Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
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Artist: StingEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- Love Is The Seventh Wave
- Russians
- Children's Crusade
- Shadows In The Rain
- We Work The Black Seam
- Consider Me Gone
- The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Fortress Around Your Heart
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Free Music Review: Sting's first album is passable, with naive lyrics
Hit: 3 Stars
Sting's first album after leaving The Police was a reasonable commercial success, assuring himself a solo career, at least for some time. I listen to the album when it came out, in 1985, when I was 18, and I was impressed by it, but it hasn't aged that well. The music is pleasant though hardly memorable, and the lyrics are literate (perhaps too literate) but also naive. What sounded brave and intelligent 20 years ago, sounds pretty naive now. Like the pre - End of the cold war "Russians" (with a good coda from Prokofiev) or "The Children's Crusade" (about the youth killed in World War I, an odd topic for a rock song). "If you love somebody, set them free" sounds like a response to Police's megahit "Every breath you take" (can't one take a position in the middle, without going to the extremes?). Then there is the luddite "We Work the Black Seam together" (about the then topical miner's strike in the north of England) and the homage to New Orleans "Moon over Bourbon Street" inspired by the book Interview with a Vampire (this was before the Brad Pitt movie). The best song of the album to me is the calypso-inspired "Love is the Seventh Wave" (great video as well).
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From one spin of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting's first solo release, it's obvious that for him there would be life beyond the Police. Teamed with a band of top jazz players, he presents his musical visions that had gone unrealized while he was still constrained by his former ensemble. In style and subject matter, it's a decidedly diverse collection of songs and the playing is excellent throughout. The love songs are mostly focused on endings or escapes, and it's quite possible to interpret much of the imagery in reference to the bitter breakup of the Police. Sting's concern with history and politics is in evidence: he makes a father's plea for sanity and restraint in the nuclear age, takes up for the U.K.'s much-abused coal miners, and relates the savage stupidity of World War I to the destructive effects of adolescent heroin addiction. Songs that seem elaborately constructed and recorded contrast with others that are presented as one-take jams. Seen as a whole, The Dream of the Blue Turtles is eclectic, ambitious--sometimes pretentious--but altogether worth owning. --Al MassaAlternative Rock Music CDs
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