Sting
Desert Rose
Brand New Day
(1999)

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coyote620
May 01, 2013 - 11:20
I have always liked this tune. It was almost a forgotten track off a well put together album, until it was used in a car commercial which gave it the airplay and attention it needed to rise through the airwaves.


:+:_DL
May 01, 2013 - 11:14
You know you don't have any real friends when you make music like this.
Nobody around him had the balls to tell him it's just shit.


Red_Dragon
Apr 22, 2013 - 09:54
Could this BE more monotonous?


fredriley
Mar 31, 2013 - 07:55
Smoove_D wrote:
I took a break from RP for a few years (mainly because I stopped working a desk job), but now I've returned. And, just like a few years ago, Bill's playing this song every day—or what seems like every day, anyway. Just a suggestion, but maybe it's time to give it a rest?

"Plays in last 30 days: 3"


Smoove_D
Feb 27, 2013 - 20:57
I took a break from RP for a few years (mainly because I stopped working a desk job), but now I've returned. And, just like a few years ago, Bill's playing this song every day—or what seems like every day, anyway. Just a suggestion, but maybe it's time to give it a rest?


Dav3thedog
Feb 27, 2013 - 20:56
I love this track!!

winotron
Feb 22, 2013 - 14:08
Holy crap, this is horrible.


msymmes
Feb 22, 2013 - 13:40

Oh no!!!!! It's STINK. Must be a childhood thing for me. Sucko Barfo. Almost as bad as Mick Jagger.




kcar
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:41
Byronape wrote:

Ironically, his song Rock and Roll Part 2 is played at sporting events all over the US. Even at junior high and high school events. To me, that's like playing Micheal Jackson's Thriller at a little kids Halloween parade.

I think Rock and Roll Part 2 isn't played anymore at sporting events in the US. Certainly the big-time professional leagues like the NFL and NBA stopped using it because of Glitter's crimes.

If it's used in schools, that's likely down to a lack of awareness more than cynical acceptance. Most of the kids would like to hear something much more contemporary, I'm sure.


ProjectGemini07
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:41
Feel the sudden urge to purchase a Jaguar...


Tana
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:40
LizK wrote:
This is so original. Wonderful. Thank you sting.

Original in a sense ... I hear this song as a Western interpretation of a Middle Eastern sound.


oldsaxon
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:38
I actually like this. Sorry if I let everyone down with that, it's fun to dislike Sting, but there you go. We all like something.


ziakut
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:37
I've always enjoyed the transatlantic indian influence of this tune. Without it...it would be just another post Police Sting tune.


mthomaspdx
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:37
mthomaspdx wrote:
for the love of science make it stop!

*jams knitting needles in ears; smiles*

*then...clicks PSD sheepishly*





mthomaspdx
Feb 18, 2013 - 12:35
for the love of science make it stop!

*jams knitting needles in ears; smiles*


Rebis
Jan 27, 2013 - 13:43
I feel like I'm supposed to hate this song but I can't resist it. It's an enthrallingly guilty pleasure.


LizK
Dec 21, 2012 - 22:03
This is so original. Wonderful. Thank you sting.


Webfoot
Nov 20, 2012 - 13:02
fredriley wrote:

As are comments from folk whining about other posters. This board is for all RP listeners, not just happy-clappy positivists. If someone wants to slag off a song/artist, that's their right as long as they stay within board acceptable behaviour.



Right on fredriley!


h8rhater
Oct 25, 2012 - 12:18
fredriley wrote:

As are comments from folk whining about other posters. This board is for all RP listeners, not just happy-clappy positivists. If someone wants to slag off a song/artist, that's their right as long as they stay within board acceptable behaviour.


And, oh, how you do slag. Strangely, you also whine (as above). I will say, though, that you are no happy-clappy positivist. So there is that.

I find it not the least bit interesting or apropos that the jag-off who sang backing vocals on this 15 year old Sting track happens to be a criminal scumbag. Now... whether or not it it monotonous is up for debate to be sure.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that this is not one of the better tracks from the album. I prefer the title track.




Poacher
Oct 16, 2012 - 03:02
Alastair wrote:
This song went through my head for the entire 20 hours my wife and I spent in the labour ward waiting for our son to make his mind up whether to be born or not. I didn't even know the words.We avoided the temptation to call him Sting

Well, you could have been listening to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. I'd have been tempted to cal my son Bonzo.


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