Two Thoughts from Tonight's Soundtrack
1. Had Dream of the Blue Turtles playing during dinner. "Russians" came on. Who would have thought at the time that Sting's solo career would outlive the Soviet Union? At the time, the guy was fresh out of the Police with plenty of questions about his viability as a solo artist and the Soviet Union was, well, the Soviet Union. (Like USC football but with missles.) Six years after, nobody can remember what "C.C.C.P." stood for on their hockey jerseys and Sting is still only at Soul Cages with plenty of gas left in the tank.
It's delightfully anachronistic to hear him sing "Mr. Reagan says we will protect you".
2. An anagram of "Sting and the Police" is "spoil a decent thing". I promise that I'm not making that up.
Now back to the discussion about the cruise ship.
posted by Kevlar Pinata @ 10:24 PM
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4 Comments:
I think I can hear an echo in here.
Coupla things here may be creating the echo. It's a 20 year old album that is half-brilliant and half-ridiculous (yeah, Sting really relates to those poor coal miners, right?)...but more importantly it came on the heels of the first posted pic of the Hombres, which was so stunning as to render us speechless during our collective recovery. It's not you, Kev.
What, you don't think that "deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen" is a sensible lyric?
Neither do I.
I must say, the album is bookended by two brilliant songs. I put on "Fortress" today and it is just a great, great song. I've always loved it. Brought me right back to '85.
...but let us not delve too deeply into that....
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