Even his three best records ( Warren Zevon, Sentimental Hygeine, and LifeвЂ™ll Kill Ya ) were very inconsistent. If this seems unfair, criticizing a talented songwriter whose records often struggled to sell 100,000 copies, it must be said that the evidence for that statement is overwhelming. Something Crystal Zevon never tells us, though-and something we come to discover through this recent batch of reissues-is that the dirty secret behind ZevonвЂ™s Underappreciated Genius narrative was that most of his records were actually kind of bad. He burned bridges, wouldnвЂ™t play even the simplest moves of the game, made enemies, and drank himself stupid. played on his records so why doesnвЂ™t anyone know his name?вЂќ The answer, as we come to find in the book, is simple: Warren Zevon. The newly published biography by his ex-wife, IвЂ™ll Sleep When IвЂ™m Dead, reads like a how-to in commercial suicide (step one: start drinking step two: keep drinking), and one begins to wonder, while flipping through his pages, that perhaps it would best be marketed as a mystery: вЂњeveryone thought he was a genius he had talent to spare he had major label backing and a celebrity patron everyone from Bob Dylan to R.E.M. Of all the contenders in rock history, the quasi-underground songwriters beloved by critics but overlooked by fans both casual and devoted, Warren Zevon was perhaps his own worst enemy. Werewolves Of London (Alternate version)ДЎ1.

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