Transverse City (1989)... Warren Zevon's Attempted Cyberpunk Album | Not Lost Media

That one time Warren Zevon wanted to make a Cyberpunk album—before Billy Idol did.

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Way beyond "Werewolves of London", Warren Zevon one time tried to produce an album based after William Gibson, Thomas Pynchon, and even the geopolitics of the Cold War. It was a "2010 Sci-Fi Project". The strange menagerie of Rock, Folk, and technological concepts would eventually develop into the under-remarked "Transverse City (1989). It was Warren Zevon's tour of a Cold War world gone mad and introspection of his own psychology. The excitable boy that he was. In interviews, Zevon called the album a, "Checklist of humanities ills." So has Transverse City grown malignant since those Cyberpunk statements or has the world turned upside down?

The album was intended to be "Dense" and was a studio project from top to bottom. On it, Zevon was able to enlist contributions from Jerry Garcia, David Gilmour, J. D. Souther, Neil Young, and even actor Michael Ironside contributed to the album's centerpiece "Run Straight Down". Songs like "The Long Arm of the Law" and "Gridlock" zoomed through the social chaos of Zevon's imagined future. "Turbulence" and "They Moved The Moon" examine longing on both sides of the Cold War, Afghanistan and nowhere. "Down In The Mall" and "Nobody's In Love This Year" are economic statements which might still hold weight in personal matters today. There's no Lawyers or Money here, but there is a sort of headless underground. Zevon's sight aimed far on the album and, as a musician's musician, he may have a uniquely Zevonian prediction for the outlandish world of 2010.

So, beyond neon vistas and the data processing, won't you come on down to Transverse City?
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Credits:
- Intro Animation by Scott Luís Masson/SLM Illustration: https://slmillustration.com/ / Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/slm_illustration/ / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScottLMasson
- Intro Music by Ben Elliott: https://twitter.com/BenElliottSound
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Video Sources (Support the creators/uploaders):
- Italo Calvino: un uomo invisibile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jdiCztTLQw
- Warren Zevon "Walking In A Winter Wonderland" (Live In KC, MO, Nov 1990): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYO9tcZIt4
- Warren Zevon feat. David Gilmour - Run Straight Down (Official Music Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvbqOLu_jg
- Billy Idol - Heroin (Original): https://bit.ly/3Gu2xOi
- Tomorrow’s Girls Music Video but Only Donald’s Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oY9X3fOQTk
- David Bowie - The Hearts Filthy Lesson (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-ztKj0cwg
- South America: A New Look (1985) - South America in 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqeo0nlqCI
- Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation [1989]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qie1lZbANYA
- William Gibson on the Otaku spirit: hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWijD8pBKo
- William Gibson - Cyberpunk - BBC Late Show © 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc
- Wonderland - Dutch documentary on Los Angeles Music Scene 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXTHOMlrd4Q
- Warren Zevon on The Everly Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txtjsbd0pA0
- Warren Zevon, Raspberry Beret, David Letterman Show, 1990 HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDRZuRZSNc
- Warren Zevon - Searching for a Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZWf_hB6244
- Soviet Afghan War - RAW FOOTAGE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLEjGtrvt0
- Russia in Afghanistan 1979 to 1989 - Part 2 of 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX56h7dStqw
- Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9LrHoCNBRk
- Great American Traffic Jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7FchyrDd4
- Computer Store in the Mall - 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYotgJBlJiE
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Music:
Warren Zevon - "Walking In A Winter Wonderland" (00:00-00:24)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Bohemian Street Jam (Simmin')" (00:24-04:02)
Ben Elliot - "Midnight Dream Oil" (04:02-04:18)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Night Owl" (04:18-09:28)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "ElectriCITY (09:28-14:38)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Transit Angst" (14:38-15:06)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Epicenter (EpiCentre)" (15:06-21:16)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Urban Underground" (21:16-23:35)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Red-Development" (23:35-24:56)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Rush Hour" (24:56-26:53)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "Chain Reaction" (26:53-29:12)
Jerry Martin (SimCity 4 OST) - "By The Bay" (29:12-32:23)
Warren Zevon - "Walking In A Winter Wonderland" (32:23-33:05)
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