Sting's new album

[TheEqualizer]

I can imagine the newspaper ad for the CD showing reviews by various critics:

". . . barely OK" - Dietmar

[sockii]

I can imagine the newspaper ad for the CD showing reviews by various critics:

". . . barely OK" - Dietmar

[giovanni]

I love it, as simple as that.
I don't go that much into details when I listen to something and it gives me emotion; I had no emotion when I listened to the lute album (the live rendition was definitely different and great), but when I listened to a few tracks and the whole album these days, I have to say that it gives me 'that' emotion.
Being a musician I also discovered some more 'tricks and gems' that I do really appreciate, and that's another 'bonus' for me.
As already said in some other posts, he used an 'instrument' outside the ones used to record the album, as he used the 'Winter' as an instrument to make the songs working better; you shouldn't listen to this album while you are sitting in the sun on the border of a swimming pool with kids shouting and having fun sunbathing or swimming, etc...listen to it when it's snowing outside, when you feel like the winter season is embracing you (I know so many people who can't wait for the winter season to come, as they hate the summer), and turn the cd on ... you may know what I mean.
The voice is superb in my opinion, I love the way they recorded it.
Anyway, each one of us respond on his own way to music; of course it can be boring for someone, it can be amazing for someone else, nothing strange.

By the way, I'm listening to the new Alice in Chains cd these days, and it's another Greeeeaaaaattttt cd!!!!

[smudge]

[quote="stevel"]Thanks Moonstone.Hope you enjoy it as much as I will.

I think it goes back to what I said earlier 'One man's meat is another man's poison'.[/quote]

You're dead on with that steve. One of the more boggling things about seeing The Police playing together again was the reflection on what they've done since (and before, particularly in Andy's case), and the simply ludicrous notion (with hindsight) that a band formed from those three musicians could work. It's like the flatshare from hell - everyone agrees they want the place to feel like home, but 'home' is an entirely different concept for each resident. To stretch an analogy to breaking point, I'm in the 'leave the washing up - and we'll hoover if the landlord comes round' camp, so I find Sting's solo stuff a little heavy on the 'neat and tidy at all times'. The snippets I've heard of the latest album sound immaculately tidy, and therefore insufficiently grubby for my taste.

[D-A-O]

Here is some background on the album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAleFnbRgw

I am a "winter person" too ........but only becauase I LIKE TO SHRED SOME FUCKING GNAR

[njperry]

I never would have imagined that this crowd would ever disagree with something related to Sting. What a huge surprise this is.


Me, I am not going to get this new. I may or may not get it at a much reduced used price in the future but leaning against at present.

[Mary]

I should be sleeping but I had a look at this youtbe promovideo/chat with mr. Winter
by minute 2.13 he looks like a old gramp olding his walking stick like the last thing he could ever hold on his life.
I love winter too mr Sumners but I don't feel like a idiot old lady waiting death...
I get your point about all the ancient aspects of your hometown, after the lute thing there's a kind of gregorian sound that you want to discover. did you ever lived in a monestery?
what am i doing? wondering about Stingo in Copeland's field? oh lord, I should be sleeping....

[smax]

i've listened to the bits ands the little film and was greatly underwhelmed but not surprised... it sounded like i might like it in about 30 years time... he did sound like a pretentious wanker in the clips ... then again we have got a real fire now in the lounge and it is getting decidely wintery here so the album might work in front of a roaring fire: really roaring, really loudly roaring so i can't hear the dreadful moaning and wailing from the stereo, and i cannot listen to another version of "gabriels message", i hated it on the b-side of the Russians 12" when i was 11 and i hate it now. utterly irrelevant to me. i can appreciate musically that it exists, that there are some nice polyrhythmic and harmonic touches, the history of basque sung carols, yadda yadda, but i dont want to listen to it. FUCK OFF and take this fossil with you.

one positive is that if gordo wants to surprise his audience again the only logical choice for the next album is a faster-paced LP full of tunes like "fortress" and "seven days" and "all this time" with little or no pretentions to be "art" or "worthy" or even respectable, no fucking double bass (tho i love 'em), play some groovy, odd, ottavo, riff-based basslines on your lovely old fender, and concentrate on your lyrics, for gods sake, no more shockers like the crap that was and is "Stolen Car (take me dancing)", hairdressers have already got paul young and james blunt and don't need more from you, and no more bleedin' pointless jazz-excursion instrumentals with some stupid names like "The Found St Thomas' conundrum" or some such bollocks, you're meant to be a pop star, gordo, and don't you forget it, ya bastard....

>remembers that he's actually just a man who used to be a pop star, and is only 8 years younger than mick jagger, 9 years younger than lou reed, only 10 years younger than bob dylan (!?), 4 years younger than bowie..... is still annoyed that the man who wrote "peanuts" so quickly became part of that set of boring old-fart ex-good frontmen from the musical generation before... rod stewart, i'm thinking of you.

gets depressed about U2 a bit more, or rather the fact that their fans are still being provided with the beans in the can, whereas the beans i like became split and now only appear re-heated or in odd vegetarian, cheese-laden world cuisine dishes....blah blah, needs to know when to stop writing and just 'think' something (me, not gordo, although it could apply.....)
(Phew, that was negative. i am glad that he wrote peanuts at all btw)

[sockii]

I'll just go back to listening to the Ben Hur soundtrack for a while. It fills me with a great desire to rage against the world and go on a bloody holy war. And I'm all about fire and brimstone at the moment...

[luddite lady]

You know, I wish that smax wasn't always so damn reticent and told us how he really feels for once.

[SambucaSubaru]

Anyway to cut to the chase having heard the album...I LOVE IT.Seriously LOVE IT.Its different,original and well, for me, quite a refreshing listen.

Its a music I wouldn't normally listen to .. but hey I did and Loved it.

I suppose 'One man's meat is another man's poison'.

I'd recommend it.Big.Give it a try.

I haven't heard it yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I also liked the lute album -- but then I like early music and have other John Dowland recordings. The winter set sounds kinda George Winston-esque (which to my mind is a good thing).


S.S.

[Kim]

Well, I pre-ordered it because at this point I feel like I should, even though I know it's sad, lol. Sacred Love truly sucked though, and I almost gave up on him. If it was anybody else I would have dumped him ages ago. We'll see how this one works out. I actually am seriously considering ditching stink.com, but I have until February to decide. At this point I can't imagine him doing anything special worth paying $35/year for, certainly not after the tour. I'm still there out of respect and habit I guess. Blah!

[Susan]

Kim I know what you mean, my renewal comes up pretty soon. I kept it out of habit and also because I'm in NYC and Sting tends to do a lot of one-off events here.

I feel like I am not old enough for this stuff. This sounds like something my father (God rest his soul) would like...church music etc. I don't know...I don't like church music when I am IN church. (Side note: we used to have a folk Mass with a nun who played guitar...that was cool).

Well I think it will be fun at least when he goes on Letterman.

[Dietmar]

'One man's meat is another man's poison'

and I'm a vegetarian... so what's in it for me?
so there was never a chance I could have liked that album
Dietmar

[Schmaffy]

<<sigh>>

I loved "Stolen Car".