Comments on: Yelling ‘Fire’ in a Crowded Room http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/ culture blogging for the good of the planet Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Polyvios http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-11852 Polyvios Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:02:13 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-11852 Interesting... Interesting…

]]> By: Kevin Wolf http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2284 Kevin Wolf Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:17:55 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2284 Surely, somebody other than me loves <em>The Envoy</em>? While that second album probably has pride of place in my Zevon collection, sometimes I just want to hear the later less polished Asylum albums. <em>The Envoy</em> has a couple of my favorite Zevon tunes: "Ain't That Pretty at All," "Charlie's Medicine," and a few marvelous love songs. This album was reissued on CD on the same day as <em>Fire</em>. Play it loud! Surely, somebody other than me loves The Envoy? While that second album probably has pride of place in my Zevon collection, sometimes I just want to hear the later less polished Asylum albums. The Envoy has a couple of my favorite Zevon tunes: “Ain’t That Pretty at All,” “Charlie’s Medicine,” and a few marvelous love songs. This album was reissued on CD on the same day as Fire. Play it loud!

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2240 Tom Watson Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:53:13 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2240 I'm partial to: My Shit's Fucked Up Dirty Little Religion Ourselves To Know (from life'll kill ya) Genius My Ride's Here (from my ride's here) Dirty Life & Times Keep Me In Your Heart Prison Grove (the wind) Great stuff... I’m partial to:

My Shit’s Fucked Up
Dirty Little Religion
Ourselves To Know
(from life’ll kill ya)

Genius
My Ride’s Here
(from my ride’s here)

Dirty Life & Times
Keep Me In Your Heart
Prison Grove
(the wind)

Great stuff…

]]> By: Jason Chervokas http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2237 Jason Chervokas Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:07:26 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2237 He never recorded a collection of songs so good or coherent from start to finish, lyrically or musically. And that includes Excitable Boy. But there are gems scattered throughout his late albums. I'll take the weird "Something Bad Happened to a Clown" and "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer," as well as the remarkable cover of "Back in the High Life Again" but "Mutineer" is the only late Zevon song that I think holds up next to the best of the self titled record. He never recorded a collection of songs so good or coherent from start to finish, lyrically or musically. And that includes Excitable Boy. But there are gems scattered throughout his late albums. I’ll take the weird “Something Bad Happened to a Clown” and “For My Next Trick I’ll Need a Volunteer,” as well as the remarkable cover of “Back in the High Life Again” but “Mutineer” is the only late Zevon song that I think holds up next to the best of the self titled record.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2234 Tom Watson Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:27:21 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2234 I'd highly recommend the late Zevon stuff as well - Life'll Kill Ya, My Ride's Here and his final all-too-mortal Wind. Plenty of worthy material there. I’d highly recommend the late Zevon stuff as well - Life’ll Kill Ya, My Ride’s Here and his final all-too-mortal Wind. Plenty of worthy material there.

]]> By: OutOfContext http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2232 OutOfContext Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:13:35 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2232 I took the opportunity to listen to the album again this afternoon and, more impressive than the lyrics, I found the music so melodically satisfying. Perfect is not a metric I use, but damn good is. I hit Napster-to-Go for all the post Excitable Boy stuff I could get just to see if he ever did anything so good again. A week's worth of listening at least. Thanks Jason for sparking a musical career tour of an old favorite. I took the opportunity to listen to the album again this afternoon and, more impressive than the lyrics, I found the music so melodically satisfying. Perfect is not a metric I use, but damn good is.

I hit Napster-to-Go for all the post Excitable Boy stuff I could get just to see if he ever did anything so good again. A week’s worth of listening at least. Thanks Jason for sparking a musical career tour of an old favorite.

]]> By: Viscount LaCarte http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2220 Viscount LaCarte Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:27:59 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2220 Gotta hear that second album...thanks for the tip. Gotta hear that second album…thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Jason Chervokas http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2219 Jason Chervokas Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:06:57 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2219 My favorite song on that album is The French Inhaler...the language is a little more pedestrian, but so true an dramatic. You said you were and actress and yes I believe you are. I thought you'd be a star. So I drank up all the money with these phonies in this Hollywood bar These friend of mine in this Hollywood bar and of course she says: "So long, Norman" My favorite song on that album is The French Inhaler…the language is a little more pedestrian, but so true an dramatic.

You said you were and actress and yes I believe you are.
I thought you’d be a star.
So I drank up all the money with these phonies in this Hollywood bar
These friend of mine in this Hollywood bar

and of course she says: “So long, Norman”

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2218 Tom Watson Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:26:26 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2218 "Don't the sun look angry through the trees... Don't the trees look like crucified thieves?" Doesn't git any better 'an that... “Don’t the sun look angry through the trees…
Don’t the trees look like crucified thieves?”

Doesn’t git any better ‘an that…

]]> By: Jason Chervokas http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2215 Jason Chervokas Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:22:25 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2215 That first Asylum album is great. Perfect even. Those Hollywood boozer songs--The French Inhaler and Desperados Under the Eaves are great, but there's really no songs on the album that are less than excellent--Carmelita, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Frank and Jesse James, Hasten Down the Wind, Mohammend's Radio...what a collection of great songs. A career's worth in one record. It's well recorded and beautifully played too. That first Asylum album is great. Perfect even. Those Hollywood boozer songs–The French Inhaler and Desperados Under the Eaves are great, but there’s really no songs on the album that are less than excellent–Carmelita, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, Frank and Jesse James, Hasten Down the Wind, Mohammend’s Radio…what a collection of great songs. A career’s worth in one record. It’s well recorded and beautifully played too.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2214 Tom Watson Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:03:05 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2214 OOC - my all-time fave Zevon song. Also proof of why never become a pop star.... OOC - my all-time fave Zevon song. Also proof of why never become a pop star….

]]> By: OutOfContext http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2207 OutOfContext Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:47:55 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2207 "And if California slides into the ocean Like the mystics and statistics say it will I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill" I wore out a cassette of his '76 eponymous album. “And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing until I pay my bill”

I wore out a cassette of his ‘76 eponymous album.

]]> By: Tom Watson http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2176 Tom Watson Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:19:26 +0000 http://newcritics.com/blog1/2007/04/15/yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-room/#comment-2176 I revere Zevon, as you know; named my personal blog after one of his classic lines. I saw Zevon on that tour about 10 days later, at the Capitol Theater with Mink DeVille opening up. I remember the sheer madness of Zevon of that era on stage - he left it out there, let's put it that way. I gotta get this disc. I revere Zevon, as you know; named my personal blog after one of his classic lines. I saw Zevon on that tour about 10 days later, at the Capitol Theater with Mink DeVille opening up. I remember the sheer madness of Zevon of that era on stage - he left it out there, let’s put it that way. I gotta get this disc.

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