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Beach House on the Moon | 
| Artist: Jimmy Buffett
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  203 reviews
Sales Rank: 793712
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio Cassette
Discs: 1
UPC: 731452466044
EAN: 0731452466044
ASIN: B00000J98V
Release Date: May 18, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Beach House on the Moon | | • | Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling | | • | Waiting for the Next Explosion | | • | Pacing the Cage | | • | You Call It Jogging | | • | Flesh and Bone | | • | I Will Play for Gumbo | | • | Math Suks | | • | Spending Money | | • | Semi-True Story | | • | Lucky Stars | | • | I Don't Know and I Don't Care | | • | Oysters and Pearls | | • | [CD-ROM Track] |
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Amazon.com
Jimmy Buffett's music has always had an easy-in-the-islands feel to it, and if his songs seem like postcards sent from exotic locations or notes hastily scribbled on a bar napkin, that's more or less what they are. On Buffett's 31st album, the singer/songwriter, bestselling author, pilot, and son of a son of a sailor offers alternately wry and sentimental observations on everything from our impending doom ("Waiting for the Next Explosion") and the appeal of Cajun food ("I Will Play for Gumbo") to the ultimate vacation getaway ("Beach House on the Moon") and life's sweet mysteries ("Oysters & Pearls"). Buffett also tries on a couple of intriguing covers, including Bruce Cockburn's pensive "Pacing the Cage," Mose Allison's sly "You Call It Jogging," and Fred Neil's laid-back "Lucky Stars." Thanks to the return of a few long-lost members of his Coral Reefer Band, Beach House on the Moon often recalls Buffett's early albums--cause enough for Parrotheads everywhere to fire up the blender, string up the hammock, and give this one a spin. --Daniel Durchholz
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| Customer Reviews: Read 198 more reviews...
 Vintage Buffett - Listen carefully December 6, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Jimmy's Slipping Here January 19, 2001
G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Its hard to find any missteps on Jimmy Buffet's musicial career. However, this CD sounds a little tired in spots and overly corny in others. In also contains, Math Suks, probably the most least thoughtful song of Jimmy Buffett's career. To incorporate playground nonsense in a song and crude unrealisitc comments in a beauty paegeant in a song just does not work for me. The title track that opens this recording kind of meanders for nearly seven minutes with the lack of a catchy melody. The second song Permanent Reminder of a Temporary Feeling where it has a catchy melody also procedes at a slow sluggish pace that makes it somewhat forgettable. You Call It Jogging and I Will Play For Gumbo are two of the stronger tracks at least rhythmically. However, creative wise they sound like slightly cheaper re-writes from the Banana Wind sessions. Lucky Stars and Oysters and Pearls are two strong tracks no doubt about it. And it is always nice to here the use of the steel drums on many of the tracks. However,the half baked effort really puts this effort at 2 1/2 stars.
Another step down in quality September 6, 2005
Jim Richmond
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Just as Jimmy's albums took a general downturn from the 70's to 80's, and from the 80's to the 90's, this album again shows another step down in quality; further distancing himself farther from the classic music he once wrote in the 70's.
I mean, I'm a big Parrothead, and I REALLY want to like this album, but he makes it so very difficult with the weak material included. In fact, with repeated listens, it's actually getting harder to enjoy it.
Jimmy just seems to be coasting most of the time on this disc (coasting in a bad way), going through the motions, on autopilot. He really needed/needs a reality check of his music, away from his current trend, and back to something of substance. I doubt that this album will hold up to the test of time as his 70's-80's albums have.
Sorry
A swing and a miss December 6, 2000
Beau Yarbrough (Hesperia, CA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I like many of Jimmy's most recent albums -- "Banana Wind" and especially "Barometer Soup" are some of my favorites -- but as with all of Jimmy's albums, there's hits and misses. "Beach House on the Moon," for me, is a miss, much as "Fruitcakes" was.It's entirely possible that he's speaking to another segment of his audience, although I honestly don't know what would distinguish them -- they like really clumsy novelty songs and songs that gaze so hard into Jimmy's navel they're unlistenable? I don't need his albums to all be bouncy bar rock -- one of my favorites, "Son of a Son of a Sailor" is almost entirely wistful -- but I do need to be able to connect with the music and lyrics better than I can with "Beach House on the Moon." I'd give this album a pass, Parrotheads, and pick up an earlier album you might have missed.
 Just a bit outside... July 13, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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