Well, I finally got it off WinMX and I'm pleasantly surprised. It might not move people the way Desert Rose does, but it's got... *something*. That little Eastern instrumental flourish that first kicks in around 0.17 is a great hook, and I like the lyrics. Again, they aren't the most complex thing he's ever written, but there's something about them that appeals to me. And right now, at around 1.24, I'm hearing some very nice guitar which I take to be Dominic... nice vocals too, but then they almost always are. Overall, I could see this becoming one of those songs that gets embedded in everyone's brain over the summer. Regarding what peoples' definition of techno is, I just remembered having read that people in the UK use the word "dance" where Americans would use "techno", and in the UK, I believe our use of "techno" refers to a more specific sub-genre of dance. I have a feeling there's similar confusion over the term "electronica". If I've got the definitions muddled up, feel free to correct/add to this explanation, such as it is... I sympathise with those who mentioned the difficulty of analysing it objectively. Maybe it's just too new to me; after all, I'm someone who really didn't like "Fill Her Up" when I first heard it, but now I can see the cleverness of how the styles are woven together. I had the opposite experience with "We'll Be Together", in that it was one of my favourite tracks from "...NLTS" when that first came out, yet now I'm much less keen on it for some reason. But either way, I hope the "Ray Of Light" comparison proves an astute one... I think we're all sufficiently used to being surprised by Sting that nothing's really out of the question.:-D Angeline _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile