 | Warren Zevon by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.48 Skip the prior albums. Before this, Warren just wasn't ready. Solid proof of a genius on the rise; "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" and "Carmelita."
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 | Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.65 His first truly brilliant album, and a turning point in the Los Angeles singer songwriter scene. And his hair was perfect...
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 | Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.76 A phenomenal weaving of beauty and brutality. Worth it for the stunning "Wild Age" and the duet with Linda Ronstadt, "Empty Handed Heart."
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 | Sentimental Hygiene by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.88 Warren sobers up and delivers. Just as essential as "Excitable Boy," with REM backing him for the majority of the album. Includes his perfect ballad, "Reconsider Me."
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 | Transverse City by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.99 In 1989, so far ahead of its time that most of us wouldn't have known what "I will upload you, you can download me" meant. Includes a seminal Zevon song in "Nobody's In Love This Year."
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 | A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.88 Skip this for "Genius" - or the double "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." Both are better sets and this has an edited "Lawyers Guns and Money," where nothing hits the proverbial fan.
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 | Mr. Bad Example by Warren Zevon
Buy used from: $2.40 His first real misstep in several years, but does contain the acerbic title song and the lovely "Searching For a Heart."
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 | Mutineer by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $8.96 / Used from: $2.84 Starts with the humorous "Seminole Bingo." Ends with the classic "Mutineer." The rest is really sub-par. There are plenty other CD's to go to ahead of this one.
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 | Learning to Flinch by Warren Zevon
Buy used from: $1.48 Live and unplugged, Warren with just a piano, guitar and his harmonica. While good, the shame is the superior live album "Stand In The Fire" is the one that remains out of print.
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 | I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $5.99 Disc one is a full five stars batch from the Asylum albums, disc two covers the best of the next decade. Very powerful stuff.
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 | Life'll Kill Ya by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.78 What a comeback. Five years after his last proper CD, Warren confronts life and mortality with his usual morbid sensibilty and makes his best record since "Sentimental Hygiene."
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 | My Ride's Here by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $10.61 While it's just a hair below "Life'll Kill Ya," this album still shows Warren to be a sharp observer ("Hit Somebody," with pal David Letterman) still capable of the zinger of failed love ("Genius").
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 | Genius: Best of Warren Zevon by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.88 Covers it all in one disc, and every song is essential. An apt title for an American original. Now can we please get "The Envoy" back in print?
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 | The Wind by Warren Zevon
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.98 The bittersweet farewell. If you ain't misty eyed by the last verse of "Keep Me In Your Heart," you're numb as a statue.
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 | VH1 (Inside) Out - Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
Buy used from: $59.99 Heart wrenching and funny, this documents the making of "The Wind." Goodbye old friend.
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