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Warren Zevon - A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon - A Quiet Normal Life: The Best Of Warren Zevon on translucent grape LP vinyl. Available from Kilmorna in Listowel.

LP · Rock · 2023 · Rhino / Elektra

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2023 LP on Rhino / Elektra, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Rock shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Warren Zevon's A Quiet Normal Life is on the shelf today: a 2023 LP for anyone who likes their choruses bright, their jokes dry, and their trouble well dressed.

A Quiet Normal Life is a funny title for a Warren Zevon best-of. There is not much quiet here, and normal left the building somewhere between Werewolves of London and Lawyers, Guns and Money. That is the pleasure of it. This is the compact Zevon shelf in one LP: sharp writing, bad decisions, gallows humour, and choruses that behave better than the people singing them.

The translucent grape vinyl is exactly the right amount of unnecessary. A sober black copy would do the job, but Zevon was rarely at his best when things looked too respectable.

2023 Rhino / Elektra translucent grape LP reissue with barcode 0603497837687. A neat one-disc Zevon shelf copy with the essential songs in one place.

Literate rock, bar-room piano, dry humour, folk-rock bite, bright choruses and a permanent shadow behind the grin.