That's a significant understatement

[sirvaliantbrown]

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3107079

"What happened on the sunny afternoon of Nov. 13, 1982, would change the lives of both fighters and the future of boxing."

Because...

"By the time it was over, Kim lay in a coma from which he would never awaken, dying five days later at the Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas."

What happened on the evening of Apr. 14, 1865 would change the life of President Lincoln and the future of the United States.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

That's gonna leave a mark.

 

[Ace]

Significantly overwritten

 

[Joe Williams]

Don't blame him. Blame the guy he borrowed it from.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray Boom Boom Mancini
A lightweight contender, like father like son
He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas
And he put him away in round number one
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating
Seven weeks later he was back in the ring
Some have the speed and the right combinations
If you can't take the punches it don't mean a thing
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
When they asked him who was responsible
For the death of Duk Koo Kim
He said, "Someone should have stopped the fight, and told me it was him.
They made hypocrite judgments after the fact
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back"
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early - hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
- Warren Zevon

 

[pallister]

"Duk Koo Kim" by Sun Kill Moon

looking out on my roof last night
woken up from a dream
i saw a typhoon coming in close
bringing the clouds down to the sea
making the world look gray and alone
taking all light from my view
keeping everyone in
and keeping me here with you

around you now, i can't sleep no more
around you still, don't want to leave yet

woken up from a dream last night
somewhere lost in war
i couldn't feel my feet or hands
i didn't feel right anymore
i knew there I'd die alone
with no one to reach to
but an angel came down
and brought me back to you

i'd rather leave this world forever, baby
than let life go the way it's going

watching an old fight film last night
Ray Mancini vs. Duk Koo Kim
the boy from Seoul was hanging in good
but the pounding took to him
and there in the square he lay alone
without face, without crown
and the angel who looked upon
she never came down

you never know what day's gonna pick you, baby
out of the air, out of nowhere

oh, come to me once more, my love
show me the love I've never known

oh, come to me once more, my love
show me the love I've never known

oh, come to me once more, my love
show me the love I've never known

oh, come to me once more, my love
show me the love I've never known

oh, sing to me once more, my love
words from your younger years

oh, sing to me once more, my love
words from your younger years

oh, sing to me once more, my love
words from your younger years

oh, sing to me once more, my love
words from your younger years

come to me once more, my love

birds gather 'round my window
fly with everything i love about the day
flowers, blue and gold and orange
rise with everything i love about the day

walk with me down these strange streets
how have we come to be here
so kind are all these people
how have we come to know them

 

[write then drink]

zevon was ****ing great

 

[pallister]

I'm all for a Zevon jack. Has anyone read his ex-wife's book "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon"? Great look at a neurotic lyrical genius.

 

[writing irish]

Pete Yorn had a damn good cover of Splendid Isolation on the Nightcrawler album.

 

[pallister]

I was listening to "Roalnd the Headless Thompson Gunner" on a loop on my last trip back home from vacation. What a great song.

His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-***** Van Owen blew off Roland's head

Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son But time stands still for Roland
'Til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg


Also, "Keep Me In Your Heart" off his last album, "The Wind," is an incredible song.

 

[writing irish]

Not sure what the Patty Hearst reference at the end is supposed to mean, but that's one of his best.

I always wondered if "Excitable Boy," with its dead-pan vocals and soulful black chicks in the background, was a style borrowed from post-Velvets Lou Reed or vice versa.

 

[pallister]

Speaking of Excitable Boy, only Zevon could write a rollicking song about a a mental patient killing the object of his affection, digging up her body years later and building "a cage with her bones."

 

[writing irish]

And make it sound as innocent as a 1950s kid putting baseball cards in the spokes of his bicycle.

 

[pallister]

Another great one with some unbelievable lines is "Play it All Night Long." Who would ever think to start a song this way ...

Grandpa pissed his pants again
He don't give a damn
Brother Billy has both guns drawn
He ain't been right since Vietnam

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

Daddy's doing Sister Sally
Grandma's dying of cancer now
The cattle all have brucellosis
We'll get through somehow

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

I'm going down to the Dew Drop Inn
See if I can drink enough
There ain't much to country living
Sweat, ****, jizz and blood

"Sweet home Alabama"
Play that dead band's song
Turn those speakers up full blast
Play it all night long

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Speaking of Excitable Boy, only Zevon could write a rollicking song about a a mental patient killing the object of his affection, digging up her body years later and building "a cage with her bones."

And he raped her and killer her, then he took her home

 

[Joe Williams]

Desperadoes Under the Eaves . . .

"And if California slips into the ocean,
Like the mystics and statistics say it will,
I predict this motel will be standing,
Until I pay my bill."

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Can't leave out "Detox Mansion" with it's reference to a board fave:

Well, I'm gone to Detox Mansion
Way down on Last Breath Farm
I've been rakin' leaves with Liza
Me and Liz clean up the yard

 

[Ace]

Speaking of Excitable Boy, only Zevon could write a rollicking song about a a mental patient killing the object of his affection, digging up her body years later and building "a cage with her bones."

And he raped her and killer her, then he took her home

That song came on the radio with my kids in the car the other day. Their eyes got real big.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Speaking of Excitable Boy, only Zevon could write a rollicking song about a a mental patient killing the object of his affection, digging up her body years later and building "a cage with her bones."

And he raped her and killer her, then he took her home

That song came on the radio with my kids in the car the other day. Their eyes got real big.

That begs the question: could that song even get airplay today or is it just too non-pc?

Same could be said for Queen's "Tie Your Mother Down"?

 

[Ace]

Speaking of Excitable Boy, only Zevon could write a rollicking song about a a mental patient killing the object of his affection, digging up her body years later and building "a cage with her bones."

And he raped her and killer her, then he took her home

That song came on the radio with my kids in the car the other day. Their eyes got real big.

That begs the question: could that song even get airplay today or is it just too non-pc?

Same could be said for Queen's "Tie Your Mother Down"?

It was on a school radio station.