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Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon (CD)

By: Warren Zevon (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon (CD) Album By Warren Zevon (Artist)
1   Poor Poor Pitiful Me
2   French Inhaler, The
3   Carmelita
4   Hasten Down The Wind
5   Werewolves of London
6   Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
7   Excitable Boy
8   Lawyers, Guns & Money
9   Interlude No. 1 / Play It All Night Long
10   Certain Girl, A
11   Looking For The Next Best Thing
12   Detox Mansion
13   Reconsider Me - (single version)
14   Boom Boom Mancini
15   Splendid Isolation
16   Raspberry Beret - (with Hindu Love Gods)
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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Review

Q (1/03, p.142) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Wonderful..."
Uncut (01/03, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Since every track on GENIUS is worth at least two of almost anybody else's, it can only be welcomed..."
Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.106) - "...The lyrics are really something - smart, mordant, mischievous, yet vulnerable, sung in a deep, dark, likable voice..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Warren Zevon (vocals, guitar, harmonica, electric piano, oragn, keyboards, percussion); Glen Frey, Don Henley, Phil Everly, Graham Nash, Neil Young, JD Souther, Linda Ronstadt, Lindsey Bukingham, Jackson Browne (vocals); Waddy Wachtel (guitar, background vocals); David Linley (steel guitar); Peter Buck (guitar); Charlie Bishharat, Joel Derouin (violin); Evan Wilson (viola); Larry Corbett (cello); Jim Horn (saxophone); John McVie, Mike Mills, Larry Klein, Jorge Calderon (bass); Mick Fleetwood, Anton Fig, Bill Berry (drums).

Producers include: Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Waddy Wachtel, Greg Ladanyi, Andrew Slater.

Compilation producer: Warren Zevon, Gary Peterson.

Includes liner notes by Will Self.

To paraphrase the old saw, if Warren Zevon did not exist it would have been necessary to invent him. At a time when his L.A. singer-songwriter peers were bleeding all over their shirtsleeves with mawkish, sensitive balladry, Zevon turned the 1970s troubadour approach on its ear with a twisted lyrical sensibility that embraced danger, ribaldry, and general mayhem. A more concise summary than the two-disc collection I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD, GENIUS is an excellent thumbnail sketch of Zevon's iconoclastic work.

The early years are well represented by the oddly poignant junkie's lament "Carmelita," the horror-of-war ghost story "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner," and of course, such misanthropic staples as "Excitable Boy" and "Werewolves of London." GENIUS stands to show, however, that the '70s weren't the end of Zevon's story. Zevon is backed by R.E.M. on the trenchant boxing tale "Boom Boom Mancini" and admirably covers Prince's "Raspberry Beret." He humorously sums up his life as a rogue on "Mr. Bad Example," and touchingly enough for a cancer victim, sounds unassailably resilient on "I Was in the House When the House Burned Down." GENIUS serves Zevon's legacy well, and helps ensure that he won't be forgotten.

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