Excitable Boy Excitable Boy Excitable Boy is the third studio album by American musician Warren Zevon. The album was released on January 18, 1978, by Asylum Records. It includes the single "Werewolves of London", which reached No. 21 and remained in the American Top 40 for six weeks. The album brought Zevon to commercial attention and remains the best-selling album of his career. A remastered and expanded edition was released in 2007. "Excitable Boy" and "Werewolves of London" were considered macabrely humorous by some critics. The historical "Veracruz" dramatizes the United States occupation of Veracruz; likewise, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" is
Warren Zevon were the first Grammys of Zevon's thirty-plus year career. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. A tribute album titled "" was released October 19, 2004. Zevon's son, Jordan Zevon, was the executive producer of the album and performed "Studebaker", a previously unfinished composition by his father. A second tribute album, "Hurry Home Early: The Songs of Warren Zevon" ("hurry home early" is from the song "Boom Boom Mancini", on the album "Sentimental Hygiene") was released by Wampus Multimedia on July 8, 2005. On February 14, 2006, VH1 Classic premiered a