Warren Zevon - Envoy
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Free Music Review: The Envoy
Hit: 5 Stars
I love the music of Warren Zevon. He is an inspiration to us all. He died of Cancer. May his soul rest in peace.Free Music Review: Superb- it really made my day
Hit: 5 Stars
Being a fan of Mr Zevon it was really great to hear from him again, and the bonustracks as a superb gift!Free Music Review: As good as it gets . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
Warren Zevon was just uniquely gifted, and truly missed. This was an exceptional album, front to back.Free Music Review: Finally on CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I own it in LP and now after looking for years I have it New in CD. Compleats my collection!!!Free Music Review: Send the Envoy
Hit: 4 Stars
Warren Zevon once claimed this album was "the Excitable Boy grows up." Instead of weird werewolves or kinky serial killers, we had Government deal makers. In a song that sounds timely even two decades later, Warren Zevon snarls
"Nuclear arms in the Middle East
Israel's attacking the Iraqis
The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
And Baghdad does whatever she please.
Looks like another threat to world peace
for the Envoy."
Not bad for a song written in 1982. This is Zevon's great lost album, which pretty much went into commercial no-man's land when it was first released. (Which probably explains why it had not reached CD till after his death.) When new wave and wild videos were making inroads, Zevon's California rock probably sounded archaic. The swooping synths that spot the CD - and which sound terribly dated now - seem like a concession to that moment. But they most certainly do not mar the terrific songs.
The title track, "The Overdraft" and "Looking For The Next Best Thing" are among some of Zevon's best. Lindsey Buckingham's manic vocals on "The Overdraft" add to the edginess of Zevon's collaboration with novelist Thomas McGuane. It was this kind of songwriting that placed the spotlight on the maturity of Zevon's work. The most telling and intense moment comes via "Charlie's Medicine." Charlie is a dealer who breaks into a Doctor's office and gets killed. Where the Warren Zevon that loved guns and spent more than a little time with foreign substances coursing through his body might have rationalized making a hero out of Charlie, he now makes the realization that it was all a sham.
"Charlie dealt in pharmaceuticals
he sold those expensive drugs.
I gave Charlie all of my money.
What the hell was I thinking of?"
It is a stunning revelation on an album that was - at least for me - a harbinger of the the classic "Sentimental Hygiene." One that album, Zevon was in full confessional mode about "Detox Mansion" and begged you "Reconsider Me." On "The Envoy," he realized that his past worst habits weren't worth keeping, and began to write more emotionally open songs like "Let Nothing Come Between You" and "Never Too Late For Love." I have been waiting a long time for this artistic link of Zevon's to hit CD. It was well worth it.
"Who am I to say I know the way you feel
I felt your pain and I know your sorrow
You could try to let the past slip away
Live for today
Don't stop believing in tomorrow."