Jimmy Buffett-Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (1977)


 

Artist: Jimmy Buffett

Title: Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

Label: ABC Records/GRT 

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: 80220 AB 990 H

Year of Release: 1977

Country and Year of Edition: US  1977

Sell Price: $9.54

Sell Date: 9/3/26

Condition: VG/VG untested with GRT slipcover

Discogs Last Sold: 2/28/26 VG+/VG+ $10.76

Low: $2.00

Median: $7.98

Average: $8.35

High:$18.00

Current low price: $8.95 VG/rebuilt

Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 3

Have/Want: 34/20

Where Sold: Moraine, OH

Time It Took To Sell: 2  years

Where and When Bought:  Ebay lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No

I never was or wanted to be a Parrothead.  Jimmy Buffett has legions of followers, but my initial exposure was probably "Livingstone Saturday Night" on the FM Soundtrack in 1978.  That one was a little more rock than his mean, so I took this album out of the library at some point in the 70's.  The title track, the minor top 40 hit "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes" was the song I always kinda liked, but I never really cared about the inescapable megahit "Margaritaville" either in it's day or beyond.  Yet, I know it cold.

The other 8 tracks on this 8-track weren't burned in my memory banks the way those were for better or worse.  I've had this on random shuffle for a month, to the point where some of these tracks now have the air of familiarity.  "Miss You So Badly" seems a track that pairs well with "Margaritaville" also using the vocal melody of the famed "how we got here/I haven't a clue" line.  For some reason that one got the 8-track fade out/in treatment.   "Banana Republics" has a little outlaw subject and "Tampico Trauma" has a country outlaw rock sound, but the album is mostly forgettable upper class yachting excursionist anthems outside of the hits.

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