Reef Madness

Hanna's Reef | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 2002)
• Original Release Date: November 22, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sail Away Records
• ASIN: B00007J5U9
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #232,878 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gulf Coast Day

2. Pencil Thin Mustache

3. Let the Good Times Roll

4. Come Down to Paradise

5. Beach People, Beach Music

6. Sunday Morning in New Orleans

7. Brown Eyed Girl

8. I Dreamed of Jeannie

9. Grapefruit Juicy Fruit

10. Ten To Twenty

11. We'll Get By

12. Living Well

13. One Particular Harbor

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Beach Music" returns!, December 16, 2002

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Billy Peoples (Satsuma, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reef Madness (Audio CD)

The "Texas Beach Music" we have learned to love has returned in it's full glory with 13 delightful songs! So good to hear the special sounds of the beach on a live CD. Mike nails it when he says in the opening song "The name (band) has changed but the song remains the same".

Close your eyes, imagine you are in Margaritaville and take a journey to the Gulf Coast, "Beach People, Beach Music" will surely take you for a nostalgic journey. The CD has something for everyone, some Buffett cover songs like Pencil Thin Mustache, some beach favorites and some songs that I had not heard before. There is even a song with a strong Cajun flavor and sailing music for those so inclined. Sunday Morning in New Orleans is a smooth ballad that alone is worth the price of the CD.

A great band making beautiful "Beach" music for all us Buffett/Parrothead/Island people.

Billy Peoples AKA The Old parrothead

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great CD!, May 24, 2004

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R. Dunham (Mobile, Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reef Madness (Audio CD)

This CD, "Reef Madness", is one of the liveliest, fun albums I've heard in a while. It reminds me a lot of Jimmy Buffett's, "You Had to be There" CD from 1979. The band Hanna's Reef performs several of their own original songs here, as well as a few Buffett cover tunes. Their original music, is catchy, and every bit as good as the cover songs that are on the album.

As for the review directly before this one, I don't think that guy has even heard this CD. He couldn't have. First of all, he mentions that the band Hanna's Reef sounds like a garage band trying to play Buffett. Well, there's not a whole lot of Buffett here, and what they do cover is excellent. I've heard that another band out there called "Key West-the Band" used to be comprised of several of the members of Hanna's Reef. Rumor has it that KWTB is so childish that they write reviews of Hanna's Reef CD's, (anonymously)and put down their album. I don't know if that's true or not, but I don't see how anyone would rate this album a 1, on a scale of 1-5. For the record, I do have a copy of the one CD from Key West-the Band that is available here on amazon, called "Americana". It's really hard to review, since almost all of the songs on it are cover tunes. Why put out an album to sell to the public, if it's mainly just remakes of songs by other artists?

Regardless, this is my review of the Hanna's Reef album, so I'll not digress again. This CD has some great tropical stuff on it, including my favorite track, "Beach People, Beach Music". An equally fun song is "Let the Good Times Roll", with a great Cajun beat to it. And the cover of Buffett's "One Particular Harbor" is the best I've heard by anyone other than the Coral Reefer Band. I saw these guys live at the Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores in 2002. They were as good live (and in person) as they are on this album!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun album!, February 4, 2004

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John Simon (Virginia Beach, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reef Madness (Audio CD)

This album is like having a party in your CD player! It is a live CD, recorded at some "beach bar" in Texas. I had never heard of this band, Hanna's Reef, until a recent trip to New Orleans, for a party there. These guys were awesome. They have great original material, and their covers of Jimmy Buffett songs are the best I've ever heard.

If you are in the mood for a fun album, this fits the ticket. About the only "serious" song on here is "Sunday Morning in New Orleans". It is excellent. And so is the rest of the album.