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."

[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: