Sting...snore! I think Sting might make the dullest, most soporific music of any popular artist today. (hunkering down for flames...)

No flames here. All I can think of is that Saturday Night Live that Sting hosted. and the guys doing Sting apocrypha on the elevator. That skit crqcked me up. x

Yeah, that one wasn't bad.

I am somewhat of a Sting fan. I like the Police songs, particularly "Don't Stand So Close To Me", "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", and the best known Police song: "Every Breath You Take" Solo, I like "Do The Russians Love Their Children?" Of the trio who sang "All For Love", Sting is not only the best of the three, but also the only good singer of the three IMO. "Gabriel's Message" was also the best song on the album "A Very Special Christmas", rivalled only by "Christmas In Hollis" by Run-DMC

yeah, and sting is such a deep, soulful guy...(just ask him)

LOL!

OK I'll start. I'll sing a line then someone else sing the next line and so on... "every breath you take..."

"Every move you make..."

"I'll be boring you..."

You are, just now, actually.

actually, i think that line comes a little later...

that's really really sad..........

Every cake you bake!!

I shall not return to this mockery! (Mockery, feminine form of the word "f....")

nice explanation Sam! sorry if we offended you. YOu don't like Loverboy, right? Well THERE's something to be proud of!

top ten beatles tunes: 1) hey jude No. 1? Are you NUTS?!? Half that song is "Naa, naa na NA-na-NA-naa, NA-na-NA-naa, Hey Jude!" Insipid! 2) the long and winding road Never heard it. 3) helter skelter Nor this; all I know about it is that it's the Charles Manson theme song. 4) strawberry fields forever Cool chorus; don't know the rest. 5) golden slumbers-carry that weight-the end YUK! That's part of the 2/3's of Abbey Road that's unlistenable! 6) get back Yeah, that's cool; esp. the live version with Billy Preston. 7) here comes the sun One of the better Abbey Road songs (it must be! It's actually good!) 8) while my guitar gently weeps Never heard it. 9) i'm so tired Well, your humour sure is, Nick! 10)happiness is a warm gun Another Manson favourite I haven't heard. 10)something The song is MUCH better than the title (Abbey Road again! There were about 6 good songs on Abbey Road, most of the rest was crap like "Oh Darling" and "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window") 10)back in the ussr Damn, I wish I'd bought the White Album! 10)let it be Not a big fan of this one. 10)with a little help from my friends Preferred the Joe Cocker version (although I'm not really a Joe Cocker fan...) 10)rocky racoon ...what? 10)norwegian wood (this bird has flown) This one should be MUCH closer to the top! First sitar recorded in Beatles music. 10)penny lane Does this branch into Abbey Road? 10)when i'm sixty-four Nick, from how you act, I would think that 64's an object in your rear-view mirror. 10)eleanor rigby And maybe Nick's one of the lonely people (where the hell does he come from? Or come off, for that matter?) 10)you've got to hide your love away Never heard it; title sounds like crap. 10)yesterday (okay, it's been played a jillion times... i still like it, can't help it) O.K. (actually, considering many of my other top ten lists, this one showed remarkable restraint, don't you think?) (and... needless to say... most of these tunes were composed by an irishman)... Funny, I thought John Lennon was an Liverpudlian! When did Liverpool cross the Irish Sea?

OBTW, I posted this as a response to Nick's obsessive hatred of Sting. He is trying to fill the Beatles' topic because he feels it should have more than Sting's

After all, Sting is far better that some of those who pass for legends, like Elvis Presley and Michael Bolton. (I actually used both names in the same sentence without vomiting! A first!)

(i should've known better... sam, i've actually missed your half-informed, totally bizarre obiter dicta... where've you been?)

and although everyone is entitled to his own opinion... gotta love rocky raccoon.

that's true... (on both counts!)

sam, i've actually missed your half-informed, totally bizarre obiter dicta... At least when I don't know, I say I don't know instead of assuming that I do know. He who knows not, and knows not he knows not; he is a fool, shun him. - From an old Chinese proverb. where've you been? I still pop in from time to time. I had never before heard of rocky raccoon.

now that you've heard 'of' it, give it a listen... we shall wait with bated breath for your opinion!

Erm, Jamaica is not as taken with Beatlemania as Europe or the U.S. is. More likely to hear bastardized dancehall ripoffs of Beatles songs than the rarer originals.

A list of good Sting/Police songs: Every Breath You Take Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic Gabriel's Message Do The Russians Love Their Children Too? Don't Stand So Close To Me Still My Beating Heart Englishman In New York 1/3 of All For Love of which nick a'hannay said: (that's really cool, sam, but i was referring to listenable songs...) Nick's condemnation of such great songs as "Gabriel's Message" and "Do The Russians Love Their Children too?" reminded me so much of this quote that I had to go back to my books to find it, for it is my mental image of Nick: A Philistine with six fingers on every hand and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number: a Philistine the shaft of whose spear is like a weaver's beam. - Matthew Arnold, on William Cobbett, probably quoting the Bible's description of Goliath. One day your jibes and jests will meet your David, and the simple truth will bring you down despite your heavy armor of studied ignorance.

you think so? hmmm... i think this gives me pause... sort of makes me re-evaluate things... maybe see 'em in a different light... goddamn it sam, you've changed my life!

on second thought... f*** it...

Change, take, whatever.

Actually, in order for me to change your life, you'd first have to get one.

(does sting sorta touch you in your happy place, sam?)

oh, my! (you do know that Sting is referred to as Stink on the stripper circuit...)

hey nick, maybe he touches you in yours (a bit too hard!)

Then again, when someone says Sting can't sing and Dylan can, you have to, kinda, wonder. Nick, if tin supplies are ever badly depleted, you could make a fortune by selling your ears!

I loudly protest against all the Sting-trashing going on here!!!! For heaven's sake, the man can sing higher than Jimmy Sommerville! That's got to count for something! And he has lovely arms. The hair I'm not always so fond of, but come on! If you want to trash someone, go for Bon Jovi - he stinks!

(I wonder what ever happened to these good friends, Nick and Sam. Wer, how come there's so much more FORMER springizens than current population?) Anyway, there's good things going for Sting and lotsa good things against him. Pro (1) Police - A great band with good tunes. RIP. (2) Nice cello works. Comes from having good-looking arms. (3) A good taste in music - other people's music, that is (e.g. Kurt Weill). (4) Good arrangements. (5) Great views on life, people and the environment. Contra (1) Solo-career has mostly uninteresting songs (his tributes are much more interesting). (2) His views on life, people, etc. clash with his own life's reality ("Nobody should have more than one kid, there's too many poeple already." vs. "Yeah, I got, like, two dozen of them; you know, my wife likes to get 'em" - which she DID actually admit to in an interview...) (3) His acting - while not as bad as some full-time actors' screen appearances, it's still lots worse compared to some other musicians creative side-shows. (4) He delivers statements in public that are so conceited and ignorant, he either must be like that, or have a PR-company consulting him on how to get lots of publicity cheaply, not matter what quality.

Nick got married and lives in Canada now... don't know about Sam...

...do they ever come back? What about William Meyers from Cultures Conf?

Nick still comes around on occasion... William is probably off in another country...ask Terry about him...

You can get in touch with William direct and ask him: wmmeyers@tuna.net He's still in NYC as far as I know.