Meanwhile… I'm Still Thinking

Keepers:

I Have to Leave
My Ride’s Here
Sacrificial Lambs
Basket Case
Lord Byron’s Luggage

My Ride’s Here

Keepers:

I Was In The House When The House Burned Down
Life’ll Kill Ya
Porcelain Monkey
For My Next Trick I’ll Need A Volunteer
Hostage-O
Dirty Little Religion
My Shit’s Fucked Up
Fistful Of Rain
Don’t Let Us Get Sick

Life’ll Kill Ya

Keepers:

Seminole Bingo
Something Bad Happened To A Clown
The Indifference Of Heaven
Poisonous Look-Alike
Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse

Mutineer

Keepers:

Suzie Lightning
Mr. Bad Example
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead
Searching For A Heart
Finishing Touches
Model Citizen
Angel Dressed In Black

Mr Bad Example

Keepers:

Transverse city
Run straight down
Turbulence
They moved the moon
Splendid isolation
Networking

Transverse City

Keepers:

The Factory
Trouble Waiting To Happen
Reconsider Me

Sentimental Hygiene

Keepers:

Let Nothing Come Between You

Envoy

Keepers:

Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
A Certain Girl
Jeannie Needs A Shooter
Bill Lee

Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

Keepers:

Johnny Strikes Up The Band
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Excitable Boy
Werewolves Of London
Accidentally Like A Martyr
Tenderness On The Block
Lawyers, Guns And Money
Tules Blues (Solo Piano Version)
Frozen Notes (Strings Version)

Excitable Boy

Most of this record is pretty bad, but some of it sounds like Magic Band outtakes – so much so that I think that if ol’ Warren were around to ask he would admit being influenced by the Captain.

As mainstream wacky as he was when he had his hits, this is even stranger. A product of an amateurish inability to self-edit, or the first flight of a certain kind of genius that got sanded down before anything else saw the light of day? I’d love to hear recordings done between this and Zevon’s other “debut” if any exist.

Keepers:

Wanted Dead or Alive
Hitchhikin’ Woman
Gorilla

Wanted Dead or Alive

Keepers:

Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Carmelita

Warren Zevon