中文名称:歌手姓名:Sting
专辑名称:Ten Summoner’s Tales
语言种类:英语
唱片公司:A & M
发行日期:1993年03月
专辑介绍
After two albums of muted, mature jazz-inflected pop, the last being an explicit
album about death, Sting created his first unapologetically pop album since the
Police with Ten Summoner's Tales. The title, a rather awkward pun on his given
last name, is significant, since it emphasizes that this album is a collection
of songs, without any musical conceits or lyrical concepts tying it together.
And, frankly, that's a bit of a relief after the oppressively somber The Soul
Cages and the hushed, though lovely, Nothing Like the Sun. Sting even loosens up
enough to crack jokes, both clever (the winking litany of celebrity pains of
"Epilogue [Nothing 'Bout Me]") and condescending (the sneeringly catchy cowboy
tale "Love Is Stronger Than Justice [The Munificent Seven]"), and the result is
his best solo record. In places, it's easily as pretentious as his earlier work,
but that's undercut by writing that hasn't been this sharp and melodic since the
Police, plus his most varied set of songs sinc...
01.Prologue (If I ever lose my faith in you)
02.Love is stronger than justice (The magnificent seven)
03.Fields of gold
04.Heavy cloud no rain
05.She's too good for me
06.Seven days
07.St Augustine in hell
08.It's probably me
09.Everybody laughed but you
10.Shape of my heart
11.Something the boy said
12.Epilogue (Nothing 'bout me)