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Jimmy Buffett's latest album is now at the top of the charts. I used to rather like Jimmy, even to the point of catching one of his concerts every year for about thirteen years (or so). I stopped doing this a while ago, though. The music is just about indistinguishably the same (not that the music is actually the point of going to a Buffett show).
No, the entire purpose of attending a Jimmy Buffett concert is consumption of alcohol. Massive amounts of it. When I say massive, imagine your liver writing you a Dear John letter and then suing you for divorce on the grounds of aggravated physical abuse. Once you take away the "beach party with a few thousand equally drunk people" aspect of the show, it just didn't appeal to me much anymore. I'm not a big drinker; for awhile, I had my share (and his share, and probably her share over there, too), but that's not really my thing anymore.
Now, to forestall the Parrothead legions who are getting ready to flame me about how great Buffett's music is, just stop. I'd hate for you to expose your ignorance like that. He can tell a decent enough of a story, but the music is completely formulaic and trite. Even his latest stuff (which is actually just his really old stuff) harkens back to his earliest albums of rather Country/Western music that just happens to be either about a beach or a story set in the context of a beach.
Kind of an irony here is that I own just about every Buffett album on CD (excepting the last two or three). I'll probably hang on to some of them (a few songs have sentimental value to me because of my memories as to what I was doing at the time rather than any actual musical value), but I think I'll probably sell the rest on Amazon. Now that, you can feel free to contact me about.
Thanks to Coolfer for the tip.
Posted by Casper at July 22, 2004 12:37 AMThe lyrics were always the best part. The music... yeah, you're right. If you've heard one you've heard them all.
Posted by: Lynn S at July 22, 2004 08:05 PM