"What exactly is a "summoner's tale"?"
It's a story in Canterbury Tales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Summoner's_Tale
― akm, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
it's the one with the farting
― akm, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
oh wow, I stand corrected. of course Sting would know about that!!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
A decade ago, I'd have picked Gabriel easily. These days it's a closer call. Sting/The Police has arguably been more influential, and Gabriel's late output has been equally staid.
Their voices have held up surprisingly well — it sounds like they both sing their old stuff in the original keys.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
can't help thinking sting would have been hilarious if he'd been around to indulge his medievalist thing in the high prog era
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
OTM, he was a bit of a jazz rocker at the time though, I think? Also some Gong connection or other.
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
San Jacinto is better than ANYTHING Sting ever wrote Police included.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
that's praise!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
actually Ive never been crazy about it, with the exception of that spooky as hell "We will walk on the land" outro with the Fairlight flutes– it's like a wolf man standing over a man's corpse.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Prog Sting = Ian Anderson + Geddy Lee
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
the Gong connection was Strontium 90, which was The Police + Mike Howlett. their music wasn't proggy at all but that one CD released in 1997 or whatever was pretty interesting if you're a hardcore Police fan
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 16 March 2017 03:54 (seven years ago) link