Bonus Song Thursday - Warren Zevon "Werewolves of London"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Brian and Bill welcome Patrick from the Almost Education and Make Dad Read Comics podcasts to continue talking about Warren Zevon. This time we eschew the long conversation about a whole album to talk a Zevon's biggest and most memorable song "Werewolves pf London" off of the album Excitable Boy (1978, Asylum). We discuss how to rationalize this song as part of Zevon's whole career, whether or not this is a novelty, Kid Rock sampling the song, what happens when you put two Lynyrd Skynyrd live CDs on shuffle, and when Zevon drifted away from the mellow mafia. We also read some listener emails and share their music, podcasts, and trivia about Dennis Wilson and SNL!

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0:00.0	I saw a were a wolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
0:23.6	walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
0:27.6	He was looking for the place called Lee Hooghaw Fuchs
0:32.6	Furn to get a big dish of beef child Oh, who?
0:40.6	Where was the London?
0:43.7	Ah, who?
0:45.1	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
0:51.7	Hi.
0:52.6	Oh, yeah, I'm Bill.
0:53.7	I'm Brian. I forgot our name. Wait, don't I'm Bill. I'm Brian.
0:54.4	I forgot our name.
0:55.7	Wait, don't I say something there?
0:57.5	Do I usually say that?
0:59.6	Yeah, you're like, and welcome to it.
1:02.2	I thought I said that later.
1:04.3	Yeah, well, normally I go, I'm Bill.
1:06.5	Then you go, I'm Brian.
1:07.8	Oh, yeah, I said it right there anyway.
1:10.1	I'm drunk right now, folks.
1:12.2	It's okay.
1:12.8	I did it in the wrong order.
1:14.0	Do you just want to redo that?
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