as his backing band, and finally The Wind, which is an album about dying from a dying man.) (I also chose to write about three seminal albums in Zevon's catalog as a whole – Excitable Boy, which made him a star for a short but spectacularly insane period, Sentimental Hygiene, because it saved his life and brought him back from the professionally dead, and mainly because it is his most kick-ass rock record, tracked with a young, rough-and-tumble R.E.M. It would be easy to merely list the songs in which I dedicate essays.
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I decided to write a series of essays based on the music and lyrics of Warren Zevon because it needed to be done and funnily enough when I looked around I was the only one standing there and…well…thanks to Backbeat Books, the rest is history, as the result, Accidentally Like A Martyr – The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon was published on June 5. In his own words, here is James Campion's Book Notes music playlist for his book Accidentally Like a Martyr: "Campion's adoring book will speak mostly to Zevon's fans, and will encourage them to listen to his music anew." James Campion's biography of Warren Zevon, Accidentally Like a Martyr, innovatively consists of essays about particular songs and albums by the singer-songwriter. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. I don’t recall what surgery he’d had or whether it was emergency or elective - he wasn’t my team’s patient - but it struck me as a horrid waste that he lay there dying when he could have truly been “saved.In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. I saw a JW dying from blood loss in a recovery room, once.
In other words, not everyone who undergoes a hip replacement requires a transfusion, and surgical teams have especially tried to accommodate Jehovah’s Witnesses. Careful surgical technique also minimizes blood loss. There is some physiologic reserve in the bones and spleen, too, of course. Then, the loss is diluted and the removed blood returned, through the same still-connected tubing, to replace what actually was lost. For decades, now, it’s been standard to help JWs and such get through bloody elective surgeries by starting the case with removal of a pint or two of blood, keeping the removal line attached, and adding an IV fluid to replace the volume. Sinead O’Connor’s version is transcendent. He was such a genre-hopper that you can hear him pretty much everywhere.Īnd it can’t be said often enough – Nothing Compares 2 U is one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever recorded.
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I’d have a hard job of defending his stuff from the late eighties onwards(although I remember being excited when my dad got me the Batman soundtrack) – I’m not sure he ever really understood why he was so good, and once he lost it it stayed lost, but at his best he was ahead of his time in bolting neo-psych onto pop he paved the way for every vaguely psychedelic, experimental pop band from then on – I hear him in everything from Opal/Rain Parade/Mazzy Star, mid-80s Kate Bush, Foals, Grimes, TV On The Radio, Everything Everything, through to stuff like Kendrick Lamar and Kanye, and most definitely Pharrell Williams, who’s probably his closest contemporary. No wonder he always wanted to work with Kate Bush – similar sensibility, and similarly divisive. I still think Purple Rain is one of the most original albums a mainstream artist’s ever released. I grew up with Prince playing in the house and Purple Rain and Around The World In A Day were probably the first examples of ‘grown-up’ music that I really took to.
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