When you think of Jimmy Buffet, you tend to think of some slacker lounging on the beach or on the deck of a cabin cruiser, drinking tropical drinks off the coast of some Caribbean island, just relaxing and day-dreaming while planning his next deep-sea fishing excursion. You think of good times and silly, meaningless albeit fun music and partying. You wouldn't imagine his songs would have the kind of effect that a song by, say, Marilyn Manson might have if played at the wrong place at the wrong time, around just the right-or wrong-psychotic person on a drink-and-drug binge.
Well, evidently, you would be wrong.
A soldier from Fort Bragg, hanging out at a bar in Steamboat Springs, Col., was reportedly killed as a result of a bar fight, instigated when the soldier and a couple of friends put a Buffett song on the jukebox.
The police captain was quoted in the Rocky Mountain News as saying, "(Lopez) and two other individuals put on the song, but two other individuals did not agree with it."
The article doesn't say which Buffet song it was, but in retrospect, I can imagine ways in which almost any of them could induce this type of reaction under the right circumstances-especially if played repeatedly.
If I had to make a bet, though, I would have to put my money on "Cheeseburgers In Paradise"
4 comments:
"Cheeseburgers in Paradise" is one of those songs you envision as being played over-and-over again for eternal torture. lol
I believe you about Buffet and Manson.
Ren-
That's Marilyn, not Charlie. If you've never heard Marilyn Manson, you owe it to yourself to look him up on YouTube and check him out.
Start with Antichrist Superstar and go from there.
Blue Skull-
That was probably just meant to be some throwaway filler on the album. How it ever got to be a hit is beyond me. What the hell were they thinking?
I never heard of Jimmy Buffet. But if he sings as badly as Warren Buffet, the jury should go easy on those bastards...
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