― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:49 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
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?
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
and haha "rockist plot to make sure Dizee Rascal doesn't break big in the States"--like how, being British and rapping?
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:02 (twenty years ago) link
What?? All the cool kids on my block are pumping So Solid Crew!
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:06 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:24 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
x-post-i will pick it up as soon as i can!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
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I don't necessarily blame you, but for real, the Jaxx reign supreme. -- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), November 26th, 2003.
and i bought the drive-by truckers album partly cuzza what you have said about them, matos! you are now officially my quality brand.x-post-i will pick it up as soon as i can!
-- scott seward (skotro...), November 26th, 2003.
even though i want to hear the new missy too and i am not a rockefeller. -- scott seward (skotro...), November 26th, 2003.
STING TO THREAD!!!
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 04:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 04:31 (twenty years ago) link
Words to live by.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 10:10 (twenty years ago) link
Probably, yeah
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, i was just searching for a thread to link this story.
― jed_, Monday, 22 February 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
What might save both me and you is that the megalomaniac Uzbek dictators love their children too.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNt5iK8EuAU
― i know who the sockpuppet master of ilx is (velko), Monday, 22 February 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
He was going to turn it down until the president called him with a personal rendition of their national song, 'Uzbek's Too Big Without You'.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 22 February 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Sting just checkin' "play for the daughter of a brutal despot" off the list of childhood ambitions, good work Sting
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Monday, 22 February 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
xp A+++
― Neil S, Monday, 22 February 2010 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
englishman in tashkent
― max, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Tajikistan's So Close To Me
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Looking back...
I'll probably end up hating him if there isn't a Police reunion tour sometime in the next 5 years.― billstevejim, Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:02 AM
― billstevejim, Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:02 AM
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
been a few months, but i just want to note sting releasing possibly the most prententious christmas album of all time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_Winter%27s_Night...
― da croupier, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
pretentious, gah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAleFnbRgw
oh ffs ffs ffs
― da croupier, Monday, 22 February 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbCA5z1Ygs
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
They did a Spanish version of that too, I like the fact that the message of that one song was so important that language was not going to stop him from sharing it's beauty and truth with the largest non-English speaking record markets outside of Europe our brothers and sisters around the world.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 22 February 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
He's not being allowed to get away with it
― Venga, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess his wife has eyed a few Louboutins again.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:55 (fourteen years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkTc7ORCUAAq4KZ.jpg
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Ah, Langford.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 April 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
Nooooo
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/theater/sting-to-join-the-cast-of-his-broadway-musical.html
Nooooooooooooo
“I’ve been working on this show for five years and been at every rehearsal, every performance, so it’s not like I’ve flown in from Planet Rock Star to save the day,” Sting said in an interview on Sunday before telling the cast members that he is joining them. He said he’d show his rear end “in Macy’s if it will help our show.”
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
My mom loves this drivel. I had to sit through this horrible track about his dad called Dead Man's Boots. Oh god. My other family members will be taking it up on thanksgiving.
― calstars, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
Holiday music often ends up being kind of a Scylla and Charybdis deal.
― Junior Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 November 2014 04:52 (nine years ago) link
i wonder whether if you're in a musical based on your life it eventually interferes with your memories, of everything depicted, like it's a few years later & you're remembering somebody you used to know or some night you first realised something about yourself & you can't remember if the whole thing happened just regularly in plain speech or melodically, surrounded by conspicuously fresh faced young people, under peppery torrents of synthetic rain
― schlump, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:56 (nine years ago) link
Because there's nothing like embattled ship builders to draw a crowd
― calstars, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:57 (nine years ago) link
Wow that picture, with him sitting there with a satisfied smile and the guy he's replacing (Jimmy Nail) looking heartbroken off to the right...
and then the producer Jeffery Seller in that pose looks like he's taunting Jimmy "Jim you're fired! We finally got some talent right here" points
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/24/arts/SUB-STING/SUB-STING-master675.jpg
― Evan, Monday, 24 November 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
Believe it is high time to revive the "Tell that to your new leader -- Sting!" meme
― Junior Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 November 2014 05:02 (nine years ago) link
Should have just said: "Tell that to your new leading man -- Sting!"
― Junior Dadaismus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 November 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 April 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
Sting is one of those dudes we should have managed to laugh out of existence but here we are
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 21 April 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link
Sting should just sell signature cologne or wine decanters at this point
― brimstead, Saturday, 21 April 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
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 ?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
I really need to hear that song about fortresses and moats around emotions on vinyl
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
Sting, Phil Collins, and Eric Clapton seem like the holy trinity of ridiculed 80s pop stars.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Somewhere Bryan Adams is crying.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
Phil is one of the greats but slothfingers and stink should go live under a rock and not bother anybody
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
^ OTM. I have little use for Sting after Synchronicity, and for Clapton after the Derek and the Dominos album.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
I think a good way to describe Sting is "pouty and horny"
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 1 November 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link