Warren Zevon - The Envoy (Remastered & Expanded) (CD 2007)

I love this album it has real touches of humourous genius that Zevon was famous for-or should have been! 'The hula hula boys' is fabulous song about a holiday affair, that could so easily have been a great pop hit if it hadnt been too intelligent and black humoured for that.. All in all a great collection of songs about the witty, dark, diverse subjects mr. Zevon loved.

' I saw her leave the luau
With the one who parked the cars
And the fat one from the swimming pool
They were swaying arm in arm
I could hear the ukuleles playing
Down by the sea
She's gone with the hula hula boys
She don't care about me'

And I especially like the chorus, which is in the Hawaiian language

'The envoy' is pretty good, a proper rock song really, I love 'Jesus mentioned' for its soulfulness 'he went walking on the water..with his pills' about Elvis again,like another brilliant song of his- 'porcelain monkey',on the album 'Life'll kill ya'

'Looking for the next best thing' has a clever double meaning.'Charlies medicine' is a great epitath for a drug dealer, 'Ain't that pretty at all' still has me in hysterics (in a really really good way!) Plus 'never to late for love' is yet another example of Warrens scope, as a gorgeous ballad.

The outtakes are great (though wild thing,done with a shed load of irony, still makes me cringe) but generally this album has not dated at bit,and the 07 version is worth buying for the bonuses, if you're a zevon fan,which you will be!