― 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
"Uh, Sting, you know you're only a replacement chorus member, right?"
"What?"
"But we do want you to show your ass."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
crew laughing, Jimmy staring coldly...
― Evan, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
the yelp subscriptions department will be the only beneficiary if sting shows his rear end in macy's.
― estela, Monday, 24 November 2014 05:25 (nine years ago) link
I would love to hear Americans trying to do a North East accent, that would be hilarious.
― Euripides' Trousers (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi22OFuVEag
― kinder, Monday, 24 November 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
That's actually far worse than I imagined an American doing a North East accent would be... unless it's a joke?
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:42 (nine years ago) link
there's a naked rear end in a macy's shop(that's my hole up there)
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
good grief that accent! had he just caught his tongue in a meat grinder or had dental surgery or something?
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Remind me not to visit his dentist amirite ladiezngennelmen.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 24 November 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure you can see part of his rear end in that picture
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
good grief that accent! had he just caught his tongue in a meat grinder or had dental surgery or something?― john wahey (NickB), Monday, November 24, 2014 1:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― john wahey (NickB), Monday, November 24, 2014 1:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sounded more like a bad attempt at a Caribbean accent to me!
― Welcome To (Turrican), Monday, 24 November 2014 16:13 (nine 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