Wanted Dead or Alive

Wanted Dead or Alive Artist: Warren Zevon
Label: One Way Records Inc
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724381904824
EAN: 0724381904824
ASIN: B000002R1R


Release Date: 1996-06-18

Wanted Dead or Alive


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Tracks:

  1. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
  2. HITCHHIKIN' WOMAN
  3. SHE QUIT ME
  4. CALCUTTA
  5. IKO-IKO
  6. TRAVELING IN THE LIGHTNING
  7. TULE'S BLUES
  8. A BULLET FOR RAMONA
  9. GORILLA
  10. FIERY EMBLEMS

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  1. The First Sessions
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  3. Learning to Flinch
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Thank God it was a cheap used disc!.......2007-03-09

I just had to have a copy of Warren doing "IKO IKO".
Other than that, this is a very weird album even for ZEVON.

2 out of 5 stars There's a reason Warren Zevon disowned this........2004-01-08

And it is because "Wanted Dead Or Alive" is an album of an artist still defining himself. "Bullet For Ramona," for example, was carried from the Lyme and Cybelle sessions (see the "First Sessions" CD) and was given yet another reworking before it wound up in the "Midnight Cowboy" movie. There's even a song called "Gorilla," which hints at a favorite topic of WZ's (think "Gorilla You're a Desperado" or "Leave My Monkey Alone"), the animal traits we hide in ourselves.

But like John Mellencamp's "Chestnut Street Incident," "Wanted Dead Or Alive" trapped an artist with a record he probably wishes he could scorch from the face of the planet. Not that it's bad, just that it's a poor representation of who Warren Zevon, in another five or six years, would grow into as a musician. If you really want to hear where Warren found his voice, start with "Warren Zevon" and listen to "Carmelita" and "Frank and Jessie James."

1 out of 5 stars Rough Demo.......2004-01-01

I appreciate Warren Zevon's talents as a musician. However, this first recording is extremely unpolished. The instrumental tones are annoyingly jangled. And the songs are quite forgetable. Even the cover of Iko Iko is nothing special.

After one listen, most music fans will certainly pass on this. That is if you do make it through a listen without developing a migraine headache!

2 out of 5 stars Hard to listen to, but not worthless.......2003-09-26

Most fans of Warren Zevon probably know that he would have been just as happy if this album dissappeared from the face of the earth completely. I can sort of see why, although it is a rather, uh, interesting listen. The most annoying thing about this album is the way he uses his voice. While he does have that familiar deep rich voice Zevon fans know and love, he sings with vibrato way more than he should, making him sound as if he had been cross bred with Joan Baez (actually put your Joan Baez albums on the turntable and turn the pitch as flat as it could go, and you would have a pretty good idea of what to expect from "Wanted Dead Or Alive."). Only for the curious and completists.

2 out of 5 stars

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