Sting should retire

Shame, since not only his albums with The Police, but also his first solo albums, were all great.

...Sting should preferably be ritually dismembered first, and his head should be used for cheese-rolling. As useless as his music is though, I *think* I'm right in saying that his last album was his best-selling one to date.

Sting should shave

I'm not too eager to pimp my Dodge Neon, though.

Or he could just rejoin Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams for a remake of "All For One All For Love."

I'll probably end up hating him if there isn't a Police reunion tour sometime in the next 5 years.

me, too....how boring our we, Matos? wanna help me hatch a rockist plot to make sure Dizee Rascal doesn't break big in the States?

and haha "rockist plot to make sure Dizee Rascal doesn't break big in the States"--like how, being British and rapping?

What?? All the cool kids on my block are pumping So Solid Crew!

It's just where his studio was located.

It's kind of a terrible album title too? Isn't memorable, it's not his 9th album (nor his 57th), it's just some dumb intersection. Album itself is kinda crap but I guess I'll try to stomach it again.

I talked to two jazz bass players recently who had worked with him and couldn't get them to say a bad word about.

Stink and Boner should retire together, just buy a trailer in Arizona somewhere and leave us alone

haha wow the new album is really bad. it's like he decided "yeah, that bland christian rock sound, that's where it's at"

it's all been downhill since desert rose

a timely encore of "The Russians" is needed.

ok I listened to it again. my biggest gripe (other than Sting losing an entire octave of his vocal range) is that it just sounds like garbage. like I know people who record in their basement who make better sounding music than this. songs themselves ain't too bad, just, god, so bland

I heard a bit of it in Reflex (Newcastle) the weekend, it sounded OK in a 'Police-lite' sort of way, bearable. Did not want one, obv, but.

yeah both "50,000" and "Pretty Young Soldier" are solid tunes. also lol @ "Petrol Head" which is probably the most STING ROCKS! song since, uh, "Next To You"? (this doesn't mean it's any good)

is it kind of "cool" to hate sting?

I'm not sure the average teenager in 2017 knows who Sting is or even cares.

they probably think its the wrastler

Stink fatigue

I saw him with Peter Gabriel last year and he was surprisingly strong, when he was singing his own stuff but also when he was just playing bass and doing backing vocals for Gabriel on his songs. Seemed like he was having a blast.

The specially prepared menu includes: Carved Prime Rib au Jus, Breaded Baked Haddock, Roasted Red Potatoes, Whole Green Beans, Carrots, Tossed Salad, Rolls, Cake, White Punch, Apple & Ginger Ale.

Sting's been getting ragged on for like 30 years now so I guess it's cool to like him again?

wish his new album didn't blow so hard

Isn't Sting the guy Mom puts on when she wants to get it on? So much easier when Marvin Gaye was around.

oh i don't know he probably weighed more than sting

No one is getting in on to Sting except maybe Sting.

Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy. (Sting's face at 1:47 specifically)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gZWIE081po

Shoulda gotten a stronger stiff-upper-lip supplement

"Howay, bonnie lass, I'm gannin' yem."

Who pays for this shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOaRPJQXFG4

cool song Sting but Flynt Flossy did it better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajcGDaLy4Zw

Shag & Stingy

Stinky n’ Shaggy

FIRST SONG HAS A HIP HOP AIRHORN

Sting's first verse "the politics of this country are getting to me"

god it's everything I thought it would be

that rhymes!

What country is he talking about though?

Sting owns a Jacobian castle in Wiltshire, which he calls "Lake House", where he records his albums, as well as a place in London, an apartment in New York, a place on the beach in Malibu, California, and a Renaissance Florentine Villa called "Palagio" in Figline Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy.

I assume they mean Jacobean there...

news today that he's playing a free set here this summer WITH SHAGGY & I was happy to know where NOT to be that day

lol

Why in god's name did ILM not pre-cover this?

Shaggy is awesome. Y’all can hate Sting all you want to, but Shaggy is one of the great dancehall artists who keeps releasing good stuff year after year.

i like the way Spotify displays the Sting/Shaggy album because i can imagine "with Shaggy" is part of the song titles pic.twitter.com/cfWqIp1BCq

— Al Shipley (@alshipley) April 20, 2018

Sting is one of those dudes we should have managed to laugh out of existence but here we are

Sting should just sell signature cologne or wine decanters at this point

was in a Barnes & Noble this weekend and apparently they sell vinyl now. top shelf had 3 Sting albums, Dream of the Blue Turtles, The Soul Cages, & the Shaggy one. they were TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS EACH. the new one, fine, whatever, but do people really not know that you can get old Sting albums for a buck ?

I really need to hear that song about fortresses and moats around emotions on vinyl

Sting, Phil Collins, and Eric Clapton seem like the holy trinity of ridiculed 80s pop stars.

Somewhere Bryan Adams is crying.

xp People have been saying that about Phil Collins on here lately... I honestly didn't know he was so widely disliked/ridiculed. I can't recall ever encountering too many strongly negative Phil Collins opinions.

Phil is one of the greats but slothfingers and stink should go live under a rock and not bother anybody

^ OTM. I have little use for Sting after Synchronicity, and for Clapton after the Derek and the Dominos album.

first thing I ever knew of Phil Collins was his appearance on South Park which in retrospect was pretty far off the mark - has Phil ever acted like that? maybe cuz of the thread and all but Sting would've been a much better fit for that role

Clapton is the most risible, because, yeah, he didn't have much going for him post Derek and the Dominoes, then, talent squandered sucked extra hard in the '80s, then really topped off the decade by getting worse. Iirc, he got better, but the decades of damage had been done.

Sting has been hit or miss, and mostly miss, since the Police. But the run of Nothing Like the Sun to Soul Cages to Ten Sumners (almost wrote Ten Slumbers) is solid.

And of course, Sting's appearances on No Jacket Required offer a nice assist to Phil.

Btw, I saw that Sting/Peter Gabriel tour, and I was surprised to see Sting playing bass for a bunch of the Gabriel set. He seemed to be having a lot of fun just being a musician in the background.

I still have a soft spot for Blue Turtles since that CD was playing all the time in the house when I grew up. Guessing I'd cringe a lot if I heard it now but some of the lyrics meant a lot to me when I was 12. That said the "Bring on the Night" live double disc is probably Sting's peak - one of the few live albums from a superstar act that actually shows how deep his catalogue really was, making a conscious decision to avoid nearly all his hits.

I think a good way to describe Sting is "pouty and horny"