I guess it's easy to mock him for this stuff but sometimes he does hit it out of the park
otm
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:09 (two months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:09 (two months ago) link
The Soul Cages has several bangers. I'm impressed he got a single as resigned as "All This Time" into the top five.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:09 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI8khooPyJk
undeniable
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:11 (two months ago) link
where he mastered those Simon-influenced talk-singing cadences.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:11 (two months ago) link
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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.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:13 (two months ago) link
NB: "Fragile" is one of Neil Tennant's favorite songs.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:15 (two months ago) link
― 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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:16 (two months ago) link
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
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:17 (two months ago) link
My intro to Toby Keith! He covered it (with Sting).
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:17 (two months ago) link
Blue Turtles is good but the live album was really something. believe it or not it was my first exposure to hip-hop.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:20 (two months ago) link
I managed to see that tour when it came to Red Rocks, it was really good, but still.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:21 (two months ago) link
Rock Steady" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard in my life too!!!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:23 (two months ago) link
that was written under duress though. also "Rock Steady" attempts to be a cute Bible song and those are just never ever good
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
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?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:48 (two months ago) link
^^ he sings it quite well too
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:57 (two months ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
"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.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:59 (two months ago) link
"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?
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:11 (two months ago) link
The card metaphor is overdone, but I've always liked "Shape of My Heart."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:13 (two months ago) link
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
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:19 (two months ago) link
Hip-hop artists looooooved that track
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link