Hi All, After spending my hard earned yen on the Japanese release I wanted to say a couple of things and see if anybody wanted to talk about the new CD. First, it sucks that this is indeed the fifth major Sting release in a row where the American release has been with fewer tracks and released later then in other nice countries. Like a Beautiful Smile is a great track. It belongs on the American release for sure. In the old days, when Sting CD-singles were prevalent here in the US, I could see some sort of logic in holding a song or two back to get people to buy the single. I have a whole closet full of cd-singles for this very reason. But here in the US really the only single released for BND was Desert Rose and that didn't include the non-us track of End of the Game. What's the deal with that? Secondly, I think sacred love is a fine cd. Why put Like a beautiful smile behind that terrible Dave Aude remix on the international release and behind the All This Time version of Shape of My Heart. The CD doesn't flow at the end because of the track sequence. I am really suprised after how all this time sounded that Sting chose to make an album that was so heavily produced. I think that the lyrics of Stolen Car are classic Sting, but the music is thick and soupy. I think the live version of the song is much better. Couple of predictions. Whenever I say your name will be huge on adult radio. If it crosses over it will be the prom song of choice in 2004 :). If there are no more studio tracks in the can then my bet is that tracks from the DVD will be the b-sides to future singles. Some of these songs will have to be reworked a ton to sound good on the road. My $.02 Rich _________________________________________________________________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es