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Ah, I listened to Gabriel's Message last night and contemplated adding it to the Christmas thread, but most everyone I know despises the song. And Sting.
jmc, there's a remake of "Last Christmas" that makes Wham!'s sound like high art.
Yeah, Sting's a goof. Anyway, lately one of my favourite christmas songs is The Band's "Christmas Must Be Tonight", which is kinda weird for me, because I usually like the secular stuff wayyyy more.
I like Sting quite a lot, although I could live without everything he has done post Ten Summoner's Tales. I like Wham! too but I probably hate half of what jon likes, so it all evens out.
jmc, I was offering neither endorsement nor condemnation of Wham!, simply pointing out a new specter on the landscape, so to speak.
And Sting, like most artists, I take on a case by case basis. This may shift given time and place. I may not "get" something after I've gotten it previously, but I subscribe to the concept of a musical palate and that certain things make perfect sense at certain times/in certain places which won't at others. No shame, no harm, no foul.
Personally, I like to try and connect as often as I can, which does mean some repeated disappointments, but also yeilds some fantastic, "AHA!!" moments of which I feel I'm richer for having experienced.
Oh, I'm sure, fris. and I call almost all my female friends 'kid' (we're about the same age, right?) since I love it when my old guy barfly friends call me that.
And Sting gets props for his occasional moments of genius with the Police ("Born In The Fifties," "Can't Stand Losing You," "Every Breath You Take,") but his whole I'm-going-to-save-the-world-by-sheer-force-of-my-wonderfulness shtick makes me want to burn down rainforests and beat up orphans.
You have redeemed yourself yet again with the Run DMC track, my man. (although contrary to the hip-hop image Hollis (which is not far from where I sit) is actually a very nice middle-class Queens neighborhood).
Although I used to work with a really hot chick named Hollace. That song inspired no end of puerile male humor among me and my co-workers.
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