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Music CD - Warren Zevon: Genius: Best of Warren Zevon
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Music CD: Genius: Best of Warren Zevon
Artist: Warren Zevon
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $9.69
Your Save: $ 9.29 ( 49% )
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
2. The French Inhaler
3. Carmelita
4. Hasten Down The Wind
5. Werewolves Of London
6. Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
7. Excitable Boy
8. Lawyers, Guns And Money
9. Interlude No.1/Play It All Night Long
10. A Certain Girl
11. Looking For The Next Best Thing
12. Detox Mansion
13. Reconsider Me
14. Boom Boom Mancini
15. Splendid Isolation
16. Raspberry Beret
17. Searching For A Heart
18. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
19. Mr. Bad Example
20. Mutineer
21. I Was In The House When THe House Burned Down
22. Genius
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227377120
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 2002-10-15
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Again With the Werewolves!
Comment:
Strange that this genius is best remembered for an odd little song called "Werewolves of London". I suppose it beats not being remembered for anything. This "Best of..." album is a good primer for those new to Zevon. Many of us remember Zevon songs being played late at night on "underground" FM stations in the late sixties and early seventies. I'm glad to see that he's finally getting the recognition he deserves. Warren Zevon was always hard to pigeonhole. Now go check out some more of work!
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Summary: Genius: Best of Warren Zevon
Comment: A super CD, shipped and received as new, as promised. What a great find!
Super music and wonderful liner notes. What a talent.
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Summary: A must for Warren Z fans
Comment: Has some Warren Z tunes that will make you leave it in the player just one more time.
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Summary: Good selection of clever songs
Comment: This was a good selection of Warren Zevon's clever songs with great lyrics.
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Summary: From a Zevon novice's perspective
Comment: Unlike most of you, I knew Zevon had a reputation as a great singer/songwriter but prior to hearing this CD, I wasn't familiar with most of his work. I can't say how close this comes to capturing his finest work in a single volume, but it's very good and I can't imagine there could be much fine-tuning that would make for a better single CD compilation.
Granted, for a guy who's best known as a writer I'd probably axe "A Certain Girl" and Prince cover "Raspberry Beret", but many artists go entire careers without writing a song as witty as "Werewolves" let alone the other gems to be found here like "Carmelita","Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner","Looking for the Next Best Thing", "Reconsider Me", and "Mr. Bad Example".
BOTTOM LINE:
This convinced me I need to hear full albums by Zevon. Since "greatest hits" collections aren't usually compiled for die-hard fans, I'd say that means the CD does its job.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A Comprehensive Single disc collection from Rocks Sardonic King. It rounds up the 22 most popular tracks from albums released by Asylum, Virgin, Giant/Reprise and Artemis from 1976-2002. Features such Zevon classics as 'Werewolves Of London,' 'Excitable Boy,' 'Lawyers, Guns and Money,' 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me,' 'I Was In The House When The House Burned Down' and more. Elektra/Rhino. 2002.
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