The Dream of the Blue Turtles [A&M, 1985]Not since Paul Simon's dangling conversations has a pop hero made such a beeline for the middlebrow cliché. Romantically he runs the gamut from if-you-love-somebody-set-them-free to each-man-kills-the-thing-he-loves, and of course he doesn't ignore the cosmic side of things--"There is a deeper world than this/That you don't understand." Speaking of deeper worlds we don't understand, I'm pleased by his pro-miner sentiments, but wonder why he has to (my italics) "_hope_ the Russians love their children too," since I've always assumed they do. And displacing the Police's sere dynamics we have bathtubs full of demijazz, drenching this self-aggrandizing and no doubt hitbound project in a whole new dimension of phony class. C+
>>132043708Sting fucking sucks.
>>132043887As a solo act yes he made terrible AC slop.
>>132043887yep
>>132043708>nd displacing the Police's sere dynamics we have bathtubs full of demijazz, drenching this self-aggrandizing and no doubt hitbound project in a whole new dimension of phony class.that was totally the 80s thing to think mock-Baker Street saxophone on a track made you sophisticated
>>132043887and of course he had to get the obligatory "whine about Thatcher" cut on there for that ultimate 80s Brit pop cliched touch
>>132044078it was all for show, these guys voted for the Tories even though they'd never admit it
>>13204370885 was a meh year for music. i looked at his 85 Consumer Guide list and noticed how bland a lot of that stuff was.
>>132044435A lot like 1974 or 1997 in that regard
>>132044435https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_ylist.php?yr=1985just not a lot of inspiration that yearhttps://www.robertchristgau.com/get_ylist.php?yr=198686 was a lot better, even more when you consider any number of classic metal albums he didn't review, but even without those it would still be a far more interesting assortment of albums than 85.
>>132044472yeah 97 sucked but 74 wasn't that bad, it was only slightly weak compared to the rest of the 70s
>>1320445211986 is just so stacked musically that it's almost comical, especially compared to the year prior
>>132044521>just not a lot of inspiration that yearQuite a few 86 albums were actually recorded in 85, eg. Master of Puppets.
>84 years oldI can't fucking wait bros
>>132044909he'll live as long as Pat Boone probably to spite everyone
