Favorite Zevon tune

[Bossy Monkey]

Ok, the period of mourning is finally over. As a tribute to the Piano Fighter, here's another little poll. Reply with Other votes, or with your own tributes to another of the Good Dead Ones, gone too soon.

This is impossible to cut down to 9 songs. Don't anybody think I'll be offended by Other votes, unless you don't specify in a reply what you're voting for. If you only know "Werewolves," do yourself a favor and get some of Warren's records (and in the mean time, vote for "Keep Me In Your Heart." Trust me.)

Here's the whole discography for your reference: http://www.warrenzevon.com/music/

[quispquake]

1. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

My fave by Zevon...(from "Excitable Boy")
pp23

[curlyred]

4. I like the songs that tell a story, too

He had a great knowledge and awareness of history.

[Redbear]

8. Another vote for "Roland"

"He killed to earn his living and to help out the Congolese."

[tigerbeat]

15. i second "roland", first rate anti-war song. n/t

[AlienGirl]

22. Another vote for Roland here!!

[Fenris]

2. I voted for "L,G,&M" but I think "The French Inhaler" is just as good

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. "My Shit's Fucked Up"...

from "Life'll Kill Ya".

[NC_Nurse]

5. Life'll Kill Ya"

that's all she wrote...

[yorgatron]

6. "other" only because it's impossible to pick

just one.

[Rowdyboy]

7. Definitely "other"

Accidently, Like a Martyr and Veracruz

[Sufi Marmot]

9. Another vote for "Accidentally Like a Martyr"

Great song.

-SM

[mitchum]

13. And another one for the most beautiful song...

in a catalogue of many beautiful songs

[DinahMoeHum]

10. "Excitable Boy"

n/t

:evilgrin:

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

11. "Let's Party for the Rest of the Night"

On "The Wind". Features a two-note guitar solo worthy of the angels.

I hear that song and I think of a guy named Ramone, smiling...

[mac56]

12. "Let Nothing Come Between You"

"Johnny Strikes Up The Band"
"For My Next Trick I'll Need A Volunteer"
"Searching For A Heart"

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Outside Chance

One of his first songs.

He wrote it for the Turtles in 1965, I think.

--bkl

[Zomby Woof]

16. for right now... these 11

Searching For A Heart

Play It All Night Long

Desperadoes Under The Eaves

Run Straight Down

Porcelain Monkey

Sentimental Hygiene

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Poor Poor Pitiful Me

Piano Fighter (live version from 'Learning To Flinch')

Lawyers, Guns, and Money

My Shit's Fucked Up

[Roark]

17. Mr. Bad Example

Working in hair replacement, swindling the bald.....

THAT was Zevon's finest moment.

[blindpig]

18. excitable boy & roland................n/t

[MrSlayer]

19. Excitable Boy.

[geniph]

20. Tie between his cover of Knockin' on Heaven's Door

(unbelievably poignant) and Excitable Boy.

[billbuckhead]

21. "The Envoy"? Nah, "Join me in LA", Maybe "Excitable Boy",,,,,,,Maybe

What a career of great songwriting and performance. Everything on his first 2 albums is great, but Warren always had good new stuff as well.

[DoctorBombay]

23. "Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money"

....it was SO close with "Desparados Under the Eaves". I love that song so much, too, and it signified Zevon's bout with alcohol so well. And, it has one of my favorite verses ever:

And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this hotel will be standin'
Until I pay my bill

Just classic..