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If you can only own one Jimmy Buffett album, make it "Feeding Frenzy."


Simply the best   February 24, 1999
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is quite simply the best Jimmy album ever, and quite possibly the best live album ever. Bought my first Jimmy CD five years ago as a punked up 17 year old. I actually hated my father for asking me to get Fruitcakes for him. Oh, the shame of buying old people music. Two months later, I had every Jimmy album I could find (12 of them) and was on the way to my first Jimmy concert. I've been to two a year since then, and loved each one more than the last. Jimmy Buffet is without a doubt the most talented musician alive. He might not play the strongest guitar. He might not have the strongest singing voice. But who else can make you laugh until you burst, cry like a little girl, and then laugh your rear end off, all within 5 minutes? Most importantly of all, Jimmy does the thing so many performers have forgotten how to do these days. He has fun, and everyone around him has fun too. From the Last Mango in Paris, One Particular Harbor, and Jamacia Farewell to A Pirate looks at Forty (my all-time favorite) Jimmy bowls a perfect three hundred on this album. Thank you Jimmy.


Parrot Head Must Have   October 13, 2002
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This was the first Buffett CD I bought, in fact I think this was the first CD I bought back in 1992. Now 10 years, 250+ CD's later, this CD is still in my 40 disk carry case in my truck. I still listen to it, although not as much since Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays came out. This CD has my favorite version of One Particular Harbor. That song must be heard live to really appreciate it.

Once you've heard most Buffett songs live, you'll never want to hear the original studio version again. I've seen him live 14 times in the last 10 years and CD's like this one keep my Buffett fix alive during the long winter months. Its always a long wait till his Labor Day weekend show in Boston.


Long on Spirit and Great Songs   August 3, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Jimmy Buffett really knows how to play to a crowd. Many of renditions of Jimmy's songs, Volcano, Fins, Margartiaville, Jolly Mon Sing, etc.. feature subtle little lyric changes and spicy arrangements. The intro conversations on You'll Never Work In This Bidness Again and Gypsies In The Palace are hillarious in this live setting. Furthermore, Jimmy's live banter describing many of his great classic tunes really gives the listener a very upfront experience as to what his concerts are like.

He is certainly very appreciative of his fans. So give this one a try. You will not be dissapointed.


Jimmy was well into the cash grab by this point   December 18, 2003
 3 out of 13 found this review helpful

This is a great cd if your idea of a Jimmy Buffett concert lies in what you're wearing and not what you're listening to. Jimmy was mailing them in by this point, playing bemused master of ceremonys to the idiotic display that greeted him night after night. This is what happened to the guy who barfed on you at the Aerosmith concert back in 1978 when he called himself a part of the "Blue Army". He came back to barf on you all over again in 1990, only now he calls himself a "Parrothead". Either way he still doesn't remember it.