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Warren Zevon — Carmelita
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hallogallo
(Raleigh, NC)
Posted: Apr 16, 2013 - 22:15
 

Love Warren.  He can sure paint a picture.

 

oldfart48
(boulder creek ca.)
Posted: Jan 12, 2013 - 18:13
 
 Ramenoodler wrote:
I don't exactly like this song, but it's interesting to hear, It's quite the audioscape.

It's kind of depressing, honestly. Strung out on smack, county done cut off the methadone.

Hard times. 
 

if you knew waren, you would understand, echo park............funky pair-a-dice.............

oldfart48
(boulder creek ca.)
Posted: Jan 12, 2013 - 18:09
 
sooooooo fine....... i love dwight's take also great tune.

lexica
(Oaktown, 510)
Posted: Dec 28, 2012 - 19:34
 
This song is playing in the background of the diner scene in the movie Looper. Interesting to think about what it says about the themes & details of the movie.

ColdMiser
(Out in the Cold)
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 09:10
 
 Moak wrote:
Really digging the Mexico/SW theme - let's keep going.
 
I was just thinking the same thing...Bills on a Roll

Pedro1874
(Newton-le-Willows, England)
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 09:10
 
 d-don wrote:
It's all about storytelling in song writing, and Zevon was one of the best. I love this song and miss that guy.
 
My thoughts exactly.  RIP Warren  {#Sunny}

Ramenoodler
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 09:10
 
I don't exactly like this song, but it's interesting to hear, It's quite the audioscape.

It's kind of depressing, honestly. Strung out on smack, county done cut off the methadone.

Hard times. 

Moak
(Reading, PA)
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 09:09
 
Really digging the Mexico/SW theme - let's keep going.

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Dec 12, 2012 - 09:07
 
I'm sorry. Zevon does very little for me.

Chinto
(kelowna)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 11:26
 
Another nice cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0cmMehxkz8

ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 10:39
 
I knew this song from when Linda Ronstad covered it - Zevon's version is so much better

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 10:37
 
It's all about storytelling in song writing, and Zevon was one of the best. I love this song and miss that guy.

joelbb
Posted: Oct 27, 2012 - 01:58
 
 pamohearn wrote:
{#Sunny}   There is no peer to Zevon. Wondrous!
 
I'm ashamed to say that w/ the exception of "Werewolves of London" I did not appreciate this artist until he was gone. 
this cut is terrific.

stevendejong
Posted: Oct 27, 2012 - 01:57
 
 hschlossberg wrote:
Sucko-barfo.  What's next? Margaritaville?!?
 
Apparently some fellow listeners get a strong positive feeling when listening to this. I don't get it, either.

pamohearn
(not close enough to a beach)
Posted: Oct 10, 2012 - 15:25
 
{#Sunny}   There is no peer to Zevon. Wondrous!

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 14:25
 
Did Warren just say a Pioneer Chicken stand? Good memories right there:

 

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 14:56
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Warren Zevon will forever be a 10 for me. I'll exclude "Werewolves of London."  RIP, Mr. Zevon - thank you for the legacy of music, and for Jordan, who seems to have inherited your wicked sense of the macabre, and your comedic timing.  I miss you, my friend.
 
We miss you too.

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 14:56
 
Possibly the best Zevon he ever left us. RIP, Warren.

Keef
(Confluence of the American River)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 14:54
 
 madaxeman wrote:
Truly superb.
 
superbly true

hschlossberg
(Los Angeles)
Posted: Aug 08, 2012 - 14:54
 
Sucko-barfo.  What's next? Margaritaville?!?

Stingray
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 16:14
 
TRULY HORRIBLE!

madaxeman
(Scottish west coast)
Posted: Jun 23, 2012 - 05:27
 
Truly superb.

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Jun 06, 2012 - 10:57
 
"I'm sittin' here playin' solitare with my pearl-handled deck"

Brilliant line.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: May 22, 2012 - 09:57
 
Rock in Peace, Mr. Zevon.

And for the rest of us? 'Enjoy Every Sandwich'.

maxmox
(Broome, Western Australia)
Posted: May 22, 2012 - 09:57
 
 lemonfergie wrote:
Ahhh Warren.... so dark, so casual about it... I love!
 
Come to Broome and hear Steven Pigram sing around town (17,000 souls) any time like this.......(or better)

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 05, 2012 - 16:56
 
More Ensenada is always good. I love the Baja.

lemonfergie
(Troll Capital of the World)
Posted: Apr 20, 2012 - 16:29
 
Ahhh Warren.... so dark, so casual about it... I love!

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 15:43
 
This as follow-up to Lyle Lovett's Road to Ensenada makes both songs grow... Nice catch.

obstetricus
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 15:35
 
Love that chorus line...

iam_overlord
(Brighton, MA)
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 11:57
 
This is like Cheeseburger in Paradise, but much much darker.

jerrieberrie
(Omaha)
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 11:55
 
I miss Warren Zevon.

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 03:13
 
Country at its best...ahh

brighter
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 01:57
 
this is a lovely song.  sounds a hell of a lot like "Desolation Row" though.

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 12:41
 
 hencini wrote:


Ah, don't be so hard on "Werewolves".  Some people think it's a novelty song— far from it.  No novelty song has teeth like that (pardon the pun).  Go check out some of the live and demo versions he's done ("I saw a werewolf trying to buy a used car in Del Mar / It was a bloody red Coupe de Ville").  They'll give you a whole new appreciation for the song.  The version with just him and the piano on Learning to Flinch— playing "Werewolves of London" in *London*— is so brilliant.  Warren is the evil Billy Joel.  : )
 
Thank you, hencini - I believe I shall check out the live and demo versions - more to love!  I remember Warren saying that he regretted writing "Werewolves..." because whenever he tried to play something current and viable (to him), the audiences would yell for "Werewolves," and he didn't want to be recognized just for that one song.  I think he worried needlessly, but now I can't tell him that...



Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 11:08
 
 baltimorelovejoy wrote:
Forgive me, but I doubt someone "strung out on heroin" would be able to play an instrument and sing a song this coherently. And if the audience doesn't believe what you're singing, you've lost 'em.

 
The song is Warren's portrayal of a character. The character might not be able to sing or speak coherently, but Warren could—and he had to, or there's no song for the rest of us to listen to. It's called "artistic license."


nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Aug 26, 2011 - 11:05
 
RIP, miss you.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 15:10
 
this song just tears me apart.  9 -> 10

LaurieinTucson
(Tucson,AZ)
Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 15:08
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
 baltimorelovejoy wrote:
Forgive me, but I doubt someone "strung out on heroin" would be able to play an instrument and sing a song this coherently. And if the audience doesn't believe what you're singing, you've lost 'em.
Oh, how I wish I did not know that is not true. I long to be naive, and for those I love to be well.

 
If the user has been using regularly a long time, most people can't even tell. They are lucid, hold down good jobs, but always at risk of an unintentional overdose.


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 06:26
 
 baltimorelovejoy wrote:
Forgive me, but I doubt someone "strung out on heroin" would be able to play an instrument and sing a song this coherently. And if the audience doesn't believe what you're singing, you've lost 'em.
Oh, how I wish I did not know that is not true. I long to be naive, and for those I love to be well.


hencini
Posted: Jun 24, 2011 - 13:49
 
Yes!!  Love the transition from Road to Ensenada and Carmelita!! 

WZ is a genius.

Edit: Wow.  Looks like I'm the last two people to comment on this song... : )

Edit 2: Aaaaand three of the last four... Someone needs a new hobby...


hencini
Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 14:52
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Warren Zevon will forever be a 10 for me. I'll exclude "Werewolves of London."  RIP, Mr. Zevon - thank you for the legacy of music, and for Jordan, who seems to have inherited your wicked sense of the macabre, and your comedic timing.  I miss you, my friend.
 

Ah, don't be so hard on "Werewolves".  Some people think it's a novelty song— far from it.  No novelty song has teeth like that (pardon the pun).  Go check out some of the live and demo versions he's done ("I saw a werewolf trying to buy a used car in Del Mar / It was a bloody red Coupe de Ville").  They'll give you a whole new appreciation for the song.  The version with just him and the piano on Learning to Flinch— playing "Werewolves of London" in *London*— is so brilliant.  Warren is the evil Billy Joel.  : )

NoEnzLefttoSplit
Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 14:48
 
From the AMG site:

He learned to play piano, focusing primarily on classical material before a disintegrating home life led him into pop music

ha.



hencini
Posted: Jun 09, 2011 - 14:46
 
Godlike does not even do this jusice.  Such a beautiful song.  Such a lyricist.  In the same vein as "Desperados Under the Eaves". 

_Donna
Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 08:57
 
Ah, Warren...sure do miss you.  Thanks for leaving us these gems.

Dave_Mack
(Still hangin' in the Twilight Zone)
Posted: Apr 22, 2011 - 08:55
 
A wonderful song, and nice Ensenada twin-spin {#Mrgreen} Good soundtrack music.

Remember to enjoy every sandwich.


ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 08:54
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Warren Zevon will forever be a 10 for me. I'll exclude "Werewolves of London."  RIP, Mr. Zevon - thank you for the legacy of music, and for Jordan, who seems to have inherited your wicked sense of the macabre, and your comedic timing.  I miss you, my friend.
 
Hey now, Werewolves is a great song, even tho it's been overexposed.  It's a pity that commercial radio only ever played that song when playing Zevon.


forge
(Boynton Beach, FL)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 08:50
 
Curse him for becoming so awesome and then dying. I don't mean that.

Curse all of us for not embracing him more closely before he went away.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 21:23
 
Warren Zevon will forever be a 10 for me. I'll exclude "Werewolves of London."  RIP, Mr. Zevon - thank you for the legacy of music, and for Jordan, who seems to have inherited your wicked sense of the macabre, and your comedic timing.  I miss you, my friend.

Dahnyul
Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 21:22
 
If only Warren had access to your expertise at song-craft before he stumbled into such ill advised waters.


 thatch wrote:

The harsh lyrics do not go along with the melody.
 



jameyp
(New York via Austin)
Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 13:51
 
I like Dwight Yoakum's version...