- Savannah Fare You Well
- All The Ways I Want you
- Last Man Standing
- What If The Hokey-Pokey Is All It Really Is About?
- Altered Boy
- USS Zydecoldsmobile
- Someday I Will
- Far Side Of The World
- Tonight I Just Need My Guitar
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Free Music Review: Far side of my CD collection
Hit: 2 Stars
You know how you flip through your CD collection and run across an album you've nearly forgotten about, slip it in and you remember *this is a GREAT album*?
This isn't one of those albums.
It's far and away better than the Beach House On The Moon, but still quite away from the Buffett of earlier albums.
Maybe that's what I miss, those albums where it could just as easily be JB with his guitar and a few other instruments--and that's all you need. Now, there's just so much going on in the song, you lose the words. Which, as gifted as a singer-songwriter as Jimmy is, is just lacking.
Luckily, you can see the flicker of the muse returning on this album, but it's not the classic Buffett of 10 years ago, or earlier.
Far Side of the World Poster
Jimmy Buffett's 33rd record--his first for his own Mailboat Records--finds the world's most famous beach bum in an uncharacteristically reflective mood. While he hasn't completely lost interest in beer, burgers, and string bikinis, Buffett no longer seems intent on transporting fans to some tropical Shangri-la. Buffett does take listeners on a trip to the "Far Side of the World," but insists that you bring your baggage with you--and learn to love it. Buffett skillfully weaves themes of self-acceptance, self-abnegation, and fears for the future into unerringly witty and graphic observations, but his words lack much of their usual frivolity and froth. Buffett seems intent on revisiting the emotional landscape he first explored in Living and Dying in 3/4 Time, which produced the rather mournful song of love and separation "Come Monday." His rendition of Bruce Cockburn's "All the Ways That I Want You" recaptures that sense of love and yearning, but without the stark lack of hope. Hope is one thing Buffett possesses in abundance. In "Last Man Standing" he allows thoughts of retirement, but vows, "I wanna be the last man standing." In the elegant "Someday I Will," he admits: "I don't have a plan / It's not that kind of thing / I'm not Martin Luther King / I don't have a dream / It's just sometimes I know that's the way I'm supposed to go." Buffett is a man at a crossroads, where he's created his most evocative and daring music in years. --Jaan UhelszkiClassic Rock Music CDs
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