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In the film Isi / Disi (2004), starring by Santiago Segura and Florentino Fernandez , and in which he participated as a guest star Joaquin Sabina the ineffable , appeared from time to time one of those songs that take you to ask for their responsible, an electric spark of magic Beatle which ultimately was the real hidden secret of comedy. The song was "It's Only Love" and through her met Gurus, a Catalan group who had begun his career in 1998 with In the darkness, the record before us. Extremely difficult to find nowadays, it's dark can be defined as a Martian, the glorious product of a group that the manner of Spongetones , turned their love of the sixties in a round album, full of happy songs and powerful, a kind of fascinating flash-back to recover the innocence, freshness and vitality of the early records the Beatles.

The Gurus endeavored to continue the journey begun by the Brincos four decades ago, the same year that the music press through the roof put a hard-to call it that, as A week on a bus engine of the Planets . The pop lens and the face came at a festival of sixteen songs, and though the album is one of the most exciting and humble works of English music, at the time this outpouring of enthusiasm, honesty and true passion was completely out (so much so that I could not even find a cover image .) It was a shame that almost nobody will notice, for example, on songs like "In the Dark", which is what opens the disc and that retrieves and furiously uninhibited spirit of the best Brincos, pop high quality the vocal harmonies and choruses are vital. "You will be part of me fall in love to those who enjoy albums A Hard Day's Night of the Beatles, who always have felt hypnotized for songs like "I Should Have Known Better" or "Happy Just To Dance With You." In short, the devotees of those melodies that at times dating back to adolescence and make them forget the cynicism accumulated over the years. It also smacks of British invasion "escape" with a guitar sound more inspired in the years after 1965, when hatched reign Rubber Soul and Revolver .

The counterpoint is provided by the ballad "Words for her," oozing disappointment and nostalgia, a feeling that hurts off and parked the optimism to the hope of better times, and "When you're not," a of the best songs on the album, another influence appears remarkable group, the Raspberries : a sinuous melody with hints of what McCartney unstoppable extending over an addictive guitar line. Exciting, is a milestone to remember and a song at the height of the highlights of Eric Carmen . It is then when "Thousand moons back," absolutely energy to remove weight issue, festive, simple chords but direct and effective, a kind of Undertones tempered by the sensitivity of the Mersey Beat. "Toyland" is pure Lennon the early seventies, a song so lazy as charming that moves between melancholy pianos and guitars clean. Sensational, like "Inside, Out", which wears the colors of a psychedelic light to "Ticket To Ride" and yet still genuinely jubilant pop.

But there are still amazing songs like "Hotel Quail", one of my favorite vitamin and addictive to the absolute limits, and alternating between melody and chorus without giving break hardened with the addition of some fabulous arrangements trumpet the "Penny Lane." In an album that shows so much culture and love of pop, could not miss the ragtime song and music-hall drops to Kinks -but so did the Beatles once in a while, in fact this song reminiscent of "I'm Only Sleeping" on Revolver - because "Let me drag along with me" could have made the best Ray Davies the following drink ten liters of English tea. Incredibly good. However, "Mr. Magi" takes up the challenge and is best if possible, bouncy and cheerful to the enthusiasm and, of course, a legendary chorus of those who call attention even at that time is a little confused. But beware, if this was not enough, "Rainy Days" is going to make us fall in love with this album, he looks like a ghost of Lennon song and McCartney at his best, in fact, that roughly "used to have" makes us think it's Lennon who is singing and that we put goosebumps, a highlight of the album not only for their quality, but also a symbol of their idiosyncrasies, "a kind of vibrant" And I Love Her "English. The Raspberries are back with the beautiful "La Calle 33", notable for their freshness, for his honesty, but above all for the tune sung as if it were not so bad but whose sharp hook will make us very difficult to get rid of it. "Because history is not of yesterday" is amphetamine-beat, dark, somewhat similar to the mysterious caverns that make up the Merseybeats , but as always, above all 100% Beatle. "Song of a poor boy" puts an end to an extraordinary record in a light, funny and charismatic.

There is no beating about the bush. In the darkness is too good for so many years have been forgotten and, like in the child's country of fly the Impossible, a work born of both an outstanding talent as a series the true love of music (that kind of discs that will never speak in Rockdelux , as we say around here ), and so out of touch at the time that only the passage of time will put in place. The Gurus continued to record more albums, each time adding guitarfish and psychedelic doses of songs and switching to English, to reach its substantial but last rock album, Now (2008), little or nothing to do with In darkness.

The Gurus. In the dark (1998)

White Worm In My Cats

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The disk catalog number T2580 Capitol, scheduled for December 1966 was never published. Smile going to be the most ambitious of the Beach Boys , an unprecedented milestone in the history of music. According to a statement sent to Capitol record stores the same Christmas, shortly after Smile was first postponed to January 1967, "Have a happy and sounds really delicious folder inside." They had printed about half a million folders and many other indoor full color brochures with photos of Guy Webster. For the first time on the cover did not appear the group, but an illustration of artist Frank Holmes of naive and colorful strokes. Shop vendors offering boxes smiling smiles on their windows. Behind them was a list of twelve songs y, ahora sí, una pequeña foto del grupo en la que faltaba su único elemento imprescindible: Brian Wilson, que prefería quedar en la sombra como el director de su obra.

Varios meses después, el 10 de abril de 1967, Paul McCartney y su novia Jane Asher utilizaron un jet cedido por Frank Sinatra para viajar hasta Los Ángeles y, en el transcurso de una estancia de un día y medio, hacer una visita a Brian Wilson en el estudio, donde seguía retocando, haciendo y deshaciendo las canciones que tenían que formar parte de Smile . El orgulloso McCartney, que por entonces estaba a punto de acabar con los Beatles Sgt Pepper's your , played the piano "She's Leaving Home" and put an acetate Brian Wilson with "A Day In The Life." Play the last song was the final nail for a project that was born vigorous and enthusiastic, but was lost in his own labyrinth until Brian found himself unable to bring to fruition. Derek Taylor, press officer of the Beach Boys, wrote on May 6, the death certificate of the album: "Every piece of music beautifully designed, finely wrought, welded notable inspiration in recent months by Brian and his craftsmen The Beach Boys, has been discarded. "

was starting from this now one of the most beautiful legends of pop: the ghost of an album that could have changed everything wandered over the years until, in 2004, Brian Wilson, accompanied by the Wondermints , decided to officially and publicly give for the first time. Had begun to develop the record in May 1966, after Pet Sounds obtain a unanimous critical acclaim, but not commercially, and their intentions were spurred on by the shock that caused the single Good Vibrations in October that year. Aupado definitely the genius category, so obsessively focused on his next goal: to create a disc that will provide A new standard in pop music. A collection of songs that inspire love and good feelings, music and full of religious mysticism, a bunch of "teenage symphonies to God." It set the bar itself as high as possible. However, at that time could hardly imagine that Smile take nearly forty years to come to light.

The reasons for failure were numerous and were stacked on each other. The fragile spirit of Brian Wilson, a visionary in the study but a person insecure and vulnerable, finished bowing to negative stimuli all had to face some of which arise the moment but others hatched for years. In addition, we talk about a period in which the pop had developed to such an extent that major groups were competing to achieve the final disc, the reference work that would mark a before and after. Brian lived this race in a sickly, determined not to be overcome and devote all their strength to get there first. The pressure quickly began to have an effect on their behavior. The drug abuse was a consequence snapshots maniacal search of beauty. Still, despite the fact that Brian had built in his home a tent to smoke hashish, and that whenever he could spoke of the virtues of LSD to expand the consciousness-he helped to feed the legend of his fondness for hallucinogens: "They smoked marijuana and drank LSD. smoked a lot, every day. I helped to get me a background in music, but the experience scared me, "he said recently," the fact is that all this is no longer a topic, because Brian just tried psychedelic drugs. Hers were more like amphetamines, namely Desbutal.

The Desbutal helped him to ignore the stress, but also helped increase the paranoia of a Brian began to see enemies everywhere. With a house in which gramophone discs had only the Beach Boys and Phil Spector , his first goal could not be other than the author of "Be My Baby", whom he revered and envied in equal measure. He began to obsess even more-with-him and his music and hear every day, without ceasing, "Be My Baby." I expected to see hidden messages in their songs, personal threats and explain the mystery of the universe. One night he came home very frightened, after going to the movies to see diabolical plan of John Frankenheimer film, beginning with the phrase: "Hello, Mr. Wilson." Spector was convinced that he had devised that film (for worked for Columbia, though in reality the film was Paramount) to warn of the danger that if he dared to beat him with his new album. Another day, journalist David Dalton attended a group photo shoot and was surprised by the friendliness with which Brian had received him, who ended up inviting him to their home. Once there, surrounded by writers who repeated over and over again the initial percussion "Be My Baby", and intrigued by the strange attitudes of Brian, who seemed to expect something from him, ended the run when the leader of the Beach Boys made it the following question: "What are you doing here, Phil?". I thought the journalist was Phil Spector, dressed to enter the study and steal their musical secrets. On the other hand, spent his time trying to find the microphone that he thought his father, Murry Wilson , had been posted for stealing his ideas and songs.

The paranoia generated by amphetamine was something that also helped to feed Van Dyke Parks, the young writer and musician who had known Brian by producer Terry Melcher -involved in many of the large disks sunshine pop end of the decade, and he hired to put lyrics to the songs he was writing for Smile . This is what Van Dyke Parks said the press officer of the Beach Boys, who had previously worked with the Beatles: "Derek Taylor was sent here to spy on behalf of the Beatles to see what was cooking on the West Coast. I Derek provided them listening to Smile devise before Sgt Pepper's . " Interestingly, in interviews conducted following the official publication of Smile in 2004, still maintained the same thesis, though slightly varied: "From what I understand, some members of the Beatles went to study not taking advantage of Brian stood and listened to some tapes of what he was doing. " Fortunately, Van Dyke Parks also provided a wonderful lyrics, ethereal and imaginative enough for music that would receive them.

Another effect of Desbutal were the delusions of grandeur. In the words of journalist Jules Siegel : "A big part of what happened was for amphetamines. You can not stop, you express all your thoughts. The problem is when you succumb, the problem is simply ugly and stupid and trivial it seems all . All you see are the mistakes. " Brian repeated again and again the shots, was delivered to thousands of versions of each song, write and rewrite and then it threw out all to start over. pirate editions Smile chaos song showing elongated, shortened, combined with each other and with different titles. Brian's ideas swarmed with such intensity and in so many directions that he could not keep on rails and be satisfied. Yet from the outset was clear that their methodology would change. In "Good Vibrations" opened a new way of working, based on small fragments separate record, in principle very different from each other, which made sense when they met in a single composition. The changes of pace, delicious melodies and vocal harmonies combined frantically "Good Vibrations", the song became a smashing success and something never seen before. Brian set out to push the boundaries of this formula and apply it to a record together. The assembly of the various parties would result in a disc with artistic and spiritual message so intense that people would be happy to listen to him.

Obviously, this directly affected the spirit of the songs. The desire to "transmit vibrations loving people" and create "a sound that had an enduring charm, in the words of Brian, along with the new method of combining fragments, they did point to a totality for which needed very different concept of composition that he had used before. His acclaimed contained songs Pet Sounds majestic, a beauty without limits, but were built linear with a beginning, an end and a very marked choruses, one after another to finish the record. The formula varied only slightly in the two instrumental pieces, "Let's Go For Awhile" and "Pet Sounds", which created atmosphere, expanded to all parties and hinted at thousands of details. This was precisely the mold Smile. A hard bizarre, absolutely bizarre at the time and too advanced for what prevailed at the time, obsessive, self-dump, really conceptual, but not sterile despite digressions all focused on the melodies and the beautiful sounds. A hard, in short, avant-garde intentions, unprecedented, and that went far beyond the Sgt Pepper's that despite the new sound scheme remained a traditional set of songs. In addition, Van Dyke Parks and Brian planned it was also a concept album about the American, something that listening to recordings could only be perceived from a more intuitive view that understanding, and only a few songs. The sweaty and epic "Cabin Essence," for example, dealing with American railroad construction, conveys this sense of distant centuries, work on the rails. However, Van Dyke Parks, who needed money, he got tired of waiting for Brian out one day to study hard and left the project completed in April 1967. But give him time to take note of Brian fragmentary ideas and apply them to your first solo album, Song Cycle , published in 1968, a small jewel of Baroque sounds.

Months earlier, in November 1967, the other Beach Boys returned from a successful tour in Britain, planned following the success of "Good Vibrations." When they entered the study and found the tapes from the new album, his immediate reaction was to oppose head on which their leader was planning. Reassembled in the sweetness of victory, they believed, and may not be wrong-that Smile would not be understood by the public and become a failure. Mike Love Smile subsequently define as "an album about the madness of Brian." Brian found himself all alone and facing his teammates, who kept complaining about between takes during the dementia study sessions in which incessantly repeated the same fragments, and even Dennis and Carl , in principle more related to his brother, failed to support him to the constant harassment and demolition that came from the reactionary group, represented by Mike Love . In this issue, joined him for embezzlement complaint the group filed against his own record label, Capitol, in late February 1967-and ended with the creation of Brother Records, the label since the Beach Boys, "of so that the duration of the lawsuit could not be presented to a mass audience the next single, "Heroes & Villains." It did not help much the fact that amphetamine Brian Wilson, the victim in addition to all the pressures, felt increasingly insecure about their own music and where he wanted to go. While initially had wanted to create an optimistic album and full of love, the rest of the Beach Boys had to hear how one day I decided that Brian was actually going to make a record of watery sounds, another day, a record of humor, Next, a disc of background music to gym-filled his room fitness equipment, never used, and so a whole bunch of possibilities that changed almost every day and that undermined the already weak confidence in the disk of their peers.

The result we know what it was, but the most interesting question in this context is referring to what is strictly musical. Despite all the changes, Brian managed to finish a series of sections that would be the base of the disc. There is no doubt that there were huge Smile songs. For starters, a stunning "Heroes & Villains", as novel as "Good Vibrations", with characteristic changes of rhythm and melody, which Brian did hundreds of versions, some of them quite longer than the shortened version that subsequently appeared in Smiley Smile (1970). "Heroes & Villains" told an epic story, full of striking effects, tribal chants and spirals unusual sound. There was also the baroque charm and refined crystalline "Wonderful." However, highlighting "Surf's Up", perhaps the song newest and most radical of the disc, between angelic falsetto and dreamy mirage, the hand would take us on a fascinating dream world, to finish with a Brian Wilson almost unearthly, pure in spirit, with a piano only woke us up emotions lost planets past millennia. "Wind Chimes" was delicate, so careful and shiny as an ice sculpture. And of course we can not forget about "Good Vibrations", the first step in the column that Brian wanted to build up to paradise. All these songs represented a kind of mountain passes, landscapes that are reached after following the complicated path of the disc.

Because Smile was much more than these songs. Embedded between them, were minimal fragments and mosaics that appeared over and over again, sometimes demanding role within the songs themselves. This is what happened with the passage of "Heroes & Villains" known as "Bicycle Rider", the intriguing part of harpsichords that appeared unexpectedly in other compositions such as "Do You Like Worms" (later retitled "Roll Plymouth Rock") or implied in many others, like "Song For Children" or "In Blue Hawaaii." Indeed, the warm and precious mantra of "Do You Like Worms" was rewritten in the minimalist "Barnyard", a sunny little melody a minute that gave way to robust violins of "Old Master Painter" and the old and nostalgic "You Are My Sunshine." "Child Is Father To The Man" was another addictive mantra, expansive, with some degree of obsession in his words, repeated in a chorus as a loop that also appears at the end of "Surf's Up." The festive "I'm In Great Shape" was the addition of an area known as "The woodshop Song", with sounds of a carpenter, relaxed after a brief jazz composition. "Vegatables" was quite naive, reduced to a minimum, and paid tribute to the healthy diet of vegetables, though this was another of the ridiculous hypocrisy of Brian, addict without remedy, as everyone knew, to junk food, "On A Holiday" sounds delicious summer has played with xylophone, and "Our Prayer" is vocal harmonies was enough to distill an ethereal beauty and silky. All parts of Smile constituted an organic unity, a live sound device with its own philosophy and law. In 1967, Brian was unable to establish a fixed shape for something that was beyond all mold and that seemed to have its own life. In fact, when it was visited by McCartney, had almost forgotten the hard to focus on a single with the songs "vegatables" and "I Love To Say Dada" (an emotional regression to childhood, also minimal, which would be included later in the piece "In Blue Hawaaii"). Listening to Smile suggests a kind of constant flow, sounds that attract attention and memory appear then capriciously, indivisible, rebels and interchangeable, as if they did not matter too much the order they appeared.

can say that, in essence, Brian served part of their objectives. Smile is an album impressionist-a bit like one of the classic pieces that Brian took as a reference, Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin of - primary, so immediately appealing to the senses before as any kind of reason, neo-baroque ornaments and spirals and hallucinated that spread endlessly. However, very far it was his desire to communicate love and good vibes. Perhaps the result of a very complicated, and emotional stability to burst into pieces, the inner journey of Smile returned a rarefied atmosphere, bizarre, rambling, obsessive, and can convey very well the descent into hell that is another track, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow." Healthy environment was conspicuous by its absence and the monsters was rampant, threatening. But the result was undeniably beautiful. From complete, Smile had been, without doubt, one of most fascinating records of the history of music. However, Brian was also very aware that perhaps he had gone too far and that Smile had no commercially viable output. In 1968, he said the following on a radio program: "At that moment I thought the songs were not what the public wanted. The record was not commercial." Recently stated that "We did not want to edit it because we thought it was too weird." All you had to Smile and uncompromising artistic authenticity, he lost in connection with the audience of his time, something that, however, had triumphed Sgt Pepper's of the Beatles.

Gone was an experiment without limits, prompting Brian to compose a piano installed in a sandbox in the living room of his house until your dog is fond of using the sand for other purposes - recording in an empty pool or to use bottles, cans, wires, saws and logs as tools to achieve a special and unique sound. Brian searched for a mystical communion with the environment, which pushed him to attend even astrological factors when composing and recording. All this had a double-edged sword. In fact, one of the most painful losses Smile was a suite that would be called "Elements" and that would four parts: "Water", "Wind", "Earth" and "Fire." Shortly after completing the share of "Fire" (Fire), Brian realized that the days of recording coincided with three major fires had broken out in California and, convinced of his responsibility, decided to remove the tape with the song discard the idea of \u200b\u200bthe suite "Elements." Which was a pity, because it does come down to us a cut of "Water" was subsequently re-recorded the album Sunflower (1970) - a song that begins with a beautiful monastic chant of many voices, and then develops in a minimalist, vibrant, happy and emotionally charged. Also left out other amazing songs like "She's Goin 'Bald" or fraternal "With Me Tonight" (included Smiley Smile).

From cancellation Smile, it opened the way for the legend. Some of his songs were recorded with minimal instrumentation possible Smiley Smile, published in September 1967, just four months after giving Smile by buttoned. Other songs were dripping on later albums, reaching Surf's Up (1972). Since then, the myth of Smile was growing by leaps and bounds, due in part to the difficulty I was listening to those shots that had never come to light, at a time when there was no Internet. Many people had to wait until 1993, with the release of the box Good Vibrations Thirty Years Of , which he reviewed the history of the group listened to for the first time some of those songs strange and disturbing. Another solution was pirated editions, often mixing different fragments without any criterion and that exposed the audience to listen to hours of footage repeated boring, suitable only for fans. Among these issues, include the Odeon Smile, very comprehensive and concrete and disinclined to take fill, with a infernal version of "Heroes & Villains" ten minutes, or at the other end, the Smile of Vigotone, which over several CD's aims include everything.

In 2004, after a successful series of concerts that had with Pet Sounds as the backing band Wondermints, Brian Wilson decided to end the legend and definitely post Smile . When he appeared, the reviews were generally benevolent, could not be otherwise, given the quality of material, "but despite the excellent work done behind the feeling that the time had passed and that any case, the record should have been published in another way. Milestones rewrite the flesh as "Good Vibrations" seems unnecessary and a more intimate recreation than anything else, and perhaps the true value of this album is definitely the songs have set, their form and order. All this served to the pirated edition appeared short, Smile Purple Chick, who conducted a painstaking work to insert the footage recorded in 1967 in the framework offered in 2004: what should have been from the beginning. Thanks to these efforts, we can enjoy Smile that is closest to the work that Brian had in mind in 1966. Smile

will always quintessential ghost disk. Unpredictable and feverish, it seems that from the beginning was meant to stay in the shadows and give rise to endless speculations about what would have been the history of music if he had appeared at the right time. His legend is now just one of its charms, but not only, because fortunately the music contained is the height of the shadow of the myth. Play Smile is a unique experience, the brightness of a disc aborted when he had to leave but remains alive and eternal for those who ever decides to come to your sounds.

Purple Chick Smile . Here you can get the best version of Smile that has appeared so far. Includes cover design so you can print. Pure listening enjoyment.

article are photographs of a majority in the booklet of twelve pages Capitol printed when there was still hope that the disk appeared. The photograph shows the collection of Smiles and material on the disc was obtained Forum Spain The Beach Boys.

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Smile "Bacharach"

By Manolo Martos

During those years in which one is shaped as a person-so stubbornly indecisive and clumsy, "sometimes it is inevitable manufactured idols, for that to have an ideal to shoot. Around here, that defining era of sentimental education left to remember an archetype of virtue in that guys like Glenn Melia good fit, taking into account that one-person-reached clumsy and shortsighted to see very far. His band, St. Christopher gave substance to that idea of \u200b\u200b"independent spirit" sent tapes with personal letters, proceedings before a group of friends anywhere, in exchange for staying with someone; rejection of the pose or image of the anti-image ... and most importantly, efforts to convey the excitement of a pop song.

I was of their religious calling to Sarah Records singles, and I found it strange to read that your 10 "to be titled Bacharach. Was not that the name of a composer ... seriously? Yes, I was surprised that a group so, for that, so "cool" would remember someone so serious, so old, so little ... guitar pop to hungry youth.

Ah, the typical prejudices! But worse would lack the humility to recognize that one is wrong, is not it? So if that meant a signal to be interpreted, then that name was hiding a new path ...

What did Glenn Melia reasons for choosing it as the title? I never read any statement on the matter, so could begin to launch ad hoc hypothesis consistent with an Ideal not denied until today. And come to understand that accountability should be emotional, stressing that name that exemplified the highest aspiration of music. It took me, but I ended up realizing that with that name can not aim higher pointing the way higher final timeless pop. Because saying "Bacharach is siding with the consideration of the song as a compactly filled with precise, delicate, sophisticated extras that manages to create an emotional response in the listener. Elvis Costello- fault that in recent years there has been material of interest with the Bacharach-firm, commented that there is a romantic shade of doubt in his compositions that makes them timeless sunshine. And one is certified with this heart humbly wet cardboard wiggle of excitement has been listening, for example, "This Guy's In Love With You."

Vista light, ideal took final shape in this man named Burt Bacharach . A universal man, careful with that, the archetype of virtuous artisan composer avoids the brightness of the windows to perform as a creator of songs for others, and they are the ones who speak. A model of rewarding effort and teamwork, through its partnership with songwriters (Hal David especially) those who work side by side, giving him hours to redefine a melody, lyrics, a chorus, an array. No personalities. Something so far from narcissistic attention-hungry, and image-based statements. Those who ("endure or enjoy?) a disastrous social life, always attracted more musicians behind the orchestra on stage, in shadow, but knowing that they are the ones with the handle of the party well caught, without which the star that shines in the future scenario could do. Snapshots in the LP Reach Out of Bacharach conducting the orchestra, developed and carried away by the melody, in sports and with the sleeves rolled up, makes this ideal final image.

persecution That is why choosing here a few compilations that show the power he "wrote all the songs in the world." Power as a composer, as arranger and producer, to underline the importance of understanding Bacharach's success as an author lies in its complete control over the finished product, in song. Very important also as part of the Idea, to distinguish those "good" composers seen as creators but immediately useful sections of the assembly line, because once done its job seeder, it was others who were busy completing the trade to take forward a song arranger, producer and sometimes even the same singers. Of course you did real good teamwork, but with Bacharach's an example of films made music Author: songs that are like mini movies of three minutes, with its ups and downs, its changes of pace, his arrangements, "and its performers to the orders of the director. "Written, produced and directed by", that is a good motto in film and music. An ideal theme.

Bacharach And of course I had to work their own space at the Brill building of eleven floors is another icon of the Pop (more wood: austere rooms "filled with smoke, with a window that would not open and piano ", where musicians and songwriters doing their work. In one of them spent four to five hours a day, Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David, often sarcastically comment that, as had more success plant going down in that building), but once that showed that he could be trusted as a supplier of hits, got to earn the respect of the publishers and record labels. "I became an arranger and producer to defend my songs." Here is an example of integrity to feed the Ideal. At the time of writing, gratifícate yourself, do not stop until you feel completely happy with the song. And, as solely responsible for the child, if possible, do not you spoil it. So we always played the arrangements for the musicians to show you the right feeling, which is why the footage was repeated as many times as necessary to capture how it should be a recording. So those collections to collect more material written, arranged and produced by Burt Bacharach, put into the mouth of fine stylists eager to hold on to a good song to show his worth and launch her career, most pros to become examples of best Bacharach, whose great vintages are in the first half of the sixties, which does not mean very flavorful than many good examples of later years. Completed all the other front: Version showing its appreciation to the operator making them different, to seek out a new side from which to contemplate its luster. Are not the great songs that do not end with the many versions but Quite to the contrary, give much play? Do not they call ends genuine classic, as the "jazz standars? And here especially, because when an artist takes liberties with a Bacharach song, get the effect of drawing attention and stressing some detail that was put by Bacharach.

With these approaches have tried to play-off at the time what was to become a sign of identity of 80 MOCKBA fanzine, to recommend in each new number one album dedicated to the Bacharach songbook, bringing together these collections to, with any addition, again offer a humble but passionate recommendation delve into the legacy of this universal man, whose creations have been an event for Pop that perhaps only the gods could explain and perhaps one can only describe with admiration.

I start, and I do so proudly, with a superb letter, neither more nor less than that of Juan de Pablos wanted . It was lucky the first steps announced by the new road at the St Christopher disc being guided by your program. Keep them going all these years and he is still there! ... What better proof of the quality of timeless pop moment, whatever the external conditions that try to turn it off? Nothing more comforting than as a listener to enjoy their own special those who would like to offer as many specialists in this or that artist. So say it proud.

Bacharach The special dedicated to me was discovering gem after gem over several programs Passion Flower, during a summer afternoon ... 1996 can be? Walk around the tapes, stored in shoe boxes (as stipulated in the amateur classic pop royalty does not much, dear young aseptic era Ipod), and especially chosen with re-recordings of these recordings, there are, Amen to Dionne Warwick, performers that make up the core of my favorite voices of Bacharach songs, with up to two and three examples apiece: Chuck Jackson, Tommy Hunt , Jimmy Radcliffe ...

That tape, the one I made a very resultón cover, is as my personal introduction and final compilation that marked my preferences, and to which all official records published I discovered later should be measured, as contained or not those same versions.

Well, let's start the first official compilation, The Sound Of Bacharach , edited PYE by the label in 1965-and reissued on CD by Westside Records, adding material of later years, "for further based on all these artists. At that time, Bacharach spent part of the year in London, where he was already quite famous for shows like The Bacharach Sound of drinkers who revere all those singles that came from America, and sound glamorous, source versions English Bacharach material hardly resist a comparison with the copied versions of the hits of Dionne Warwick, for example (so do not look around here Sandie Shaw or Dusty Springfield ). Burt began to take the aftertaste to appear on TV, and although it began to slide down the ideal image of the Creator in the shade, we will forgive him because his creativity was all his own. Some ten years earlier had left the proceedings to the piano in bars and restaurants (with a musical background from classical, jazz and avant-garde in which that famous advice to "Do not be afraid to write a melody you can hum" took the cat to water ), and known-suggestion of a music publisher, Hal David, the lyricist with what was to become one of the greatest tandems in the history of popular music, which would leave about 150 songs ("stayed on at 11 morning, and we began: "What do you think of this and that?". While we were working on a song, we spent new melodies and lyrics, so we could get to work in three or four songs at the same time. "), And an impressive list of successes since the late fifties to early seventies. It was not until they were able to have complete control over their compositions, produced with the artists of their choice, that creativity did not end by reaching a final height, producing a kind of intangible connection between their songs ("like a flowing spirit") makes talk of a sound or style Bacharach, the result of an evolution natural ("I compose in my taste and not for others. If a song is good, because people find ways to approach it."), recognizable in the way the beat flows in the use of sounds in favor of melodic emotion: lace precise rhythmic guitar riffs that seem to fall suddenly and at irregular intervals, sharp, metallic, elegant displays notes on the piano, opening the way to the development of the melody, energetic drum rolls with a surprising change in the measure, by putting a march to the song, reviving, improving it, so we have to take him back to the ritmillo, timbales Envelope echo; use, in short, the resources of many instruments (guilty need to clarify the difference between marimba, xylophone and vibraphone, or pull the dictionary to find the correspondence of "flugehorn" and "French horn), and these trumpets (happy, carefree, delicate, serious option), surely one of the most recognizable brands in the house with the use of choirs and string to wrap the lead, marking the horizon of the melody ... Too soulful for strictly pop, worked and sophisticated, but also cool. Contemporary music, but transcendent and timeless.

The Main material The Sound Of Bacharach used to locate our man where I like most: in the back, but controlling and their products (pata negra and cinnamon sticks, fine thing), at the beginning of the decade, serving the increasingly more numerous requests for the music publishers, and began to lower floors in the Brill Building by another couple, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller , who had taken him, as they say, under its umbrella, also signed as arranger. Specialists at the girl-group pop, it was inevitable to meet recordings Shirelles, but do not know why, have never been among my favorites. The interest of this first compilation is in these other recordings for Scepter / Wand, seal Florence Greenberg (woman with personality, that's for sure: with the money the husband founded his label and becomes the black, in their partner, 1959), which was custom made by reusing many vocal demos for artists 'main', often simply by copying or using the same instrumental base. Some of those earlier versions were not surpassed in quality by the official edition, and it is not hard to pick many of these players as some of the vocal repertoire Final Bacharach. As Jimmy Radcliffe, who tended to use to introduce you to give to Gene Pitney (another great interpreter of Bacharach songs like "True Love Never Runs Smooth" or "Twenty Tour Hours From Tulsa", both of 63); credits include favorites such as "There Goes The Forgotten Man" (1962) and "Long After Tonight Is All Over" (1964), or Tommy Hunt, who apparently was not pleased the head of the label (to be one of the Shirelles), that would not promote your race, here it is, for example, his version of "I Just Do not Know What To Do With Myself" (1962), which became a hit for Dionne Warwick later, or "Lover", the same year, and which is but the song "Any Day Now" (by the way with lyrics by Bob Hilliard , surely that was not the lyricist Hal David Burt associated with more success), but with another letter, for having radiated, John Pablo is to blame for the choice of the version of the great Chuck Jackson (well, Juan de Pablos and seal recovery efforts Kent, for having brought to light in the second half of the eighties many of these examples in his records dedicated to these vocalists).

Chuck Jackson is a fixed value, or used to be-in programming Passion Flower. At first I did not know Bacharach, and so it was strange that type of piano that did not stop up to do such and such indications, interfering with the recording sessions, it can be listed as Bacharach's hand in productions at the beginning made on behalf of others. Your "They Do not Give Medals (To Yesterday's Heroes)" I think it's my second favorite of the entire repertoire of Bacharach versions, and though my opinion should not count for much, I support the statement that proclaims vocalist Chuck Jackson final , next to Rudy Lewis the Drifters of this first period in the career of Burt Bacharach.

Ah, how Rudy Lewis shipped "Let The Music Play"! A good title to be the favorite in the interpretation of the Bacharach songbook, is not it? That the sole humming bike riding, taken with arms deployed, while a small headed straight through almond, without falling, and says something about the redemptive power of music (to support the ridiculous).

"Let The Music Play" shines among many other examples in the final passes for the final compilation of songs Bacharach: The Look Of Love . The Burt Bacharach Collection , the box set released by Rhino in 1998 with a great script, reviewing all the maestro's career, from early success of "The Story Of My Life" by Marty Robbins and "Magic Moments" by Perry Como in 1958, to "God Give Me Strength" in 1996, with Elvis Costello, in full explosion of Bacharach revival. Full of classic hits but also some less obvious selections highlighted. The review is chronological, so the first CD contains much of great material The Sound Of Bacharach , but also play-off "to Dionne Warwick maculino" Lou Johnson, a vocalisca that Bacharach and David hung because in the Big Top label did not know what to do with it. And so it was found worked with those compositions so complex melody, "But I always had good hearing. Was one who could hear the grass grow. " Here we are with magnificent performances from a superb material, such as "Reach Out For Me" (1963), which would record Dionne Warwick a few months later, or "The Last One To Be Loved" (1964). So one of the strengths of this box is great to have recovered four versions of a singer who was market failure in failure. He was sent to England, "(There's) Something There To Remind Me", but nothing, either, until Sandie Shaw version copied note for note and ... became a hit. At least she knew Dionne Warwick appreciate his talent.

Go, Warwick has been named a few times without being officially presented ... When they signed Leiber and Stoller to Bacharach as an arranger, in the working sessions with the Drifters had a quartet of female voices The Gospelaires called, among which, according to the whim of Burt, Dionne Warrick such a which took as a vocalist to record orders. The charming voice of that girl of 21 years in the demo of "It's Love That Really Counts" came to Florence Greenberg, who signed her immediately. Provided the first single would be "Make It Easy For Yourself", but the authors said they had been recorded by Jerry Butler . It seems that the reaction of the young woman was in line with his voice, but Bacharach and David's contented being composed expressly "Do not Make Me Over" (1962), the first song that launched the career of Dionne Warwick (Last restored by error on the cover, and forever), which was the perfect performer for your material. "That song needed to be sung in a hard tone, and she did it with closed eyes." It seemed to sing without effort, just as speaking. There they found the perfect counterpart to the notes and letters that appeared to form free-way and in any other way, the songs of Bacharach and David, so that was a point already made up thinking about it. "I felt I could go either way with Dionne. It was so flexible, so versatile that he could sing something like R & B or white songs. The more songs composed, more opportunities to take my liberties with the rhythm and harmony that could be discovered. "Such elegance, flexibility and versatility appears well documented in the case of Rhino, with some hits (" Walk On By ") and a choice selection ("Paper Mache" (1969), which essentially summarizes what one can be if done with Rhino compilations, of course, "The Dionne Warwick Collection -Her All Time Greatest Hits and its complement with Hidden Gems . The best thing that ever, is to review the LPs self removed in those years in which the machinery Bacharach-David-Warwick speed ahead, gliding with the softness of a light but strong wheel bicycle with a good hub: Presenting Dionne Warwick (1963); Make Way For Dionne Warwic k (1964); The Sensitive Sound Of Dionne Warwick (1965); Here I Am (1965); Here, Where Is The Love (1966); The Windows Of The World (1967), In The Valley Of The Dolls (1968) or I'll Never Fall In Love Again (1969).

But the best songs Bacharach was not exhausted in that race, because it is worth noting, and much, working with the great Jackie DeShannon . In mid-1965, Bacharach and David had "What The World Needs Now Is Love" ready to be recorded by Dionne Warwick, but she did not like, and thanks to an agreement with Liberty, ended up being for one of his pop artists hitherto needed more success. Needless to talk about Jackie DeShannon talent as a performer and songwriter, his personality and approach in an industry accustomed to vocalists apparent and nothing else. For the first recording session Jackie flew from Los Angeles to New York wearing short, and ended up lying on the studio piano, with fever, but holding the shots and doing their best to record, between 1965 and 1966, three singles anthology well represented in this compilation, but "Windows And Doors" (1966) does not appear (it does in Jackie's own, The Definitive Collection, with whom I met and why I liked it (agreed, I remember also, with one double dedicated to the great Laura Nyro ... easy prey when one is willing to be cowed by the pop ideal.) They are singles with B sides ending with A in my selection but also literally, as happened with "A Lifetime Of Loneliness" (1965). It was one of those few artists catalyst for getting appropriate material for a song and get all their beauty. Dionne Warwick was not exclusive, ill weigh it. Jackie DeShannon

had much of the blame for the folk-rock explosion that half of the sixties (how to forget "Needles And Pins" and "When You Walk In The Room"), and in this boxset find a version that is quite carried away by these new air electroacoustic "Made In Paris" (1966), of Triny Lopez, is notable for its freshness, with guitars a step can be changed by a Rickenbacker , making a feast for the ears. Eager delirium. Leaving

Rhino box pointing to the inevitable inclusion of "Alfie" (1966) in the version of Cilla Black produced by Sir George Martin , thus restoring pride to the role Islands in the Bacharach songbook, and noting, however, the small detail that indicates the presence de Burt en los estudios de Abbey Road, tocando el piano, dirigiendo la orquesta y guiando a la Black en su interpretación, todo al mismo tiempo, y durante las tomas que fuesen necesarias. “No se lo hubiera permitido a cualquiera, pero se trataba de Burt Bacharach.”

En 1967, Bacharach firma en solitario con A&M para hacer álbumes que se componían de canciones semi instrumentales con arreglos de sus éxitos, en las que un grupo vocal femenino cantaba parte de la letra (“orquesta y coros dirigidos por Burt Bacharach”), o bien lo hacía él mismo: “Tenía miedo de cantar, que la gente viera lo limitado de mi voz, así que me apoyaba en las girls. "Reach Out (1967); Make It Easy On Yourself (1968) and Burt Bacharach (1971) were followers of this way of collecting their successes already shown in his first albums for Kapp: The Hit Maker! (1965) or Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits (1966). Hip-O-Select, sublabel of Rhino, released in 2005 a box set of four discs strung as if it were a book drive (very nice and very expensive), with all this material and some oddities that fascinated fans could not missed. Of their albums, I've always had for their own favorite version of "Make It Easy For Yourself", which hits especially While his singing humble but honest (another great genius like him Jobim was the same), that letter that shows the dignity amid the desolation of a broken heart. "Hasbrook Heights" (1971) tends to be another favorite.

good thing about his solo albums is that, among such reinterpretation, in each of them includes some particularly noteworthy pieces, among which almost always select "Pacific Coast Highway" (1968) as an example of instrumental inspired and elegant. "Nikki" (dedicated to his daughter after a difficult birth) or "Freefall" also tend to accompany, from his 1971 album, Burt Bacharach , which often enough game.

But before we run over all the image of a Burt Bacharach tanned and well dressed, driving a convertible through the Californian coast road, I will draw another compilation that contains more examples of the first Bacharach, that of the Romantic Ideal . This double Rare Bacharach (Raven, 2003), ranging from 57 to 78, with some songs of his first commissions for films, with more white material and English (and Australian), and as much of the black American. Are fifty-three songs, and very little overlap with the Rhino box. Here it appears "Windows And Doors" Jackie DeShannon, and between the "new" containing, stressed "Try to See It My Way" (Little Peggy March ), "The Love of a Boy" (Julie Rogers ) or "I'm a Better Man (For Having Loved You) "by Engelbert Humperdinck . A pity I can not put a date, because the script is dedicated to bringing to summarize the benefits provided by the author, but are missing a song by song reviews, or at least point out some credits recordings. But the content is a nice addition, and the good thing is that bills itself as The Rare Bacharach 1 . Will there be a Volume 2?

Term with the "other face" made up of some more distant records with Bacharach style without being under their control or not copy this style versions that expand the stylistic spectrum originates, and that enrich the song by some scholars to take exercise where the interpreter (arranger or producer) wants.

The first is not too surprising: Bacharach songs from jazz attacked. When you have feeling to give and take, these songs are ideal for exploitation, and the listener just doubly grateful. So Blue Bacharach. A Cooler Shaker is very enjoyable, and contains a few versions for me are almost classic older. You have to see how well you feel for these instrumental songs that emphasize treatment and then exploit the arrangements of Bacharach. Stanley Turrentine ago that I think is my favorite version of the classic "This Guy's In Love With You" (of course, Stanley Turrentine is almost star in this collection, with three more examples of an album I always wanted to throw full hearing but the term never go), and nearly so does Richard 'Groove' Holmes with a "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" really groovy. Another highlight is the live version of nothing less than "They Do not Give Medals" by Lou Rawls , which takes it very fast on the fly as if it were a light and elastic dough for pizza.

This compilation could be confused with another compilation of Blue Note-in recent years so as to make series and series, "Blue Note Plays Bacharach of similar content to repeat part of the material. This is not what I have, but they put more cover than A Cooler Shaker, in which the drawing of a Bacharach with his shirt unbuttoned, wearing a blonde hanging on his back, could pass as proudly tacky design for a session disco, but certainly not as ideal counterpart to our maker of songs, whose standards are treated with reverence and fun by the host of jazz.

And all this is not so easily dispensed with labels like "easy listening" or "lounge", used so indiscriminately. In the case of Burt Bacharach, is rather naive. A little attention to changes in rhythm and harmony along Bacharach song rather be counterproductive in the sedate atmosphere of a dentist, for example. If the melodies sound easy and catch the listener is wise for the sake of a creative experience working with asymmetrical melodies carefully measured. Just ask singers with little interpretive flexibility. "Not So Easy Listening", have sticker on their cars jaleosos some of his admirers.

Nothing a lounge Bacharach So much to re-use in another one of those favorite compilations in a favorite series, Legends Lounge, designed from Germany by Stefan Kassel , designer of musical taste Records Marina and bonnet, with the approval of Universal Germany to track at the bottom of the stamps associated. In this case making use of Mr. David Scott, one of the artists who are giving gloss to seal Marina, perfectly suited (think for example in his instrumental "The Vampires Of Camelon ") to submit to the teacher notes that changes in the lounge for a more appropriate adjective. "Mr. Avant-Pop" Yes, sir. "Take a pencil and draw lines across the sheet capricious until the abstract shapes begin to emerge, then color them and ... there it is! That's what seems to Bacharach with his songs, melodies widening to beyond imagination, drawing the listener with details, little by little, to have it in their possession. His songs get the best out of each performer, instrumentalist and arranger, as evidenced by this collection. "Unbeatable presentation for a record of those calling for an uninhibited ears open to let go and end up enjoying a great time.

Who said disco thing? For the compilation starts with a "Wives & Lovers'79" more than six minutes and triumph, hear. Of course, the favorite is again, again - and I have not mentioned the version of Herb Alpert ! - "This Girl's In Love With You" (you know that "This Girl" or "This Guy" is be the same, according to the sex of the singer), thanks to the wonderful vocal performance by Brenda Lee and no less great arrangements that presents, another favorite and as played since I started with special tape Passion Flower, which gleamed Walker Brothers with "Another Tear Falls" (1966), is Scott Walker, who will feel great emotional surrender off the great songs Bacharach, this time it looks to "The Windows Of The World." We emphasize also "Any Old Time Of The Day" (1967) by Stan Getz . Stan Getz, Ramsey Lewis , Sergio Mendes ... Jazz, soul, bossa nova, on a journey through the sixties and seventies. The compilation of more extensive scented horizons. And what if it works because it is a careful selection among a variety of materials, with discretion and without prejudice, so double interest for us as we rock in northern and southern waters. Bacharach enriched with appropriate doses of miscegenation, as he always admired those restless revolutionaries also Brazilian bossa nova, and the same example will always give the reason for adventurers who want to change from within, a state stuck to the lack of inspiration . The way a utopia become a utopianism.

One of the warriors of jazz as part of those hosts who want to tour-spite of them to Orthodox, is the percussionist and vibraphonist Cal Tjader , whose discography should not lose much of view, and among which highlights the adventure with fellow related Gabor Szabo and Gary Mcfarland was the formation of Skye Records label of short duration but long memories among fans more funkoides souljazzeros. That time is Sounds Out Burt Bacharach (1968), reprinted with Solar Heat by Vampisoul in 2003, getting to think of it as a good example of Bacharach cover album by a single artist. On "My Little Red Book" or "You'll Never Get To Heaven" ... with which the "Chaide" and his band of session musicians in Los Angeles shows how to put him to the classic condiment also sounding polished and elegant.

And the disappointments paragraph ... A The Bacharach and David Songbook released by EMI which I did not I take anything (although at least here the cover is in tune) but mostly Motown Salutes Bacharach , with many ballots in advance for success, but with bad luck in the final drawing. No end to go, and what remains is a feeling of ornate adornment which detracts freshness to these interpretations. I do not know that these compositions will impose their own dictatorship under what styles. So do not pay much attention at the time to "What The World Needs Now", made from the scene by the label powerpopero Big Deal. For this sort of thing can only work those bands, and the special Wondermints - to pull resources to do rhythmic tabula rasa.

Very bold has to be to take Bacharach as a model, using as few compilation albums. The connoisseurs forgive this stupid idolater who denies he does not want to see. Before discovering new albums with a handful of memorable songs, at least I have the list that should any other future, currently led by disk Polish vocal group of the seventies, the Novi Singers , dedicated to Bacharach songbook. Alexander Mazur Quartet & Novi Singers: Bacharach may well deserve a listen, considering the troubled country's jazz scene during those years. The Dells never disappoint, so his LP The Dells Sing Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits may be right.

Another compilation made from Japan, I think, Lipp Lippy Bacharach, and may bring more choices scented style compilations very taken into account here such as the Cafe Apres Midi . As a curious note, I know that at least a couple of records-and I think both made in Germany during the seventies, with the idea of \u200b\u200ba Bach Bacharach, reviewing key standards in the Baroque. And I've heard Bacharach Baroque, which passed as interesting entertainment.

And the time of censorship, because I end up holding on to the Great Idea of \u200b\u200bthe Maker of Songs in the shade to leave this journey full of prejudice to the sixties. By then, my Burt was left wanting too much by the media, and was married to Angie Dickinson and came as a pair of high fashion to parties forelock, he started to become a victim of his own work, having gone well stopped Music who were successful ... until Lost Horizon . In 1972, Dionne Warwick signed with Warner Bros. to work with Thom Bell and other producers. But above all, nothing would ever be the same after the failure of Lost Horizon, failure to cast doubt and weariness in their own Burt.

then I will not discuss the split, with trials by means of divine trio Bacharach & David & Warwick, or the love of horses, and Martini ad, or their modern tastes, with opinions favorable to people like Mariah Carey ... Great idea Let me blurred vision, by God! In these times when the melodies seem and less important, not to mention the lyrics, in an impetuous whirlwind in which what counts is the agglomeration amplified sounds, keep frozen image of a black and white Bacharach-athletic-indeed, in outfits put together Hal David (both with sleeves rolled up and tie loosened), still higher than other legendary teams ( Carole King and Gerry Goffin , Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann , Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield ) that made thinking more of the young. Held there in the Brill Building (who represents the bust placed above the door?), Although That does not bother me that occasionally go down to the bar to take a sandwich bar to sharing the best with Phil Spector ...



I also used another image. I think it was in the magazine Mojo , in the revival, which contained the typical "day in the life of ..." Burt Bacharach in the study, the picture is so appropriate to reinforce the ideal of the composer who controls his perfect world : there, in New York, the study of Seventh Avenue, with the engineer of A & M, Phil Ramone, and the moment in which, for some reason, some of the songs go well finished . It is then when Burt looks at some of his usual studio musicians (drummer Gary Chester , bassist Russ Savakus ), nodding, to then sit at the piano. Immediately, everyone in the study, eighteen musicians, vocalists, including Phil Ramone's mother, unofficial mascot of the study, sitting behind the desk of the controls while knitting, thinking about songs that are recorded-all seem to respond to the presence of Burt after the keys. And he plays them, raising his head, pursing her lips, emphasizing each dynamic thrust that gives the tune when he returns to lean on the piano. The magical spirit of music flows back and Hal David listens intently, his eyes closed. Impact

emotional sincerity ... attributes sought by someone who wanted to place in the sometimes independent world cerradísimo a dose of courage and sense of sophistication. There is concern by Glenn Melia as a reincarnation of Scott Walker for minorities. " Among those related to St. Christopher I do not know if the spirit has caught much Bacharach, present every time someone breaks with the status quo and explore new frontiers in pop music. In my case, use your name as the title of an album managed to clarify and reinforce the idea of \u200b\u200bpop as an ethical imperative. For now, we bet in the shade.

Here you get a selection of highlights from these collections:

Burt Bacharach, maker of songs