Topic 7 of 100: sting
Sat, Nov 23, 1996 (10:31) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Sting ... by popular request!
39 responses total.
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Response 1 of 39: Josh Daniel (joshd) * Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (11:29) * 5 lines
Sting...snore!
I think Sting might make the dullest, most soporific music of any popular artist today.
(hunkering down for flames...)
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Response 2 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (19:38) * 3 lines
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
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Response 3 of 39: Josh Daniel (joshd) * Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (13:15) * 1 lines
Yeah, that one wasn't bad.
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Response 4 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (12:31) * 5 lines
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
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Response 5 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sat, Dec 13, 1997 (15:29) * 1 lines
yeah, and sting is such a deep, soulful guy...(just ask him)
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Response 6 of 39: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (18:34) * 1 lines
LOL!
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Response 7 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (23:13) * 5 lines
OK I'll start. I'll sing a line then someone else sing
the next line and so on...
"every breath you take..."
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Response 8 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (23:48) * 1 lines
"Every move you make..."
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Response 9 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (23:55) * 1 lines
"I'll be boring you..."
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Response 10 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Tue, Dec 16, 1997 (00:19) * 1 lines
You are, just now, actually.
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Response 11 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Tue, Dec 16, 1997 (01:48) * 1 lines
actually, i think that line comes a little later...
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Response 12 of 39: Wolf (Wolf) * Tue, Dec 16, 1997 (18:38) * 1 lines
that's really really sad..........
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Response 13 of 39: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (18:45) * 1 lines
Every cake you bake!!
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Response 14 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (19:26) * 3 lines
I shall not return to this mockery!
(Mockery, feminine form of the word "f....")
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Response 15 of 39: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Dec 17, 1997 (19:30) * 4 lines
nice explanation Sam!
sorry if we offended you.
YOu don't like Loverboy, right? Well THERE's something to be proud of!
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Response 16 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Mon, Feb 2, 1998 (20:36) * 89 lines
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?
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Response 17 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Mon, Feb 2, 1998 (20:39) * 1 lines
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
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Response 18 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Mon, Feb 2, 1998 (20:42) * 1 lines
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!)
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Response 19 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Feb 2, 1998 (21:21) * 3 lines
(i should've known better...
sam, i've actually missed your half-informed, totally bizarre obiter dicta...
where've you been?)
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Response 20 of 39: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Feb 2, 1998 (22:44) * 2 lines
and although everyone is entitled to his own opinion...
gotta love rocky raccoon.
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Response 21 of 39: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (09:43) * 2 lines
that's true...
(on both counts!)
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Response 22 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (17:37) * 11 lines
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.
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Response 23 of 39: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (18:11) * 2 lines
now that you've heard 'of' it, give it a listen...
we shall wait with bated breath for your opinion!
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Response 24 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (18:15) * 1 lines
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.
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Response 25 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (04:53) * 20 lines
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.
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Response 26 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (09:45) * 5 lines
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!
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Response 27 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (09:46) * 2 lines
on second thought...
f*** it...
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Response 28 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (21:54) * 1 lines
Change, take, whatever.
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Response 29 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (21:55) * 1 lines
Actually, in order for me to change your life, you'd first have to get one.
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Response 30 of 39: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (23:10) * 1 lines
(does sting sorta touch you in your happy place, sam?)
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Response 31 of 39: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Feb 7, 1998 (12:10) * 4 lines
oh, my!
(you do know that Sting is referred to as
Stink on the stripper circuit...)
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Response 32 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Tue, Feb 10, 1998 (02:56) * 1 lines
hey nick, maybe he touches you in yours (a bit too hard!)
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Response 33 of 39: Sam Blob (Afor) * Tue, Feb 10, 1998 (02:58) * 3 lines
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!
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Response 34 of 39: Riette Walton (riette) * Wed, Jul 1, 1998 (07:34) * 1 lines
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!
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Response 35 of 39: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Mon, May 10, 1999 (06:15) * 16 lines
(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.
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Response 36 of 39: wer (KitchenManager) * Mon, May 10, 1999 (19:23) * 2 lines
Nick got married and lives in Canada now...
don't know about Sam...
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Response 37 of 39: Alexander Schuth (aschuth) * Tue, May 11, 1999 (06:14) * 1 lines
...do they ever come back? What about William Meyers from Cultures Conf?
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Response 38 of 39: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, May 11, 1999 (11:10) * 2 lines
Nick still comes around on occasion...
William is probably off in another country...ask Terry about him...
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Response 39 of 39: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 11, 1999 (16:24) * 6 lines
You can get in touch with William direct and ask him:
wmmeyers@tuna.net
He's still in NYC as far as I know.
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