amaryll wrote: [...]
although i find i am unable to stop listening to his new live cd- i find it quite compelling!!!
I think All This Time is a fantastic success, insomuch as it achieves what It set out to be - not an ordinary live album. I like how it's not bombastic or loud. And to me, the opening to A Thousand Years is as good an intro as he's done since Be Still My Beating Heart (or, comparing intros with outros, Valparaiso). For all that you can carp about the BND tour being too long and the setlist never changing (although hasn't he always done that, apart from when he opened for the Grateful Dead and *had* to change his setlist or be lynched?), All This Time is a wonderful ending to it, given that we've probably all downloaded the Central Park concert anyway. Although I wonder whether the DVD would have been as interesting if the concert hadn't been on September 11th. Normally I won't watch DVDs or videos of concerts I have the audio version of, because I want to be able to do other things and not sit through relatively pedestrian video coverage of it. But you really appreciate the change of mood throughout the night when you watch the DVD - from the initial feeling of not wanting to play, to the realisation that, as Dominic said, damn, we want to play. The exuberance during Every Breath You Take is wonderful to behold, given what happened a few hours beforehand. Pity they couldn't keep "On such a night" as the title, and instead randomly picked a hit out of the bucket and used it as the title, a la Fields Of Gold. Feh. Sam -- Home page: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/ Sting by the numbers: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/sting/