Say something interesting about sting/police

Why Should I Cry for You

I guess it's easy to mock him for this stuff but sometimes he does hit it out of the park

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If I Ever Lose My Faith in You is a pretty undeniable pop song I think. but yeah idk if he's ever hit the emotional depth of Why Should I Cry For You since

The Soul Cages has several bangers. I'm impressed he got a single as resigned as "All This Time" into the top five.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8khooPyJk

undeniable

where he mastered those Simon-influenced talk-singing cadences.

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I think both Nothing like the Sun and Soul Cages were both inspired by the death of his parents, the Soul Cages especially. that line on "All This Time" which goes "if I had my way/I'd take a boat to the river/and I'd bury the old man/I'd bury him at sea" always gets me.

NB: "Fragile" is one of Neil Tennant's favorite songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8khooPyJk

undeniable

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, February 7, 2024 5:11 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

genuinely one of the most insane music videos ever made, even today it still feels like an SNL sketch

the song itself may be good, I've heard a few people say it's a really great divorce song

One of my friends brought Dream of the Blue Turtles to spin one night a couple of years ago. Another of my friends said, "You broke up the Police for this? Fuck you" LOL

My intro to Toby Keith! He covered it (with Sting).

Blue Turtles is good but the live album was really something. believe it or not it was my first exposure to hip-hop.

I managed to see that tour when it came to Red Rocks, it was really good, but still.

Rock Steady" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life too!!!

that was written under duress though. also "Rock Steady" attempts to be a cute Bible song and those are just never ever good

what was the last great song that sting wrote?

― blazin' squab (NickB), Wednesday, February 7, 2024 6:02 PM

Why Should I Cry for You

― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 7, 2024 6:05 PM

Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
What would it mean to say,
I loved you in my fashion?

^^ he sings it quite well too

What's wrong with "We'll Be Together"? I liked it at the time, and heard it in Barnes & Noble this past weekend and still liked it.

"We'll Be Together" sounds cheap: one of the more crasser let-me-assemble-a-hit things. He didn't have a clue how to arrange the backup singers or how to use the Casio organ preset.

"Hauling on frozen ropes"

That's the line that gets me. The metaphor has to be that you wish to do something that is possible, but difficult.

A much more nuanced metaphor than trying to do something impossible, or trying to do something that us easy.

Why should I try?

The card metaphor is overdone, but I've always liked "Shape of My Heart."

i thought i liked that one too, but i just went back to it - and though it's still got a certain prettiness to it, it also embodies the dreariness of tone and tempo that made his albums such a bore

Hip-hop artists looooooved that track