Gold Ao Vivo [Import]

1. Para Viver Um Grande Amor

2. Abismo De Rosas

3. Na Boca Da Noite

4. Que Maravilha

5. O Bem-Amado

6. Bachianinha No.1

7. Choro Chorado Pra Paulinho Nogueira

8. Yesterday

9. Ao Que Vai Chegar

10. O Filho Que Eu Quero Ter

11. A Casa

12. O Caderno

13. Aquarela

14. Samba Pra Vinicius

Tracks:

Para Viver Um Grande Amor
Abismo De Rosas
Na Boca Da Noite
Que Maravilha
O Bem-Amado
Bachianinha No.1
Choro Chorado Pra Paulinho Nogueira
Yesterday
Ao Que Vai Chegar
O Filho Que Eu Quero Ter
A Casa
O Caderno
Aquarela
Samba Pra Vinicius

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WoW
Discovered After, Well... All This Time
His Best cd Ever.
Love it but...
Mainly for the true Sting-fans of course!

Gold Ao Vivo - All This Time
Sting
Manufacturer: Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Give Sting credit for craftily averting the downside of worldwide pop stardom: finding yourself at 50 playing decades-old hits at some dusty state fair. The trick, of course, is to have your artistic cake and eat it, too; and that's just what the singer has done--reinvented himself first as a coolly crooning jazz head, then infused that sensibility with some spiritually vague Euro-trance affectations. Sting's Brand New Day touring band languorously reworks 15 songs before a couple hundred handpicked fans during a moonlit Tuscan evening--it's a live shot that feels funkier and less self-conscious than its '80s predecessor, Bring on the Night. While familiar solo-career nuggets like "Set Them Free," "Fields of Gold," and "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" have insightful new shadings, it's the sparingly doled Police hits that seem rebuilt from the ground up; "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "Roxanne" are now hued with sad cellos and weary vocals hinting that even sexual tension eventually leads to fatigue. Tasteful, spare, and nearly performance-perfect, ...All This Time is still a far cry from the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme, and if you hear a quiet, English-accented chuckle behind you in line at the bank, don't turn around. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

Import edition of 2001 live release includes one track that's unavailable on the US pressing, 'Mad About You'. In a moonlit courtyard in Tuscany, on the evening of September 11th, 2001, Sting hosted a musical evening for 200 fans & friends. With his long-time band & several guest musicians, Sting performed songs from his triple-platinum album, Brand New Day as well as some his many of his celebrated hits. In his inimitable style, Sting reinvented these songs through constructed, intimate arrangements. Other tracks include, 'Fragile' & 'A Thousand Years'.

Album Details

Australian Version featuring the Exclusive Bonus Track: "Mad About You".

Customer Reviews:

WoW.......2007-03-11

Sting is one talented Englishman!! This cd is awesome, it was recorded live in Italy on Sept 11, 2001. this is a must have in any music lovers collection.

Discovered After, Well... All This Time.......2006-07-08

I note that one of my fellow "citizen reviewers" below felt that this "live" CD--consisting as it does of live takes of previously recorded songs--was a bit on the superfluous side and would likely appeal only to the "casual fan." Funny thing though, several others have posted (ironically for similar reasons) that it should only be of interest to Sting COMPLETISTS, the folks who feel compelled to literally possess every recording the Stingle has ever made. So who's right? Neither? Both?

Well, that likely all depends on the beholder--or the "be-hearer." , but I can say that *I* like it a lot. But if anyone could be classified as definitive casual fan when it comes to Sting, I guess that'd be me. After a somewhat rocky start with "Roxanne" (HATED it the first few times I heard it on the radio), I soon came to appreciate the Police and was intrigued by their intelligent lyrics and tight reggae-influenced rock. That is to say, I liked what I heard but was never felt compelled to rush out and buy their latest album the day it was released. And yeah, it did seem that Sting's critics had a point. He did seem to be a little full of himself, and that put me off at least a little bit. Had the same complicated reaction to Bono a few years later. Talented, yes. Compelling, yes. Egotistical, yes...but then it's not totally unwarranted.

Years later, I have to ask myself why that was such a sticking point for me. Why did I always cut Lou Reed or John Lennon considerable slack in the pretentiousness department, but resisted doing the same for those who came a bit later. Who knows? What I do know now is that if I had given the Police and Sting's later solo works more of a chance, I almost certainly would have come to overlook (and maybe even embrace) the minor failings. There are, as it turns out, more than enough strengths to allow for that.

So anyway this "casual fan" was familiar with about half the tunes included in this concert album. I knew the Police tracks of course, and certainly remembered early solo stuff like "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free." Whatever my initial misgivings about "Roxanne" way back when, I did come to like that song well enough to be a bit disappointed in almost campy version included here. It's starts off well enough but soon devolves into a near lounge number. Sorry, but that tune just demands a SINCERE delivery. And the perfunctory take on "Don't Stand So Close To Me" is a bit disappointing too.

So maybe Sting is a little uncomfortable by some his efforts of his youthful period? Or perhaps just tired of them? He can, however, still wrap himself around the romantic sentiment of "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and captures the still spooky irony of the CD's closer "Every Breath You Take" (still deliciously creepy after all these years). It's hard to believe that there are those who misunderstand this song's sinister import totally? I mean, do they really actually play it at WEDDINGS?? Listen to the words, boys and girls. This is NOT a healthy relationship.

Over the years, Sting has taken a few jabs for his rather overt, matinee idol romanticism. Well, you either like it or you don't. Give him credit though: he's smart enough to mix up the lush, metaphysical swoon of "A Thousand Years" with the comic swagger of "Perfect Love Gone Wrong." That makes for just about the perfect segue and just the right leavening touch. Similarly, he and the band shift effortlessly from those sunny "Fields of Gold" to sinister Anne Rice territory with "Moon Over Bourbon Street."

The brief notes on the inner sleeve make mention of the fact that the concert this live record documents took place in Italy on September 11, 2001. The album is "respectfully dedicated to those who lost their lives that day." I suspect many a jaded listener may have been a little skeptical about that. And there will certainly be those who would maintain that the proper response would have been to cancel the concert and the recording thereof (an evening concert European time would have been just hours after the day's actual events after all.) Regardless of how you may feel about all that, a genuine spirit of solemnity does indeed permeate many of the tracks. The album's opener "Fragile" is eerily poignant in light of the horror of that day. The song's vaguely wistful pacifist sentiment takes on new significance given the day's carnage. Five years--and considerably more carnage--later, it still bears listening to.

As does the whole album. Whether you're a "casual fan" or a devotee.

His Best cd Ever........2006-05-03

This is clearly Stings best cd but look at how many people who are still not satisfied..can an artist please everyone...clearly not.

Love it but..........2005-01-30

Why is Seven Days not on this CD. It was my favorite part of the DVD and then I find out its only on the Import CD. Still a great CD though.

Mainly for the true Sting-fans of course!.......2004-12-23

Interesting, experimental, fantastic - so what's new?? If you didn't like this album, and did not appriciate the "changes" on the old Sting-classics, well yes - that may very well be because you're simply not fan enough, and you listen to these songs without having a particular interest in them, or feel a "relationship" to what Stings' songwriting and performing is all about; Developing, and growing with time. Change can be good, change can be nessecarry - and change is the future (he says something about this in an interview on his "Unplugged"-release from 1991 - where he also claims there should be no limitations in the progress of songwriting and performing by categories - all should mix together, and he claims music-"experts" who says you can't to be wrong. I agree, and here's another example of how superb category-mixing can be. It's jazzy, rockn' roll, heavy, relaxed (as in laid-back music) and most of all gripping. The versions of these songs were rehearsed weeks before the twin towers-tragedy - so this release has got nothing to do with that (some songs being slown down I mean) - if you find a sad "expression" here, well who wasn't emotionally involved on 11th Septhember, I know I was. If Sting and A&M has made big bucks on the tragedy of 2001, I am sure it was not the intention, or the consept behind the "All this time"-project.

Let me add, some versions here are even better, or as good as, the original - I really adore the makeover of "Don't stand..." and "If I ever..."!

Sting-fans, enjoy!