I like Back on the Street too (tho' not as much). The version of "Your Thunder and Your Lightning" on it is great.
Have you heard the version on "For Every Solution There's A Problem?" It doesn't have the manic bass line of the other version, but the guitar on this one is straight out of Link Wray.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the thread where I confess that I own every single one of these albums (in one form or another)
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted for Cowboy In Sweden, but 13 would be a close second.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
The version of "Your Thunder and Your Lightning" on it is great.
absolutely love this. can't remember rest of LP
― jaxon, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Cowboy in Sweden, but The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood to Love and Other Crimes is a great run.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
13 is the last album I've heard. Is any after worthwhile?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, was just about to ask, which of the late 70s records are the best?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
d/ling 13 now
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Standing on the corner with a raggedi-old suitcase by my sideWaiting for a Greyhound bus to come along so I can hook a rideGonna go as far as 14 dollars will take a fool like meGotta find a place where I can hide, you know I must forget MarieMarie
I'm standing on the corner feeling raindrops raise tears down my faceTry and losers tears and knowing that I never should have run the raceNever should have let her built a house of love, it's falling in on meGotta find a place where I can hide, you know I must forget MarieMarie
― oscar, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
shakey, you'll love 13. it's his funk/soul record. horns and heavy drums
― jaxon, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Poet, Fool or Bum. A House Safe for TigersI think A House Safe For Tigers is his last great record. I like some of Back On The Streets, but not all. The rest are patchy, saved only because they are Hazlewood records.
Yeah, that's the other version. Equally great, in it's own way.
― chromecassettes, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh!
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Easy and me and some other guy" kills me every time I hear/think/say it.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't heard all of his albums, but would be very surprised if there would be better than 'Cowboy In Sweden'.
― zeus, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol this album is rigoddamndiculous
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Cowboy in Sweden squeaks past Requiem for me. 13 is horrible, IMO, especially the dud butchering of "I Move Around."
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento LLC (SNM), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like the arrangements on "13", songs are good. My favourite albums are "Cowboy in Sweden" and "Love and Other Crimes", but then they have some of the same songs on them - "Cowboy" is a sort of compilation after all? All of the albums I've heard have good bordering on great things on them, tho some of the early albums are a bit sketchy and demo-like.
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"Back On The Street Again" has "Rider On A White Horse", which is awesome... and "Your Thunder And Your Lightning", "Dolly And Hawkeye" and the title track are almost as good
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
can't really fathom a hazlewood fan bein down on thirteen, great songs on that one
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
... but not very good arrangements
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
not fr everyone i guess, but trx 2 and 3 are pretty prime lee fr me
― bear, bear, bear, Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't even know this existed. Never seen a copy.
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"Cowboy" is a sort of compilation after all?
all albums are compilations of a sort, really. These versions are re-recordings. Hazlewood re-did many of his songs on different albums. 13 is a good example of this.
― chromecassettes, Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
In the beginning there was nothingbut it was kind of fun watching nothing grow
You came walkin' into my lifeCarryin' your own dreamsYou could've beenYeah, you could've been goodThen why were you so goddamn meanBut till you I never had any fun But I'm sure glad I neverAin't you glad I neverBe glad I never owned a gun
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:26 (fourteen years ago) link
They aren't re-recordings though, they're exactly the same. Also, was "For a Day Like Today" actually a Suzi-Jane Hokom single?
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"Cowboy In Sweden" was the soundtrack to a film, I'm pretty sure he used old recordings alongside newer material
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it was some kind of Rhino Handmade type deal originally. I have it, and it's pretty great. (Also $15 cheaper on amazon UK.) Voting for Trouble, though.
― Jeff VoiVoderen is Körgull the Interventionator (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:31 (fourteen years ago) link
He's such a good speaker too - I love the storytelling moments on Trouble... almost as much as the songs. I could listen tohours of that stuff.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Checking track listings, there's actually only one song from "Love and Other Crimes" (I thought there was more) on "Cowboy In Sweden", and two from "Forty"
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i saw him once, and the rambling introductions were as entrancing and musical as the songs. interrupting a story about a house safe for tigers with, -man i made some great movies, or dedicating one of the slow ones to the journalists - and their mothers - if they have mothers
― schlump, Thursday, 26 August 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Cowboy", and the movie is wonderful!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2643/3912133091_b9fe55beba_z.jpg
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Had to go for Trouble, but there's so much great stuff here. Also bloody loads of stuff I haven't heard yet, too (curse these prolific people).
― emil.y, Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't we done this poll before? i remember rambling on about how great Love & Other Crimes was on some thread or other. anyway, that again.
― zappi, Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"Cowboy In Sweden" was the soundtrack to a film, I'm pretty sure he used old recordings alongside newer materialHmm, you may be right. OK. Cowboy is disqualified!
I couldn't find a LH poll. I'd like to see it though.
― chromecassettes, Thursday, 26 August 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Sooner or later / we all make the little flowers grow
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 26 August 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
what is this film y'all are ref'ing
― bring me your finest milksteak and a side of jellybeans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"Cowboy In Sweden"!
― It dreamed to Tom D. of the Caucasus (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
dedicating one of the slow ones to the journalists - and their mothers - if they have mothers
haha, i love that. he wrote some great liner notes, too!
― dell (del), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
wish I could find at least half of these. Of the ones I've heard, its close between Trouble is a Lonesome Town and Cowboy in Sweden. Have yet to hear an album by this guy that I didn't like tbh
Shakey OTM!
― sharkless dick stick (Abbbottt), Thursday, 26 August 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the rhino 3 cd seal "Strung Out on Something New" has 3 of his mid to late sixties albums in their entirety plus various singles and production work he did for otherswell worth getting if you can find it. One track, Guitar On My Mind - DUANE & MIRIAM EDDY, is very much a proto-Some Velvet Morning.
― buzza, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
er, "deal"
― buzza, Thursday, 26 August 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
researching a bit I see there are a couple compilations also titled Love & Other Crimes compilation out there. This is the actual, original LP's tracklist (the original, the one I have and the one that appears on Strung Out On Something New) :
Love and Other Crimes Morning Dew She Comes Running Rosacoke Street She's Funny That Way The House Song Wait and See Forget Marie Pour Man Love and Other Crimes (Reprise)
― chromecassettes, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman
― Mark G, Friday, 27 August 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
wait & see's such a stone cold classic
― schlump, Friday, 27 August 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
2 days!
― chromecassettes, Sunday, 29 August 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 30 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
as predicted!Not bad, though I don't rate Trouble as high as that. It's good, but there are better (Lee Hazlewoodism, Something Special, The Very Special World, and A House Safe For Tigers to name four.
I voted for Love & Other Crimes.
― chromecassettes, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
man, this guy's vinyl got so expensive. i wanted to get a copy of trouble for someone for christmas.
― inimitable bowel syndrome (schlump), Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's crazy, was just looking on ebay the other day
― just sayin, Thursday, 14 October 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Love that Poet, Fool or Bum ad. I was looking through some late 60s/early 70s Rolling Stones recently and there are so many ads in that vein - large type, portentous message, a degree of assumed insider knowledge. It's a style of advertising that's completely outdated, never to return.
Missed this poll but would have voted Requiem. Love the spoken word interludes. I interviewed him in 2002 and it was such a buzz to hear him use pretty much exactly the same tone of voice. He also made quite a dent in a bottle of whisky and a packet of Marlboro Reds.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I was looking through some late 60s/early 70s Rolling Stones recently and there are so many ads in that vein - large type, portentous message, a degree of assumed insider knowledge. It's a style of advertising that's completely outdated, never to return.
yes, great observation! those are the best
interviewed him in 2002 and it was such a buzz to hear him use pretty much exactly the same tone of voice. He also made quite a dent in a bottle of whisky and a packet of Marlboro Reds.
how cool. he is one person i wish i had gotten to meet!
― dude (del), Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
never saw this footage before with lee and studio dudes doing 2 love and other crimes tunes
http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/musique/video/I00006088/lee-hazlewood-en-studio.fr.html
― buzza, Friday, 11 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
omg that is so fucking cool, thank you for posting that!!
― dell (del), Friday, 11 February 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
thta's james burton, hal blaine and other wrecking crew guys, right??
― buzza, Friday, 11 February 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i reckon so
really cool to see them feeling out the arrangements
― dell (del), Friday, 11 February 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks buzza
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 February 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvZKYOoIycg
― buzza, Monday, 7 May 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
I picked up the vinyl of this on Record Store Day and it's stunning throughout. I only knew Hazelwood's most famous work (like the Poet, Fool or Bum upthread implies) but this has opened a whole 'nother world.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
i have to get that, a lot of things i haven't heard. you guys see this? pretty entertaining, verite-style doc of lee and nancy in vegas, 1973. http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/21980153650/lee-hazlewood-nancy-sinatra-live-in-las-vegas
― tylerw, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
they were sold out of the recent comp at Aquarius BAH
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yes:http://lightintheattic.net/releases/739-a-house-safe-for-tigers
― chromecassettes, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
!!!
WANT
― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
F*U*C*K Y*E*A*H!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 August 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAbD1KEg8g
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
what do you guys think of the tracklist for light in the attic's Lhi Years: Singles Nudes & Backsides 1968-71 1. Califia (Stone Rider) 2:47 2. The Bed 2:41 3. Sleep In The Grass 3:21 4. Leather And Lace 3:07 5. If It's Monday Morning 4:01 6. The Night Before 3:18 7. Bye Babe 3:38 8. Victims Of The Night 2:38 9. Chico 2:41 10. Hey Cowboy 3:21 11. No Train To Stockholm 2:22 12. Won't You Tell Your Dreams 3:56 13. Nobody Like You 2:56 14. Trouble Maker 2:31 15. What's More I Don't Need Her 3:36 16. Come On Home To Me 3:01 17. I Just Learned To Run
― mizzell, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
I have been meaning to buy this since it came out - a fair amount of it (a third?) is unfamiliar to me
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nobody Like You is amazing. And I guess Califia was the A side to that single. The rest of the best stuff is basically from other albums.
― wk, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
a fair amount of it (a third?) is unfamiliar to me
yeah i was the same so i picked it up, all really good stuff
this is lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giIHlFg5AcU
― buzza, Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
Regarding the poll I would have gone for Love and Other Crimes, it has an embarrassment of riches and most mere mortals would struggle to have such an abundance of great songs on a best of collection rather than an album. Every Time I listen to That Old Freight Train it reduces me to tears, its a fucking beautiful song.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 24 November 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link