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coyote620
(Near the river, USA)
Posted: 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
(RVA)
Posted: 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
(Redneck Nation)
Posted: Apr 22, 2013 - 09:54
 
Could this BE more monotonous?

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: 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
(Milwaukee)
Posted: 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
Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 20:56
 
I love this track!!
winotron
(Phoenix, AZ)
Posted: Feb 22, 2013 - 14:08
 
Holy crap, this is horrible.

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: 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
Posted: 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
(SC)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 12:41
 
Feel the sudden urge to purchase a Jaguar...

Tana
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: 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
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: 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
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: 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
(Hillsboro Oregon)
Posted: 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
(Hillsboro Oregon)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 12:35
 
 for the love of science make it stop!

*jams knitting needles in ears; smiles*

Rebis
(Chicago)
Posted: 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
(Houston, Texas)
Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 22:03
 
This is so original.  Wonderful. Thank you sting.

Webfoot
(Eugene, Oregon)
Posted: 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
Posted: 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
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: 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.

scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 13:52
 
 cubaninlondon wrote:
I hope the 6.4 rating is because of Mami's crime and not because of the song's quality. This tune is proof that Sting is one of the most enterprising and risk-taking musicians out there today. Whether it be jazz or lute, he's not afraid to tackle any genre. I dislike his preaching and hypocritical stand on the rainforests as anyone else (what with Trudie raking in the airmiles jetting everywhere) but when it comes to music he's rarely put a foot wrong. Top tune by a top artist. In my book this is a proper 10.

Thanks,

A Cuban In London.
 
Thanks for sharing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5734107/Cheb-Mami-sentenced-to-five-years-in-forced-abortion-case.html

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 13:49
 
 philbertr wrote:
Are you people here to listen to music or to pontificate on the personal lives of the artists?   What does the latter have to do with the former?

Why don't you take all your negativism somewhere else and allow the rest of us to enjoy the music without having to endure your whining?  Your comments are  annoying and more than slightly boring.
 
One can enjoy the music (or not) without reading the comment pages.

HearsayDave
(a mysterious seaside village with Number Six)
Posted: Sep 14, 2012 - 13:48
 
 oldslabsides wrote:
could this BE more monotonous?
 
No. 

jocelynsart
Posted: Aug 23, 2012 - 12:04
 
 skyguy wrote:
" Guys I want you to call me Sting from now on.Not Stinging not Stung, Sting."
 
hahaha!!!!! too funny

Phlegmaticman
(270 miles south of Paradise, CA)
Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 16:00
 
 
zurcronium wrote:
RP is not playing right now. No audio. 
 

Now it's July and we can hear the sting.

zurcronium
(Not in Texas)
Posted: May 20, 2012 - 19:22
 
RP is not playing right now. No audio. 

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Apr 09, 2012 - 12:07
 
 oldslabsides wrote:
could this BE more monotonous?
 

SURE it could be Dylan, Neil Young or Jerry Garcia...

mutepoint
(jumped)
Posted: Mar 08, 2012 - 20:00
 
Fab!

 

ice-9
Posted: Mar 08, 2012 - 19:57
 
Oh, man ... right after that "Kula Shaker" song where Ginger Baker makes a taco, you play the song with "I dream of rain, and Lady Elaine".  Remember, she lived in the museum?

Red_Dragon
Posted: Mar 08, 2012 - 19:57
 
could this BE more monotonous?

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 03:08
 
 fredriley wrote:

It's not always so easy to treat artist and works separate, the obvious case being Wagner and his virulent anti-semitism such that, even now, Israeli orchestras don't perform his work. Or to take a more recent example, Gary Glitter - it would be social death to play "Do you wanna be in my gang" publicly these days, whereas it used to be a disco staple. However, if we took the view that criminal artists can't be listened to then there'd be an awful lot of music out of bounds. It's not something that's easy to be consistent about.



 
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.  

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 02:56
 
 horstman wrote:

Oh the things you learn about Artists, their supporting musicians, on this wonderful little community! Liked this song both before and after finding out about Cheb Mami, but I will not put bias on a song, or Sting based on one man's stupid actions. Like others have said, we need to separate the music from the maker. Or at least I do as a general practice. 


It's not always so easy to treat artist and works separate, the obvious case being Wagner and his virulent anti-semitism such that, even now, Israeli orchestras don't perform his work. Or to take a more recent example, Gary Glitter - it would be social death to play "Do you wanna be in my gang" publicly these days, whereas it used to be a disco staple. However, if we took the view that criminal artists can't be listened to then there'd be an awful lot of music out of bounds. It's not something that's easy to be consistent about.


Alastair
(The Pennine Hills, England)
Posted: Feb 06, 2012 - 02:55
 
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 

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 20:29
 
 cubaninlondon wrote:
I hope the 6.4 rating is because of Mami's crime and not because of the song's quality. This tune is proof that Sting is one of the most enterprising and risk-taking musicians out there today. Whether it be jazz or lute, he's not afraid to tackle any genre. I dislike his preaching and hypocritical stand on the rainforests as anyone else (what with Trudie raking in the airmiles jetting everywhere) but when it comes to music he's rarely put a foot wrong. Top tune by a top artist. In my book this is a proper 10.

Thanks,

A Cuban In London.
 
Well said, Cuban in London.

cubaninlondon
(London)
Posted: Jan 05, 2012 - 08:02
 
I hope the 6.4 rating is because of Mami's crime and not because of the song's quality. This tune is proof that Sting is one of the most enterprising and risk-taking musicians out there today. Whether it be jazz or lute, he's not afraid to tackle any genre. I dislike his preaching and hypocritical stand on the rainforests as anyone else (what with Trudie raking in the airmiles jetting everywhere) but when it comes to music he's rarely put a foot wrong. Top tune by a top artist. In my book this is a proper 10.

Thanks,

A Cuban In London.

sdgserv
(Palm Springs)
Posted: Dec 04, 2011 - 13:22
 
Did not know about  Cheb Mami, only 5 years!

jberko
(Franklin, TN)
Posted: Dec 04, 2011 - 13:18
 
I like!.  Now... I need some hummus.

horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Oct 02, 2011 - 09:18
 

Oh the things you learn about Artists, their supporting musicians, on this wonderful little community! Liked this song both before and after finding out about Cheb Mami, but I will not put bias on a song, or Sting based on one man's stupid actions. Like others have said, we need to separate the music from the maker. Or at least I do as a general practice.

Nice song! And I usually cannot tolerate Sting in his later career.



cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 23:50
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
This song is ok. I actually like the album title song better though. I know it is cheesy, but I rather like it.
 
much better than than the other version


MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Jun 30, 2011 - 04:34
 
WOW!!!

 I didn't know RP even was aware of Sting's or The Police's existence....{#Arghhh}


fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 07, 2011 - 09:07
 
 philbertr wrote:
Are you people here to listen to music or to pontificate on the personal lives of the artists?   What does the latter have to do with the former?

Why don't you take all your negativism somewhere else and allow the rest of us to enjoy the music without having to endure your whining?  Your comments are  annoying and more than slightly boring.
 
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.


TheUntouchable
Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 06:24
 
I like this song

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 06:22
 
This song is ok. I actually like the album title song better though. I know it is cheesy, but I rather like it.

Racquel
Posted: Feb 23, 2011 - 22:21
 
eww. more like desert sand in your mouth when you're facing against the wind. I like the concept though.

John_Mac
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 07:13
 
Thank you for playing this. Reminds me of my time in Kuwait,
where it was # 1 in the charts. I was unaware until now of
Cheb Mami's more recent activities. Truly shocking. From a
musical point of view, he is perfectly hitting quarter tones
which our Western ears can barely perceive. Sickening to
learn today of that horrible crime though. I must admit that
has spoiled this for me. I loved this track. It would come on the
Kuwait "Super Station" as you were driving across the desert,
and it was so perfectly atmospheric.  Ma'assalama, John_Mac.


Merritt
(Tennessee)
Posted: Dec 23, 2010 - 07:10
 
Great song, really exemplifies Stings talent as a singer/song writer. 

agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Nov 21, 2010 - 14:09
 
I'm truly shocked by all the negative comments about Sting. So I'll change the vibe and maybe get something more positive happening.

I think Sting is one of the most intelligent songwriters and talented performers EVER.

Bumped from 8 to 10 in protest against all the negativity.

philbertr
(Roch New York)
Posted: Oct 30, 2010 - 08:18
 
Are you people here to listen to music or to pontificate on the personal lives of the artists?   What does the latter have to do with the former?

Why don't you take all your negativism somewhere else and allow the rest of us to enjoy the music without having to endure your whining?  Your comments are  annoying and more than slightly boring.

scrubbrush
Posted: Sep 28, 2010 - 16:25
 
yikes!!! the song still sounds nice, even if the backup singer is a monster and should really just be imprisoned for life

Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: Jul 26, 2010 - 16:31
 
This is a beautiful song.  After reading the posts about Cheb Mami, I read a bit.  I don't see why this song or Sting should be knocked just because Mami is singing back-up.  He later was convicted of a crime; that's not Sting's fault.