Sting
Nothing Like The Sun
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Date:  1987
Length:  55:10
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock
  Category:  misc
  Ref#:  misc-0007
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The lazarus heart    4:35
      2.  
      		 Be still my beating heart    5:34
      3.  
      		 Englishman in New York    4:27
      4.  
      		 History will teach us nothing    4:58
      5.  
      		 They dance alone (gueca solo)    7:16
      6.  
      		 Fragile    3:56
      7.  
      		 We'll be together    4:55
      8.  
      		 Straight to my heart    3:54
      9.  
      		 Rock steady    4:28
      10.  
      		 Sister moon    3:46
      11.  
      		 Little wing    5:11
      12.  
      		 The secret marriage    2:04
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      Sting's second and most conceptually dense solo album moved on from jazz to ideas picked up from Latin music. Even when he's not using Latin music's tricky polyrhythms, the melodies of the ballad "Be Still My Beating Heart" and the hit dance single "We'll Be Together" suggest he'd been listening to lots of salsa. If you can sting, you can cross-pollinate, too, and there are some other subtle hybrids here, notably the Gil Evans Orchestra's gliding arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and the reggae-in-a-Cole Porter suit of "Englishman in New York." Of course, the former schoolteacher has some lyrical messages to deliver and the three songs that originally made up the second side of a double LP are a bitter meditation on Latin American politics and history. --Douglas Wolk
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