Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FEEL LIKE summertime, but it sure sounds and looks like Stingtime. The Police(front)mar, is everywhere--gracing rock mag covers (and even GQ)--to proclaim the release of his first solo album to the world. The media barrage comes with the golden-boy territory, but Sting's musical and acting endeavors have, with the exception of the Dune debacle, always justified the hype. Unfortunately, The Dream of the Blue Turtles is less than a revelation. The album certainly is no nightmare, but there's plenty of Sting and not much bite...
THEY SAY A BOOK can't be judged by its cover, but they never mentioned anything about record album covers. Infact, aside from playing a key role in selling the vinyl, albumn covers have the double duty of tipping off the tone of the record's content...
Probably the boldest and most subtle experiment in the latest album is with popular music itself. As Spinal Tap showed, mimicking bad rock is the best way to criticize it. Likewise, the songs Little Creatures dip into the sounds and dull themes of pop music, but carefully refrain from making the complete dive. Instead they go just far enough to poke fun at the music during the journey. The chance they take, nonetheless, is a big one, considering they are dealing with a genre they usually take no interest in. This sort of dialectic-bashing implies an experiment that...
...Stay Up Late," the album's most tersely phrased song domestic life--something new for a band known for shying away from such stable themes--has invaded the lyrics. "Stay Up Late" is about playing with a little kid: watching him drinks, crawl across a floor and wear a little red suit...
Fans of Tina Weymouth can expect a lot of her voice in background vocals. The album even has a front cover that is a grafftti-filled painting by the Rev. Howard Finster. Borrowed from Tom Tom Club art, the front cover does not give as many hints to the record's content as the back cover. But it can make some good reading while you're mellowing out to Little Creatures, and it just might slow up the realization that these tunes probably are not dry enough to wipe wet dishes...