Song of the Day: Fools on the Hill, with Zevon and the Heads

Warren Zevon, Talking Heads and The Beatles anticipating the GOP disaster on the Hill.

In honor of Kevin McCarthy and the GOP fools on the Hill backing—and opposing—him to a standstill, two Warren Zevon recordings: “Disorder in the House” with Bruce Springsteen for his final album and his earlier “I Was in the House When the House Burned Down.” Plus: Talking Heads fighting fire with fire on “Burning Down the House.” And an alternate take by The Beatles (actually Paul’s demo) for “The Fool on the Hill.” Nobody seems to hear him…. Enjoy, then please subscribe—it’s still free. Or even make a pledge to pay if we ever decide to charge!

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Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s atomic bomb movie twisted by the White House and Pentagon), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His 2021 film, Atomic Cover-up, drew extraordinary acclaim, and his current one, The First Attack Ads, aired over hundreds of PBS stations this past fall. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.