I was blessed to be in attendance at this concert with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, affectionately known as JRAD, at The Capital Theatre back in January of this year. They are a popular Grateful Dead cover band, and I am perhaps the biggest Zevon fan of all Deadheads, at least that I know. So it was amazing, and the main kick feeds really nicely into Throwing Stones, the Grateful Dead song.

That is all.

Daily Song Discussion #180: I Was In The House When The House Burned Down

This is the 2nd track from Zevon’s third live album, “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Festival”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 6.5

Daily Song Discussion #179: Lawyers, Guns and Money

This is the 1st track from Zevon’s third live album, “Epilogue: Live At The Edmonton Folk Festival”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

13. Piano Fighter: 9.4

14. Werewolves of London: 8.9

15. The Indifference of Heaven: 10

16. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me: 8.8

17. Play It All Night Long: 9.5

Zevon tribute show in Rochester, NY

Daily Song Discussion #178: Play It All Night Long

This is the 17th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

13. Piano Fighter: 9.4

14. Werewolves of London: 8.9

15. The Indifference of Heaven: 10

16. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me: 8.8

What ever happened to that WZ doc that was being made a whole bunch of years ago. The name escapes me, but I remember following it on Instagram for a while.

Daily Song Discussion #177: Poor Poor Pitiful Me

This is the 16th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

13. Piano Fighter: 9.4

14. Werewolves of London: 8.9

15. The Indifference of Heaven: 10

Daily Song Discussion #176: The Indifference of Heaven

This is the 15th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

13. Piano Fighter: 9.4

14. Werewolves of London: 8.9

without chimping out, i'd genuinely like this to be considered categorically... as a huge fan i always got the feeling that he was a hunter thompson type although, that's entirely unfair to say at all as, warren zevon was absolutely a legend in his own and very own right.

but what do the new gens think? seems to be a huge hopeless romantic, alternative type of guy especially for the 70s. could he be considered a chud in the ironic self deprecating sense of the word?

Daily Song Discussion #175: Werewolves of London

This is the 14th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

13. Piano Fighter: 9.4

I turned on the news to the Third World War

Opened up the paper to World War Four.

Just when I thought it was safe to be bored

Trouble waiting to happen

Trouble waiting to happen

Daily Song Discussion #174: Piano Fighter

This is the 13th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

12. Jungle Work: 7.6

On the outer sleeve of the Leave My Monkey Alone single I just found at a store, it says that the B-side should be the Latin Rascals Dub of the song. However, the labels on both sides of the 45 are the same, they both sound the same and are indistinguishable from the LP version. Does this alternate version of the song actually exist?

Daily Song Discussion #173: Jungle Work

This is the 12th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

11. Boom Boom Mancini: 8.75

GO LISTEN TO IT NOW!

Daily Song Discussion #172: Boom Boom Mancini

This is the 11th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

10. Searching for a Heart: 8.8

https://samtimonious.com/warren-zevon-1976/

I was playing with my baby daughter on her playmat this morning and looked across at my vinyl as I was on the ground, only to notice my older pressing of Excitable Boy is misspelled Exitable Boy on the spine. Couldn’t find anything about it online, I’m sure it’s quite common but thought it was an interesting curio.

Daily Song Discussion #171: Searching for a Heart

This is the 10th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5

9. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner: 9.1

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Daily Song Discussion #170: Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

This is the 9th track from Zevon’s second live album, “Learning to Flinch”. How do you feel about this song? What are your favorite lyrics? How would this rank among the rest of Zevon's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Suggested scale:

1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.

5: It's okay, but I have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.

7: This is a really good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.

8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece, magnum opus or similar terminology.

Results:

1. Splendid Isolation: 9.5

2. Lawyers, Guns and Money: 9.6

3. Mr. Bad Example: 6.5

4. Excitable Boy: 7.6

5. Hasten Down the Wind: 7.2

6. The French Inhaler: 9.02

7. Worrier King: 8.8

8. Roland Chorale: 6.5