History YMMV / WarrenZevon

** After his death, a bunch of artists made a tribute album titled ''Enjoy Every Sandwich'', after a quote from his last appearance on Letterman. It includes covers by Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/BobDylan, Pete Yorn, Music/TheWallflowers, his son Jordan, and a surprisingly good cover of "Werewolves of London" by Creator/AdamSandler.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Excitable Boy". The title character rapes and kills his prom date, drives her corpse home afterward, is committed for 10 years, then when he's let out, digs up her grave and makes a cage with her bones.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GeniusBonus: Lee Ho Fook's Chinese restaurant of London did not have beef chow mein on its menu at the time Warren Zevon wrote "Werewolves of London." Implying that the werewolf in question was going out for...something else at the restaurant...

* MagnificentBastard: The narrator and title character of "Mr. Bad Example".

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYFRzcgAM4w Genius]]" is probably his most highly-regarded song, lending its name to his "best-of" album. It features an intricate lyric structure (including one line in each chorus that only rhymes with it its counterpart in the other choruses), an arrangement that combines a string quartet with a rock rhythm section, and a subtle use of AutoTune that gives it an otherworldly feel. According to his biography, the string players - a group of jaded session musicians with no stake in the piece - were in tears by the end of the recording session.

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: When Warren was diagnosed with lung cancer and told he had months to live he started recording a final album and called in every favor he was owed. That is how you get Music/BruceSpringsteen to play guitar and Creator/BillyBobThornton and Music/TomPetty to do background vocals on your album. The full list of all the people who performed is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_(Warren_Zevon_album)#Personnel here]].

** "The Factory" includes the lines "Kickin' asbestos in the factory" and "Breathin' that plastic in the factory." Mesothelioma is a rare form of lung cancer commonly associated with exposure to asbestos.

** "The Factory" includes the lines "Kickin' asbestos in the factory" and "Breathin' that plastic in the factory." Mesothelioma is a rare form of ung cancer commonly associated with exposure to asbestos.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After his diagnosis, songs like "My Ride's Here", about a last ride in a hearse, "Don't Let Us Get Sick", and "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" took on a whole new, terrifyingly sad meaning. In addition to that, the third to last album he released was entitled '''''Life'll Kill Ya'''''. Holy crap.
** Don't forget "My Shit's Fucked Up". (Which, fittingly, was on ''Life'll Kill Ya''.)
** Also, the title track mentions dying of the "awful, awful diseases." He died of pleural mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the lung).
** "The Factory" includes the lines "Kickin' asbestos in the factory" and "Breathin' that plastic in the factory."

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: When Warren was diagnosed with lung cancer and told he had months to live he started recording a final album and called in every favor he was owed. That is how you get Music/BruceSpringsteen to play guitar and Billy Bob Thornton and Music/TomPetty to do background vocals on your album. The full list of all the people who performed is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_(Warren_Zevon_album)#Personnel here]].

-->"From Youngstown, Ohio came Boom Boom Mancini\\

Whether it's a night in Paris, or a Fresno matinee."
** The song was released about a year before Paris Hilton's [[HomePornMovie sex tape]]. It wins extra hilarity points for being the exact reference Warren ''would've'' made.

* SignatureSong: "Werewolves of London"

** In Jackson Browne's eulogy for him, he relates an incident where Zevon was in an airport accidentally overdosing on a Chinese herbal remedy. His last thought before passing out: "Lord, don't let me die and have Jackson Browne write my eulogy."

** Music/LindaRonstadt had a hit with Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me".
*** The title track of her album ''Hasten Down the Wind'' is a Zevon cover.

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: When Warren was diagnosed with lung cancer and told he had months to live he started recording a final album and called in every favor he was owed. That is how you get Music/BruceSpringsteen to play guitar and Billy Bob Thornton and Music/TomPetty to do background vocals on your album. The full list of all the people who performed is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_%28album%29#Personnel here]].