I agree with some of your opinion ....
still fond of Stewart's work and news ( see my site below) ,
interested by Andy's new projects ( waiting for Circa Zero) ,
considering Sting I'm a bit perplex though I still like his voice, but
in my opinion a bit deceived by the last attempts, as the man seems to
repeat a lot ( Symphonicity tour ...) and I think the last good album
was Mercury Falling ( though I like very much Songs from the Labyrinth
and If on a Winter's night - remark that they were only 'covers'
album).
Waiting for a surprise
...
You can visit
:
Stewart Copeland Inside Out - Kollected
Works
http://stewartcopeland.free.fr/
http://www.myspace.com/kollectedworks
Every now and then I send messages
concerning Stewart (many of you know that I run his website), and even
yesterday I sent a message concerning The Police (footage from people
waiting outside the Palasport in Reggio Emilia in 1980 at their
concert).
In Italy when you listen to the radio
it's very very easy to listen to a Police or Sting track, they are
definitely broadcasted frequently; on the other side, I run the Italian
website ( http://www.illegaltales.com/) and a very very active
facebook page of the same name, and people write tons of messages every
single day!
I don't know, maybe it's just because
I never gave up following what's happening in their careers, even if
there is something that I may dislike (my fb page is full of criticism
and discussions are a weekly issue, as well as positive vibes of
course).
Some old-skool fans are still there,
some others 'left the building' some time ago, but there are even new
'followers', and some of them are 16 years old (!!!).
I guess it's always a 'personal' view;
we are not forced to follow a band forever, even Sting decided to give
up working on solo albums, and I guess we may never see a new one like
the old days...he has changed, people change; his new attitude toward
his discography is focused on someone else work, rearranging it. We
can't tell him what to do, and we're not forced to like it, why should
we? But there's nothing wrong with it.
The new album 'The Last Ship' will be
something 'taken from the past' (The Soul Cages), revisited, increased
in creativity, will be a musical...let's see; that's what Sting is up to
do now; I am always very very curious about his work, his moves are
always full of ideas, new directions...that is what I like. I don't care
about a new record like he used to do; if he's not working on something
like that, I guess he's enough clever to avoid giving us something that
is not at a certain level.
Still
here, still waiting for something new, unusual, authentic.
Perhaps Sting's happiness was his creative downfall. Now
we're all old farts, maybe he could cater to our
nostalgia.
Hi Chris,
I am a classic rock
person, and lately I've been hearing some relatively rare tracks, like
Tea in the Sahara and Canary in a Coal Mine. I wrote to the list after
Sting's appearance on the Grammys (a crummy show, imho). Yes, there's
nothing really new with any of them, but their music is still being
played, at least on classic rock and satellite radio. And I still
enjoy it! I hope the list will stay active, even if the group is not!
Who knows what tomorrow may bring?
-Holly
I was a member of this list when it
was very active, back in the early 1990s. There was lots of
discussion, especially of the then-recent Sting albums, which at least
at the time sounded be pretty decent. There seemed to be a lot of
momentum and enthusiasm from the still relatively recent Police era.
There was always hope and anticipation of a reunion.
In retrospect, it seems obvious to
me that Sting's albums were pretty uneven, and sometimes just awful: I
know at least a few members of the list thought so at the time, but
perhaps some of us just appreciated the familiar voice. (And I gave up
after the one with "Desert Rose" on it, whatever that was.) After what
I considered a very lacklustre "reunion" in which no new music was
produced—how can three musicians tour the world without coming up with
anything new?—it seems that's kind of the end of the
discussion.
I haven't really chosen to
Sting or the Police in years, and though I usually don't change the
channel when a song comes on, it's increasingly rare to hear one of
their tracks anywhere. I guess it's partly that I'm not a "classic
rock" kind of person; there is a lot of amazing new music available
today, and easier to find than ever. So my question is: has the band
simply passed into pop music history now? They're not top-of-mind in
the popular imagination any longer, for obvious reasons. Sting hasn't
released new music in years, as far as I'm aware (maybe the others
have, but with the exception of the few years immediately following
'86, they've been ignored). This list is dead; when I received the
latest digest today, it seemed three of the four messages were spam or
related.
Is there any point in thinking about
this band, thirty years after Synchronicity?
(As I'm on the digest, it's likely I
won't receive any replies to this for weeks, unless I'm
cc'd.)
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