Album · Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon
Excitable Boy is an album by Warren Zevon, released in 1978. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 136 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Werewolves of London”, on 83 lists with a best position of #9.
Excitable Boy, Warren Zevon's third album, came out on Asylum in January 1978 with Waddy Wachtel producing, and it's the record where his cult following finally turned into a real audience. Zevon writes like a man with a stack of dime-store thrillers on the nightstand: short, violent, darkly funny tales where death keeps turning up as the punchline, set to lean, snarling rock and roll.
"Werewolves of London" was the hit, howling its way through six weeks in the American top 40, and the title track, "Lawyers, Guns and Money" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" became the songs he'd be known for ever after. The album went top ten on the Billboard 200, earned a platinum certification and stayed the best seller of his career.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Excitable Boy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Werewolves of London#398 of all time | 83 | #9 | – | 1994–2026 | |
| 2 | Lawyers, Guns And Money | 38 | #56 | – | 1994–2026 | |
| 3 | Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner | 8 | #80 | – | 2007–2026 | |
| 4 | Excitable Boy | 6 | #447 | – | 2011–2023 | |
| 5 | Johnny Strikes Up The Band | 1 | #1905 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.