Re: Recent soundtrack?

On Apr 2, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Gwyn Ryan wrote:

> I love Renegade, I like Werewolf ok, so I should listen to more of his stuff
> to see if I like the rest of it or if those songs are just flukes.

Warren may be dead, but he remains the patron saint of depressive bastards. If you like his humor and his balladeer tendencies, though, you're probably set for your future career in Zevon fandom. On the Venn Diagram of Musical Taste, Warren Zevon's circle tends to be overlaid on "Tom Waits," "The Pogues," "Merle Haggard," "Bruce Springsteen" and "Igor Stravinsky," with edges touching "Jackson Browne," "Linda Rondstadt" and "Primus."

If you like the way he sounds on your live track, you may want to give his album "Learning to Flinch" a try. I'd also recommend the archive show "Live at the Customs House 2000." The sound's iffy, but the performance is pretty intimate. It's also has the advantage of being a free download.

I should probably advise you to avoid "Transverse City" for now. That's his William Gibson Cyberpunk TM Late Eighties TM Concept Album, and it's really only suitable for deep cultists who've been pretty liberal when helping themselves to the Kool-Aid bucket. Which isn't to say that it's bad, mind, just that it's appeal tends to be less than universal.

My wife and I recently bought a hi-rez copy of "Life'll Kill Ya" (with its totemically brutal anthem "My Shit's Fucked Up") that's been getting a ridiculous amount of play around here lately, but we're also the people who used a Warren song for our wedding dance. I can only warn you that I may not be unbiased.