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Review by chriscmore October 14, 2004 (2 of 2 found this review helpful)
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For this huge Sting, surround and DSD fan, this album was a complete miss, miss, miss. The music is completely uninspired drivel, lacking in any originality, passion, or really much effort at all. Much like Mercury Falling, after two listens it was obvious that this was bound for eBay. I hope this isn't a trend, but Sacred Love seems to be one of those late-career, half-hearted, bored rich artist formulaic, committee-driven pieces of white bread. Sting's consistancy of performance has eroded from his early brilliant to really good swings, to his present really good to really bad swings. I think things started going to hell with that Robin Hood single with Stewart and Adams.
Sonically, this is a pass as well. If you want good DSD surround Sting, go get Brand New Day and continue hoping that his best work - Soul Cages, Nothing Like the Sun, Dream of the Blue Turtles, and Ten Sumners Tales - will get the Brand New Day remixing and remastering treatment. But Sacred Love has little to offer sonically, with it's grade-C sonic qualities (compression, sibilance, digital hash, etc.) being only mildly interesting, listening to very talented studio musicians march through Sting's weakest compositions.
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Review by Marc P September 29, 2003 (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
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In his early solo years I was a huge Sting fan. But I got less and less interested when the years went bye. This is his first solo album I have bought in a couple of years. And to be honest the only reason I bought it was because it was released as a hybrid and I could get my hands on it for cheap.
Listening to the album for the first time the impressions it gave me weren’t favorable for Sting. The whole thing sounded very over produced. The songs weren’t very interesting and the guest appearance of Mary J Blidge might give him some street credibility with younger listeners but it made my skin crawl. The song is absolutely horrible.
Giving the album a few more chances I found myself getting used to the current Sting sound, and some songs are even growing on me. This disc won’t be a favorite, but it will get its fair share of time in my player. The only song I still really dislike is Whenever I say you name, because of the horrible vocals of Mary J Blidge.
Best track could have been Shape of my heart (Live), but for some reason they made it a 2 minute version. What a waste, this way you only get a brief impression of how good this track could have been.
All in all a good buy if you’re a Sting fan, and a ok buy if you’re more or less interested in his work. Sound quality is overall quiet good, or should I say not bad?
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