Burt Bacharach teams up with Dr. Dre for protest album

Ananova ^ | September 30, 2005 | ananova

[SpringheelJack]

Burt Bacharach has teamed up with rapper Dr Dre for a new album of passionate protest songs.

Bacharach, 77, known for classic pop songs like Alfie and Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, says several tracks are critical of President Bush.

Dr Dre provides drum loops on three of the tracks on the album, At This Time, while other contributors include Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright.

Tracks on the album, due out on October 24, include Please Explain, Where Did It Go?, In Our Time, Who Are These People, Can't Give Up, Go Ask Shakespeare and Dreams.

Bacharach said: "People ask why a man who has been known for writing love songs all of his life is suddenly rocking the boat.

"I had to do it. This is very personal to me, and this is the most passionate album I have ever made."

A friend of Bacharach said: "Burt's pissed at the administration, concerned about the world he is leaving to his children, and you can feel it."

[SpringheelJack]

Are you ready, kids? Burt Bacharach's rockin' the boat and smashin' and dashin' the Prez!!!

[Zeroisanumber]

With Dr. Dre producing, I'm sure that it'll be a slick album. Hopefully it will be worthwhile, some of the best music ever made has been made by people who are pissed off about politics.

And no, I don't care what message Burt Bacharach is trying to send with this album. It's mostly irrelevant.

[slowhand520]

Hmmm. An artist writing a song that bashes the President. That is truly groundbreaking. Has it been done before? Unfortunately these scholarly "artists" have their politics dictated to them by MTV and Jon Stewart. A pop artist that writes a song that supports the president and this country would truly be ground breaking

[bengalsrule]

These people ceased being interesting a couple of years ago. Now they are just a bunch of losers.

[Question Liberal Authority]

some of the best music ever made has been made by people who are pissed off about politics.

Agreed. Who can forget CCR's classic "There's A Bathroom on the Right"?

[SpringheelJack]

Oh, for all I know it could be the album of the decade. I just think it's the best odd couple story I've read in ages. When I saw the headline my first thought was that this had to be a put-on.

[Zeroisanumber]

If Jack White can produce Loretta Lynn, then Dre can produce Bacharach. I just hope it's good, Burt's getting pretty old and I'd hate for his last effort to be crap.

[Last Dakotan]

They produce nothing that is needed.

What the world needs now is l.....

[softwarecreator]

Oh, for all I know it could be the album of the decade.

What decade?

[Revolting cat!]

Who's Dr Dre (his real name, I'm sure!)? Another [c]rapper? Burtie killed his own career in or around 1968 with a Broadway flop, a breakup with both Hal David and Dionne, and he hasn't been back since and won't be back...

[11Bush]

Guess you don't listen to much Country and Western music. May not sing an 'I Love George' song, but they know how to support the troops and the ideals of this country.

[F.J. Mitchell]

To hell with Burt!!! This is one more perfect example that the words "older" and "wiser" are not always in harmony.

I just hope that Angie isn't in sync with him on this one-now that would be tramatic.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds to me like one too many raindrops fell on this moron's head. Burt. Americans aren't impressed. Now you know how we felt when your butt buddy Clinton and his wife were running the country.

[SandRat]

Time for me to BURN all the Burt Bacharach vinyls and cassette tapes in the house, shed, garage.

[GVnana]

Burt Bacharach is concerned about his kids? Somehow, I just don't see this.

[Tribune7]

A man from Mexico came north looking for work. He went to a landscaper but the landscaper wasn't hiring. He went to a cafe but the cafe wasn't hiring. Then, we went to a woodworking shop.

The owner looked him over carefully. Then he looked him over again.

Then he asked " Do you know the way to sand, Jose?"

[Logophile]

Time for me to BURN all the Burt Bacharach vinyls and cassette tapes in the house, shed, garage.

That was my first thought too—then I realized that I no longer have any of his stuff.

[SandRat]

I have to check because I know I still have the Herb Albert Tijuana Brass LPs

[Revolting cat!]

Well, I would have thought that Burt would Back Iraq!

.

(I'd credit the FReeper who came up with this one originally, but I don't recall his handle.)

[Boazo]

Don't burn the vinyls,they make great clay pigeons.

[Hilltop]

77 and can't form a good stool, but yet he has an opinion?

His opinion and music sucks.

That's his legacy, music sucked, opinions sucked.

Hey Burt, schlep some tunes on cable and leave politics to younger Hollyweird asshats.

[SandRat]

Yeah, I forgot about that.

[Tribune7]

Yeah!

[CaptainK]

Another old coot with a young wife procreating during his grandfather years.

[tongue-tied]

This is somewhat depressing. I used to have to learn his songs in band (trombone, 1970's....I think I could still play a acale) and now he's a butthead?! That is just crap, on so many levels. I can see Dylan, maybe even the 'Stones making a "protest" song....but Burt Bacharach??? Unless his style has drastically changed, it'll be like SEVERE elevator music.

Like punk underwater...like rap with a high pitched voice and a lisp...maybe country screamed at you in deep bass with a severe beat...what am I missing here?

[Revolting cat!]

The only interesting thing about Burt now is the question: did he or did he not bonk Marlene Dietrich when he was her accompanist in his twenties and she in her sixties (or higher)?

[Logophile]

I have to check because I know I still have the Herb Albert Tijuana Brass LPs

I have the TJB Greatest Hits on a CD in the van. The kids love their music. Fortunately, Herb Albert hasn't gone political on me yet, so far as I know. But if he comes out in protest ("Bagdad Taxi"?) that CD is history.

[Hilltop]

The sexiest album cover ever was Whipped Cream and Other Delights.

Hope you have the vinyl. Play it on a Dual turntable with a Pickering needle wired into a Sansui receiver shipped back from "Nam" and have a cold one.

[SandRat]

Shifting the subject just a little; finished the book "One Nation Under Therapy" and it is good. Tears up the NEA, the Liberal Grief Counselors, the Self Esteemer Crowd, the entire lot of psychobabble liberals.

[Boazo]

[SandRat]

Since I don't have a turntable any longer I'll just open a LONG-Neck and look at the Album Jackets.

[syriacus]

The wrong song, for the wrong time

Burt (who's "more passionate than ever")
Thought the tunes he had written were clever.
Thought he'd strike up the band
And enlighten our land
But forgot voters push their own lever.

[Boazo]

Isn't Herb Albert dead?

[Revolting cat!]

He don't look dead to me here!

[weegee]

I'm still waiting for the album that denounces Islamonazism. The beheading of kidnapped civilians, the raping and murder of 400+ school children, the deliberate act of crashing 2 planes full throttle into buildings with thousands of people, the use of teenage suicide bombers to kill people in marketplaces, etc.

Every muslim is not an Islamonazi or supporter of such horrors but muslims are at war with Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Jews around the world. It is NOT the religion of peace. There is no conspiracy to keep the Imam down.

[slowhand520]

I said pop music. I know country music is as patriotic as can be. And I do listen to country. In fact I'm an Okee from Muskogee (not really) but I like Merle Haggard.

[weegee]

Americans were "so" much safer under Bill Clinton:

Burt needs to STFU!

[GVnana]

Another old coot with a young wife procreating during his grandfather years

Yeah. That would cause one to lose perspective!

[weegee]

If Jack White can produce Loretta Lynn, then Dre can produce Bacharach. I just hope it's good, Burt's getting pretty old and I'd hate for his last effort to be crap.

It could well be another classic:

[Logophile]

Isn't Herb Albert dead?

I have no idea.

BTW, I got his name wrong: it is Alpert.

[kb2614]

What would my life be without celebrities!! I shudder to think of it!! How would I think?? Would I even be able to tie my shoes or speak in complete sentences??

sarcasm off

[Revolting cat!]

Or a classic like this one!
(Theme goes well with Burt's and the "Dr's "Philosophy of the World")

[CaptainMorgantown]

Who's Dr Dre (his real name, I'm sure!)?

Dr. Dre (real name: Andre Young) is probably the most influential gansta rap producer. In the late 1980s, he was a founding member of NWA (Straight Outa Compton), In the early 1990s he made a solo album called The Chronic. He's been the producer for many of the best know rappers. His protegees include Snoop Dogg, Tupak Shakur, and Eminem.

Since the mid-90's, the only crimes he's committed have been crimes against morals and taste. Despite the general repugnancy of much of his musical message, he has genuine talent and the stuff he produces is a lot more melodious than most other music in the genre. In the words of Maxwell Smart: "If only he had used his genius for niceness instead of evil."

[Wilhelm Tell]

Bullets keep fallin' in the 'hood,
But me 'an my crack ho's got it good,
Sellin' crystal meth...

[FlingWingFlyer]

"Well, I would have thought that Burt would Back Iraq!"

COFFEE ON THE MONITOR ALERT!!!!! ROTFL!!!

[Cobra64]

Simple answer: dementia

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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T'is more than just-a...

Raindrops that keep-a...

Fallin' on his Head,

...perhaps...?


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[Major Matt Mason]

So, Burt will be slumming it in the minor leagues of music with Dr. Dre. Maybe he should go for the exacta and hook up with a crappy, noise-metal band like System of a Down, in a kind of salute to the horrid state of American popular music. The kids are alright, indeed.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

They could team up with Pat Boone. I hear he's "In a Metal Mood."