Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (1978) [Audio Fidelity 2013]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 31:34 minutes | Scans included | 1,3 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 1,25 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 693 MB
Mastered by Steve Hoffman | Audio Fidelity # AFZ-166
This 1978 album includes the hits “Excitable Boy” and “Werewolves of London”. It remains the best selling album of Zevon’s career and is responsible for launching him into success.
Warren Zevon’s self-titled album announced he was one of the most striking talents to emerge from the Los Angeles soft rock singer/songwriter community, and Linda Ronstadt (a shrewd judge of talent if a sometimes questionable interpreter) recorded three of its songs on two of her biggest-selling albums, which doubtlessly earned Zevon bigger royalty checks than the album itself ever did. But if Warren Zevon was an impressive calling card, the follow-up, Excitable Boy, was an actual hit, scoring one major hit single, “Werewolves of London,” and a trio of turntable hits (“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” and the title track). But while Excitable Boy won Zevon the larger audience his music certainly deserved, the truth is it was a markedly inferior album; while it had all the bile of Warren Zevon, and significantly raised Zevon’s dark-humor factor, it was often obvious where his previous album had been subtle, and while all 11 tracks on Warren Zevon were strong and compelling, two of the nine tunes on Excitable Boy – “Johnny Strike Up the Band” and “Nighttime in the Switching Yard” – sound like they’re just taking up space. Musically, most of Excitable Boy is stuck in a polished but unexceptional FM pop groove, and only “Veracruz” hints at the artful intelligence of Warren Zevon’s finest moments. It’s hard to say if Zevon was feeling uninspired or just dumbing himself down when he made Excitable Boy, but while it made him famous, it lacks the smarts and substance of his best work.
Tracklist:
01. Johnny Strikes Up the Band
02. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
03. Excitable Boy
04. Werewolves of London
05. Accidentally Like a Martyr
06. Nighttime in the Switching Yard
07. Veracruz
08. Tenderness on the Block
09. Lawyers, Guns and Money
Note:
Mastered by Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Mastering.
SACD ISO
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DSF
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Hi-Res FLAC
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