Music Video of the Day: Werewolves Of London by Warren Zevon (1978, dir. ???)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM

Years before John Landis exposed the American werewolf invasion of London, Warren Zevon was already warning us that native London werewolves were taking over the city.

There! That’s the requisite joke that anyone who talks about this undocumented music video from the 1970s has to make. It also has actual ties to An American Werewolf in London (1981). On the DVD Commentary for the film, David Naughton and Griffen Dunne say they didn’t know why Landis didn’t obtain the rights to use this song since they felt it would have been appropriate for the movie. Then again, what made him or Michael Jackson think that ridiculous quote at the beginning of Thriller would keep people from making accusations that Michael Jackson was involved in the occult.

I’m not sure what else to say that wouldn’t be just delving into the history of Warren Zevon himself except for one thing. If you thought the werewolf from Ozzy Osbourne’s Bark at the Moon was ridiculous, then let me tell you that Zevon can top that.

I highly recommend taking at look at this otherwise unremarkable music video that is made priceless by cutaways to the werewolf just walking around like a normal werewolf on the town looking for a bite to eat.

A Quickie With Lisa Marie: Excitable Boy (performed by Warren Zevon)


Seeing as how we’re coming up on Halloween (yay!), how about a little Warren Zevon?  I love Werewolves of London but I think everyone on the planet has already heard that song a few thousands times.  So, how about Excitable Boy?

By the way, the video today features scenes from Mary Harron’s American Psycho and was originally posted to Youtube by a person who goes by the name of TonyFuckingMagnum.

Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy

He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark
Excitable boy, they all said
And he bit the usherette’s leg in the dark
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy

He took little Susie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
and he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the Home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he’s just an excitable boy