Fields of POLL: The Best of Sting

"They Dance Alone". His best ever solo moment.

Englishman In New York is pretty much the only solo Sting I like.

Ok Soto, now you're taking this love of the well-made 1980s studio pop-rock song waaay too far.

I don't love it -- I wanted to poll El Stingo.

I suppose people that dug the Faces and the Jeff Beck Group probably had a similar feeling with Rod Stewart (but at least the change was blatent and he was fun).

OTM

I guess "All This Time", though I remember being surprised by how much play it got on my local "alt rock" station at the time. But I shouldn't have been: they heavily promoted Peter Gabriel's Us at the time, and Sarah McLaughlin, both in a similar adult-y neighborhood I think.

Being a kid that loved the Police, it was weird being a fan that slowly became repulsed.

otm.

i was kinda glad when he did the three amigos thing with bryan adams and rod stewart, because i felt like i'd been contractually released from ever paying attention to him again.

^^^^^
truest thing ever spoken on ILX

oh c'mon -- they did it all for love.

i was kinda glad when he did the three amigos thing with bryan adams and rod stewart, because i felt like i'd been contractually released from ever paying attention to him again.

i'd ask what "thing" you're referring to, but i think i'm happier and more content not knowing about it.

happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
* * * *
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
* * * *
(no bad dreams)

somewhere post-Dream of the Blue Turtles (ie, high school) I realized what horrible music this guy makes and I just can't abide him. So much so that my wife has to listen to her Police box set when I'm not home.

Let's make it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall for one and all for loooooooooove

my wife has to listen to her Police box set when I'm not home

yeah, i have that box-set. i like a lot of the songs, but i can't bring myself to listen to it.

goin for "be still my beating heart"

Sue me, but I still like "Fortress Around Your Heart"

That the Police were better than solo Sting is a fact too obvious to restate but in this case it instructs us, reliably, to vote for the one song on here that sounds like a good Police single, "Fortress Around Your Heart."

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dr. seuss is a better lyricist than sting.

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There might not be a rock lyricist better than Dr. Seuss. For sure at most 5.

That the Police were better than solo Sting is a fact too obvious to restate but in this case it instructs us, reliably, to vote for the one song on here that sounds like a good Police single, "Fortress Around Your Heart."

i don't think FAYH sounds anything like the police, but i (reluctantly) admit it's a good song.

Fortress Around your Heart still would have been better with Andy Summers putting some of that creamy chorus guitar around it. He would have eaten that chord progression for breakfast.

agreed.

Ha! Is it the modern lot of wives, listening to the Police box set only when their husband is away? I qualify! It must be how he feels when he watches pornography when I'm not around, kind of dirty but also relieved.

sting is much more sorid than pornography.

sting is horrible.

Sting pornography would be the worst.

It probably would last a long time.

http://imgsrv.nightswithalicecooper.com/image/nwac/UserFiles/Image/sting.jpg

I would watch a Sting pornography if, in it, he had intercourse with younger guys who looked sort of like him, like Neil Patrick Harris and Christopher Masterson.

It probably would last a long time.

only if you include dinner and a movie in calculating the time.

lol. TS: Sting (professional bard) v. Sting (professional wrestler)

I'm abstaining, though I'd vote for "Desert Rose" (w/ Cheb Mami) if it was on here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyf4KDbnrP0

I still reckon his first three solo albums were indeed quite good. Even "Ten Summoner Tales" contained a couple of nice singles, but by then he was completely on his way into ZZZ-land.

Had to stop reading Daniel Levitin's The World in Six Songs after he went on at length about the genius of Russians and referred to "my friend Sting".

Really hate that Mr Kruschev/Mr Pinochet mister-thing that Sting does.

No Love Is The Seventh Wave, no credibility.

oh lord, "Russians" is the most embarrassing song in the world that isn't "They Dance Alone"

Love is a big fat river in flood

btw this is very very gross

You really should read the rest of those lyrics I linked. Feel the revulsion!

"love is stronger than justice" is pretty cool music-wise; all that shit about burritos, bandidos and "ethical stuff" needs to die, though

gah nevermind, just listened to it for the first time in like 10 years and it's totally unredeemable. need to wash my ears out w/some bizcuit now

Maybe because it's embarrassing, I voted for "Russians" -- a gorgeous (cribbed) melody, the clunkiest of lyrics, that new dad feeling along with all its attendant earnestness, all those "misters"... what's not to love?

cribbed from what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5w-PP6UQo

ok now i'm less guilty about my secret fondness for 'russians'. see, i didn't even confess it till now. lostandfound otm iow.

How would history had differed if he'd used the Trololo melody.

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly trololololo?

I like my toast done on one side.

Eh? Is this considered an English affectation?

Yeah, like cooking the left half of a pizza.

Am eagerly waiting on Sting's "Disgusting Savages" song.

Yeah, like cooking the left half of a pizza.

No, we only cook the edge

Watching *Radio On*. I'd forgotten Sting pops up and steals the thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqZwjxZuOFc

Apropos of nothing this came on my feed the other day, joyous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPqOHay8fM

Upon reading through the comments above, I just want to point out that pop-synth-punk genius Atom and His Package recorded an instrumental track in 1997 called “Sting Cannot Possibly Be the Same Guy Who Was In the Police“ https://genius.com/Atom-and-his-package-sting-cannot-possibly-be-the-same-guy-who-was-in-the-police-lyrics"> https://genius.com/Atom-and-his-package-sting-cannot-possibly-be-the-same-guy-who-was-in-the-police-lyrics

https://theonion.com/you-know-i-used-to-be-kind-of-cool-once-1819583601/

I built an elaborate defense perimeter around your heart

Really enjoying Andy's book, One Train Later.

People forget how old Andy is - 81! - and that book does a great job placing him in the context of all those post-war ground zero British guitarist peers.

Turns out he's playing this live for the first time in about 35 years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NGeWLcS-14

sorry "Sting 3.0" what

They updated his firmware

(The embarrassing part was seeing that he and Billy Joel played a 70K-capacity football stadium in Indianapolis this week and then had to see what the setlists were.)

What a boring drummer he has now, who is this Zach Jones dude?

They updated his firmware