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...course of four days, the cruising is done mostly by the passengers, whose pursuit of romance and adventure is as unrelenting as the wump-wump-klump of the slot machines. Even the popular drinks bear names that would turn an old salt's stomach: Virgin's Kiss, Coconut Cooler, Jamaican Dreams...
Buffet's music traditionally conveys the atmosphere of the South Florida lifestyle via Buffett's own interpretation of current themes. The cultural traces include Heineken empties and fishing lines, spongecake crumbs and lime rinds. But in his latest album, "Coconut Telegraph," although familiar themes reiterate themselves, an underlying message glows in the brain like a neon Krystal sign: Even Jimmy Buffett is getting older...
...schmaltzy "Stars Fell on Alabama" with more sincerity than sarcasm, when one might expect the reverse from the iconoclast in him. On the Mac McAnally tune "It's My Job," he could almost pass for a neo-conservative. This track alone ought to sell thousands of copies of "Coconut Telegraph" for him down at the B-School...
...BEFORE the old fans bid their disappointed adieus to Mr. Buffett, they must tune in carefully to the one track on "Coconut Telegraph" which does not appear to have been written during a Geritol overdose. In a masterful study of life's doldrums and how to fight them, Buffett opens the second side with "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful." The song begins with chatter and shrieks from the Coral Reefer Band and sundry other studio personnel, culminating in Buffett himself hollering "Don't ever start a band!" This song will make the album worthwhile for all diehard...
...time, not by the vulgar handful. How else to appreciate the richness of the coffee mocha, the tang of the pińa colada, the bouquet of the strawberry daiquiri? Aficionados are encouraged to eat a few select Bellys two at a time, however. Popping a coconut and a lemon simultaneously produces a taste resembling lemon meringue...