Nothing Like The Sun Music Cd

Sting & Police - Nothing Like The Sun

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Nothing Like the Sun      Artist : Sting      List Price : $18.98 USD        Your Price : $11.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : A&M      Label : A&M      Avg. Customer Rating : (78 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Nothing Like The Sun      Dated digital sound      Rating:      VERY NICE SOLO ALBUM. This is Sting's second or third or fourth solo album, depending on how you are counting. It is his second official studio solo album. Like his first (Dream of the Blue Turtles), it was released as a double LP and single CD. It is only 54 minutes long, so the LP sides were very short (under 14 minutes long) and it was more like a double EP. It was frustrating to listen to the LP versions as you also had to get up and change sides. Being released in 1987, this is an early totally digital release, just as digital recordings were getting to be very good. It is has a nice crisp, clean sound. There is also a good dynamic range. But, it is a little too bright and has an unnatural sound. It is why there were analog and vinyl snobs in the 1980's. In 1987, when this CD was released, it was a very interesting sound, but now, CD and digital technology have improved. This is one album that could use some light remastering. There are some great songs on this CD. Eveyone has their preferences, and mine are proabably different than others. I think the middle of the CD is very strong, especially with Fragile, Rock Steady, They Dance Alone and Sister Moon. Unlike others, I don't like his version of Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing. I think it is the weakest version of the song I have heard. And after that I think the CD ends on a wimper with The Secret Marriage.     Customer Reviews for Nothing Like The Sun Cd      Sting's Best Album (Sans The Police)      Rating:      Eight of the twelve tracks are fantastic, and only one is noticeably bad. The Lazarus Heart, Be Still my Beating Heart, and if it weren't for the chorus, Straight to my Heart, stand among Sting's best works. His sultry rendition of Little Wing is astounding; I've never before or after heard Sting's voice sound so good and the strangely haunting, yet fitting guitar work make the notes palpable. However, the CD's sound quality unfortunately suffers from a purely digital recording in what was still CD's embryonic stage. But despite the sheer-miss that is We'll be Together, the superfluous, The Secret Marriage (at the very least it should've come before Little Wing, and not tried to follow it) and the completely misplaced Rock Steady, the remaining tracks range from damn fine to masterful, and as a work that stands as a tribute and a memorial to the worst loss a son ever and, inevitably, will face, the album is an exquisite achievement. Editorial Reviews for Nothing Like The Sun Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      Sting's second and most conceptually dense solo album moved on from jazz to ideas picked up from Latin music. Even when he's not using Latin music's tricky polyrhythms, the melodies of the ballad "Be Still My Beating Heart" and the hit dance single "We'll Be Together" suggest he'd been listening to lots of salsa. If you can sting, you can cross-pollinate, too, and there are some other subtle hybrids here, notably the Gil Evans Orchestra's gliding arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the reggae-in-a-Cole Porter suit of "Englishman in New York." Of course, the former schoolteacher has some lyrical messages to deliver and the three songs that originally made up the second side of a double LP are a bitter meditation on Latin American politics and history. --Douglas Wolk