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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles [Enhanced]

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  • Audio CD (11 Jun 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B00000GAGW
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,789 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is The Seventh Wave
3. Russians
4. Children's Crusade
5. Shadows In The Rain
6. We Work The Black Seam
7. Consider Me Gone
8. The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
9. Moon Over Bourbon Street
10. Fortress Around Your Heart
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Cd-Rom)

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From one spin of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, Sting's first solo release, it's obvious that for him there would be life beyond the Police. Teamed with a band of top jazz players, he presents his musical visions that had gone unrealised while he was still constrained by his former ensemble. In style and subject matter, it's a decidedly diverse collection of songs and the playing is excellent throughout. The love songs are mostly focused on endings or escapes, and it's quite possible to interpret much of the imagery in reference to the bitter break-up of the Police. Sting's concern with history and politics is in evidence: he makes a father's plea for sanity and restraint in the nuclear age, takes up for the UK's much-abused coal miners, and relates the savage stupidity of World War I to the destructive effects of adolescent heroin addiction. Songs that seem elaborately constructed and recorded contrast with others that are presented as one-take jams. Seen as a whole, The Dream of the Blue Turtles is eclectic, ambitious--sometimes pretentious--but altogether worth owning. --Al Massa


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Sting had a lot to prove on his first post-Police effort, and he proved himself up to the task of establishing a distinctive identity as a solo artist. Instead of replicating his reggae-tinged Police style, he ventured into new realms, hiring top drawer American jazz musicians like Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and drum monster Omar Hakim to accompany him on the kind of harmonically sophisticated (though decidedly non-jazz) tunes he'd begun working on towards the end of the Police's lifetime (see SYNCHRONICITY). There's still a touch of reggae on the open-hearted "Love Is the Seventh Wave", and even a funked-up version of the formerly abstract Police tune "Shadows In The Rain", but most of the tunes here (except the pop smash "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" are the kind of literate, adult-friendly sophisto-pop that would become a template for his subsequent solo recordings. BLUE TURTLES still stands as one of his most memorable albums.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars His own sound, 6 Jun 2006
By Hill Walker "Pennine Dweller" (The Pennines of course!) - See all my reviews
Okay, the Police were massive but to produce this gem which appeared to owe so little to his past and packaged in such an original sound is real genius... brilliant and timeless popular music
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Dream on, 16 Nov 1999
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After Police, Sting has managed to find his own identity and prove to be a solo superstar. He demonstrates a very wide range of styles, ranging from his solos to collaborations with jazz musicians Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland and Omar Hakim. It's a great mix off jazz and a reggae fee, even a poppy "If you love somebody set them free". I won't get tired of his incredible voice and can only recommend Blue Turtles highly
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16 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Desirable addition, 21 Aug 2001
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The dream of the blue turtles is Sting's debut first album, and what a debut!

Littered with catchy but intelligent pop songs, this album is a prime example of how it should be done. Sting's expertise as a musician is evident in contructing fun songs, even if none of them sound too technically difficult.

For intelligent songwriting, check this out: Russians is a song about the cold war, the concept taken from a book he had read. Children's crusade is about a childrens march across Europe that was supposed to have happened in the 1600's I believe. We work the black seam is possibly about Sting's heritage as the son of a working class family, although he was the son of a milkman and not a coal miner. Moon over Bourbon street is about vampires, taken from when he read interview with a vampire by Anne Rice.

Behind the words lies Stings unique voice. Able to reach high notes like few can, Sting is an exceptional vocal talent. Perhaps not put to best use on this album, still you really can't imagine anyone else singing these songs as fittingly.

You'll be missing out if you don't buy this album. But what do I know, I'm just another music fan...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed bag...
There are two songwriters on this album - the Sting who writes clunking all-too-obvious political songs - the awful "Russians" (lazy unpoetic rhymes like Precedent / President,... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars "Set the battlements on fire."
In his 2003 autobiography, 'Broken Music', Sting wrote, "That the band [The Police] would break up at the pinnacle of its career when our position seemed virtually unassailable,... Read more
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