Why the hell is this guy mostly unknown with so many great songs? "Your sweet love" is a pop masterpiece, i go searching and he has loads of great tunes, wtf. So underrated ...
He was mostly a producer and only really came out of the "shadows" with the duos with Nancy Sinatra who´s songs he almost 100% wrote and produced. His solo singing career never got the success he deserved mostly because his style of music somehow became out of fashion. in the 1970s. If he would have started his solo career maybe 5-6 years earlier he would have probably become enough exposure to become a mass legend, so after the mid 1970s he was mostly forgotten. He still is a legend and was among musicians for many decades. Never forget BelaBs song produced in the 1990s (Das erste Lied des Tages, the first Song of the Day) where Bela B revived the career of Hazlewood again.
I first moved to SF in 1989 and it still had some of it's magic then. I fell in love with it instantly. I considered it home for a very long time. It saddens me now that it's gone.
Yeah...SF has been eviscerated by the techie slum-lords and all the politicians corrupted by said techie over-lords. All the culture, freedom and independence have been turned upside-down. SF is populated with a bunch lemmings now.
Found - think im comming down by lee hazzlewood in the movie 2020 Love and Monsters 💯 Fallout meets big Bugs cool movie Made in Qld oz the lad is from them movies trapped moving walls to survive and chased monsters 4 get name movie anyway enjoy .
i think he writes with whimsy, plays with words like it doesn't matter. reminds us it's just trite pop music. he's a bit of a west coast serge gainsbourg. it's warholian
Yes a great voice, but in context I would say the compositions are first rate, and sometimes even great. Remember, these songs we composed in a age before pervasive irony. He is emotionally naked here in the late 60's slash early 70's unironic way that is no longer cool, obv, but it's still interesting how uninterested Lee Hazelwood is in being cool. It's like he wallows in uncool until uncool is tempered into a harder state that can suddenly cut through most cool things, so now Lee Hazelwood cuts down the deepest, and is therefore the coolest. Dig? And then post-modernism happened, so Lee and his brutal honesty went out of fashion. I'd like to think we could achieve a post-ironic world someday. maybe in the next decade. Or next century, that would be okay too. Just wait until I'm gone, okay?
Trouble Maker is quite the intelligent song actually - it does come off as a harsh straight faced song against anti-war protesters, but the small line about him being executed via Crucifixion really would give pause to many war-hawks, who tend to also be more religious as well. It's gets its point across very well, without being preachy. Probably the smartest anti-war song I've heard.
