Good ones, I'd also add "Excitable Boy" to the list.

Great song. A good example of his subject matter being unique. Excitable Boy=serial killer.

Definitely Werewolves.

I really really WANTED to like "Lawyers Guns and Money" just because of the subject. But it just kinda fell flat to me, I dunno why.

And FWIW, I am (almost)  positive that the phrase "send Lawyers, Guns and Money" didn't originate with Zevon because I am (almost) positive I heard it or read it way before his '77 song. Like maybe in a book or article by Kinky Friedman or Hunter Thompson. Tom Robbins, possibly. Or maybe a Doonesbury comic strip. I am (almost) positive of this... But everything on the internet stops at Zevon. Maybe I merely heard/read something very similar.

Besides, it's Halloween. DEFINITELY werewolves.

5 minutes ago, Dean Adam Smithee said:

Definitely Werewolves.

I really really WANTED to like "Lawyers Guns and Money" just because of the subject. But it just kinda fell flat to me, I dunno why.

And FWIW, I am (almost)  positive that the phrase "send Lawyers, Guns and Money" didn't originate with Zevon because I am (almost) positive I heard it or read it way before his '77 song. Like maybe in a book or article by Kinky Friedman or Hunter Thompson. Tom Robbins, possibly. Or maybe a Doonesbury comic strip. I am (almost) positive of this... But everything on the internet stops at Zevon. Maybe I merely heard/read something very similar.

Besides, it's Halloween. DEFINITELY werewolves.

Well, you always have some strange recollections, like Jim Jones being a right winger.

9 minutes ago, Dean Adam Smithee said:

Definitely Werewolves.

I really really WANTED to like "Lawyers Guns and Money" just because of the subject. But it just kinda fell flat to me, I dunno why.

And FWIW, I am (almost)  positive that the phrase "send Lawyers, Guns and Money" didn't originate with Zevon because I am (almost) positive I heard it or read it way before his '77 song. Like maybe in a book or article by Kinky Friedman or Hunter Thompson. Tom Robbins, possibly. Or maybe a Doonesbury comic strip. I am (almost) positive of this... But everything on the internet stops at Zevon. Maybe I merely heard/read something very similar.

Besides, it's Halloween. DEFINITELY werewolves.

...and once again ,Fred, you miss it.

Werewolves (there wolves) is definitely not his best song.

I'm partial to Roland, but Severian's right with Excitable Boy.

24 minutes ago, SARGE said:

...and once again ,Fred, you miss it.

Werewolves (there wolves) is definitely not his best song.

I'm partial to Roland, but Severian's right with Excitable Boy.

For me, I just look at my playlist. Roland is on there. Werewolves isn’t.

44 minutes ago, SARGE said:

...and once again ,Fred, you miss it.

Werewolves (there wolves) is definitely not his best song.

I'm partial to Roland, but Severian's right with Excitable Boy.

Aw, man, in my best Don Adams from Get Smart voice:

"Missed it by THAT much."

Don't know if any of you remember the TV show "The Larry Sanders Show." It starred Sanders as himself, he was the host of a late nite talk show, like The Tonight Show. In one episode he had Warren Zevon on, and Zevon's agent said no way, no how, never, ever ask him to play Werewolves Of London, he hates the song now, people won't leave it alone, it's all he hears them ask about. Oh absolutely, yeah, no problem. So Zevon comes on and on the show for his musical number sings some beautiful, poignant ballad. Immediately after he finishes, Sanders gets up and asks him to play Werewolves, gets the whole audience to shriek for him to play it. It was priceless, Zevon sat there at the piano, choking out the song as leadenly and rigidly as possible, all the while glaring at Sanders. If looks could kill Sanders would have left in a basket.

37 minutes ago, Severian said:

Don't know if any of you remember the TV show "The Larry Sanders Show." It starred Sanders as himself, he was the host of a late nite talk show, like The Tonight Show. In one episode he had Warren Zevon on, and Zevon's agent said no way, no how, never, ever ask him to play Werewolves Of London, he hates the song now, people won't leave it alone, it's all he hears them ask about. Oh absolutely, yeah, no problem. So Zevon comes on and on the show for his musical number sings some beautiful, poignant ballad. Immediately after he finishes, Sanders gets up and asks him to play Werewolves, gets the whole audience to shriek for him to play it. It was priceless, Zevon sat there at the piano, choking out the song as leadenly and rigidly as possible, all the while glaring at Sanders. If looks could kill Sanders would have left in a basket.

I never saw that, but David Letterman was a massive Zevon fan. He was on Letterman’s show a ton of times.

5 hours ago, Mr. Naron said:

I never saw that, but David Letterman was a massive Zevon fan. He was on Letterman’s show a ton of times.

I never got in the habit of watching any of these kinds of shows. For one, they came on too late when I was a working stiff, for another the whole celebrity sits down to chat thing never grabbed me. There was one, however, that I did enjoy, Alan Havey's Night After Night With Alan Havey. It was unique, Havey is a great comedian, and the show was very low key. There was a cheap desk Havey sat at, one chair for a guest the guests were never big celebrities, just more normal people, and he had an "audience of one," which was a pair of movie theater seats behind velvet ropes where one lone person sat. It was all delightfully low key, relaxed, and funny. But I still couldn't stay up and watch it every night or I'd have always been dead on my feet at work. Damned work gets in the way of my TV viewing.