The Dream of the Blue Turtles
A&M - A&M
Sting
Release date: 1990-10-25
Audio CD
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Adult Contemporary, Album Rock, College Rock, Dance-Rock, Pop, Pop-Soul, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock Music, Rock, Rock/Pop
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is the Seventh Wave
3. Russians - Sting, Prokofiev, Sergei
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
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The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Date undefinedI am not going to talk about how good this album is because it is indeed VERY GOOD and you can read all the reviews here. If you are an audiophile or at least you like to hear your favorite albums with great sound quality this is a great album to have. Many audiophile recordings are praised for the quality recording but sometimes the music is boring, dull or nothing special. This album is a great example of how EXCELLENT MUSIC can be combined with EXCELLENT AUDIOPHILE quality sound. As a matter of fact I always use Love in the Seventh Wave and The Dream of the Blue Turtles as one of my stereo system showings to my friend. Sting's voice sound very crisp and clear and so do the instruments played by the Blue Turtles Band. JUST BE SURE YOU GET THE AM+ AUDIO MASTER PLUS SERIES release. That is the plain, regular and common release. Do not get the "remastered version" because like many other people agree, this remasterings of Sting's albums have not done any favor and have greatly deteriorated the sound quality.
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Date undefinedI bought this on LP in 1985 and finally updated to CD and it has never gotten old. True, this sounds a lot more like the later songs of the Police than the Sting releases of late, but if you, like me, ever say, "Gee, I like Sting's music, but I sure like the older stuff and what he did with the Police the best," then this is the CD you want.
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Date undefinedSting's first album after leaving The Police was a reasonable commercial success, assuring himself a solo career, at least for some time. I listen to the album when it came out, in 1985, when I was 18, and I was impressed by it, but it hasn't aged that well. The music is pleasant though hardly memorable, and the lyrics are literate (perhaps too literate) but also naive. What sounded brave and intelligent 20 years ago, sounds pretty naive now. Like the pre - End of the cold war "Russians" (with a good coda from Prokofiev) or "The Children's Crusade" (about the youth killed in World War I, an odd topic for a rock song). "If you love somebody, set them free" sounds like a response to Police's megahit "Every breath you take" (can't one take a position in the middle, without going to the extremes?). Then there is the luddite "We Work the Black Seam together" (about the then topical miner's strike in the north of England) and the homage to New Orleans "Moon over Bourbon Street" inspired by the book Interview with a Vampire (this was before the Brad Pitt movie). The best song of the album to me is the calypso-inspired "Love is the Seventh Wave" (great video as well).
