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Track Listings
| 1. (Prologue) If I Ever Lose My Faith In You |
| 2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven) |
| 3. Fields Of Gold |
| 4. Heavy Cloud No Rain |
| 5. She's Too Good For Me |
| 6. Seven Days |
| 7. Saint Augustine In Hell |
| 8. It's Probably Me |
| 9. Everybody Laughed But You |
| 10. Shape Of My Heart |
| 11. Something The Boy Said |
| 12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me) |
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Taking it's name from one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Ten Summoner's Tales is one of Sting's most accessible and optimistic albums. His new-found positivity suggests that the artist had finally recovered from the death of both his parents, which were so poignantly dealt with on his previous releases Nothing Like The Sun and Soul Cages. As the title suggests, the album also has mediaeval connections, apparent on biblical track titles such as "Saint Augustine In Hell" and "Fields of Gold". Moreover, in true Chaucerian style the album even has a "Prologue" and an "Epilogue". Even though the tone of the tracks on Ten Summoner's Tales is less melancholic than earlier albums, Sting still retains the ability to write deep, informed lyrics; "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and "It's Probably Me" are typically classic Sting moments. --John Galilee
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Ce quatrième album réalisé par l'ex-leader de Police en 1993 marque le retour de Sting à un style moins emphatique que celui du disque précédent (The Soul Cages) et annonce les deux suivants (Mercury Falling et Brand New Day). De sa passion pour la sophistication harmonique du jazz à celle pour les musiques du monde, tout ce qui fait le charme des compositions de Sting se trouve condensé sur The Summonner's Tales. "If I Ever Lose Faith In You" domine le disque de ses arrangements et un des thèmes, "Fields Of Gold", est, avec le "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" des débuts, un des tubes inusables de Sting. À tel point qu'il fait un come-back en 1999 dans une magistrale interprétation accompagnée par les voix du groupe traditionnel corse I Muvrini. --Hervé Comte
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Album,
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This review is from: Ten Summoners Tales (Audio CD)
All the songs on the album are at least good (as in, you'll have a craving to play them at least every once in a while) which is rare enough.The truly great songs of the albums, I find, are "If I Ever Lost My Faith in You", "Fields of Gold", "Seven Days", "It's Probably Me" and "Shape of My Heart". Of the above, all are in the greatest hits album except "It's Probably Me" and "Shape of My Heart" which are unforgivable omissions. Whoever decided what would go in the greatest hits album should be fired or promoted depending on whether the greatest hits album was meant to really contain Sting's best music or whether it was meant to be incomplete to milk more money off customers. So if you are a casual Sting listener and want to get 1 Sting album, you should skip this one and instead get the greatest hits album even if it means you'll be skipping over 2 great songs and a handful of good ones. However, if you really love Sting's music, this album has enough to offer on its own that you'll want to get it.
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Ten Amazing Tales,
This review is from: Ten Summoners Tales (Audio CD)
This recent release of Ten Summoner's Tales (arguably the best Sting album ever) offers a fantastically enhanced production of the original album. With the same amazing songs, such as "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," "Fields of Gold," "Seven Days," and more, Sting once again reaches the listener with his musical hybrids and footprint-leaving lyrics. This enhanced version of the six grammy winning album should be in the hands of any loyal fan, and should be the first and the most prized possession of any new-comer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Ten Amazing Tales,
By "gnwolftiger" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ten Summoners Tales (Audio CD)
This recent release of Ten Summoner's Tales (arguably the best Sting album ever) offers a fantastically enhanced production of the original album. With the same amazing songs, such as "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You," "Fields of Gold," "Seven Days," and more, Sting once again reaches the listener with his musical hybrids and footprint-leaving lyrics. This enhanced version of the six grammy winning album should be in the hands of any loyal fan, and should be the first and the most prized possession of any new-comer.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps Sting's best strongest album,
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Sting's work is consistently of high quality. Nearly every song on this particular album is very good, and several are outstanding. One of my favorite things about this album is Sting's use of unusual time signature. "Seven Days" is in an interesting 5/4 time, "St. Augustine in Hell" is in 7/8, and "The Munificent Seven" alternates between 7/8 in the verses and 4/4/ in the chorus. "Something the Boy Said," is a haunting, atmospheric piece that has the feel of an epic poem in condensed form. I haven't heard every Sting album, but it would be hard to imagine a better or more satisfying one.
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Sting - TEN SUMMONER'S TALES (1993),
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This review is from: Ten Summoners Tales (Audio CD)
Having vented his sorrow over his father's death through THE SOUL CAGES, Sting returned more upbeat and playful than ever on 1993's TEN SUMMONER'S TALES. Widely regarded as Sting's best album, TEN SUMMONER'S TALES - the title being a pun on Sting's surname - is a collection of ten songs, each telling a story, as well as a prologue ("If I Ever Lose My Faith In You") and an epilogue ("Nothing 'Bout Me"). This was destroyed on the US and Canadian releases, as the "Prologue" was dropped from the title of "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and one of the album's finest songs, "Everybody Laughed But You", was inexplicably omitted. Sting has never been better either lyrically or musically; these songs are at once funny and very powerful. "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" and the beautiful "Fields Of Gold" are the album's classic songs, but every song is wonderful, particularly "Seven Days", "Something The Boy Said" (which would have made a fine Police song), "Shape Of My Heart" (featured in the end credits of Luc Besson's LEON), "Saint Augustine In Hell" and the highly amusing "Heavy Cloud No Rain". Though it still can't surpass its predecessor, THE SOUL CAGES, TEN SUMMONER'S TALES ranks directly behind it on the list of Sting's finest solo work.
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