Sting says to hell with Room Treatment

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"Today's music is not designed for me. I don't understand a Beyonce or Justin Timberlake."

"For me, singing is a spiritual journey. I'm devoutly musical. As for my voice, I'd say it's become more mature. Encrypted with life, it's developed texture. This particular album I made in our home in Tuscany. I don't work in any thematically soundproofed room. I like ambient noises - fire crackling, birds singing, church bells. It's organic." Sting

Fine for him in the Tuscany hillsides but I got traffic and lawn mowers in my neck of the woods. He does make some good points though. I wish I could hear the birds over the harley that just rode by.
 
"Encrypted with life"???????

What a bunch of pretentious bullshit. :rolleyes:
 
MadAudio said:
"Encrypted with life"???????

What a bunch of pretentious bullshit. :rolleyes:
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Sounds like an aging man who doesn't want to admit that "Can't Stand Losing You" was his best work :p
 
He's got to be one of the top 10 most pretentious wind-bags in the history of music. Like MS said, his best work was with the Police. Fuck he's annoying. Sting, not MSHilarious.
 
Of course he didn't mention that his little studio in his home in Tuscany is a 30x40 meter room with vaulted ceilings that probably sounds a hell of a lot better than my 10x12 foot spare bedroom with 8 ft ceilings and sheetrock walls.

He's still a prick, though.
 
Yea, I think what he's getting at in his own pompous way is how sanitized recordings have gotten. I heard that Jtimberlake song the other day and it sounded like a theme song for a nintendo game. Completely soulless. Also, I notice a lot of these bigtime studios like allaire(?) in NY don't have much in the way of treatment. Maybe some tapestry on the walls but thats all.
 
Well, Sting can do "it" his way if he wants to, for me I need the additional quiet I get from my practice room/studio. Maybe if I was located out in the quiet of the country I wouldnt have to worry about keeping noise out.
 
Encrypted with life= can only sing Roxanne if lowered a half step. :D
 
You guys can say what ever the hell you want, but even if his best work was with the Police (and I don't think it was, though he has gone markedly downhill since Soul Cages), he STILL can write better songs than anyone on this board.

And as Andy Summers once said, "Was Sting an egomaniacal controling prick? Yes. Was he as bad as I thought he was? Probably not. But I sold a lot of records, and made a lot of money, playing music that I'm extremly proud of thanks to Sting's songwriting."

Sting made his living with the Police. Everything since then is just for his own enjoyment (or mental health, or whatever).


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Light said:
You guys can say what ever the hell you want, but even if his best work was with the Police (and I don't think it was, though he has gone markedly downhill since Soul Cages), he STILL can write better songs than anyone on this board.
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True. Actually I like nearly all of Sting's solo stuff, including the recent stuff although I can't recall if I've heard the latest album yet.

But this sort of comment is like what Dylan said about no good records in the last 20 years. It has less to do with my music sucking (which it does) than a lot of younger artists I admire purportedly sucking. Has Dylan or Sting made a better record in the last 20 years than, say, Radiohead? For Sting, that's close, it's a maybe. For Dylan, no way in hell :p OK, maybe "Love and Theft". But by the plain meaning of Dylan's words, that must have sucked too. Along with Johnny Cash's last albums . . .

There was bubblegum crap in the '60s too, it may have sounded more organic, but it was still organic crap.
 
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Encrypted with life, it's developed texture.
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That's more of a pretentious and cocky statement than the interview with Tool I watched a couple weeks ago. I thought THEY couldn't be topped by saying they deserve to be on a different billboard chart than everyone else because they're so original. Sting may have come close... :)
 
backpage said:
I like ambient noises - fire crackling, birds singing, church bells. It's organic." Sting

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This is what tantric sex does to ya'. :p
 
To each his own, I like to say. That's not the route I would take, but if it works for him, more power to him.
 
Sting is a great song writer and an a huge part of the police, but without copland and summers I don't believe the police or "sting" would exist. His solo work is excellant, but to me lacks the magic of the police. Sorry......
It's kinda like Robbie Robertson and the band.

He's gonna do what he wants because he can. Let record in a slappy room for all i care. I think the general public only cares what yoga moves he's doing nowa days instead of his music.
 
Mo-Kay said:
I like Sting. A lot.

Crucify me.
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+1

I think his best work came after The Police. It is refined and polished in a not-commercial-copout way unlike what you see on MTV nowadays. He matured and so did his music.
 
Don't get me wrong - I do like some of Sting's post-Police works. I have "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" and "Nothing Like the Sun" on vinyl. But some of the crap that comes out of his mouth when he's not singing is just ridiculous.

"Sting" existed before the Police, though. Ever seen the movie "Quadrophenia?"

BELLBOY! :D
 
MadAudio said:
Don't get me wrong - I do like some of Sting's post-Police works. I have "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" and "Nothing Like the Sun" on vinyl. But some of the crap that comes out of his mouth when he's not singing is just ridiculous.

"Sting" existed before the Police, though. Ever seen the movie "Quadrophenia?"

BELLBOY! :D
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No i've never seen that movie.. Intresting.. I stand corrected.. But it could only been a foot in the door.
 
MadAudio said:
Don't get me wrong - I do like some of Sting's post-Police works. I have "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" and "Nothing Like the Sun" on vinyl. But some of the crap that comes out of his mouth when he's not singing is just ridiculous.

"Sting" existed before the Police, though. Ever seen the movie "Quadrophenia?"

BELLBOY! :D
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Hmmm. If memory serves me right, Sting played the Bellboy in Q-phenia after the Police had made it. The movie came out well after the double album/tour/etc. In fact, Q-phenia, the movie, was made after Tommy, the movie, right?

don't MAKE me do research!! :D
 
Jack Russell said:
Hmmm. If memory serves me right, Sting played the Bellboy in Q-phenia after the Police had made it. The movie came out well after the double album/tour/etc. In fact, Q-phenia, the movie, was made after Tommy, the movie, right?

don't MAKE me do research!! :D
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/

1979, so you may be right. But according to Stewart Copeland in his new documentary "Everyone Stares: The Police" it was his idea to start a band with Sting. Henri Padovani was the original guitarist.

EDIT: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073812/ Tommy came out in 1975.
 
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