Learning to Flinch

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Learning to Flinch
Warren Zevon - Learning to Flinch.jpg
Live album by
ReleasedApril 13, 1993
RecordedJune 24, 1992 – October 13, 1992
GenreRock
Length75:40
LabelGiant Records
ProducerWarren Zevon,
Warren Zevon chronology
Mr. Bad Example
(1991)
Learning to Flinch
(1993)
Mutineer
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars link
Robert Christgau(dud)[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[2]
Rolling Stone3/5 stars link

Learning to Flinch is a live solo acoustic album by American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, recorded at various venues in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia and released in early 1993.[3]

Zevon's second live album, it featured three new songs ("Worrier King," "Piano Fighter" and "The Indifference of Heaven").

Track listing[]

All tracks composed by Warren Zevon, except where indicated.

Side one
  1. "Splendid Isolation" – 4:20
  2. "Lawyers, Guns and Money" – 3:22
  3. "Mr. Bad Example" (Jorge Calderón, Zevon) – 3:08
  4. "Excitable Boy" (LeRoy Marinell, Zevon) – 2:41
  5. "Hasten Down the Wind" – 3:41
  6. "The French Inhaler" – 4:22
  7. "Worrier King" – 4:05
  8. "Roland Chorale" (David Lindell, Zevon) – 1:30
  9. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" (Lindell, Zevon) – 11:18
Side two
  1. "Searching for a Heart" – 3:05
  2. "Boom Boom Mancini" – 3:18
  3. "Jungle Work" (Calderón, Zevon) – 4:53
  4. "Piano Fighter" – 4:08
  5. "Werewolves of London" (Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, Zevon) – 4:10
  6. "The Indifference of Heaven" – 4:12
  7. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" – 9:38
  8. "Play It All Night Long" – 3:49

Personnel[]

Production[]

Producers: Warren Zevon, Duncan Aldrich

Charts[]

Chart (1993) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[citation needed] 198

References[]

  1. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Warren Zevon". Robert Christgau.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ http://aln2.albumlinernotes.com/Learning_To_Flinch.html
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