Werewolves of London

"Little old lady" for the rhythmic changeup it provides.

some of the best phrasing ever in rock on this track - I'll take "I'd like to meet his tailor" just for how it's always just a little surprising, even when you know it's coming.

I'll take "I saw a werewolf drinkin' a pina colada at Trader Vic's and his hair was" just for the audience shouting out "perfect!"

I love the version of this on Stand In The Fire when Zevon screams out...

"You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out! AND HE'S LOOKING FOR JAMES TAYLOR!"

"little old lady"

Probably the wrong place to mention that new Kid Rock song that samples Werewolves and makes it sound like "Sweet Home Alabama".

i went for "tailor" too. just barely over "hairy-handed gent who ran amok in kent."

AH-HOOOOOOO!!

Settle down, slick.

Yeah, it's "hair was perfect" vs "I'd like to meet his tailor."

"I'd like to meet his tailor," but "Draw blood" is a great thrown-off exclamation.

Also, the presence of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie on this, and of "Lindsey and Stephanie" on the preceding Warren Zevon album, should help make the guy welcome to Fleetwood Mac fans who've slept.

This song is so great for karaoke. You get to howwwwwwwllllll.

"his hair was perfect", man!

this morning I'm thinking "you better stay away from him" is underrated - as stating-the-obvious goes, "it'd be best to stay away from the werewolf" vies mightily for Most Obvious Statement Ever, but Zevon delivers it like "you're probably thinking of coming up to that dude, so, like, don't"

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How? Explain how. Besides the sweet home alabama melody, they are NO WAY alike. He did not rip off Warren Zevon at ALL! Kid Rock's version is about spending his summer in Northern Michigan with his girl. THis shit talks about fuckin werewolves. If you say kid rock stole this entire song, your a fuckin idiot. They both took the melody of sweet home alabama, but hell a bunch of songs do. Dip shit.

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songs good, even though he copied it off of kid rock's song

Misty Mundae = Georgina Baillie?

I loved Warren Zevon, until I read his biography "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." What a miserable bastard he was.

And he didn't even write this song by himself, he co-wrote it and then stiffed the poor dude who he wrote it with. When the guy asked for his money, Zevon told him he'd never perform the song live again, saying "You killed the golden goose." What an asshole.

Lon Chaney, Jr.!!!

littalolatagotmutilatalatalaaasnite

yeah he was apparently an asshole, but it's not like his songs exactly hide that fact. he sort of specialized in being an entertainingly self-aware asshole.

(which differentiated him from his cali-rock buddies only in his self-awareness.)

i mean, if you put the eagles, fleetwood mac, jackson browne, linda ronstadt and warren zevon in a room together, picking the biggest asshole is going to be a solomonic task.

this songs been stuck in my head for awhile lately

Worst line, easy: "stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out, Jim."

The use of names-otherwise-unrelated-to-the-song (particularly "Jim") to fulfil prosodic requirements (see also: "If You Fall In Love" by Steve Earle) is a sign of rot setting in.

o/w unimpeachable.

"I'd like to meet his tailor" is worthless without the grunt.

I like those "Jim" in songs - I wish there were more "Mac"s though.

Possibly alone I went for "he was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fooks" coz my dad made us find it the last time he was in London. We actually ate a different place though, as it didn't look that good.

Also like the bit where he goes "ip!".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The whole song is great

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I'd like to meet his tailor

The word for the variety of lung cancer that caused Zevon's death-- "mesothelioma"-- scans perfectly into any number of places in this this song.

this

No piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-hFyjfc-gs

first pop song my son has ever specifically requested to hear. he calls it "the awoo song."

I got the FLACs, they transcoded flawlessly and all the metadata was perfect.

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Is "little old lady got mutilated late last night" the most phonetically pleasing lyric ever written?

Belated vote for "werewolves of London again." Something about that line consistently cracks me up and I can't explain why.

like it's a tiresome nuisance

"there go those dang werewolves of london again! this used to be a nice neighborhood!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrjSqK7xPLE

xp yeah exactly! And that he goes from "I saw a werewolf" to "oh yeah, another werewolf mutilation, what can you do?" like um Warren I think you left out a key part of the story here.

"hairy handed gent" has always been a very underrated line imo. imagine youre writing the lyrics to werewolves of london, what kind of brain comes up with that combo of words as a way to describe a werewolf. just a wonderfully strange choice

"six people in a nursing home across the lake have a novel coronavirus"

"oh yeah, another 1,300 deaths a day, what can you do"

I think I mentioned this on another thread once - the Kidz Bop version of the song changes the line to something like, "Little old lady got quite a scare the other night..."

"Little old lady got quite a scare the other night...

Absolute sacrilege to the incredible alliteration that prompted me to revive. My faith in Kidz Bop deeply shaken

Also shocked that "Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair" got no votes. What a fantastic line.

What is Kent like? Is it a bit like Kentish town?

Is "little old lady got mutilated late last night" the most phonetically pleasing lyric ever written?

It really is a marvel. You have all those L's, the repeated LAY sound in lady-'lated-late, the last three words all end on T's. Perfect phrase.

That is my favorite lyrical line ever, in a song full of gems. The "Lon Chaney/Lon Chaney Jr." couplet must have in some way inspired Kanye's "she got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson."

In the Crystal Zevon book, she reveals that Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel each wrote one verse of the song, but I don't remember who wrote which.