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Okay, Thoroughly Useless Solo Catalog, Part II (Part I Was Don Henley Aside From Boys Of Summer) - Sting (1 Viewer)

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Sting.

Go ahead, you know you want to school me about what I've been missing. Aside from "Fortress Around Your Heart," name a good song. I. Dare. You.

 
I dig If You Love Someone Set Them Free but Sting's solo work isn't really my jam. It all sounds really dated to me. 

 
I actually do enjoy his big album, Ten Summoner's Tales. My mom had that tape and played it on repeat for months when that came out. 

 
My algorithm is now showing “Take It Easy Rock” as a recommended category. Yep. That’s about right. Music to get comatose to. 

 
it's like the other slope of the graphblip of talking music with my dad. hates every ounce of noise i listen to, then offers "If I Knew You Were Coming Ida Baked a Cake" as his "That's What i Call Music". i see very little difference between the musical Milltown of Ferlin Husky & Patti Page and the musical Ritalin of Idles or Run the Jewels, especially when neither of you are conversant with the music which preceded or proceeded your wheelhouses.

 
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Be Still My Beating Heart is awesome, and one of the three best songs he ever wrote.  Anyone who disagrees is simply wrong. :P :P

 
rockaction said:
Sting.

Go ahead, you know you want to school me about what I've been missing. Aside from "Fortress Around Your Heart," name a good song. I. Dare. You.
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Stinkier and stinkier!

  • Set Them Free
  • Brand New Day
  • Fields of Gold
  • Be Still My Beating Heart
  • All This Time
Not my favorite spinoff or anything, but he's had some good stuff.

 
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wikkidpissah said:
it's like the other slope of the graphblip of talking music with my dad. hates every ounce of noise i listen to, then offers "If I Knew You Were Coming Ida Baked a Cake" as his "That's What i Call Music". i see very little difference between the musical Milltown of Ferlin Husky & Patti Page and the musical Ritalin of Idles or Run the Jewels, especially when neither of you are conversant with the music which preceded or proceeded your wheelhouses.
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because u grew up 2 b the greatest generation. Lol. 
 

im as familiar with ode to joy as an ode to jam master jay. You can exclude everything but classical and boomerisms, just means you’ve missed the points of creators in between. 

 
Lazarus Heart

Hounds Of Winter

Soul Cages (the song)

I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

Something The Boy Said

Fill Her Up

This Cowboy Song

The Wild Wild Sea

Dream Of The Blue Turtles (the song)

His solo career is mostly EZ listening.

 
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Dune. 

teh Tantric sechs.

"BELLBOY, BELLBOY!"

his brief cameo in "TGRn'RS"

brief, but it lasted longer than The Rich Kids. 

pretentious?

he makes Bono come off like G.G. Allin in comparison, quite frankly ... and i'm not cool with that. 

 
i can also write you a song in any form, subject rising from the bile or billows of your choice, in 24 hours that will make you swoon or cry. i've done it for at least a dozen others. if you'd shown more value as a debater, ida did it for drill. congrats on your loss of standing.

 
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i can also write you a song in any form, subject rising from the bile or billows of your choice, in 24 hours that will make you swoon or cry. i've done it for at least a dozen others. if you'd shown more value as a debater, ida did it for drill. congrats on your loss of standing.
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‘Melo wasn’t just a prefix for not playing defense, it seems. 

 
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 especially when neither of you are conversant with the music which preceded or proceeded your wheelhouses.
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I asked to fight me, not to get too personal. I'm really not mad in the least -- you do this often because you are a sensitive and good soul with strong opinions, and people like that are often misunderstood and passionate. I know what I speak of when I speak of that.

So I say this with all the humor and good will possible, don't let your certitude about certain things get in the way of reasonable and friendly discourse. Friendly lengths are often the best medicine. I have no wounds to lick today -- I'm just calling it as I see it, and I see a guy who has serious problems with anything that went pop (and I'm limiting this to pop) other than that which he came of age with. I'm not the one you want to take umbrage with.

To wit:

As I get the mail just moments ago, Neil Young's 1969 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere greets me. Then I take a gander at my floor to see a warped (sad face) pressing of Acoustic Sounds's mono remastering of 1966's Pet Sounds, an album I've listened to seriously since 1997. Then it's on to my email, where I get confirmation of My Bloody Valentine's 1991 Loveless, one of the most praised records of the past thirty years. Then there's my noontime history on Spotify of Leadbelly (1930s) sandwiched in between Statik Selektah (2017) and The Real Kids (1977). This, wikkid, is a casual day for me and doesn't contain one whit of untruth. After playing Leadbelly and The Real Kids for a relative, I sort of stopped listening to music for the day, only to be regaled with something about Sting, which prompted my thoughts on his solo career.

It would seem the above criticism and especially the boldface font is wrongly directed.

So in proceeding to critique modern culture, you have gotten personal and called the music I listen to or promulgate on the boards as done by "artless mindqueefs," and mixed me up with El Floppo about IDLES (all caps, by the way). In addition to totally slagging some (some!) music I listen to, you've confused me with other members of the board and slagged their taste, too. And while I do enjoy their first album, nobody is chalking me up on the board to a great love of IDLES. I selected them in the punk draft, but never for any other, if proof needs to be in the pudding.

And that's about that. I hope you have a lovely day, my man, and I mean both of the clauses in that sentence. Good will and peace.

 
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Some of us adore easy listening. In fact, my 1970 list features some of the greatest easy listening songs of all time. Legendary stuff. You’d better not criticize it either. 

 
Have been a big fan over the years -- will report back (when I have more time) with concrete examples (no greatest hit catalog from me).

:thumbup:

 
I’m with you. Not a fan of his non-Pohlice stuff. 
Missed the Don Henley thread - don’t think I can get down with that take though.

 
rockaction said:
Sting.

Go ahead, you know you want to school me about what I've been missing. Aside from "Fortress Around Your Heart," name a good song. I. Dare. You.
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I was going to tell you to watch a concert video of Sting’s Bring on the Night tour. I saw that show at the Great Western Forum back in the day and it was jaw-dropping. But then I realized the set was mostly Police tunes.

 
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