Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even Buffett knew how bad it was--he credited the song to a fictional "Marvin Gardens" who is listed as a band member under "Maracas and beer cans...
...latest record, "Havana Daydreamin'," is just a shade hokey. The title song sounds mellow and all that until the chorus gets repeated once too many times--then it begins to call to mind Dean Martin, among others. Maybe it's that Jimmy Buffett is settling down--he's been in love for two years now with a woman named variously "Miss Jane," J. Slagsvol, and Jane--he co-wrote two songs on the album with her. He's beginning to complain about playing country music, as in "Kick It in Second Wind," when it's one o'clock...
There's a nostalgia song, called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"; a shoplifting song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
...first side of "3/4 Time" starts with a better nostalgia song than "Crustacean"'s "I'm an old man, I'd probably get sore/Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more." The song begins, "I wish I had a pencil thin mustach," and goes on to seance up a bevy of 20th century culture ghosts, like Ricky Ricardo two-tone jackets, autographed pictures of Andy Levine Dick Clark's Bandstand, "Going off to college to get a little knowledge,/when all I really want is to learn how to score." It ends with "Brylcream, a little...
...next song comes on with loneliness and violins, and it's not enough that later on in the album Buffett sings about adding saxophones to country music, "Yeah, cleaning up the muddy breaks," as a bass guitar licks up and down the scale. Or that at the very end of "3/4 Time" Buffett does a 6-minute monologue called "God's Own Drunk," wherein the hero is guarding a still, gets overcome by temptation, takes a few slashes, commences to get hot flashes, metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking...