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Five-Star Fridays

Friday, January 27th, 2012

The great Warren Zevon would have been 65 this week. Here’s my favorite:

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  1. #1 |  Robert |  January 27th, 2012 at 11:28 am

    That’s a good one. My own favorite is Accidentally Like a Martyr, which sounds like a Bob Dylan song title but isn’t. Speaking of Dylan, he does a great cover version of Zevon’s Mutineer.

  2. #2 |  gonzostl |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    I think that one is my favorite as well. Although it is a hard career to pick a favorite from.

  3. #3 |  Javad |  January 27th, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    At my wedding, I made the band learn Werewolves…and our first dance was to Mutineer

  4. #4 |  Bob |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    Thank you for remembering a great artist.

  5. #5 |  Mark |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    We played “Let Nothing COme Between You” at our wedding. My favorite song of his is probably “Vost Indifference of Heaven” but it is hard to pick.

  6. #6 |  Charlie |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    Beautiful, I had never heard this before.
    “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” is another great one.

  7. #7 |  Alan |  January 27th, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    I saw the headline before the embed preview finished and Carmelita was the song that instantly popped into my head. One of my all-time favorites as well.

  8. #8 |  Helmut O' Hooligan |  January 27th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    I’m partial to “Excitable Boy” for the dark humor. “Lawyers, Guns and Money” is also fun. RIP Warren.

  9. #9 |  janklow |  January 27th, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    “Carmelita” is as good as Zevon gets. good choice.

  10. #10 |  jhc |  January 27th, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    That’s one of Zevon’s best. It always reminds me of Dylan’s Desolation Row.

    But I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is my favorite Zevon.

  11. #11 |  Todd |  January 28th, 2012 at 11:14 am

    The counting crows do an amazing version of this song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXRfgjiHxUw

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