Burt Bacharach and Dr. Dre Collab on New Album!!!!!

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More impressive is Burt Bacharach, America's true musical shape-shifter, who wrote the No. 1 hit "The Story of My Life" almost 50 years ago. Today, when the 76-year-old pop icon isn't playing with his children, 11-year-old Oliver and 8-year-old Raleigh, in his homes in Aspen and California, he's working on a new record, part of which he's co-writing with hip-hop impresario Dr. Dre.

"Three of the four things I've already cut have Dr. Dre drum loops that he gave me," Bacharach said last week from his house in Del Mar, Calif. "It's a challenging, freeing feeling, to take an existing format - like these rigid, four-bar loops - and to see what you can write on top of it. It's hard and challenging too because it does have some restrictions. It's kinda like Hal (David, his longtime collaborator) giving me the whole lyric on 'Alfie' and then having to set that up around it."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, fuck, etc. etc.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Old.

― Ludo (Ludo), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that it isn't a cool story. :)

― Ludo (Ludo), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Translation: "I think it's a pile of dumbed-down shit but that Elvis Costello record didn't sell and I need the money."

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think he's calling it dumbed-down at all.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

and i don't think he needs the money.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i imagine the royalties from "what the world needs now" must be pouring in at $1,000 an hour....

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

When's the last time you heard it on the radio then?

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

when's the last time you didn't hear it on tv?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, 2002 returns.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Raindrops keep falling on my bling bling

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

So, like, am I the only person who has extraordinarily high hopes for any piece of music that these two put together?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

No nick, I am excited. So is the guy that sits next to me at work.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the theory that bacharach is doing this for the cash is ridiculous....like that's the MOST OBVIOUS way he's going to make tons of money a collaboration with Dr. Dre...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

soundtrack/advert deals got Bacharach financially secure for life, yeah. I don't have very high hopes for this record, but y'know, if it sucks, it'll suck in a more interesting way than most of the stuff that sucks.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll see what we shall see. Or hear.

― Nowell, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Has Bacharach done anything decent in the last 25 years or so? I have Burt's box set and the last disc is pretty spotty, to say the least. I can't imagine some drum loops helping his cause that much.

― darin, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the same Burt Bacharach who, in listing his favorite versions of songs he wrote, mentioned Elton John and Kiki Dee's rendition of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart?" Not that he isn't a genius, of course. I'd pay to hear Eminem sing "Me Japanese Boy."

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(beer-spit)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I read a dre interview recently where he was kind of dissapointed because he had hoped that he would actually be working in the studio with BB, but Burt just wanted some loops. I think a real collaboration would have been way more interesting. Dre is not slacking at all right now, He plays Piano a couple hours a day and is learning theory so that he can score films. He said that he was not going to actually drop a score for another couple years, he wants to be the best in the game. If his hip-hop track record is any indicator, I bet he will be.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

inevitable headline: "do you know the way to south central?"

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah in the first issue of scratch in the dre interview he said he gave some barebones beats to burt bacharach and hoped to do more with him and i was like, WTF!

― peter $.., Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Elton and Kiki's "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is classic -- but Burt didn't write it. Needless to say, I'm a little confused.

Also, that first cut on the Costello record is incredible.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

*All* of the Costello record is pretty damn great.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 16 September 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You think *you* were confused? Swear to God, Burt listed EJ & KD's "Breaking..." (which he didn't write; his is better). Wish I could remember where and when I read this. An acquaintance who knows someone who knows him says Burt probably does think he wrote it. Maybe he was being funny and laughing at the sloppy fact-checkers.

― mottdeterre, Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

*All* of the Costello record is pretty damn great.

There must be at least one exception to this: Costello's ugly voice

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, god, yes. I've said/written/argued forever that if Costello had tried go the "My Little Red Book" route instead of the Dionne/ballad route, that record would have been uniformly brilliant. As it is, it isn't. But it has its moments.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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