I've Been Stung

I think I own most every Sting / Police release, so you'd surely need to categorize me as a Sting fan. Because I enjoy his music so much, I braved the hefty price believing I must have it.

It was a woeful disappointment for me, however. The disc consists of elongated versions of just a handful of Sting tunes set to drum-machine-produced club beats. I'm not into the club scene and actually enjoy Sting for the variety of world beats he incorporates into his music, so this really rubbed a nerve with me. I really didn't need the 3 disco versions of "Desert Rose" that this CD features.

This CD is gonna collect dust.

Strictly for Sting purists...

If you enjoyed Brand New Day, you will enjoy this collector's item, simple as that. It is pricey but entirely worth it for the 12+ minute remix of "A Thousand Years." The new Indian/Middle Eastern percussion track gives the song new life. Perfect Love Gone Wrong sounds basically the same except for a few more horns and the female rap is in Japanese instead of French. The rest of the remixes are nothing out of the ordinary but atleast they're all here on one cd if you don't want to collect all the CD singles from this album.