Warren Zevon - Self Titled (w/ guest Patrick from Almost Educational and Make Dad Read Comics)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Patrick from the Almost Educational and Make Dad Read Comics podcasts joins Bill and Brian as we continue Debut Albums January to discuss Warren Zevon's self titled album (1976, Asylum). Often a misunderstood artist, the eclectic singer songwriter found success after falling in with like minded individuals in the mid-70s LA scene, including the producer for this album Jackson Browne. We talk about how Warren Zevon helped teenage Patrick expand his musical palette, why some people view him as kind of a hokey songwriter, and as always a track by track review. Along the way, we discuss Zevon's storytelling balladry, the reliability of oral histories, if Warren Zevon fits in with the mellow mafia, what brunch with Warren would be like, what podcasting in hell would be like (hint: Satan is an Eagles fan), what it takes to be the world's most successful jug player, and the secret to Brian's listening habits!

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	.
0:03.0	I'm
0:05.0	.
0:07.0	. On a small Missouri farm back when the West was young, two boys learned a rope and ride
0:33.8	and be handy with a gun.
0:37.1	War broke out between the states
0:39.0	And they joined up with can trill
0:41.0	And it was over in Clay County
0:43.8	That Frank and Jesse finally learned to kill
0:52.5	Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast I I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today, as you just heard,
0:59.3	we are going to be talking about Warren Zvon off of his self-titled album. Warren Zvon.
1:06.3	We're continuing with our first album's first month January. And I guess maybe a little bit later,
1:14.4	we'll talk about how maybe this is or is not Warren Zvon's first album. Yeah, yeah. But before we do
1:21.8	that, if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different
1:27.1	album of music and just talk
1:28.9	about what makes it great. We're going to talk a little bit about our personal connections with
1:32.9	the music. We're going to talk a little bit about the production and the making of the album,
1:39.4	and then we're going to do a track-by-track review. That all sounds good to me. That sounds like a deal.
1:45.2	You've got a deal, Bill.
1:46.4	Let's do it.
1:47.1	But we're not going to do it alone today, Brian.
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