 | Sting The Dream of the Blue Turtles
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| 3.5 great | Barksdale | June 8th 22 |
Best Tracks: If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Love is the Seventh Wave, Russians, Shadows in the Rain, We Work the Black Seam, Consider Me Gone, Fortress Around Your Heart.
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| 2.5 average | ExoskeletalJunction | October 27th 21 |
18th January, 2021: Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles (sophisti-pop rock, 1985)
I had one of those “wait, that was a cover?” moments when listening to this, the kind that make
you really question everything you thought you knew about a song or an album. The song in question
is “Russians”, which I first heard done by doom metal band The Foreshadowing. I probably should
have known - I always remember the song’s lyrics being utterly bizarre and totally out of place
for that band. Hearing it here really took me by shock, but I have to say that I don’t even think
this version is better - at least in the doom metal version there was some kind of awareness at
the daftness of the lyrics, but Stingy here sings them with such utter sincerity.
The rest of the album? Oh I can’t remember any of it, must have been boring.
4.6 (1st listen)
Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction
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| 3.2 good | Erwann S. EMERITUS | August 5th 20 |
After The Police's (temporary) hiatus, Sting can finally break free of the band's rock straightjacket. Surrounding himself with top notch jazz studio musicians, he crafts a delicately bombastic sophisti-pop with more jazz ornaments than, say, Prefab Sprout, and more world music inspirations than Donald Fagen. His next records would go on with this formula, and although Sting will refine his formula, this first record is a smooth first step.
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| 4.0 excellent | Snuron | June 11th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | Anto77 | October 28th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | fifek | September 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | boleyn2 | August 2nd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | DarthGL | October 29th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | August 13th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | ghworin | February 13th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Basara | November 3rd 18 |
| 1.5 very poor | rjk | May 10th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | townseru | November 11th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | igi78 | November 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. EMERITUS | August 22nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | TwigTW | June 21st 17 |
| 3.5 great | Divaman | September 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ekdahl | May 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | GMBass | October 4th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | random | July 21st 15 |
| 3.0 good | Lassie | January 13th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | CRX | May 22nd 14 |
| 3.5 great | Lebren | December 23rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kalhur | December 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | dan2309 | October 27th 13 |
| 2.5 average | KILL | March 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | bmagnus | June 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mateus | April 25th 11 |
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