Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
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Artist: Warren ZevonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-27
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Johnny Strikes Up The Band
- Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
- Excitable Boy
- Werewolves Of London
- Accidentally Like A Martyr
- Nighttime In The Switching Yard
- Veracruz
- Tenderness On The Block
- Lawyers, Guns And Money
- I Need A Truck (Outtake)
- Werewolves Of London (Alternate version)
- Tule's Blues (Solo Piano Version)
- Frozen Notes (Strings Version)
Music reviews of Excitable Boy
Music Review: Warren's classic bestseller gets the love it deserves
Rating: 5 Stars
A great twisted album by Warren Zevon, "Werewolves of London" Zevon's break through still sounds great today. The hit single "Werewolves of London" is still a twisted track and augmented by great remastering "Excitable Boy" proves every bit as memorable from the title track that calmly documents (with killer--pardon the pun--harmonies provided by Linda Ronstandt and Jennifer Warnes)a disturbed killer and the excuses that society makes for him. It's a tour de force track topped only by the other witty and often touching songs included here.
"Lawyers, Guns and Money" continues to be a masterpiece perfectly capturing the innocent abroad theme. The ballads "Accidently Like a Martyr" and "Tenderness on the Block" (co-written with Zevon's patron saint Jackson Browne)are deft, melodic trips down the streets of romance and memory respectively. Although the overall impression is great, "Excitable Boy" is a very different album from his debut lacking some of its depth but it makes up for that lack of depth with Zevon's deadpan humor.
The reissued/remastered version of "Excitable Boy" sounds very good. The bonus tracks include the previous issued "Frozen Notes" (which Zevon once described as a still born composition. It may lack the power of some of his finest work but is still noteworthy), an early, earthy, funky and rehearsal version of "Werewolves of London" than the final version that should have been released before now. It's only flaw is that Warren's voice is so low in the mix. "Tule's Blues" and "Frozen Notes" (this version scored with strings)are low-key songs that would have fit better on the album preceding this than this one(it's still a welcome addition and Zevon fans will want this simply for these three tracks. "I Need a Truck" is a humorous a capella fragment documenting many of Zevon's vices).
We also get booklet notes by Rolling Stone writer David Fricke (he seems to write these for everyone lately)that are interesting and reveal some of the turmoil from Zevon's life at the time. Although lacking the subtly of his second album "Warren Zevon", "Excitable Boy" captures Zevon's wit and dark humor in fine form making a perfect top 10 album (it rose all the way up to #8 on Billboard's Album Charts just on the strength of the first single). Twisted and still fun, "Excitable Boy" is still a lot of fun. 4 1/2 stars I'd also recommend Warren ZevonThe WindBad Luck Streak in Dancing School
Description of Excitable Boy
We sorely miss this guy. What a talent and what a great album he left the world with- Excitable Boy. This Jackson Browne/Waddy Wachtel produced album broke Zevons career wide open in 1978. Includes Werewolves Of London, Johnny Strikes Up The Band, and Lawyers, Guns and Money. Features his good friends like Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Mastered from the original Asylum Records vault tapes by Joe Reagoso (America, Boz Scaggs, Doobie Brothers) at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Mastering with Ron McMaster. Includes original art elements, limited edition lyric insert sheet, and poly sleeve for LP and one for the album cover to protect your One.........Johnny Strikes Up The Band
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Excitable Boy
Werewolves Of London
Accidentally Like A In The Switching Yard
Veracruz
Tenderness On The Block
Lawyers, Guns And Money
With this 1978 LP, Warren Zevon stepped forward as something of the dark prince of California. Like fellow Southern California outcast Randy Newman, Zevon achieved some fame, albeit not what his talent would have earned him had he written songs more like his mellower pal Jackson Browne and a little less like Jack the Ripper in a convertible. Fascinated with bloodthirsty antiheroes, Zevon wrote with the flair of a desperately bright pulp writer and summoned images of mutilated mercenaries ("Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"), pampered bad boys ("Lawyers, Guns and Money"), helpless sickos (the title track), and, of course, feral Chinese-food fiends ("Werewolves of London"). Excitable Boy's 1976 predecessor (Warren Zevon) may be a more consistent album, but this is the one that put Zevon in the public consciousness as someone to keep an eye on--for protection as well as promise. --Steven Stolder
It's really too bad that Warren Zevon had to die before hearing how spectacular his albums sounded in these latter-day remasters. Excitable Boy remains his best-known document, awash with blood and guts (especially on the horror-laden title track) and a famous, phenomenal touch of lycanthropy. The trick is in Zevon's ironic distance, his dispatch of killer narratives that touch on mercenary internationalism and undeserved indulgence in due course. Zevon's writing is musically simple--pianos and guitars and mid-tempo pacing--and those touches here only underscore how crisp the remastering sounds. To wit: The raucous undertow of "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" is delirious and ironically rhapsodic. As for "Werewolves of London," it's here twice (once in the expanded rack of four additional tunes) in all its tilted glory. As for the other extra content, "I Need a Truck" is the short gem, a 50-second a cappella litany of Zevon's raffish ways: "I need a truck to haul my percodan and gin" and one to "haul the womens from my bed," he sings... followed by this apt note, "I need a truck to haul my body when I'm dead." He had a mordant side. --Andrew Bartlett
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