Your favourite Sting album.

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  • Frances_iom
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 2415

    #16
    Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View Post
    ...I did give it to someone as an Xmas present though
    are you on that bad terms with your mother-in-law ?

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    • Richard Tarleton

      #17
      Originally posted by Frances_iom View Post
      are you on that bad terms with your mother-in-law ?

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #18
        My wife bought that Sting album he did ofDowland!!How crass can you get! What on earth was DG thinking?
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • cloughie
          Full Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 22182

          #19
          Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
          My wife bought that Sting album he did ofDowland!!How crass can you get! What on earth was DG thinking?
          Are you talking Deutsche Grammophon or are they your wife's initials?

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          • pastoralguy
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7799

            #20
            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
            What on earth was DG thinking?

            MONEY!!
            (And some street cred...)

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            • silvestrione
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 1722

              #21
              The one with 'Tea in the Sahara' on it (and the rather more popular 'Every Breath You take'). This album even won the admiration of that wonderful writer on music of catholic tastes, Wilfrid Mellers.

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              • jayne lee wilson
                Banned
                • Jul 2011
                • 10711

                #22
                Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
                The one with 'Tea in the Sahara' on it (and the rather more popular 'Every Breath You take'). This album even won the admiration of that wonderful writer on music of catholic tastes, Wilfrid Mellers.
                Yes, Synchronicity... the first and the last Police or Sting album I ever bought. Inspired to the purchase by Every Breath, I was disappointed in the album, rather lost touch with all three musicians after that. For me they were a great singles band of the late/early eighties... (rather better lyrics than Duran Duran...)

                I haven't heard The Soldier's Tale, but I'd imagine his voice would be well-suited to the role.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25226

                  #23
                  have to agree that "Invisible sun" is fantastic.

                  Synchronicity 2 is top tune too.
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Beef Oven

                    #24
                    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                    have to agree that "Invisible sun" is fantastic.

                    Synchronicity 2 is top tune too.
                    I need to re-listen to this album (Ghosts in the Machine). I always thought it was extremely poor (I bought it when it first came out), but the views expressed here mean I must reconsider.

                    My favourite Sting album is a close call between The Dream of the Blue Turtles and Synchronicity.

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                    • jayne lee wilson
                      Banned
                      • Jul 2011
                      • 10711

                      #25
                      I always felt Synchronicity was spoilt by Stewart Copeland's ranting on "Mother" - the piece seemed at odds with the rest of the album. At the time, I had no idea he was such an accomplished musician and thought he was a dumb drummer with hang-ups. At any rate, its crudely revealed emotional raw material is scarcely transmuted into art, is it? And on LP, it was harder to avoid!

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                      • Beef Oven

                        #26
                        Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
                        I always felt Synchronicity was spoilt by Stewart Copeland's ranting on "Mother" - the piece seemed at odds with the rest of the album. At the time, I had no idea he was such an accomplished musician and thought he was a dumb drummer with hang-ups. At any rate, its crudely revealed emotional raw material is scarcely transmuted into art, is it? And on LP, it was harder to avoid!
                        Agreed. And yes, Mother was more of an issue on LP! A real duff track that is easy to skip on cd these days.

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                        • MrGongGong
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 18357

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                          Agreed. And yes, Mother was more of an issue on LP! A real duff track that is easy to skip on cd these days.

                          .
                          I'd forgotten about that one
                          a case of "lets try to sound like Beefheart"
                          at least it swells the ranks of songs in 7/8

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                          • BBMmk2
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20908

                            #28
                            Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                            MONEY!!
                            (And some street cred...)
                            Probably!
                            Don’t cry for me
                            I go where music was born

                            J S Bach 1685-1750

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                            • EdgeleyRob
                              Guest
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12180

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                              Probably!
                              Defo.

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