Warren Zevon - Mr Bad Example (Jewl)
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Artist: Warren ZevonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Music Label: Rhino Encore
Soundtracks:
- Finishing Touches
- Suzie Lightning
- Model Citizen
- Angel Dressed in Black
- Mr. Bad Example
- Renegade
- Heartache Spoken Here
- Quite Ugly One Morning
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
- Searching for a Heart
Free Music Notes for Mr Bad Example (Jewl)
Free Music Review: Actually, a rather good example...
Hit: 5 Stars
...of how to make some good rock 'n roll. Warren Zevon was always the unconventional one; while other artists from the Southern California scene in the seventies were making country/rock (such as his pals the Eagles), Zevon was doing his own thing. Sure, there's country, and oh yes, there's quite a bit of rock 'n roll. But there's a large amount of folk there, too. And blues. And jazz. Some classical music. And...well, and something that's just plain WEIRD.
I've been waiting for MR. BAD EXAMPLE to come back in print. I've been wanting to hear it. I'm glad to say, it was well worth the wait. The album kicks off with the gloomy rocker "Finishing Touches," which includes the memorable black prayer that was typical of Zevon's work: "I can die, you can die, we can die trying," and ends with the whistful and hopelessly romantic "Searching for a Heart" ("They tell me love requires a little standing in line/But I've been waiting for you lover for a long long time"). In between, it's quite a ride. The Civil War gets re-vamped and re-lived on "Renegade;" Dwight Yoakam joins Zevon (as he would later in his career) on the country-shuffle "Heartache Spoken Here;" Zevon gets rather sarcastic and nasty on "Model Citizen;" and quite a bit gets done in Denver after death.
It's an album chock-full of what made Zevon so famous in the first place: dark, nasty wit, coupled with killer melodies and off-beat vocals. The fact that his son harmonizes on several tracks also shows that MR. BAD EXAMPLE was a bit of a transitional album: Zevon the rocker was becoming Zevon the icon. And that is what makes this album pretty much essential: it perfectly captures that crossroads between rocking out, freaking out, speaking out, and growing up. This is rock 'n roll made into art; something Warren Zevon was pretty darn good at.
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