Funny Songs Top Ten: Down in the Mall (#6)

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Good evening! Glad to be back. And I’m glad to give you another song that I personally find humorous. No, this one doesn’t fill the grooves with the absurdities that some of the others have, but I still chuckle. Plus, look who it’s by! #6: Down in the Mall - Warren Zevon Of course if I can find an excuse to use a Warren Zevon song I’m going to! And if I can’t find an excuse, I’ll make one! This song is from 1989, and I’ve noticed how freaking DATED it is. We have a mall in town that’s half empty. There’s one across the river that’s about 90% empty. And one up in Indianapolis that is 100% empty. Still, this celebrates the malls of the 80s, along with the consumerism-gone-rampant that prevailed (and still does) in American life (“you buy everything you want, and then you want more”). And, of course, Zevon did it with some of his classic zingers, promising to “spend all the money that the government doesn’t take” and put the purchases “on a charge account we’re never gonna pay.” You’ll hear Zevon a lot next month thanks to the perennial Halloween song “Werewolves of London,” but my taste in his music runs far beyond the ah-oohs. Down in the Mall Written by Warren Zevon Recorded by Warren Zevon From Transverse City, 1989 Up on the escalator: