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Rhino |
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Pop/Rock |
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ARHI 60503
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UPC: | 081227944254 |
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Vinyl Record |
140-gram vinyl reissue
Certified gold-selling release contains Zevon's biggest hits!
One of the most acute and savagely satiric songwriters of his era, Warren Zevon spent time working as the Everly Brothers' pianist and writing/working with/for artists Linda Ronstadt, the Turtles & Jackson Brown when not consumed by his own alcoholism.
Zevon was one of rock's great crazy men. When drinking — and in general pursuing oblivion the way Ahab did a certain white whale — Zevon was notorious for vomiting off interior balconies at staid record company meet-and-greets and much, much, worse, writes The Vinyl District.
Zevon was a bona fide lyrical and songwriting genius. His second and third LPs (1976's Warren Zevon and 1978's Excitable Boy) established him as the only lyricist of the era who could hold a candle to Randy Newman, and the sheer insanity of his songs — it's impossible to imagine anyone else writing about a walking headless mercenary seeking revenge on his killer, or a kid who builds a cage for himself from his girlfriend's bones — left the competition in the dust.
Side 1 | Werewolves Of London | Play It All Night Long | Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner | The Envoy | Mohammed's Radio | Desperados Under The Eaves | Side 2 |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Lawyers, Guns And Money | Ain't That Pretty At All | Poor Poor Pitiful Me | Accidentally Like A Martyr | Looking For The Next Best Thing |
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