Warren Zevon Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School CD

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 Good CD better live show
I saw Warren on this tour and he put on a fiery show with at least four encores and this cd does bring me back to that great concert. The music has not aged as well as I would have liked it to have but it is still an entertainingly sarcastic piece from an artist who ranks somewhere between John Hiatt and Ian Hunter in relevence in the year 2002.
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 The Forgotten Zevon
After the first two Asylum releases, expectations had to be pretty high for WZ's third. Trouble was, he had been carrying around the classic songs on the first two records for years before they were recorded and released, so he had to come up with quite a bit of new stuff for this one. As a result, there's a cover tune, a couple "interludes", and a reworking of a much better song about mercenaries. Just the same, the tortured drunk psycho genius shines through,and the attitude and musical interplay save the day. "Wild Age" and "Gorilla" are the standouts, "Bed of Coals" chillingly foretold WZ's emotional state when he knew his time on earth was running short ("too old to die young and too young to die now"), "Play It All Night Long" finds a ray of hope in the middle of hillbilly hell and "Jeannie Needs A Shooter" is a great co-write with a soon to be superstar Boss. All in all, a necessary addition to your Warren portfolio.
Submitted by John H. (Albany, NY, USA)
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 Certain CD!
Everyone should be introduced with Certain Girl to Zevon. It was 22 years ago on our honeymoon in a vintage Tuson cottage style motel. I just thought this was great! Some guy singing like dracula to this insane pop tune. I was hooked...This is the only Cd with this song to my knowledge. Gorrilla... is a good song too.
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 Death and Beauty
Warren Zevon is back with another successful addition to his quirky but solid rock’n’roll output. Exploring ‘boy meets girl’ is the common subject for popular music, but Zevon adds his personal bent. Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School is more like ‘boy with a gun in his pocket meets girl.’ Hey, he may be a sociopath, but he’s sociopath with a heart of gold. On the inside cover is a photograph of a Mack-10 with spent cartridges and an empty pair of ballet shoes lying on the floor. Death and beauty. In the opening cut (Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School) Zevon promises to end his wicked ways and fly straight. The remaining eleven compositions break his promise. Mercenaries cause mayhem in ‘Jungle Work,’ ‘Play It All Night Long’ cures all the world's ills with loud music, and Zevon loses his girl to a hairy bully in ‘Gorilla, You’re A Desperado.’ Of course, all the songs were not written by the patients of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Warren Zevon and Linda Ronstadt are beautiful and romantic in ‘Empty-Handed Heart.’ Bad Luck Streak is backed by Elektra’s killer session band including David Lindley, Rick Marrota and Waddy Wachtel. Usually heard on releases by Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, Zevon lets then cut loose. Top pick: “Wild Age’ is one of the best teen anthems of the 1980’s.
Submitted by a reviewer (Baltimore, MD, USA)
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 Third album blues
Bad Luck Streak is a schizoid country romp in the world of Warren and contains some of his best songwriting. Songs such as "Gorilla, You're A Desperado" with it's image of Zevon being shackled to his platinum chain (Werewolves of London) and the sublime Bill Lee with it's harmonica chorus can probably only be outdone by Wild Age. It's probably closer to Warren's style these days.
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