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!

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