I agree that Straight to my heart is a GREAT song, actually one of my favorites (I have like a 100 favorites by Sting but anyway...) The thing about STMH compared to the other 7:4's is that it has more of a 7:4 feel to it. One thing I've allways admired about Stings is his ability to disguise the odd meters so that you don't really notice that it's an odd meter 'til you listen for it. Take S.t Augustine in Hell and compare it to "Money" by Pink Floyd and you'll see what I mean. The same thing with "Seven Days", even though it's in 5:8 it got airtime on MTV, who else does that? Not even Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton had the guts (or they couldn't handle ;-)) to keep the MI theme in 5:8, and they totaly screwed that one up (I'm a great fan of U2 so don't flame me please). Actually that is the field Sting is superiour in, to take pretty "weird" stuff, like odd meters and "strange" harmonies (like the sharp 5th in "When we dance") and make them accessible to regular people. By the way "Seven Days" besides the odd meter has some really weird harmonies too, but he makes it sound great, and not unaccessible at all. Cheers, Patrik
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