Warren Zevon "Nighttime in the Switching Yard"

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There are songs that are so entirely elliptical/laconic/'dry' that I will fully cop to them completely escaping me. There is not one clue in this song as to what it is about or what it means. It makes Joan Didion look like Thomas Pynchon. The rhythm section is utterly amazing on this, and IIRC it includes two people whose names are 'Porcaro'

― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

also what's the significance of Toto-funk making such a big IMPACT on contemporary hip-hop? (is it anything like the way the Lightnin' Rod album ends with a version of "Feelin' Alright"?)

― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

There is not one clue in this song as to what it is about or what it means

"it is about" four minutes long and it "means," i am reasonably sure, that warren needed four more minutes of music to complete his album and he had to come up with something fast.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 20 June 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't this have exactly the same rhythm as "Shakedown Street" by the Grateful Dead and some INXS song??

― chuck, Friday, 20 June 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Shakedown Street" is a little more laid-back IIRC. As for INXS, the Porcaros they could never be

― dave q, Saturday, 21 June 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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