Jimmy Buffett - Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection
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Artist: Jimmy BuffettBrand: Buffett,Jimmy
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-04-15
Music Label: Utv records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Margaritaville
- Migration
- Growing Older But Not Up
- Holiday (Live/New Recording)
- Come Monday
- Fruitcakes
- We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About
- Cheeseburger In Paradise
- Jolly Mon Sing
- The Pascagoula Run (Live/New Recording)
- Tin Cup Chalice
- Pencil Thin Moustache
- Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit
- Coconut Telegraph
- Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
- Last Mango In Paris
- Fins
- Why Don't We Get Drunk
- Brown Eyed Girl
- One Particular Harbour
- School Boy Heart
- Everybody's Talkin' (New!)
- Volcano
- Son Of A Son Of A Sailor (New Recording)
- Take Another Road
- Knees Of My Heart (New Recording)
- In The Shelter (New Recording)
- Havana Daydreamin'
- Desperation Samba (Haloween In Tijuana)(Live/New Recording)
- Barefoot Children
- Saxophones (New Recording)
- Cowboy In The Jungle
- He Went To Paris (New Recording)
- Creola
- Bob Robert's Society Band
- A Pirate Looks At Forty (Live/New Recording)
- Sail On Sailor (New)
- The Captain And The Kid (New Recording)
Music reviews of Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection
Music Review: Only 12 of 38 are new recordings, only 2 brand-new
Rating: 4 Stars
If you, gentle reader, are a Parrothead who collects Buffett albums religiously, you'll be interested in this one mainly for disc 2, wherein 10 of the 18 tracks are new recordings (only two of them are live). Both the new recordings on disc 1 ("Holiday" and "The Pascagoula Run") are live.
(On the other hand, actions speak louder than words, and *I* bought this album.)
In general, where a song has appeared as the title track of an older album, that song's recording is taken from that album. (Exception: "Son of a Son of a Sailor")
Which songs correspond to recordings from other albums, and which are new? I'll list them by album; for details on those recordings, see reviews of the earlier albums.
Recycled songs (26 of 38):
- from A-1-A: "Migration" and "Tin Cup Chalice"
- from BANANA WIND: "Bob Robert's Society Band" and "School Boy Heart"
- from BAROMETER SOUP: "Barefoot Children"
- from CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES: "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" and "Margaritaville"
- from COCONUT TELEGRAPH: "Coconut Telegraph" and "Growing Older But Not Up"
- from FLORIDAYS: "Creola" FLORIDAYS
- from FRUITCAKES: "Fruitcakes"
- from HAVANA DAYDREAMIN': "Havana Daydreamin'"
- from LAST MANGO IN PARIS: "Jolly Mon Sing" and "Last Mango in Paris"
- from LIVING AND DYING IN 3/4 TIME: "Come Monday" and "Pencil Thin Moustache"
- from OFF TO SEE THE LIZARD: "Take Another Road"
- from ONE PARTICULAR HARBOUR: "Brown Eyed Girl", "One Particular Harbour", and "We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About"
- from SON OF A SON OF A SAILOR: "Cheeseburger in Paradise" and "Cowboy in the Jungle" (but "Son of a Son of a Sailor" itself has been re-recorded)
- from VOLCANO: "Fins" and "Volcano"
- from A WHITE SPORT COAT AND A PINK CRUSTACEAN: "Grapefruit/Juicy Fruit" and "Why Don't We Get Drunk"
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Personally, I prefer the live album FEEDING FRENZY's versions (with Jimmy's additional patter) of "Cheeseburger in Paradise", "Fins", "Jolly Mon Sing", "Last Mango in Paris", and "Volcano" to those on MEET ME IN MARGARITAVILLE. But now we come to the 12 new recordings.
"The Captain and the Kid" sung as a tribute for Jimmy's father, with just piano and bass.
"Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)" (new recording/live)
"Everybody's Talkin'" is one of the two "new" songs on this album (the other being "Sail On Sailor"), but in both cases they're pre-existing songs by other artists. Jimmy's rearranged it here. As for "Sail On Sailor", Jimmy says, "So here we are trying to do another Beach Boys song."
"He Went to Paris" is essentially a trio song here, with Jimmy, Mac McAnally on acoustic guitar, and Jim Mayer on acoustic bass.
"Holiday" (live)
"In the Shelter" with a new reggae arrangement, which sounds too different from the older arrangements for me. (As yet, anyhow.)
"Knees of My Heart" (new recording) is pleasant, but relatively bland.
"The Pascagoula Run" (new recording)
"A Pirate Looks at Forty" (Mother, Mother Ocean) (live) - Jimmy can do no wrong with this, but I still prefer the FEEDING FRENZY version with its little story of how he came to write it.
"Saxophones" Jimmy says in the booklet accompanying the CD that now the song has been taken to New Orleans and rearranged so that the horn solo is "as God intended it" - that is, he finally got to recut it, plugging in a baritone solo after the "big baritones" line instead of the bass solo his former producer put there.
"Son of a Son of a Sailor" is worth getting this album for. I'm not completely sold on Nadirah Shakoor's accompanying vocals yet (although she's quite good), but I'm learning to appreciate her.
Description of Meet Me In Margaritaville: The Ultimate Collection
No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: BUFFETT,JIMMY
Title: MEET ME IN MARGARITAVILLE-ULTIMATE COLLECTION
Street Release Date: 04/15/2003
Genre: ROCK/POP
Jimmy Buffett may have made his millions, but that doesn't mean that he has eased up on his workload. After releasing 33 albums, mounting grueling annual tours, and fashioning an entire industry and lifestyle out of his signature song "Margaritaville," Buffett trots out this two-CD collection. Yet, Meet Me in Magaritaville, which spans 30 years, isn't merely a retread of his long, storied career. Buffett has written two new songs for the package and re-recorded six alternative versions of fan favorites (including a moving version of "The Captain and the Kid," which he included for his ailing father, who died shortly after the album's release). He's also added two new cover songs--a spicy bossa nova version of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talking" and the Beach Boys' "Sail on Sailor"--as well four live tracks, which shows the singer at his best, conjuring up his own Yuppie Atlantis, an idyllic place where no one has to wear shoes, the sun is always shining, the bar never closes, and Junior Mints are always available at every cinema. A must-have collection for every Parrothead (or aspiring Parrothead), if only for Buffett's track-by-track descriptions. --Jaan Uhelszki
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