Comments for Sting, The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

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I miss the Sting that wrote this album. It was revolutionary in so many many ways. Sting took a 90 degree turn at the peak of his career, in the throws of the success of Synchronicity, to try something very different, much less travelled, and musically superior. This is one of the best albums ever written, bar none. It is one of those, "if you are ever stranded on an island and can only bring one album" type albums. The curriculum vitae of the musicians on this album cannot be surpassed, but the music avoids the pretentious and the technical and instead always opts for the PLEASING. Could today's Sting make this kind of change, or take this kind of chance? Would he re-write "Shadows in the Rain" in a way that is likely to leave about 75% of his current fans thinking, "What happened???"? I hope so. It is time, Sting, for your next Dream of the Blue Turtles. Make "Mercury Falling" your next post around which you take your next direction. Team up with a producer who will challenge you to take-on a new sound, a new direction. Perhaps Daniel Lanois could get the nod. (WJK 2/14/96, New Orleans))

This is one of those great albums. "Fortress" is probably the best one the album, but there are some excellent less known tracks which should not be overlooked, like "Children's Crusade" and "We Work the Black Seam". "Russians" is monumental and "Shadows in the Rain" isw a blast. One of Stoings best.

I have to disagree with KellyWJ@arlaw.com. I don't think that the innovative Sting of THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES is gone. I think that with Soul Cages he did even better. If I had to go to an Island with one record only, i'd prefer Soul Cages. Ugo De Vito

An 11! "Russians", "We work the black Seam", and "Children''s Crusade" are touching and carry an important message. "Love is the 7th Wave", "Shadows in the Rain", and "Dream of the Blue Turtles" are catchy and different. "Moon over Bourbon street", "If I built this fortress around your Heart", and "I you love Somebody" are lyrical classics. Finally, "Consider me Gone" is smooth and soulful. Too bad Sting swung away from this style into the soft, banal music is doing now just for "Artistic Credability". With Turtles, he got fame, sales, and artistic credit. Too bad he never realized it before making the whiney (but ok) Ten Summoner''s Tales. But "Mercury Falling" just might be his road back.