Sting - Mercury Falling
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Artist: StingEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-12
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Hounds of Winter
- I Hung My Head
- Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
- I Was Brought to My Senses
- You Still Touch Me
- I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
- All Four Seasons
- La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
- Valparaiso
- Lithium Sunset
Free Music Notes for Mercury Falling
Free Music Review: The Silver of Nature
Hit: 5 Stars
I never considered myself a Sting fan. I've always liked his singles and some of his Police material. In college, I would hang out with friends and one of them always had Mercury Falling playing on the stereo. I asked to borrow it, liking what I heard. Little did I realize what a gem of an album this truly was.
It's interesting to read people saying this is not his greatest album. I've tried his other albums. The only one suited to me is Mercury. It is a haunted album...cold...suspended like large flakes of snow in a winter still life. There is something infinitely sad here. I do not know what was going on in Sting's personal life, nor do I care. He wrote his music for him, I bought it for me.
I own only two distinctly quiescent albums, of which Mercury is one and Elton John's The Big Picture is the other. Both make for fine listening, but I relate more to Sting's music. Also, his is more interesting to sing along with.
While each track stands on its own, the ones that distinctly stand out are:
The Hounds of Winter. A great way to begin a somewhat forlorn album. It is Sting waking to a lonely, depressing winter morning, walking through the day without his love. The music is frighteningly enveloping. I tend to forget it is a song until it ends.
I Was Brought To My Senses. This song starts so slowly that I actually first listened to it entirely months after I had bought the album. Little did I realize that a little more than a minute and a half in begins one of the most remarkable songs I've heard. It was a description of my own revelations...revelations we each have every day, sometimes ignored. This is somewhat a sequel to Hounds, or perhaps a parallel event, only far happier.
La Belle Dame Sans Regrets. A joy to listen to. I know enough French to get a gist of what's going on. If you enjoy this little ditty, I highly recommend checking out Billy Joel's C'Etait Toi (You Were the One) off his Glass Houses album. They both make wonderful love songs.
Valparaiso. Not for all tastes, but this song conjures mists over the water, the sounds of lapping waves, starry night skies far from lands with electricity, a woman whom you love, and the love of the open seas. I live on the marina and at night, watching boats drift silently by, I always sing to myself, "Red the port light, starboard the green." It never fails.
The art direction is superb, and contributes greatly to the album as a whole. Jeri Heiden, whose credits I Googled and are too vast to list, did a fabulous job "silvering" and sepia-toning Sting's world in his forest. In one photograph, by the way, you can see Sting sitting before a fireplace, six-string guitar in his lap, lined music paper in front of him. I wonder if that's where he writes sometimes?
Mercury Falling Poster
Falling somewhere between the pop sensibilities of Ten Summoner's Tales and the searching ambition of The Soul Cages, Mercury Falling is one of Sting's tighter records, even if it fails to compel as much as his previous solo albums. Though he doesn't flaunt his jazz aspirations as he did in the mid-'80s, Mercury Falling feels more serious than The Dream of the Blue Turtles, primarily because of its reserved, high-class production and execution. Building from surprisingly simple, memorable melodies, Sting creates multi-layered, vaguely soul-influenced arrangements that carry all of the hallmarks of someone who has studied music, not lived it. Of course, there are many pleasures in the record -- for all of his pretensions, Sting remains an engaging melodicist, as well as a clever lyricist. There just happens to be a distinct lack of energy, stemming from the suffocating layers of synthesizers. Mercury Falling is a record of modest pleasures; it's just not an infectious, compulsive listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide * Artist: Sting * Format: CD * Year: 1996, 2001, 2004 * UPC: 4988005537829 * Item Number: MSI553782 * Release date: 12/03/2008 * Label: A&M * Genre: Rock * Style: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Album Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Soft Rock * Album Time: 48:08 * Album Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM * SPARS Code: DDDClassic Rock Music CDs
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