STEWART COPELAND

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3041478/#/37148757

also check out Roxanne and ELTSDIM

I listened to NTY.
There's a bit in the strings in the first chorus.
NOt sure if it's a glitch, or what, but some interesting harmonic choices.

I didn't really mind it all that much, 'cause it's so far removed from the police.
But, really, it's pap.

dc

Strings in "Next To You" ???!!! OMG !!!!!! Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse...... UGH !!! That is just so, so, so WRONG !! stunned.........

I really did listen to this with an open mind...my verdict.

Sting is "OUT TO SEA"..and I don't think he is returning.

I never thought it would work but...

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

... now I need to stick my head in a bucket of water ...

cause I know it shouldnt work but hey for me it does.Massively.

no.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
thoughts:

*) Using an old / new Shure 55 (Elvis) Mic? Thank the merry fuck that it's not a Swing album. "Sting Swings". >shivers<
*) Has he had some 'work' done? Those scary press shots recently are actually what he looks like now?!?!?
*) Good speed, nice vocals (It is annoying the way he claps though).
*) What a fucking travesty.

Please, Fallout Mike and the Police Experience, we need someone to play them the way they were meant to be performed!!!!

Don't Stop Believin', yo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcIEEdTiNak

Thanks for the link.
"Next To You" wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I didn't really like it, but at least it didn't enrage me.
"Englishman" works just fine.
I couldn't get through all of "Roxanne". I fell asleep on my keyboard. Perhaps I should get that one on an iPod and bring it with me to surgery in case the anaesthetic doesn't work.
"Magic" certainly isn't. I felt like I was listening to a highschool orchestra led by one of those earnest music teachers who arranges a bunch of semi-contemporary stuff in a failed attempt to be relevant. I always feel a little embarrassed for those guys.
And smax...Sting does swing...Hush.Your.Mouth. I now fear that will be his next "ground-breaking" album.

In the interview before the songs, Sting talked once again about wanting to surprise his fans. I think he has confused the words surprise and sadden.

I feel sick after watching that.

Honestly, I only got halfway through Englishman. I just can't bring myself to listen to any of the other songs. Ugh.

[quote="sockii"]no.[/quote]

Am going to take sockii's word on this and not listen!
Was there any 'shark-jumping' going on during this number.....?

63falcon, I'd say that the shark has been jumped, caught, stuffed, mounted and has been hanging on the museum wall for some time now.

It just doesn't work for me. Bleh.