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| Indescribably handsome, yes. Funny, no. |
The thing about Sting, see, is that he seems to be completely, utterly, totally, lacking a sense of humor. Can you picture him laughing at a beau jeste? I can't. ROFLING or LOLING, let alone LHFAO, is not the Sting style. He called himself Sting, remember. I could take the preening vanity - he has a lot to preen about. I could take the pretension, more often expressed in interviews than music. Pretension has an important part to play in artistic creation. But I couldn't take his grinding, monolithic self-seriousness. His lack of play.
Be that as it may, and it certainly is, the man has made some pretty sublime music, and the pretty sublimest is probably on Ten Summoner's Tales. So ultimately, I win. I don't have to listen to him hold forth and declaim in the drawing-room. All I have to do is "sit back, relax, and enjoy" this fantastic album.
The deliverable is the download-only extended version. It's not better than the original, but only a fool would deny it's longer. Play it in the backgound as you and your lowlife pals pass the Sterno. I done did a new cover [above - Ed.] so you can tell it apart from the original when you sober up.
This post made possible by the splendid folks at DrMacBook [Bangkok - Ed.], who performed miracles with my iMac.
What was your grooviest look? And when?
ReplyDeleteI have never been groovy. Fashion catches up with my dated sense of style every 7 or 8 years - I believe my pair of huge 1990’s baggy flairs should be ‘in’ again soon - they may look good on a teenager but not a sixty something old hippy. I once thought I looked good in a Paisley waistcoat, fortunately I grew out of that phase.
ReplyDeleteAs for Mr Sting, I saw him on his tour supporting his first solo album, great band, but the main thing I remember was Andy Summers joining them for a version of a Fleetwood Mac song (maybe Need Your Love So Bad?)
Glad your Mac’s back.
Me too. The only things they couldn't retrieve were some favorite apps, so I've spent a couple of days hunting them down in the wilds of the internet.
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