Hello all, I realize this review is quite late; but I decided to play the CD for about a month before I decided to formulate an opinion. Well, here is my opinion: The CD starts off fine with Fragile and A Thousand Years, however Perfect Love and All This Time seem a bit unspirited. Seven Days is a nice bonus track, and Hounds of Winter is by far one of the top 3 tracks on the album. From there on however, I find it hard to listen to. When the original idea for a Sting live CD with 'new versions' was floated around the group, I was looking for songs with reworks similar to Fragile. I often look for songs that are redone -- for example the version of Jeremiah Blues Sting did on the Soul Cages tour was awesome. With this CD however, I get a reworking of songs with a jazz twist put on them. A good bit of this CD doesn't seem very new or fresh at all. Fields of Gold for one seems not new or different at all. At one point I believe that he just picks up where the Brand New Day tour set left off. I just can't get excited about this CD. It seems to be missing something. The only thing I'm excited about is that his touring is over and that maybe by Spring/Summer of 2003 a new album will be coming out. I can only hope that he is totally burned out on BND material and that a new tour with a new album would produce some OTHER songs that he plays on tour (Synchronicity II, Be Still My Beating Heart, etc.) Anyone else feel this way? Don in Sunny Florida
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Morris, Donald T.