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>>>>>I'll be looking for it later today. Thanks! Keep 'em coming, Terry, you're record so far is pretty good...
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>>>>"Werewolves of London" Warren Zevon
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>>>That has never been one of my favorite WZ songs, at all. I just started reading a new oral biography (or is it called oral history?). It is mentioned in the foreword that it drove him nuts that "Werewolves of London", a ditty he banged out in a few hours, was his most widely played song while others he was proud of are seldom heard.
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>>I loved it from first hearing. Anyway, this is still part of suggestions to Jay for stuff to download, not a skeet shoot of my tastes :-)
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>>This just came to mind last night. I'm not sure I've ever heard anything else by WZ.
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>>Just goes to show that sometimes less is more - simple is best, sometimes first cuts are the deepest :-)
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>>BTW "Ack! Ack! Ack!" - that you doing a Joan Rivers impression?
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>Boy, I sure hope not ;-( I change the channel as soon as I see her so doubt I could do a good one even if I wanted to.
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>You could be in for a treat if you haven't listened to any other Warren Zevon. He is definitely one of my favorites, and was long before his tragically early death. ("Maybe it wasn't such a good idea not to go to a doctor for 15 years," he said in typically wry WZ fashion after the verdict of untreatable cancer came down). He was a flawed and messed up person in many ways, but also had a rare talent. An accomplished pianist, a great rocker, and about as good a lyricist as rock music has seen. Maybe that's why so many of his friends and admirers were writers. (The foreword to the book was written by the popular American novelist Carl Hiaasen). Here are a few snippets.

You're right - some fine lyrics, amusing and succinct where they need to be. But that's one of the reasons I like Werewolves so much, esp.:

He's the hairy, hairy gent, who ran amok in Kent.
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair.
You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out Jim.
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor.

as well as the strident piano riffs, the jaunty rhythm