Warren Zevon : Genius - The Best of Warren Zevon
Genre: Rock	Dates: 1978-2001

One of the strangest, most intriguing, and hell-raising songwriters in rock and roll history. No one-disc set is going to do The Excitable Boy justice, but this is as close as one can get to Zevon’s essence in as compressed a form as possible. A psychologist would have a field day with what the songs say about male behavior and thinking, but, screw that—just luxuriate in the mastery of a tunesmith capable of the following lines: “...if California slides into the ocean/Like the mystics and statistics say it will/I predict this hotel will be standing/Until I pay my bill.”  If that’s too subtle for you, how ‘bout, “He took little Suzie to the junior prom/ ‘Excitable boy,’ they all said/Then he raped her and killed her/Then he took her home/ ‘Excitable boy,’ they all said/After 10 long years they let him out of the home/ ‘Excitable boy,’ they all said/Then he dug up her grave and made a cage with her bones....” Still not enough? One more try: “...I’m hiding in Honduras/I’m a desperate man/Send lawyers, guns, and money, Dad/The sh*t has hit the fan.” I am not the first to say it, but this stuff ain’t for the faint-hearted.

Playlist:

1. Poor Poor Pitiful Me
2. French Inhaler, The
3. Carmelita
4. Hasten Down The Wind
5. Werewolves of London
6. Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
7. Excitable Boy
8. Lawyers, Guns & Money
9. Interlude No. 1 / Play It All Night Long
10. Certain Girl, A
11. Looking For The Next Best Thing
12. Detox Mansion
13. Reconsider Me - (single version)
14. Boom Boom Mancini
15. Splendid Isolation
16. Raspberry Beret - (with Hindu Love Gods)
17. Searching For A Heart
18. Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
19. Mr. Bad Example
20. Mutineer
21. I Was In The House When The House Burned Down
22. Genius