Sting - The Soul Cages
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Artist: StingEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1991-02-02
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Island of Souls
- All This Time
- Mad About You
- Jeremiah Blues, Pt. 2
- Why Should I Cry for You?
- Saint Agnes and the Burning Train
- Wild Wild Sea
- Soul Cages
- When the Angels Fall
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Free Music Review: Quite simply a beautiful pop masterpiece and his best album.
Hit: 5 Stars
The result of a writer's block after his father's death, Sting's "Soul Cages" is in a way (sometimes a very nautical themed) tribute to his late father and his somewhat distant relationship to him.
The harmonies, the lyrics and the inventive melodies just simply BLOW me away.
From the beauty of "Why Should I Cry For You?" and the classical acoustic nugget "St. Agnes And The Burning Train", to the turmoil of "The Wild, Wild Sea", the exuberant and yet poignant "All This Time"...and a perfect ending in "When The Angels Fall".
The ONLY track I don't really care for is the loud and guitar heavy "rocker", the title track.
But arguably THE SOUL CAGES is Sting's best work to date, with TEN SUMMONER's TALES following as a close second.
The Soul Cages Poster
The somber, personal Soul Cages is a testament to Sting's strength as a storyteller. Each song creates its own dark, lonely world with recurring themes of sea, ships, and filial love. The album opens with the wistful, virtually mist-drenched "Island of Souls," a tale of a shipbuilder's son orphaned by an accident who dreams of the open sea. Later, that sea becomes a prison for a lovelorn sailor in "Why Should I Cry for You?" Throughout, Sting dispenses with the conventions of pop lyrical structure. Saxophones, oboe, and Northumbrian pipes reinforce the folksy feel of the instrumentation. Arguably the best song on the album, "Mad About You" is a mystical ballad about a king who has everything except the woman he loves. Grand, elegiac, and allegorical, Soul Cages stands as one of Sting's most downcast recordings, and one of his most compelling. --Courtney KempAlternative Rock Music CDs
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