“Peppered throughout the album are string quartet fragments – for example at the start of the first track and in the introduction to ‘Play it all Night Long’ (a classic Zevon number which paints a somewhat bleak picture of country living). Play It All Night Long (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School, 1980) When his songs work they are fun and cool, when they don’t the lyrics are clunky.”ġ7. Warren Zevon has always been a little too smart with his lyrics by half in my opinion. “”Johnny Strikes up the Band” is one of the most logical openings to an album ever.
Johnny Strikes Up the Band (Excitable Boy 1978) “I wonder if Warren was familiar with this Georges Brassens’ song “Le gorille” which “tells, in a humorous fashion, of a gorilla with a large penis (and admired for this by ladies) who escapes and, mistaking a robed judge for a woman, forcefully sodomizes him the song contrasts the wooden attitude that the judge had when sentencing a man to death by the guillotine, with his cries of mercy when being assaulted by the gorilla.””ġ8. Gorilla You’re a Desperado (Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School, 1980) It’s a beautiful number and one that does not sound out of place when compiling Warren Zevon’s best material, despite the deceptively simple keyboard wash of a musical arrangement”ġ9. “There is one song on The Mutineer that sounds like it had 95% of the recording budget spent on it, and that is the title track. Reminisce the timeless music of Warren Zevon. Here are all of Warren Zevon’s songs ranked.Ĭlick below and listen to one of the most influential artists of all time. Known for his dry wit and acerbic lyrics, he was a guest numerous times on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman. Along with his own work, he recorded or performed occasional covers, including Allen Toussaint’s “A Certain Girl”, Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan”, Steve Winwood’s “Back in the High Life Again”, and Prince’s “Raspberry Beret”. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including “Poor Poor Pitiful Me”, “Accidentally Like a Martyr”, “Mohammed’s Radio”, “Carmelita”, and “Hasten Down the Wind”.
Zevon’s most famous compositions include “Werewolves of London”, “Lawyers, Guns and Money”, and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”, all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978), whose title track is also well-known. Warren William Zevon (/ˈziːvɒn/ January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
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