Warren Zevon Band

Warren William Zevon (/ˈziːvɒn/; January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

Zevon's work has often been praised by well known musicians, including Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. His best-known compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up the Band", all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978). Other well-known songs written by Zevon have been recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Accidentally Like a Martyr", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".

 

One of my favorites. Really underrated catalog and writer. It's cool how he would give away songs he wrote.

 

It worked out well for him. Linda Ronstadt brought his work attention he could never have gotten alone.

 

My soft spot for "The Hula Hula Boys" grows exponentially all the time.

 

That is a good reminder that I need to give those ‘80s records starting with The Envoy more play.

 

The Envoy is probably his weakest, but even his off records have some staple songs. He never really missed.

 

Yeah, there are definitely zero misses. Dude was such a prolific writer. It just gets easy to go through the same few albums since there is so much in his discography.

 

One of my favorites for no other reason than its simplicity.

Werewolves of London is and always will be a tremendous song.

 

been digging super deep into his stuff the last few weeks. impeccable.

 

One of the truly original writers in rock. Anything jump out big for you?

 

oh, i'm familiar with it and have listened in the past. just a reminder of how solid his run is. i guess my biggest takeaway is how underrated his last three were.

 

Yeah everybody (rightfully) got on board with The Wind, but Life'll Kill Ya is just as good. I also kinda love his penchant for Zevon-y covers of pop hits in that range ("Back in the High Life" and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door").

I find that every time I go on a Warren binge, I come away loving a new song that didn't click with me before. The most recent pass it was "Something Bad Happened to a Clown".

 

carmelita will always be my favorite but tenderness on the block stood out more to me this run through than it has in the past

 

Just found out about this guy recently and I think I listened to Excitable Boy like 200 times

Need to check out his other albums

 

Hell yeah, here for this thread to pick up again haha.

 

self titled before it is best

 

Checking that out before work today. The only reason I kinda stumbled into Excitable Boy is because I've heard one of my co-workers play Carmelita like a thousand times so I finally decided to check out who was singing it, and someone on the internet told me Excitable Boy was his best

 

carmelita is on the s/t, it’s my favorite of his

 

I think I wrote like 3k words on the s/t once. It contains multitudes.

 

Werewolves of London still slaps.

 

Maybe the best song Mick Fleetwood and John McVie ever played on, which is saying something.