The title track is one of my all-time favorites by Warren or anybody else. It’s sexy too.īut the most overlooked jewel on that fatal crown is 2002’s My Ride’s Here.Īside from his signature wordplay and all its radio-friendly hooks, My Ride’s Here features collaborations with an eclectic group of literary friends who shared Zevon’s irreverent world-view-and also didn’t mind poking fun at the Angel of Death. Even an early hit like “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” kicks off with a comically failed suicide attempt straight out of a Hunter S. When I talk with other Warren Zevon fans, two albums inevitably come up: the dark genius of Excitable Boy and The Wind, which ends with his final, touching epitaph, “Keep Me in Your Heart.” But setting aside those two albums, Zevon released a treasure trove of lethal, funny, upbeat songs that could double as pulp-fiction titles: “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” “A Bullet for Ramona,” “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” etc.
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