Zevon, Warren : Piano Fighter - The Giant Years (4-LP) RSD 2025

This new 4 x LP boxset features three albums, Mr. Bad Example, Learning To Flinch, and The Mutineer, recorded during Zevon's second comeback in the years 1991-1995.

Mr. Bad Example is seeing its North American debut on vinyl, while the other two have never previously been available on the format. Mr. Bad Example includes two later period singles, "Searching For A Heart," and "Finishing Touches," Learning To Flinch has Warren running solo and live through all his classic Asylum-era tracks, and Mutineer which consists of home recordings, includes the title track later being covered by Bob Dylan. All three albums are mastered directly from the analog tapes by BERNIE GRUNDMAN.

Tracklist

LP1 side A/B (MR. BAD EXAMPLE - 2008 REMASTER)

A1. Finishing Touches

A2. Suzie Lightning

A3.Model Citizen

A4. Angel Dressed in Black

A5. Mr. Bad Example

B1. Renegade

B2. Heartache Spoken Here

B3. Quite Ugly One Morning

B4. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

B5. Searching for a Heart

LP 2 sides C/D (Learning To Flinch)

C1. Splendid Isolation (Live Version)

C2. Lawyers, Guns and Money (Live Version)

C3. Mr. Bad Example (Live Version)

C4. Excitable Boy (Live Version)

C5. Hasten Down the Wind (Live Version)

C6. The French Inhaler (Live Version)

D1. Worrier King (Live Version)

D2. Roland Chorale (Live Version)

D3. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Live Version)

D4. Searching for a Heart (Live Version)

LP 3 Sides E/F (Learning To Flinch continued)

E1. Boom Boom Mancini (Live Version)

E2. Jungle Work (Live Version)

E3. Piano Fighter (Live Version)

E4. Werewolves of London (Live Version)

F1. The Indifference of Heaven (Live Version)

F2. Poor Poor Pitiful Me (Live Version)

F3. Play It All Night Long (Live Version)

LP 4 sides G/H (MUTINEER)

G1. Seminole Bingo

G2. Something Bad Happened to a Clown

G3. Similar to Rain

G4. The Indifference of Heaven

G5. Jesus Was a Cross Maker

H1. Poisonous Lookalike

H2. Piano Fighter

H3. Rottweiler Blues

H4. Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse

H5. Mutineer