The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

I agree with your choice for the best version for the exact same reason. The coda is unique to her version and really is one of the most beautiful parts in any song since the beginning of time. I cant believe you have written it off as garbage. Even if you feel that way Thelma Houston's version must...

The Jimmy Webb penned " Didn't We" is amongst one of my favorite songs of all time and rivals even Bacharach's at his best. I find I like almost every cover i hear. But who did it best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG7kgweASmM Engelbert Humperdinck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6ubG...

anyone have this demo? it was on youtube but was taken down.

A hit in every sense. AT 1:10 when Dionne sings things look bad for me my heart literally skips a beat. One of Burts gems.

Fading into you sounds strongly like Walk on By in the first few chords. Alot of the other nuances are Bacharach like as well. I love the ending Whoever wrote Candles in the Rain is a grammy worthy songwriter. I started listening to critique the comparisons to Bacharach but got caught up in the song...

I just realized what it is I like about Lana. She reminds me of Laura Nyro. Powerful unconventional writing that are slightly dark as well as having the ever changing chord structures and rythm changes. Young people singng about death is always noteworthy. Take a listen to Born To Die. https://www.y...

I am curious to know how you found out about Lana as an "old person"? Do you gravitate to any particular songs? Pitchfork? I'm being (only slightly) ironic calling myself old, but you'd have to be outside of popular culture entirely not to know anything about it, if only due to the fact s...

I think her songs " Gods and Monsters" is one of the most powerful songs ever written when you get into the words.The song is downright blasphemous but I think this is what the narrative of unbridled and unrestrained hedonistic pleasure sounds like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkgMbiVi_3E

I'll avoid addressing the question of whether or not we're intellectually and ecologically doomed and just say I enjoy what I've heard of Lana's music but I'm not sure yet how much I like her. She's got great style, certainly one she's cultivated, and her music references a lot of things I like (Du...

I can`t imagine what she`d be "too much" OF, but I am hereby declaring myself ineligible to pass judgment on music not meant for me. In my seventh decade, I have no business making snarky remarks regarding what genuinely moves twenty-somethings. As a parting thought, `though, I must say I...

Every now and then a singer/songwriter comes along that you know is going to be special. This girl is haunting me. She is a troubled soul and her songs can be quite dark but the melodies are epic and the writing is captured epiphany. I hope anyone who takes the time out to listen feels treated to so...

king goffin medley(easy on the singers)

The Drifter up on the roof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM1k-S86nE bobby vee might as well rain until september http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--sg1balZrE the chiffons one fine day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvyOqKhKWQ4 the tokens he's in town( just for the last heavenly note) http://www.yout...

In rememberance of this awesome wordsmith!


The Shirelles will you still love me tomorrow

Bobby Vee Take Good Care of My Baby

Maxine Brown

This piece which i played in the 9th grade piano recital is often said by many to be like looking inside heaven. Franz Liszt consolation no. 3 shows Liszt exercising alot of restraint on his tendency to be very heavy handed with notation and just allowing us to marinate in the tranquil beauty of the...