Beach House On The Moon [Enhanced CD] [Enhanced]

Jimmy Buffett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 18, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Island
• ASIN: B00000J2QZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (207 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,315 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Beach House On The Moon

2. Permanent Reminder Of A Temporary Feeling

3. Waiting For The Next Explosion

4. Pacing The Cage

5. You Call It Jogging

6. Flesh And Bone

7. I Will Play For Gumbo

8. Math Suks

9. Spending Money

10. Semi-True Story

11. Lucky Stars

12. I Don't Know And I Don't Care

13. Oysters And Pearls

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Buffett - Listen carefully, December 6, 1999

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D. Rhodes "abbyowner" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beach House On The Moon [Enhanced CD] (Audio CD)

I broke up with my first serious boyfriend the summer that "Margaritaville" hit the charts, and I will always remember it vividly. Listened to this CD at work... popped it into my computer, and WOW. There was Jimmy on the screen. If you haven't yet check out the enhanced video that you can watch on your computer. The songs are more deliberate and lyrical than some of his other work. I especially liked the title cut and "Oysters & Pearls." Gave it to my little sister for her 40th birthday and she proclaimed it her "favorite present." From the other reviews, I would suggest previewing this CD but I think older parrotheads will love it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just a bit outside..., July 12, 1999

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This review is from: Beach House On The Moon [Enhanced CD] (Audio CD)

As a Parrothead, I was excited about Beach House On The Moon. If you're standing at the shelf scratching your head, trying to decide whether to pick this record up, pay close attention to the cover. It is a good clue.

First, you have Jimmy sitting there, and yes, he is on the record. But he seems to just "sit there", with little to no imagination. So goes the music within. Jimmy has been exploring more and more bizarre subject matter of late, likely a product of his recent success as an author. This isn't bad, but it isn't Buffett, either. The album has its encouraging moments, like when the disc hits the introspective "Pacing The Cage", and you think he will get back on track. But then Jimmy falls clumsily with the rather absurd and juvenile "Math Suks". I still love Jimmy Buffett, and maybe I've become "old school" and Jim has sailed to new waters and left me behind clutching my "Boats..." boxed-set. This is an Enhanced CD, and the video footage that Jim includes is fun. The album ends strongly with the short and sweet "Oysters and Pearls", but there is too much filler in between. The song "Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling" is great lyrically, but the melody is tired and strained. Jimmy Buffett has become a full-fledged businessman, and this album almost gives the impression that he is too busy to concentrate on his music. There is no disputing his talent, and there are a few good tracks on this offering. But overall, it is rather forgettable.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This one has its moments, January 12, 2001

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David A. Bede (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beach House On The Moon [Enhanced CD] (Audio CD)

It's been said that Jimmy Buffett provides an escape for every baby-boomer with a lousy job and credit card bills to face. On this album, he often sounds like just such an animal. Surprisingly void of beach-and-bar songs, this one clearly finds our hero in a landlubber frame of mind. Nonetheless, the Pirate Looking At 53 is still capable of soundbite lyrics like "I got a PBS mind in an MTV world" and, if some of this album's best songs were not written by Buffett (an unusual circumstance for him), his knack for putting his own stamp on others' songs is still in fine form. This is not an every-song-is-a-gem album, but in the age of skip buttons, there's plenty to recommend it.

The sad truth is, several of Buffett's own contributions find him in a holding pattern as a writer, particularly "Math Suks," reportedly a grafitti-inspired title and easily among his least impressive songs ever. (Then again, anyone who recalls the eighth grade could identify!) But Bruce Cockburn's "Pacing the Cage" more than makes up for such shortcomings. A rather flowery statement of uncertainty and isolation, it's a bit outside Buffett's usual deadpan style, but his knowing delivery and the subtle instrumental backing put the song right at home in his canon. In a similar slow-song vein, "Semi-True Story" and "Lucky Stars" find Buffett as close to his country roots as he's been at any time in the past two decades. They also provide a welcome dose of his patented low-key humor, although he didn't write either of them. (The former, featuring a reference to a legendary 1973 parking lot incident involving Buffett, will be a special treat to serious fans.)

Best of all, just when you might think Buffett is relying too heavily on other people's songs, he serves up two bona fide winners. "I Will Play for Gumbo" is the album's most energetic entry, with an accordion-driven Cajun style melody backing up Buffett's quirky declaration of love for the title food, capped by the best couplet he's given us in years: "It's a little like religion and a lot like sex/you should never know when you're gonna get it next." Then there's "I Don't Know and I Don't Care," an announcement of exasperation with 90s style Personal Issues; it strikes me as a gentler version of the Eagles' "Get Over It." As long as Buffett can give us a pair of top-notch songs like these, he'll get decent reviews from me.