Brand New Day

Brand New Day Artist: Sting
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 606949044343
EAN: 0606949044343
ASIN: B00001QGQJ


Release Date: 1999-09-28

Brand New Day


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Tracks:

  1. Thousand Years
  2. Desert Rose - Farhat Bouallagui, Sting
  3. Big Lie Small World - David Hartley, Sting
  4. After the Rain Has Fallen
  5. Perfect Love... Gone Wrong
  6. Tomorrow We'll See - David Hartley, Sting
  7. Prelude to the End of the Game
  8. Fill Her Up
  9. Ghost Story
  10. Brand New Day

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  1. Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994
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Amazon.com essential recording

There is a difference between being an inspired musician and an informed musician. Sting is the latter. As always, he surrounds himself with ultratalented artists: this time around Stevie Wonder, Branford Marsalis, James Taylor, guitarist Dominic Miller, and the prince of rai Cheb Mami, fill the roster. Brand New Day exhibits about as many musical styles as there are tracks, all encased in dense, meticulous production. The album begins promisingly. "A Thousand Years" pulses atop a lush, two-note foundation. "A Desert Rose" folds trilling Algerian pop into trip-hop. Melodic, late-night jazz ballads dominate the middle portion of the collection. But Sting's preoccupation with odd-numbered time signatures prevents the songs from grooving, while the choruses are yawns. "Fill Her Up" (no, not "Fill 'Er Up"), a country tune, represents Sting at his most self-indulgent. Listening to one of the wealthiest musicians in pop singing "Got no money to invest / Got no prospect / Or education / I was lucky to get the job at this gas station" requires a heroic suspension of disbelief. The song morphs into this gospel number where Sting and a supporting chorus chant "You gotta fill 'er up with Jesus! / You gotta fill her up with life!" Who knew unleaded could be so rousing? <I>--Beth Massa</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars My Favorite.......2007-01-25

Being the Sting fan that I am. This has become my favorite Sting CD. Aa a matter of fact this is my second copy, I wore out the first one!
There is something on this CD for everyone, every mood and a great long drive CD.

4 out of 5 stars Soothing music.......2007-01-16

How can you not like Sting? I happen to really like this CD. His selections of songs on this CD are great and wonderful to listen to.

3 out of 5 stars Better than what I was anticipating........2006-08-30

However, rather bland sounding at best. I found "A Thousand Years" a rather good piece, "Desert Rose" was decent, but not all that great, the rest was all forgettable, and showed that this was just an excuse to put out an album to fufill a record contract. The album comes to a horrible end with the title track which paralyzed me in depression. I'm not sure wheter the single version, or the album version is worse, but to me I know that anyway you slice it it's just enough to make me cry. I know that pretty much Sting made the comment in 1988 that he didn't give a F**K about rock and roll, but in 1991 he comes back with a more pop sounding album, and it continues in 1993, and in 1996 he comes out with "Mercury Uprising", and it has a rock sound to it, but here he decides he's caught in a lie, and now decides to cover it up with numerous musical influences, and it doesn't wash.

1 out of 5 stars Is Sting worse than Billy Joel ?.......2006-08-22

10 years ago I would have said " no it is impossible for anyone who has not actually committed a serious crime to be worse than Billy Joel". Today I know better. Sting has almost single handedly destroyed the ears and the soul of an entire generation of yuppies.

On the other hand Clapton probably stinks louder than even Sting.

4 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Adriano Monteduro E Reale Accademia Di Musica
  2. Feather and a Tomahawk ~ Steve Hyams
  3. Paper Hearts for Josie ~ Beauty Shop
  4. A Blessing and a Curse ~ The Westerleys
  5. Don't Cry Out Loud ~ Elkie Brooks
  6. What Lies Within/Death Before Disco ~ What Lies Within , and Death Before Disco
  7. Witchcraft by a Picture ~ Witchcraft by a Picture
  8. Leaving Home Blues ~ Mick Abrahams
  9. Very Best of ~ Gong
  10. Mara'akate ~ Mara'akate

Music Album

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Show Business is My Life ~ Jazz Mentality

Tenderly

Jazzmen: Detroit ~ Various Artists

Ain't Love Grand! ~ X

Corazon de Bolero ~ Dyango

Eb'Adat ~ Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan

Angel Song ~ Brilliant Green

Chico Buarque (Morros Dois Irmanos) ~ Chico Buarque

On the Rise ~ The Battlefield Band

Koyo Habib ~ Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects