-----Original Message-----
From: Daly, Jason
Sent: 09 April 2004 12:06
Subject: The Ultimate Sting Album

          Hi all,

That time of the year again - my thread starts the brain cells at a trot and then propels them to a near fatal sprint ...

 

I posted a mail about 2 years ago, asking each of you to compile what you would consider THE ultimate album, compiled with nothing but Sting's finest - but with a twist .. the response was outstanding, and with the release of All This Time and Sacred Love, its time to jump start the brain cells again.

 

So on we go.

 

Criteria are simple - ( Note, you MUST adhere to the below - it makes it more difficult but it shows a real fan just how much they actually like a song when given a choice)

 

1. You must only pick 10 tracks + 2 bonus (free choice)

2. Tracks can only be picked from Sting's solo albums (listed below)

3. No Police tracks are allowed (exception, you can choose a track from All This Time)

4. This is the way the tracks MUST be chosen,

    Track 1, must be chosen from all tracks listed at No.1 from the following Sting solo albums,

(Dream Of the Blue Turtles, Bring On The Night, Nothing Like The Sun, The Soul Cages, Ten Summoner's Tales, Mercury Falling, Brand New Day, All This Time, Sacred Love)

 

    Track 2, must be chosen from all tracks listed at No.2

    Track 3, must be chosen from all tracks listed at No.3 ....

    Track 4, etc,etc

 

    eg:    Track 1 to be chosen from the following -

            If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Dream Of The Blue Turtles)

            Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down (Bring On The Night)

            The Lazarus Heart (Nothing Like The Sun)

            Island Of Souls (The Soul Cages)

            If I Ever Lose My Faith In You (Ten Summoners Tales)

            The Hounds Of Winter (Mercury Falling)

            A Thousand Years (Brand New Day)

            Fragile (All This Time)

            Inside (Sacred Love)

 

5. Bring On The Night is classed as 1 full album, Tracks 1 to 14

6. Enjoy!

7. STICK TO THE CRITERIA - or I will not accept the album, and send reply's to me first for verification (ha!)

8. If you feel up to it - create an album title.

 

(... and for those of you who might have forgotten the track listing on the albums (shame on you) I have listed all of them below - how nice am I?)

 

 

Dream Of The Blue Turtles

1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is The Seventh Wave
3. Russians
4. Children's Crusade
5. Shadows In The Rain
6. We Work The Black Seam
7. Consider Me Gone
8. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
9. Moon Over Bourbon Street
10. Fortress Around Your Heart 

 

Bring On The Night

1. Bring On The Night / When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
2. Consider Me gone 
3. Low Life [
4. We Work The Black Seam 
5. Driven To Tears 
6. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles / Demolition Man )
7. One World (Not Three) / Love Is The Seventh Wave 
8. Moon Over Bourbon Street
9. I Burn For You 
10. Another Day 
11. Children's Crusade
12. Down So Long 
13. Tea In The Sahara

 

Nothing Like The Sun

1. The Lazarus Heart
2. Be Still My Beating Heart
3. Englishman In New York
4. History Will Teach Us Nothing
5. They Dance Alone (Gueca Solo)
6. Fragile
7. We'll Be Together
8. Straight To My Heart
9. Rock Steady
10. Sister Moon
11. Little Wing
12. The Secret Marriage

 

The Soul Cages

1. Island Of souls
2. All This Time
3. Mad About You
4. Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)
5. Why Should I Cry For You
6. Saint Agnes And The Burning Train
7. The Wild Wild Sea
8. The Soul Cages
9. When The Angels Falls

 

Ten Summoner's Tales

1. Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith In You)
2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
3. Fields Of Gold
4. Heavy Cloud No Rain
5. She's Too Good For Me
6. Seven Days
7. Saint Augustine In Hell
8. It's Probably Me
9. Everybody Laughed But You
10. Shape Of My Heart
11. Something The Boy Said
12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)

 

 

Mercury Falling

1. The Hounds Of Winter
2. I Hung My Head
3. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
4. I Was Brought To My Senses
5. You Still Touch Me
6. I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
7. All Four Seasons
8. Twenty Five To Midnight
9. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
10. Valparaiso
11. Lithium Sunset

 

Brand New Day

1. A Thousand Years
2. Desert Rose (4:46)
3. Big Lie Small World 
4. After The Rain Has Fallen 
5. Perfect Love ... Gone Wrong 
6. Tomorrow We'll See
7. Prelude to the End Of The Game )
8. Fill Her Up
9. Ghost Story 
10. Brand New Day

 

 

All This Time

1. Fragile
2. A Thousand Years
3. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
4. All This Time
5. The Hounds of Winter
6. Mad About You
7. Don't Stand So Close To Me
8. When We Dance
9. Dienda
10. Roxanne
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
12. Brand New Day
13. Fields of Gold
14. Moon Over Bourbon Street
15. Shape of My Heart
16. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
17. Every Breath You Take

 

Sacred Love

1. Inside
2. Send Your Love
3. Whenever I Say Your Name
4. Dead Man's Rope
5. Never Coming Home
6. Stolen Car
7. Forget About The Future
8. This War
9. The Book Of My Life
10. Sacred Love
11. Send Your Love (Dave Aude remix)
12. Shape Of My Heart (Live - from All This Time sessions)
13. Like A Beautiful Smile