Sting - Mercury Falling
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Artist: StingEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1996-03-12
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
- Hounds of Winter
- I Hung My Head
- Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
- I Was Brought to My Senses
- You Still Touch Me
- I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
- All Four Seasons
- La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
- Valparaiso
- Lithium Sunset
Music reviews of Mercury Falling
Music Review: unforgettable music
Rating: 5 Stars
This is the 4th Sting cd I bought and is hands-down my favorite. As much as I like all his other work, NOTHING matches Valparaiso or La Belle Dame Sans Regrets. All of the cuts on this album are just plain beautiful music. How the music critics can pan this album and treat Desert Rose like unalloyed gold is beyond me. This album is far better. Don't get me wrong, Desert Rose is fun, but only has one memorable song on it. You will find yourself hitting the replay button over and over again for Mercury Rising. Critics are idiots! Do something different and they are so stumped they can't figure it out.
Description of Mercury Falling
Many would say Sting's barb isn't as sharp as it was when he and his original band, the Police, first collared ts audience. Yet on his latest solo album, 'Mercury Falling', the man continues his life-long musical experiment of weaving world beat rhythms and instrumentation with the basics of rock, jazz and pop. This new 10-song disc is an extension of Sting's '93 turnaround album, 'Ten Summoner's Tales'. Unlike his very early solo work, which was as annoying as Amazon rain forest mosquitoes because of preachy politics, 'Summoner' and now 'Mercury Falling' wrestle with life one day, one joy, one problem at a time. Mercury Falling' has a lean, aggressive sound that shamelessly borrows from any style that stung Sting. There are elements of traditional Celtic arrangements, jazz, country and even R&B. It's just a guess, but since Sting is a gifted bassist, you'd assume he writes music from the rhythm tracks rather than usual chord patterns. That would explain how he gives power to many of the songs on 'Mercury' and how he is able to make the mood of the music so clear, so quickly. For instance, 'All Four Seasons', sets itself up with the syncopated heel-click strut. Even though Sting sings "the girl is all four seasons to me," the song is breezy and pure spring. In sharp contrast is "I Hung My Head", which has a weird tempo that makes the intense, almost country song about an accidental death edgier. Musically this album is pleasant and melody-oriented enough that it can be used as background for a gathering, but 'Mercury' is best when it can be listened to with focused attention. Then the literate lyrics, which are as simple and complex as a Robert Frost poem, are able to tell their story. As always, Sting's voice is terrific, the songs are sturdy and the musicianship superb. 'Mercury Falling; makes a convincing argument that 'Summoner' wasn't a fluke. As Sting gets older he's become more ambitious and more fluent in his attempt to make music a universal language.(Review from the New York Post by Dan Aquilante)
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