Re: Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:36 pm

Track 7 - Veracruz.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:36 pm

Penny whistle?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:37 pm

This sounds like an improvement.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:38 pm

I dunno, is this about the Mexican-American War? hmm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:39 pm

Track 8 - Tenderness on the Block.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:40 pm

Co-written with Jackson Browne. gasp

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:40 pm

More undemanding MoR okayness.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:41 pm

Guitar solo.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:41 pm

George Harrison style guitar solo.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:42 pm

It's very unambitious song-writing.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:43 pm

Workmanlike playing and production.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:43 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:43 pm

Last track - Lawyers, Guns and Money.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:44 pm

Counting.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:44 pm

Many of the songs have quite edgy and grim and political lyrics and themes, but the music fails to match up to it.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:45 pm

This one's not getting going.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:45 pm

Vocals gone momentarily screechy.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:46 pm

More references to très exotique, faraway places.

by Nightjar Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:47 pm

It's over.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:48 pm

It is over.

That was OK but very dull with lyrics that often threatened to tip over into self-parody.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

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