Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (1985)
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A&M Records
Ranked #11 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1985"
| " | 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. | " |
Song Title
01. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
02. Love Is The Seventh Wave
03. Russians
04. Children's Crusade
05. Shadows In The Rain
06. We Work The Black Seam
07. Consider Me Gone
08. Dream Of The Blue Turtles, The
09. Moon Over Bourbon Street
10. Fortress Around Your Heart
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