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List Price: £13.99Amazon.co.uk's Price: £7.97 You Save: £6.02 (43%)as of 20/05/2012 06:35 BST
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0606949045128
ESRB Age Rating: Early Childhood
Format: Enhanced
Item Dimensions: 22
Label: A&M
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: A&M
MPN: 490451-2
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: A&M
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Running Time: 49 minutes
Studio: A&M
Disc 1:- Desert Rose
- Perfect Love
- Brand New Day
- After The Rain
- Thousand Years
- Ghost Story
- Big Lie Small World
- Tomorrow We'll See
- Fill Her Up
- End Of The Game
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Product Description:
STING Brand New Day (1999 UK 10-track enhanced CD album which includes the hit single Desert Rose featuring Cheb Mami picture sleeve)
Amazon.co.uk Review:
There is a difference between being an inspired musician and an informed musician. Sting is the latter. As always, he surrounds himself with ultra-talented 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", 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 rousing 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? --Beth Massa
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