Saturday 10 December 2011

PRIME MINISTER'S EVENSONG (UNELECTED) Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up

3 comments:

yardarm said...

This should be our national anthem.

mongoose said...

It is a fine and a brave song, mr yardarm. Terrifyingly honest really.

call me ishmael said...

Like many who call themselves creative, Zevon was an arsehole but many of his songs are fine and brave and honest. I saw him in 2000 at warwick, going through the motions and many of his youtube clips are also desultory. His recordings,though, crackle and sparkle with rage-at-ruin, delivered with the virtuosity of the clasical pianist he was.

I thought it was a fitting title for Flashman; he never had much shit to start with, but what little he had is now well fucked-up.