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Warren Zevon — Werewolves Of London
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gandalfbmg
(Thankfully now a little more than 3 mi from Paradise (Missouri))
Posted: Apr 11, 2013 - 10:51
 
Oh, Warren, the world misses you. I hope you're spenidng the afterlife kicking ass and haunting Kid Rock.

bachbeet
Posted: Dec 06, 2012 - 22:23
 
I agree with some others here that Warren's disdain for this song is unfounded.  He may have some misguided romantic idea that he'd rather be a starving artist or something but he did this song quite well.  And, it isn't really pop fluff.  Other forgettable songs of the time were but not this one.  He added some subtle coolness to this when he sings near the end "Draw blood!"

Boy_Wonder
(Bath, back in the UK)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 12:45
 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 12:45
 
 (former member) wrote:

We be dancing...  love it...

 
  Romeo - Your hair (and other aspects) are PERFECT.



misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 12:44
 
Ah-hoooooooooooooooooooo!

misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Nov 05, 2012 - 12:44
 
 (former member) wrote:

We be dancing...  love it...

 
 
Its all in the codpiece, dude!

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 20:40
 

We be dancing...  love it...

 

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 07:36
 
 TerryS wrote:


Wouldn't that be wontonly dancing?
 
Not unless they ordered a Chinese food delivery up to that hotel room.

Bat
(Austin)
Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 07:23
 
I cringe whenever I hear that mess by Kid Rock where he uses this and Sweet Home Alabama.

Shaken_Bake
(Mile High City-or is it just me?)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 19:45
 
A total "driveway moment" for this piece on NPR about a daughter and her father and this song:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/26/157429964/from-scorn-for-zevon-a-father-daughter-moment-is-born?ps=rs

Yes, I sniffled!

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Jul 02, 2012 - 17:01
 
{#Bananapiano} {#Bananajumprope} {#Angel} {#Drummer}  {#Dancingbanana} {#Daisy} {#Dancingbanana} {#Bananajam} {#Dancingbanana_2}{#Cheers}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 18:27
 
 TerryS wrote:


Wouldn't that be wontonly dancing?
 
Nope...  we be dancing wantonly...

love this groovy song...

 

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 18:23
 
 romeotuma wrote:

Oh, yes, we be wantonly dancing...  love it...

hope you are having a great time right this minute... 
 

Wouldn't that be wontonly dancing?

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 31, 2012 - 19:18
 
 jt1 wrote:

not dancing to it though?
 
Oh, yes, we be wantonly dancing...  love it...

hope you are having a great time right this minute... 

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 06:23
 
this song always make me laugh, not because of Warren, who was awesome, but because when I hear it, I hear Jerry and Phil singing "awhooo" way off key! 

jt1
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 06:23
 
 romeotuma wrote:


marvelous...  love it...
 

 
not dancing to it though?

boober
(KC,Mo)
Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 06:23
 
 bachbeet wrote:
Warren Zevon always had some good lines in his songs.  Always liked his "I'll sleep when I'm dead."
 
I always liked..."my shit's fucked up"

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 08:15
 
 d-don wrote:
Little old lady got mutilated last night, werewolves of London again.
 

dyep!!!

TJS
(Bradley, Il)
Posted: Mar 29, 2012 - 08:15
 
My favorite opening line in Rock Music:

"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand"

haresfur
(Bendigo Australia)
Posted: Feb 26, 2012 - 15:52
 
 Stratocaster wrote:
I read an interview with Warren Zevon where he said that he despised this song more than anyone could imagine...to the point where he was sorry he ever recorded it.  The interviewer said 'but look at the exposure it's given you, look at the millions you've made off it!'.  Zevon basically said he didn't care, he'd rather be poor and unknown, with integrity intact, than to have recorded this POS.
 
With all respect due to Mr. Zevon, that is (was) his problem, not mine.  It obviously struck a chord with a lot of people.  Yes it's a piece of pop fluff.  But it's well written and performed pop fluff, and that's not a bad thing.

He performed it before being asked at an acoustic concert I saw a long time ago - basically saying it was his cross to bear.  Great show.


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 21:06
 


marvelous...  love it...
 


cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 22:41
 
See, you wait long enough and RP plays this 

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 25, 2011 - 04:48
 
Awful!

Stratocaster
(Bermuda)
Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 07:30
 
I read an interview with Warren Zevon where he said that he despised this song more than anyone could imagine...to the point where he was sorry he ever recorded it.  The interviewer said 'but look at the exposure it's given you, look at the millions you've made off it!'.  Zevon basically said he didn't care, he'd rather be poor and unknown, with integrity intact, than to have recorded this POS.

Wonder how much of that was true?

It gets a 7 from me.

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 11:09
 
Little old lady got mutilated last night, werewolves of London again.

pdjpirate
(Near the Graveyard of the Atlantic!)
Posted: Oct 22, 2011 - 20:54
 
 SherryBerry wrote:
My kids love this music.  Had to push my middle schooler out the door this morning.  They're getting a music education, and they don't even know it.
Sherry Berry
 

Don't forget to school them on "Lawyers, Guns, and Money"! And with Halloween upon us, maybe let the kids dress up as  "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner."

{#Devil_pimp}

SherryBerry
Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 05:12
 
My kids love this music.  Had to push my middle schooler out the door this morning.  They're getting a music education, and they don't even know it.
Sherry Berry

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 20, 2011 - 20:41
 
 TimeWaster wrote:
Indeed. Joking. Forgot to put a {#Tongue} after it.

 Chuckaluphagus wrote:

You must be joking.

 
 
Well, thank goodness, TimeWaster - I was about to send a firing squad out for your sorry hide! {#Lol}

I'd love to hear things from his "The Wind" CD - the last thing he recorded before he died. He had SO much fun on that one - Bruce Springsteen winging the harmony vocal to "Disorder in the House" and Warren's somber, sweet ode to his wife on "Keep Me In Your Heart...."  I HATE it that he's gone...  I'm going to have to go back through my Zevon library and find new gems, because the old ones are just too much a part of me now...

bachbeet
Posted: Aug 20, 2011 - 20:34
 
Warren Zevon always had some good lines in his songs.  Always liked his "I'll sleep when I'm dead."

patrick30
(Austria)
Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 06:07
 

like this one - dislike the cover version



vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 11:54
 

HA!  I'd like to meet his tailor. . . 
 

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Jul 20, 2011 - 11:53
 
His hair was perfect!

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Jul 02, 2011 - 20:57
 
Summer of '78...Danny M is driving his mom's luxe Olds 98...he's a year older than me...his younger brother John is next to him in the front seat; he's a year younger than me...we all know each other from Boy Scouts and through the same school and church; we're doing maybe 90 or more miles an hour, flying along, headed back into town from the wilds out by a lake...this comes on, and we decide we ain't ready to go home just yet...we light another one and pop open some more cheap beer...I'm in the back seat, and the speakers are CRANKED, and I can feel the worries of my mind slipping out the window like the bluish smoke we had pressurized the cabin with...and I like it!  Sadly, Danny left us all behind a year or more ago, so whenever I hear this song, I REMEMBER...  Thanks, RP!


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jun 01, 2011 - 05:31
 
Ya hear him howlin around your kitchen door, ya better not let him in.
Littleoldladygotmutilated late last night, werewolves of London again.

one of the most fun murder couplets outside of Sweeny Todd!


Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Apr 30, 2011 - 16:10
 
he'll rip your lungs out, Jim...


Foot
Posted: Feb 12, 2011 - 19:50
 
Thank you (again) RP - my brother (RIP) turned me on to this in '78 - timeless.


unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 07:01
 
While this song holds a special place in my memory, I must agree with other commentors: Mr. Zevon had many other tunes that equal or better this one.  That is, of course, if you have a really twisted sense of humor.


LPCity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Jan 12, 2011 - 13:20
 
 SmileOnADog wrote:

My freshman year in the dorms there was a crew that called themselves "the Excitable boys".  Definitely applicable.  One of the rituals was after you won a hand of poker with trips or better, you had to yell "Fore!!" and down a can of beer.


 
Ah college life!  No matter how old you are you, hopefully, have good memories like this that always bring a smile to your face.

And the earlier poster who said this song is a solid 7 "quite likeable" is right on.  Lighten up folks, it doesn't make you less a musicologist to admit that this is a fun song.


Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Jan 12, 2011 - 13:15
 
 bindi wrote:
owoooooooooooo - classic!  I regret never seeing WZ live. If it weren't for tobacco and our tendency to become addicted to things that are bad for us, we could be hearing this live tonight.  RIP - you are fondly remembered.
 
I saw him live three times, and for two of those shows it was a one man show: Warren, a piano, and a few guitars.  All three are among the best shows I've ever seen.


SmileOnADog
(Arizona)
Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 22:23
 

My freshman year in the dorms there was a crew that called themselves "the Excitable boys".  Definitely applicable.  One of the rituals was after you won a hand of poker with trips or better, you had to yell "Fore!!" and down a can of beer.



Bleyfusz
Posted: Dec 12, 2010 - 01:48
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Thirded.  Zevon did this song as a commercial sell-out, but he hated performing it. <...>

 
What do I care as long as the songs brightens up my mind? It's just so much fun to me!


Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 17:54
 
Put this first on a Halloween party tape back in the day....people ran to dance to it.



bam23
(Berkeley)
Posted: Oct 23, 2010 - 13:29
 
 peacockangel wrote:
Saw the Dead do it in Oakland on Halloween right after Bill and Zane died

also have a live version (75) where Zevon adds a bunch of extras at the end ('saw Patty Hurst walking...')

love this song
 
I was at a Dead show in Columbus Ohio (1978?) when they performed this song for the first time (according to a database I once found). That said, there was nothing particularly memorable about the rendition. I guess they simply wanted to play it. The show was memorable for the security that was trolling the audience and forcing people to sit up straight, put out the burning objects, and keep their feet off the chair backs. Such a relaxing environment.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Oct 09, 2010 - 19:43
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Thirded.  Zevon did this song as a commercial sell-out, but he hated performing it. I saw him in Eugene in the 80's (don't remember which year because I was pretty stoned most of the time) and when the audience demanded he perform it, he snarled, "I'll do it, but you won't like it." Well, we did like it. I didn't like that he didn't like performing it - more, I didn't like that he performed it anyway. And then he did "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," and I totally forgot the negativity. Damn. Zevon was one of those performers that you'd pay a hundred bucks a ticket for, and he could do five songs and it would be worth it.  I miss the man...

 
Let's hear "Accidentally Like A Martyr" or "Keep Me In Your Heart" or "Disorder in the House." Zevon, even posthumously, is amazing. "Werewolves of London" is the very least of his work.


bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Oct 09, 2010 - 19:41
 
owoooooooooooo - classic!  I regret never seeing WZ live. If it weren't for tobacco and our tendency to become addicted to things that are bad for us, we could be hearing this live tonight.  RIP - you are fondly remembered.

Bazooka
(Honolulu, HI USA)
Posted: Sep 21, 2010 - 20:34
 
Warren Zevon

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 20:12
 
 MojoJojo wrote:

Seconded. 

 
Thirded.  Zevon did this song as a commercial sell-out, but he hated performing it. I saw him in Eugene in the 80's (don't remember which year because I was pretty stoned most of the time) and when the audience demanded he perform it, he snarled, "I'll do it, but you won't like it." Well, we did like it. I didn't like that he didn't like performing it - more, I didn't like that he performed it anyway. And then he did "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," and I totally forgot the negativity. Damn. Zevon was one of those performers that you'd pay a hundred bucks a ticket for, and he could do five songs and it would be worth it.  I miss the man...


agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 20:07
 
 stephw wrote:


 

Ground-breaking special effects in that movie. Every time he meets his dead buddy the guy is more and more rotten and something else has fallen off or is about to! Done with humor to great effect.

nicolewe
Posted: Aug 20, 2010 - 20:05
 
{#Notworthy}

appy_monkey
(between here and there)
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 - 21:37
 
Halloween already?