Excitable Boy

Warren Zevon pairs jaunty, doo-wop-flavoured piano and cheery backing vocals with an escalating catalogue of a young man's misdeeds, from rubbing pot roast on his chest and biting an usherette's leg to far worse. The narrator and chorus wave each one away as the work of an excitable boy, a brilliantly bleak satire of the excuses made for male violence.