Jimmy Buffett – Banana Wind – Double Vinyl Record

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Jimmy Buffett – Banana Wind – Double Vinyl Record

Banana Wind captures Jimmy Buffett in a mid-1990s period when his writing balanced Caribbean travel, comic observation, aging, and memory with an increasingly expansive studio sound. Released in 1996, the album reached the top five and became a major part of his later catalog. This double-vinyl edition is especially significant because the record was not originally issued on LP, allowing its full program room across four sides.

“Only Time Will Tell” opens with reflection rather than a party anthem. “Jamaica Mistaica” turns a real incident—Jamaican authorities firing on Buffett’s seaplane after mistaking it for a smuggling aircraft—into a lightly delivered story with a serious edge. “School Boy Heart” inventories the different impulses inside Buffett’s persona: sailor, dreamer, performer, and perpetual student of experience.

The title instrumental brings Caribbean air and guitar texture into the sequence. “Holiday” looks at escape and the expectations placed on it, while “Bob Robert’s Society Band” reaches back toward older popular entertainment. “Overkill” closes the first record with Buffett’s comic instinct intact, using excess itself as the subject.

“Desdemona’s Building a Rocket Ship” stretches into a surreal narrative linked to Buffett’s recurring fictional world. “Mental Floss” and “Cultural Infidel” approach modern confusion with wordplay and rhythmic ease. “Happily Ever After (Now and Then)” is more tender, acknowledging that contentment may arrive intermittently rather than as a permanent state.

The final side pairs “False Echoes (Havana 1921)” with Stephen Stills’s “Treetop Flier” in a long closing sequence. This MCA Records 2LP edition, identified by UPC 602465226034, presents the album’s complete vinyl debut program. The four-side layout preserves all 12 listed selections and the extended final track without reducing the original running time.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic

Record Details

Artist: Jimmy Buffett
Title: Banana Wind
Format: Double Vinyl Record
Label: MCA Records
Release year: 1996
UPC: 602465226034

Track Listing

A1. Only Time Will Tell
A2. Jamaica Mistaica
A3. School Boy Heart
B1. Banana Wind
B2. Holiday
B3. Bob Robert’s Society Band
B4. Overkill
C1. Desdemona’s Building a Rocket Ship
C2. Mental Floss
C3. Cultural Infidel
D1. Happily Ever After (Now and Then)
D2. False Echoes (Havana 1921) / Treetop Flier