The Burt Bacharach Discussion Forum

Strictly for comic relief:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/art ... le_id=2976

I found it interesting (and I'm happy about it) that they put Burt and Hal together and didn't just put Burt's name alone. Of course, they should be #1, but that's a given.

That Beck has written some real classics through the years, hasn't he?

If any more proof was needed that we're living in the age of philistinism then this ludicrous poll supplies it. I wonder how truly great songwriters like Cole Porter and Irving Berlin would have fared in this list if they were still alive - languishing about 30 places behind the likes of Bono, Sting and the guitarist from the Smiths no doubt. I remember in 1999 an English publication carried out a similar poll amongst British journalists for the all time greatest popular composers of the 20th century and Bacharach was in the top 10, about 7th or 8th as I recall, which has to be a more accurate reflection of the enormous contribution he's made over the last 50 years.