Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (Expanded Edition) (1985/2025)

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Date: July 10, 2025

Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles (Expanded Edition) (1985/2025)
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Pop Rock | Label: A&M Records

The Dream of the Blue Turtles is the debut solo album by English musician Sting, released on 17 June 1985. The album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart and number two on the US Billboard 200. An expanded edition will be released on 11 July 2025 to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of The Dream of The Blue Turtles. The version includes B-sides such as "Another Day" and "The Ballad of Mac the Knife", as well as remixes of "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free", "Love Is The Seventh Wave", "Moon Over Bourbon Street" and "Fortress Around Your Heart".

AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The Police never really broke up, they just stopped working together – largely because they just couldn't stand playing together anymore and partially because Sting was itching to establish himself as a serious musician/songwriter on his own terms. Anxious to shed the mantle of pop star, he camped out at Eddy Grant's studio, picked up the guitar, and raided Wynton Marsalis' band for his new combo – thereby instantly consigning his solo debut, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, to the critical shorthand of Sting's jazz record. Which is partially true (that's probably the best name for the meandering instrumental title track), but that gives the impression that this is really risky music, when he did, after all, rely on musicians who, at that stage, were revivalists just developing their own style, and then had them jam on mock-jazz grooves – or, in the case of Branford Marsalis, layer soprano sax lines on top of pop songs. This, however, is just the beginning of the pretensions layered throughout The Dream of the Blue Turtles. Only twice does he delve into straightforward love songs – the lovely measured "Consider Me Gone" and the mournful closer, "Fortress Around Your Heart" – preferring to consider love in the abstract ("If You Love Somebody Set Them Free," one of his greatest solo singles, and the childish, faux-reggae singalong "Love Is the Seventh Wave"), write about children in war and in coal mines, revive a Police tune about heroin, ponder whether "Russians love their children too," and wander the streets of New Orleans as the vampire Lestat. This is a serious-minded album, but it's undercut by its very approach – the glossy fusion that coats the entire album, the occasional grabs at worldbeat, and studious lyrics seem less pretentious largely because they're overshadowed by such bewilderingly showy moves as adapting Prokofiev for "Russians" and calling upon Anne Rice for inspiration. And that's the problem with the record: with every measure, every verse, Sting cries out for the respect of a composer, not a pop star, and it gets to be a little overwhelming when taken as a whole. As a handful of individual cuts – "Fortress," "Consider Me Gone," "If You Love Somebody," "Children's Crusade" – he proves that he's subtler and craftier than his peers, but only when he reins in his desire to show the class how much he's learned.
Tracklist:
01 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Single Edit)
02 Love Is The Seventh Wave
03 Russians
04 Children's Crusade
05 Shadows In The Rain
06 We Work The Black Seam
07 Consider Me Gone
08 The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
09 Moon Over Bourbon Street
10 Fortress Around Your Heart
11 Another Day
12 The Ballad Of Mac The Knife
13 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Dance Mix)
14 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (William Orbit Mix)
15 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Soulpower Mix)
16 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Soulpower Radio Mix)
17 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Soulpower Hip Hop Mix)
18 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Soulpower House Mix)
19 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Soulpower Deep Dub)
20 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Brothers In Ryhthm_Soundtrack Version)
21 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Brothers In Rhythm Edit)
22 If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Remix)
23 Love Is The Seventh Wave (New Mix)
24 Love Is The Seventh Wave (Special Single Version)
25 Moon Over Bourbon Street (Cornelius Mix)
26 Fortress Around Your Heart (Hugh Padgham Remix)

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