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Nov 22, 2021 · Opening with 'Rushing Water', Sting lays bare his apprehensions through the swelling of a river. 'If It’s Love' is easy on the ears, almost casual in the way it treats itself. The 'Book of Numbers' starts decisively and resonates with Dominic Miller’s sway on the proceedings.
- Rushing Water
- If It’S Love
- The Book of Numbers
- Loving You
- Harmony Road
- For Her Love
- The Hills on The Border
- Captain Bateman
- The Bells of St. Thomas
- The Bridge
The second ‘single’ from The Bridge, ‘Rushing Water’, has a pleasing Police-like economy, even if Sting’s multi-tracked vocal is somewhat distracting, at least at first. This is an accomplished pop-rock song and although it never threatens the top tier of Sting’s output, it’s a decent opener and offers some hope for The Bridge. 3.5/5
‘If It’s Love’ was the first song from The Bridge to be ‘released’ – aka revealed to the listening public. It’s a breezy, fairly lightweight number which performs a similar role to ‘I Can’t Stop Thinking About You’ from 57th and 9th. The whistling is a bit annoying, but the song doesn’t outstay its welcome and is over in three minutes. 3/5
The Bridge is full of biblical references (Jonah and the Whale has already been mentioned in ‘Rushing Water’) and none more so than on ‘The Book of Numbers’ which is just a cool way of saying ‘The Bible’. Co-written by Sting and his longtime guitarist Dominic Miller, this song benefits from a great arrangement with programmed drums and laid back, s...
This track is all minimal beats and atmospheric synths. In the song, a man tells of what he has to endure in his relationship that ostensibly ‘proves’ his love for his partner. These include “the smell of another man’s skin” (I guess she’s playing away from home) and, rather dubiously, having to “suffer in silence” instead of resorting to violence....
This song has what sounds like a ludicrous time signature – probably 13/17 or something – and Sting almost trips over his words as he crams what he has to say into the melody, but I rather like this. It’s what we want from Sting – complicated, occasionally pretentious music. Oasis this ain’t. ‘Harmony Road’ also benefits from the consummate skills ...
You are unlikely to publicly accuse yourself of plagiarism, so why not just nick a riff from one of your old songs? ‘For Her Love’ has a Dominic Miller acoustic guitar figure that appears to be ‘inspired’ by the Dominic Miller acoustic guitar figure on Ten Summoner’s Tale‘s ‘Shape of My Heart’. This is okay, because ‘Shape of My Heart’ is really go...
Sting gets all folky on ‘The Hills On The Border’, with a fiddle (by Peter Tickell), acoustic guitars and a shuffle-y beat. The song is a moral story, a variation on the well-worn tale of the good samaritan, as a man – a soldier – shares another man’s burden on an unspecified journey. The titular hills, Sting explains in the deluxe booklet, are The...
This song is based on a traditional ballad (from the 15th Century) called ‘Lord Bateman’, which concerns “a noble lord of high degree” stuck in a prison in a foreign country. He gets freed because he promises to marry the jailer’s daughter, but the lying swine doesn’t keep his promise. Some people! This is one of the more successful songs on side t...
This song has a relaxed jazzy feel, with brushes on the drum kit (courtesy of Manu Katché). It has a sad, reflective vibe although only Sting would write a song about “a drifter who finds himself propositioned by the wife of a wealthy man [and] is conflicted and finds himself drawn by the bells of a nearby church, where he encounters a triptych pai...
The title track ends the album and starts of with some guitar work that reminds you of José González’s version of The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’. This is unvarnished Sting, his voice a bit rawer and rougher than it has sounded on the rest of the album and it’s just him and Dominic Miller on finger-picked guitars. The lyric uses the metaphor of a ‘Bridge’...
I think BC&tSK is the overall better film but The Sting has the more clever story and, to boot, the fantastic presence of Robert Shaw just a few years before he'd appear in Jaws. Whatever you do, though, don't bother with the 1983 sequel, The Sting II .
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Nov 19, 2021 · Sting is still in a ruminative mood – personal loss, the pandemic and politics all figure into The Bridge 's songs – but he gets there via routes that are familiar to followers of the Police and...
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Nov 16, 2021 · Sting’s new album is aptly titled “The Bridge” — we need one. In almost every song there is water. It is rushing in the opening song, in the form of rain in another and as a cold grey sea in a third. Water is in a glass the parched singer asks for in the second song and in mist in the seventh.
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