Jimmy Buffet - classic or dud?

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Unfairly maligned? Rightfully ridiculed?

Isn't he one of the richest living musicians or something?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got some good songs & he created an unusual world.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

20 years ago classic, now dud.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

travelled across new mex in a Dodge Aries listening to that greatest hits album, so my opinion is biased. Thing is his parrotness is so self awarely cheesy, so unashamedly sentimental and so distinkt from any of the genres it could occupy, that his back catalougue is like a huge dragon, draped lazily over the badlands between classic and dud. So the answer to you question is, yes.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckin' DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to live in Florida and he deserves to burn for all eternity in the fiery pits of Hell for unleashing a plague of no-talent guitarists in horrific shirts singing 'Margaritaville' in every beach bar in the state. Doesn't get any dudder.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone outside of the US ever bought a Jimmy Buffett record?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:16 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Margaritaville is possibly the worst song in the history of recorded sound.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ This times 1000. And this:

Fuckin' DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD.

. . . times 1000000.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 25 July 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

everybody cut

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

He's a boring opportunist. His fans are despicable.

― The Deacon, Friday, 25 July 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

Jimmy Buffet song instigates murder

― The Way of the Diamond Spirit (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

he's no jim croce, that's for sure!

― EdVonBlue, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Last time I went to karaoke, someone invariably performed "Margaritaville," which apparently has callbacks. When he sang "searching for my lost shaker of salt," everyone in the bar shouted, "Where's the salt? Where's the motherfucking salt?" This was the first time I'd encountered anyone doing callbacks for this song, which did nothing to worsen it.

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

that is terrible.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 June 2010 06:05 (fifteen years ago)

A few decent songs. "A Pirate Looks at 40" comes to mind. Overall: dudley dud dud dud. He's the Grateful Dead of smarmy lounge singers.

― ImprovSpirit, Friday, 18 June 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/retirement-the-margaritaville-way

― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 March 2022 01:48 (four years ago)

Shit, I would live there.

― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Saturday, 26 March 2022 02:55 (four years ago)

The misspelled thread title makes me think of an artist-specific music joke

― Vinnie, Saturday, 26 March 2022 03:29 (four years ago)

Quite a kicker at the end there.

― JoeStork, Sunday, 27 March 2022 03:11 (four years ago)

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