![]() ![]() Also dropped “West” from “West Hollywood.” Another meaning-changer. ![]() ![]() Had she kept the gender as written, the tune would’ve been wickedly subversive in its time, but no Top 40 hit. Still, it’s really too bad Ronstadt switched the song’s gender here because that changes the male/female power dynamic in the worst way (a woman-pummeling dude ain’t no “credit to his gender”). But Ronstadt’s slightly cleaned up version had real sexual verve, and her unstoppable voice, which gave the song staying power. But Zevon knew that-that’s how fucking smart he was, and his had the requisite weatherbeaten vocal tone to match the literate and deceptively simple sentiment. Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner Live Version 11:18: 10: Searching For A Heart Live Version 3:50: 11: Boom Boom Mancini Live Version 3:17: 12: Jungle Work Live Version 4:54: 13: Piano Fighter Live Version 4:08: 14: Werewolves Of London Live Version 4:09: 15: The Indifference of Heaven Live Version 4:13: 16: Poor, Poor Pitiful. With gender references reversed, it was made a hit twice: first as a top-40 hit for Linda Ronstadt, then over a decade later by Terri Clark, whose version topped the Canadian country charts and reached the country top five in the U.S. Zevon’s version, with all the suicide and domination in the lyrics etc., was ironic self-mockery passed off jokingly as narcissism yet still narcissistic as hell, on purpose. Listen to Poor Poor Pitiful Me by Warren Zevon, 16108 Shazams, featuring on 70s Singer-Songwriter Essentials, and Warren Zevon Essentials Apple Music. 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' is a rock song written and first recorded by American musician Warren Zevon in 1976. And god love fright-haired Wachtel and his bong-smoke-clearing power chords that bestow the tune with indelible weight and oomph. Hear that.Ī sweet acoustic drone and cowbell opens to Ronstadt’s hip-swinging sexuality and Waddy Wachtel's anthemic four-on-floor riff, and you can visualize coke-gacked grins on faces of the post-Laurel Canyon mellow mafia all over this-a weirdly beautiful thing in hindsight. Golden-eared producer (and Ronstadt manager) Peter Asher kept the spirits alive in a way that transcended said sterility because the man understood songs. This version of “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” didn’t top songwriter Warren Zevon’s godhead version, but damn if it ain’t peerless in a ’70s radio-rock, sterile production, hit-single sorta way. Tucson’s own human siren song was already an itchy-palmed dream for boys (and girls) by this ’78 single-a household name really, no doubt helped by a fetching Time Magazine cover story that featured a shot of a scantly-clothed Ronstadt sipping steaming sauce over a stove, sexualized for the American mass consciousness. Watch the video for Poor Poor Pitiful Me from Warren Zevons Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. ![]()
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