While 'Sally' and 'Mother' aren't "Like A Rolling Stone" lyrically, they still kick ass musically. And 'EXP' on AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE by hendrix is great. Rich ----- Original Message ---- From: Bruce Greenwood <bruce.greenwood@rogers.com> To: minusone@alumni.princeton.edu; police@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:56:36 PM Subject: Re: [Police] MSNBC article... Well, it had to be that or "Behind My Camel". How on earth Behind My Camel won a Grammy is beyond me. Both "Behind My Camel" and "Mother", however, were clearly outdone by Sting's "Whenever I Say Your Name" which, in my humble opinion, is perhaps the biggest ball of cheese ever to come out of the mind of the man himself.. It absolutely kills me. I cannot find one redeeming aspect about that song other than, perhaps, Joy Rose's very powerful live performance on that song during the tour. I would say the only reason "Whenever I Say Your Name" didn't make it on the 5 Terrible Songs From Great Albums list is that, by definition, the album on which the track resides has to be "Great", and Sacred Love clearly wasn't. I like Sacred Love more than most, but even I have to admit that wasn't Sting's greatest work. Just thought I'd stir the pot with my 2 cents ;) Cheers, Bruce in TO -----Original Message----- From: police-bounces@mailman.xmission..com [mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Robert N. Bernard Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:34 PM To: police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Police] MSNBC article... An MSNBC article entitiled "Terrible songs from great albums" has only five songs mentioned, and one is from The Police. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24034572/ _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
I actually like most of the "bad songs" on that list. And if you go down to the voting list, there are songs that are my favorite song by that artist. The best example would be D'yer Maker, by Zepplin. i LOVE that song. As soon as I saw that on there, what little objectivity I was going for in looking at the article and went out the window. The only Police song I would call "bad" is (going to get the title because I skip it everytime I listen).... A Kind of Loving. Of the rest, there are songs I love and songs I don't, but even the "worst" Police song I find to better than some of the other artists' "best" songs. Chris On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:26 AM, foxie wrote:
While 'Sally' and 'Mother' aren't "Like A Rolling Stone" lyrically, they still kick ass musically. And 'EXP' on AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE by hendrix is great.
Rich
----- Original Message ---- From: Bruce Greenwood <bruce.greenwood@rogers.com> To: minusone@alumni.princeton.edu; police@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:56:36 PM Subject: Re: [Police] MSNBC article...
Well, it had to be that or "Behind My Camel". How on earth Behind My Camel won a Grammy is beyond me. Both "Behind My Camel" and "Mother", however, were clearly outdone by Sting's "Whenever I Say Your Name" which, in my humble opinion, is perhaps the biggest ball of cheese ever to come out of the mind of the man himself.. It absolutely kills me. I cannot find one redeeming aspect about that song other than, perhaps, Joy Rose's very powerful live performance on that song during the tour. I would say the only reason "Whenever I Say Your Name" didn't make it on the 5 Terrible Songs From Great Albums list is that, by definition, the album on which the track resides has to be "Great", and Sacred Love clearly wasn't. I like Sacred Love more than most, but even I have to admit that wasn't Sting's greatest work.
Just thought I'd stir the pot with my 2 cents ;)
Cheers, Bruce in TO
-----Original Message----- From: police-bounces@mailman.xmission..com [mailto:police-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Robert N. Bernard Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:34 PM To: police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Police] MSNBC article...
An MSNBC article entitiled "Terrible songs from great albums" has only five songs mentioned, and one is from The Police.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24034572/
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