Warren Zevon's 1976 self-titled masterpiece is a black-hearted pop delight, shrouded in humor and irony and possessing a steely intelligence, a winning wit, and an unusually sophisticated melodic sense. Sarcastic, dark, cunning, irreverent: Zevon's debut is all that and more, its literate and melodic songs an aural journey through the American underbelly that’s on par with Raymond Chandler’s noir novels.
From the deranged romp of "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" and the tongue in cheek masochism of "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me," to the American West mythos of "Frank and Jesse James" and the starkly beautiful "Desperadoes Under the Eaves," the album rolls along with an insightful and unrestrained sense of purpose.
Now, hear it like never before on this amazing analog pressing, cut from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI! |