What makes Sting keep making music?

It can't be money because he owns a frightful amount. It can't be ego because he's destroyed that with his 3 month tantric sex.

It can't be boredom because his music is the aural embodiment of boredom. Is it perhaps hatred?

I think it's because he just wants to annoy the fuck out of us...

But in that realm he'll never take the mantle of Chris DeBurgh.

"music" is a compiment for him

compliment

condiment

Yes, but if he was trying to annoy us his music would be driven by anger. As it is, his music tends to be driven by by really boring drums and projected forward by his own sense of self importance.

Sorry about all this. Just come back from a house where they think Sting is something different to what I think ie dick.

When I imagine the Police, I see Summers and Copeland with giant pins bursting a giant inflatable Sting with his giant inflatable ego and deflating it. Man, I'm tired...

But you understand what I mean - the other two held String's ego in check.

He makes a living from it.

I mean, artistically, he could just have called it a day in 1994 or something, but....

He makes a living from it.

I mean, artistically, he could just have called it a day in 1994 or something, but....

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 26 October 2008 00:15 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

No he does not do it to make a living.

That's silly. he's hardly just ticking over financially is he?

Making a living is getting by, like I do, finding houses for people who want one but are too uncomplicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpKKotnCILs

heard this playing in another room and i had to laugh when they wanted to scan the brain of a "master musician" and sting volunteered. it's around 39 minutes in.

he released an album called Sacred Love. anyone here heard it?

Ehh, I quite like Sting's music, but he's hardly Hendrix. I'm curious to know what the criteria for a "master musician" would be exactly.

He makes some fairly pleasant AC pop, but I always wished he'd do more ambient, weird, otherworldly soundscapes akin to "Tea in the Sahara". He also has some interesting theoretical concepts, like his Christmas album, which focused on old Yuletide folk songs, but in practice, they never seem to work out as I'd hoped. It'd have been cool if he'd added icy synths, gloomy droning guitars, etc, etc, a truly *weird* Christmas album.

Anyone checked out his new LP?

artic, have you heard the soundtrack to Brimstone and Treacle?

I like the new album quite a lot, but how you feel about it may depend on your feelings re. musicals and Sting singing 'in character'.

I don't think I was aware of Sacred Love until just now, the only two references that seem to have been made to it on ilm before tonight are someone nominating it as their favorite album of 2002 11 years ago and a suggestion that it could be Sting's 'New Jersey' from someone who mentions that they had forgotten it existed.

I just listened to some of it on spotify, it sounds ok but a little tepid?

OutdoorFish: No, I haven't heard of that one. What's it like?

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7206/img3prkj7.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Sting_fields_of_gold.jpg

i had an enthusiastic thread about one of Sacred Love's singles, which was remixed to feature Twista: STING featuring TWISTA - "Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)" B. Recluse remix

Why does Sting keep making music without Twista?

Sting had a real-deal writer's block, apparently, so for a while, that's what stopped him from making music. It's possible he's one of those dudes so successful beyond all measurement that he's really not sure what to do next, or why, or how. It's like choice paralysis.

photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same:

http://i3.tinypic.com/48x8gnt.jpg

Sting releases new music as frequently, if not more frequently, than most rock stars of comparable age and wealth, i would never have guessed he had any kind of writer's block or enough anxiety about his productivity to even mention it in public.

arctic: it features the police and a couple of sting tracks and it is the closest thing he's done to your description (weird, otherwordly

artic, have you heard the soundtrack to Brimstone and Treacle?

― OutdoorFish, Friday, December 6, 2013 6:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Sting releases new music as frequently, if not more frequently, than most rock stars of comparable age and wealth, i would never have guessed he had any kind of writer's block or enough anxiety about his productivity to even mention it in public.

Well, the new one is his first album of original material in 10 years. Before that it was one every 2 or 3 or sometimes 4 years. His last few albums (I had to look this up) were the lute covers, the Christmas album, and symphonic Police. He was pretty open about his writer's block. It's pretty much the peg of every piece about the new album.

Message Unbottled: Sting Conquers Writer's Block With His ... - Vulture
www.vulture.com/2013/08/sting-the-last-ship.html‎
Aug 25, 2013 - The project that had pulled him out of the songwriting doldrums: a musical set in the eighties about the decline of the shipbuilding industry.

'The Last Ship' ended decade of writer's block for Sting - UPI.com
www.upi.com › Entertainment News › Music‎
7 days ago - 30 (UPI) -- British musician Sting said he suffered from writer's block until he stopped trying to write about himself, which led to the creation of ...

Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of 'The Last Ship' - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/.../sting-frees-himself-with-the-writing-of-the-last-shi...‎
Sep 12, 2013 - “The Last Ship” is also Sting's first batch of new songs to arrive after a long songwriter's block. Creating characters and learning the mandates ...

How Sting overcame his writer's block...
www.sting.com/news/article/5116‎
Sep 25, 2013 - Sting.com contest winners... Check out ... Sting sails into Chicago to promote 'Last Ship'. ...... 09.26.13 How Sting overcame his writer's block.

The B&T soundtrack showed Sting pondering a career after the Police and shows him experimenting with different textures. In my opinion it's his best solo work. The album is made disjointed however by tracks by Squeeze and the Go Gos (and somewhat by the Finchley Children's Choir), but all the other stuff is great. This is credited to the Police, but is an little-known classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQtIRrmhvBw

OutdoorFish, that's incredible! This is exactly what I was looking for. I think Sting is at his best when he does strange, heavily textured mood pieces. "Walking on the Moon" and "Tea in the Sahara" are two of my favourite Police songs and they have that ambient feel about them too.

I'm a fairly big fan of the Police; it's weird how I've never heard about this soundtrack before. Thanks for the recommendation.

His 30 seconds in the Gore Vidal documentary was quite unnecessary.

lol never seen the video before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ8ahL8LsEQ

watching BBC 1 now, Sting performing his new stuff about shipyards for a play. not too bad actually.

at least the first bit wasn't