![]() Whether writing alone, or with his best friend and most reliable collaborator, Jorge Calderon, Zevon was always about expanding song content. He was a guy who could write those previously unwritten, unimagined songs all the time. The man who wrote the brilliantly funny, ingenious song “Genius” was a songwriting genius. Warren Zevon is the epitome of this dynamic. Warren Zevon, “Werewolves of London,” official version. And it became one of their biggest hits.Īnd Warren Zevon had his werewolf, with perfect hair, in London. wrote “Stand” just to have fun writing what they felt was their most stupid song ever. Kurt Cobain felt “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” was an obvious Pixies rip-off. Loudon Wainwright had “Dead Skunk In The Middle of the Road.” Randy Newman had “Short People.” It’s not the first time that a brilliantly great songwriter gets most famous for one of his lighter songs. Besides, it’s funny, it rocks, and it is one of the greatest songs to cover, as thousands know.Īlso, it’s common, this. It’s the first song of his to leap over the big wall, and escaped out into the world. But let’s not allow its popularity diminish its power and its impact. So is perhaps an unfortunate one to always be at the front of the Zevon parade.Īnd yeah, I get that. It’s painfully obvious to our fellow Zevonistas (not sure if that word has been coined yet, but it should), however, that “Werewolves” is his most famous, but not greatest song. His songs seem to expand in terms of their power. It’s still Halloween weekend, 2020, so a reasonable time to celebrate Warren Zevon’s biggest hit ever, “Werewolves of London.” Any opportunity to celebrate Zevon is a good one, as the man was one of our greatest, funniest and most serious songwriters ever. ![]()
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