Inside Send Your Love Whenever I say your name Dead's man rope Never Coming Home Stolen Car Forget about the future This war The book of my life Sacred Love Send Your Love (remix) Shape of my heart (live) The last solo album (obviously for the moment!), to me it's a special album, because it was at this time that I'm falling in love with his music, and that I saw him in concert! (Yes I'm a recent fan! lol).
Inside: is the wonderful opening track and one of two tracks featuring the drumming of Vinnie Colaiuta.
"It must be that we're afraid of this idea of love. So I began to try and redefine how love was treated in my walk of life. Love is flowers and sunshine and butterflies. So I thought I'd start treating love as if it was a devastating, frightening force... and that was 'Inside'." (Great song!!)
Send Your Love: Opening with a flurry of Flamenco guitar courtesy of Vicente Amigo and castanets from Valerie Denys before breaking into a bassline that just makes you want get up and dance. (Oh yes!!lol)
"Am I religious? In my own way. I say in 'Send Your Love': 'there's no religion but sex and music'. That's a polemic statement. But if you look at it, 'religion' means to reconnect in the Latin. What reconnect us with the world of spirit are two things: sex and music. Generally, this is my church. My idea of a spirit realm is not something outside the cosmos, it is the cosmos." Our favourite line of this song isn't it Mak ?: p
Clip Send Your LoveSYL live (session Aol)SYL live on Victoria Secret Show On this website you click on "picture/video" to find it!;)
Whenever I say your name: 'Whenever I Say Your Name' features the sultry voice of Mary J. Blige and is another track that mixes the themes of religion and love recurring throughout the 'Sacred Love' album. On stage the song was a tour de force, featuring the incredible voice of Joy Rose duelling with Sting. (Joy is amazing! I love her!!)
Sting and Mary on Jay Leno show Excellent live, and I like the modesty of Sting when he say "I'm the commander of the british empire"!!lol, Enjoy!!
Never coming home: is a sad tale of a broken relationship told from the perspective of both parties. The song features a wonderfully jazzy piano solo from Jason Rebello. I love him too!!(Yes I love everybody, what do you want! lol)
Stolen Car: is an archetypal Sting song about a relationship between three people told with a twist, through a fourth party. The track was released as a single in 2004 and several remixes exist. Classic Sting storytelling at its very best, but the video is not very him, you see, even if he's so sexy on.:p
Video clipThis war: Written during the build up to the war against Iraq the song asks some searching questions of those that stand to profit from the war. I prefer the live version of this song, with the greatest sound of Dominic'guitar!: p but very good song!
The book of my life: With Sting having written his autobiography, "
Broken Music" (excellent book!) it did not come as a surprise to find that the experience also inspired him to write 'The Book of My Life', arguably the most personal song he has ever written.
Sacred Love: This song returns to the recurring themes of love and religion and intertwines them to such a degree that it seems impossible to separate them: "You're my religion, you're my church / you're the holy grail at the end of my search / have I been down on my knees for long enough? / I've been searching the planet to find sacred love". Driven along with some great drums and percussion by Manu Katche (Yeaahh!!) and Rhani the tracks also featuring horn players, Chris Botti and Clark Gayton.
Sting gave some interview for this album that you could see here:
VH1 interview We have finished the discography, some comments were extract from
Official website