Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know by Heart : Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.74 You Save: $5.25 (48%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.25 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Songs You Know by Heart : Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hit(s)
Free Music Review: Wonderful Compilation For All Us Parrott Heads!
Hit: 5 Stars
No one has better captured the feckless, footloose, and the "let the good-times roll' spirit of many babyboomers than pop legend Jimmy Buffett, whose own publicly relaxed and easy-going songwriting style and persona in actuality belies a serious artist of multiple talents, a keenly articulate narrator of the story song genre that one must rub beneath the surface of to properly appreciate. Like everyone else, I fell in love with the collection of loveable losers he sings about in songs such as "Margaritaville", "Son Of A Son Of A Sailor', and "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes", but if one listens carefully, one hears an accomplished lyricist whose songwriting skills border on poetry, and a guy so facile with haunting memories that it is almost rattling to consider. This is also a singer sensitive enough to do wonderful covers, and I was disappointed to see his wonderful version of Jesse Winchester's "Biloxi" was not included here. The only other credible version of this I've heard is by Tom Rush, and in my opinion that is pretty good company to be keeping. My own favorites here are "Come Monday", a lovely love song that saw a lot of air play, "A Pirate Looks At Forty", and, of course, "Why Don't We Get Drunk'. This is a great compilation album of an artist who still packs them in, and who admits himself as to being amazed at the popular acclaim and the loyal, even fanatical following he has developed over the years. Yet anyone listening to the songs included here will instantly understand why he is so well loved and so consistently appreciated. This is a great album; enjoy!
Free Music Review: Great Collection of Jimmy Buffet's Songs!
Hit: 5 Stars
Ah, the madcap meister of mishap, the crooner of craziness, the sultan of sauciness! The incomparable singer songwriter emeritus of the millennium has to be Jimmy Buffett, who seemingly effortlessly composes and performs so many wonderfully silly and yet poignantly meaningful ballads about love and laziness. The man is simply a genius. He is also fabulously rich, having gleaned many pesos from us too-well washed and too well-groomed gringos, peering over the fence at his easily accomplished and well-worn grubbiness. And it is all here for the listener to appreciate!No one cuts so fresh a slice of life as does Jimmy, whether talking about waking up hung over and looking for another batch of tequila in "Margaritaville", musing as he always does about life's simple pleasures in "Cheeseburger In Paradise", or waxing sentimental in an early number called "Come Monday". His range is impressive and an indication of his true merit, which is to entertain us both effortlessly and with the ring if true emotion sliding beneath his seemingly crazy verses. SO he gives us "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes", or "Son Of A Son Of A Sailor", and "A Pirate Looks At Forty".
From "Why Don't We get Drunk" to "Pencil Thin Mustache", Buffett actively celebrates and yet denigrates all that is worthwhile or otherwise in life, and he does so with such enthusiasm and sarcasm that he is almost irresistible. So, this is a great treat and a great slice of life as lived on the lam, delivered with panache and style by one of the all-time great story-tellers. Enjoy!
Free Music Review: This is the one that hooks you
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been listening to Jimmy for quite a few years. A friend recommended I get this album, and after that, I had to have everything else. If you've read my reviews, you know I've been rough on Jimmy's incessant string of repetitive live albums. This is the good stuff- All the songs are pulled from Jimmy's (non-Barnaby) albums up to but not including Coconut Telegraph. It skips the album Havana Daydreamin' entirely. I agree with other reviewers that the song selection leaves out a plethora of great Buffett tunes, but you'll find them eventually. This is a sampling of the artist in his prime, and if you like it, it's safe to say you'll enjoy the larger body of his work. If you don't like it, none of his other work is going to do it for you. I always thought Jimmy would come through with a greatest hits vol.2, or at least a double cd encompassing his larger body of work. That's what "Meet Me in Margaritaville" was supposed to be, but that collection just isn't coherent and definitive as Songs You Know By Heart. After becoming a hard-core fan, I have to say that this collection is really going to be the pinnacle of his compilation albums. So, if you're interested in trying out the works of Jimmy Buffett, start here. I'll bet you won't be disappointed. This stuff is solid gold. Thank you for reading my review!(note to Jimmy- why not consider putting the title track to "havana daydreamin'" on this as a bonus track for future pressings of the cd? It's a heck of a song, and it's from the era. It would fit right in.)Free Music Review: Great Mood Setting Music
Hit: 5 Stars
Of course, the mood I'm talking about is the "no worries, I'm happy sitting here on the beach(or frontporch)" type of mood. Buffett is notoriously well-known for provoking thoughts of becoming a sailor, pirate, beach bum, etc. This collection of hits delivers that perfectly.
If you aren't familiar with Buffett, this is definitely a great starter album since you don't have to plunk down much change for it and it consists of the majority of his greatest hits. Those hits include "Cheeseburger In Paradise," "Volcano," "Come Monday" and the legendary "Margaritaville." It also includes the devilishly fun "Why Don't We Get Drunk" and my personal favorite, "Fins."
Buffett has the knack for making you imagine yourself sucking down daiquiris and pina coladas on a beach somewhere, much like Gary P. Nunn makes you long for living in Texas. He's a master at this and he has proven it time and again. His sound has been copied by Garth Brooks("Two Pina Coladas"), and out-and-out stolen by Kenny Chesney(most of his recent work sounds like it was ripped directly from this album). He's worked with some great current artists(most notably Alan Jackson) and he has a following, Parrottheads, comparable to that of the Grateful Dead's Deadheads.
So, if you aren't familiar with Buffett, get this album and experience what millions of others have already done. You won't be sorry.
Free Music Review: A BUFFET OF CLASSICS
Hit: 5 Stars
By his own admission, few have done so much with so little as this Son of a Son of a Sailor. Moving gradually from a one hit wonder in the 70's to ka-billionaire King of the Parrotheads in the 90's and beyond, Buffet's 1985 "Best of" to this day represents 75% percent of the material he performs to beach bum wannabes 'round the planet. There's nary a party animal among us who has not bellied up to a sand bar and bellowed and boogied to FINS, that ornery ode to land sharks everywhere, the glutton's national anthem CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE, or WHY DON'T WE GET DRUNK AND SCREW, which needs no introduction to the moral majority. For variety, there are several reflective sea-faring ballads, A PIRATE LOOKS AT 40 being the most memorable, and PENCIL THIN MUSTACHE, a dose of nostalgia on par with anything the Statler Brothers ever recorded. A glaring omission however, is the harp-drenched dance inducer LIVINGSTON SATURDAY NIGHT, but I'm grabbing at boat drink straws here. And don't even MAKE me mention that dandy drinkin' ditty that started it all for Jimmy. You already know it by heart.
RATING: FIVE SHAKERS OF SALT