Jimmy Buffett - Boats,Beaches,Bars,Ballads (1992)

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Most listeners will be satisfied with the excellent Jimmy Buffett summary Songs You Know By Heart, but anyone that wants to dig deeper should bypass the albums (there are several that are first-rate, yet many are spotty) and pick up the four-disc, 72-track box set, Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads. Assembled thematically, with each disc devoted to one of the words in the title, this rounds up not just every Buffett hit, but pretty much every one of his noteworthy album tracks, plus a couple of rarities and unreleased cuts. For some, this much Buffett may cause sunstroke, yet this proves that he had some fine moments that weren't singles, and even those that aren't Parrotheads will be impressed by the consistency of his music – if you like Jimmy, he usually delivers what you like.–by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

1. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor 3:23
2. Havaña Daydreamin' 3:40
3. Mañana 4:15
4. Treat Her Like A Lady 4:16
5. Steamer 4:10
6. Jolly Mon Sing 3:17
7. Nautical Wheelers 3:36
8. Take It Back 4:00
9. On A Slow Boat To China 3:59
10. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes 3:17
11. Love And Luck 4:39
12. The Captain And The Kid 3:15
13. Tryin' To Reason With Hurricane Season 4:22
14. Boat Drinks 2:38
15. One Particular Harbour 5:38
16. A Pirate Looks At Forty 3:53
17. Lovely Cruise 3:57

1. Margaritaville 4:11
2. Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit 2:57
3. Ragtop Day 3:07
4. Frank And Lola 3:17
5. Tin Cup Chalice 3:38
6. Knees Of My Heart 2:40
7. Money Back Guarentee 4:25
8. When The Coast Is Clear 2:58
9. Biloxi 5:39
10. Distantly In Love 2:50
11. Coconut Telegraph 2:59
12. Stars On The Water 3:16
13. Who's The Blonde Stranger? 3:46
14. I Have Found Me A Home 3:53
15. Christmas In The Caribbean 3:11
16. Volcano 3:38
17. Brown Eyed Girl 3:51
18. Cheeseburger In Paradise 2:53

1. Fins 3:26
2. The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful 4:07
3. Tampico Trauma 4:36
4. Livingston Saturday Night 3:10
5. Cuban Crime Of Passion 3:39
6. First Look 3:53
7. The Wino And I Know 3:03
8. The Great Filling Station Holdup 3:03
9. Why Don't We Get Drunk 2:44
10. Elvis Imitators 2:19
11. Pencil Thin Mustache 2:51
12. Kick It In Second Wind 3:57
13. Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana) 3:31
14. When Salome Plays The Drum 3:28
15. They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More 2:54
16. The Pascagoula Run 3:21
17. Sending The Old Man Home 3:24
18. Domino College 3:58

1. Come Monday 3:09
2. Defying Gravity 2:42
3. Survive 4:49
4. Incommunicado 3:42
5. I Heard I Was In Town 3:37
6. Ballad Of Spider John 4:28
7. Little Miss Magic 4:02
8. California Promises 3:38
9. If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me 3:27
10. African Friend 4:02
11. Everlasting Moon 3:54
12. Pre-You 5:17
13. Middle Of The Night 3:15
14. Coast Of Marseilles 5:02
15. Island 3:55
16. He Went To Paris 3:30
17. Stars Fell On Alabama 4:15
18. Changing Channels 3:31
19. Twelve Volt Man 3:59

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BIO: Jimmy Buffett translated his easygoing Gulf Coast persona into more than just a successful recording career – he expanded into clothing, nightclubs, and literature – but the basis of the business empire that kept him on the Fortune magazine list of highest-earning entertainers was his music. Born in southern Mississippi and raised in Alabama, Buffett moved to Nashville to try to make it in country music in the late '60s. After signing to the Barnaby label, he released one album, 1970's Down to Earth, from which the socially conscious single "The Christian?" suggested he might be more at home protesting in Greenwich Village. (Barnaby "lost" his second album, High Cumberland Jubilee, though they would find it and release it after he became successful.) Instead, the songwriter moved to Key West, FL, where he gradually evolved into the beach-bum character and developed the tropical folk-rock style that would endear him to millions.Signing to ABC-Dunhill Record (later absorbed by MCA), Buffett achieved notoriety but not much else with his second (released) album, White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973), which featured a song called "Why Don't We Get Drunk" ("…and screw?" goes the chorus). Buffett revealed a more thoughtful side on Living and Dying in 3/4 Time (1974), with its song of marital separation "Come Monday," his first singles-chart entry. But it took the Top Ten song "Margaritaville" and the album in which it was featured, 1977's Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, to capture Buffett's tropical world view and, for a while, turn him into a pop star.By the start of the '80s, Buffett's yearly albums had stopped going gold, and he briefly tried the country market again. But by the middle of the decade, it was his yearly summer tours that were filling his bank account, as a steadily growing core of Sun Belt fans he dubbed "Parrotheads" made his concerts into Mardi Gras-like affairs. Buffett launched his Margaritaville line of clothes and opened the first of his Margaritaville clubs in Key West. He also turned to fiction writing, landing on the book bestseller lists.His recording career, meanwhile, languished, though a hits compilation sold millions; a 1990 live album, Feeding Frenzy, went gold; and a 1992 box-set retrospective, Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads, became one of the best-selling box sets ever. Buffett finally got around to making a new album in 1994, when Fruitcakes became one of his fastest-selling records. It was followed in 1995 by Barometer Soup and Banana Wind in 1996. The following year, Buffett began working on a musical adaptation of Herman Wouk's novel Don't Stop the Carnival with the author himself. After Broadway producers expressed little interest, the production ran for six weeks in Miami during 1997. In spring of 1998, Buffett released a collection of songs from the production as he began mulling over the idea of taking the play on the road. In 1999 he released Beach House on the Moon as well as Live: Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.During the first few years of the millennium, Buffett's newly launched Mailboat label issued close to a dozen concert recordings, as well as the 2002 studio album Far Side of the World. Two years later, Buffett allowed RCA to distribute his second Mailboat studio album, License to Chill. Live albums recorded in Hawaii and Boston appeared in 2005, followed by an all-new collection of songs called Take the Weather with You in 2006 and two more live sets, Live in Anguilla in 2007 and Feeding Frenzy: Live in 2008. In 2009, Buffett released Buffet Hotel, his first new studio album in years.–by William Ruhlmann