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by carmel62
Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:58 pm
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25
Replies: 16
Views: 4624

Re: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25

This discussion evoked an important cultural divide, which is the distinction between “high” art and “low” art. Generally high art refers to museum paintings, most classical music and most poetry, for instance paradigmatic and well-known artistic cases as the works of Cézanne, “Hamlet”, “The Waste L...
by carmel62
Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:22 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25
Replies: 16
Views: 4624

Re: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25

Regarding Holden's remark on the Beatles (of which I was unaware), the critic certainly showed incredibly poor judgment, which casts a shadow on his judgment on Bacharach too. Or maybe Holden was just trying to èpater les bourgeois.
by carmel62
Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:54 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25
Replies: 16
Views: 4624

Re: Rhino's "Look of Love" turns 25

Stephen Holden: "He's always been underrated... He's kind of like the 60's Cole Porter, if you can imagine Cole Porter with a beat and a lot of syncopation... His music is on the level of Lennon and Mc Cartney". Enough said.
by carmel62
Wed Mar 22, 2023 11:52 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Conversation with Mitch Alborn
Replies: 1
Views: 3304

Conversation with Mitch Alborn

Great inteview. Sorry if it's been posted here before.

by carmel62
Mon Nov 21, 2022 6:52 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Bob Dylan
Replies: 12
Views: 9788

Re: Bob Dylan

Here's the complete extract: “From here” (the song 'Pump it up') “he” (Costello) “went on to play chamber music, write songs with Burt Bacharach, do country records, cover records, soul records, ballet and orchestral music. When you're writing songs with Burt Bacharach, you obviously don't give a fu...
by carmel62
Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:52 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Bob Dylan
Replies: 12
Views: 9788

Re: Bob Dylan

After all Dylan himself wrote a song with Carol Bager Sayer. He obviously didn't give a fuck to what people thought at the time :lol:
by carmel62
Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:48 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: Bob Dylan
Replies: 12
Views: 9788

Re: Bob Dylan

This is from splicetoday: "His (Dylan's) fairly inscrutable examination of Elvis Costello’s 1978 “Pump It Up,” is at first a critical look—“The song has a lot of defects, but it knows how to conceal them all”—but then considering Costello’s body of work, compliments him. “When you are writing s...
by carmel62
Sun Jun 14, 2020 10:06 am
Forum: The Burt Bacharach Forum
Topic: 5 new songs by Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian
Replies: 13
Views: 23893

Re: 5 new songs by Burt Bacharach & Daniel Tashian

The best among his latest. I just love it.