11/13/2023 0 Comments Youtube disney sing along songsSongs You Know by Heart ends with “Volcano,” whose ecstatic and exuberantly bellowed chorus you also know by heart when it ended, the algorithm served me up Van Morrison’s “Moondance,” and I snorted, just a little, at the sacrilege, at the thought of carefree Jimmy and grumpy old Van as peers, contemporaries, pantheon bros, drinking buddies. You know “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” his gentle and mournful ballad turned autobiography title in which he lamented being born at the wrong time and wasting all the time he did get:īut that one’s just a song in reality, Jimmy Buffett spent a solid half century on vacation and didn’t waste a minute of it. You know that latitudes and attitudes didn’t rhyme until Jimmy Buffett made them rhyme. You know “Fins” you know to clasp your hands over your head and groove from side to side-“Fins to the left / Fins to the right”-during the ecstatic chorus even if you’ve never actually done that. Well good god almighty, which way do I steer?Ī fantastic and exuberantly bellowed bridge that doubles as a dinner (or breakfast) order: That’s Jimmy Buffett. You still know “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” and you know how he likes his: But let me politely suggest that you, also, know all of Songs You Know by Heart by heart, even if you’ve never listened to this record (or any other Jimmy Buffett record) by choice, even if you never caught him live, even if you’re no Parrothead, even if tequila’s not your thing. But I put this record on this morning, and really every song was a colossal hit, especially “Why Don’t We Get Drunk,” which I used to bellow with my goofy and ribald teenage friends (the chorus begins, “Why don’t we get drunk and screw,” you see) as we drove around the landlocked Midwest in the mid-’90s. So you hear that Jimmy Buffett died, and maybe you reach instinctively for 1985’s Songs You Know by Heart, his first greatest-hits collection, though the original album cover styles it “Greatest Hit(s),” the parenthetical a typically wry and self-effacing nod to the fact that at the time, at least, his biggest/greatest hit by an order of magnitude was “Margaritaville,” his wistful and absurdly anthemic 1977 sing-along that forever defined his art/religion/brand.
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