Sting "57th & 9th" - New Album

I have listened to it several times. Not one of my better sounding vinyl but I don't think it's awful.

 

It's definitely my worst sounding (other than bad condition records).

I was excited about this album because I thought Sting kind of stood for sound quality.

Brand New Day, which isn't my least compressed CD, has great sound.

I bought the LP, because the CD was so bad, but, the LP is exactly as bad.

Okay it's 6dBs lower, but, equally compressed "louder".

 

Don´t own the vinyl, but I´ve got a transfer from vinyl and it sound much better than the CD. Also two songs are different

 

57th & 9th: LIVE FROM CHICAGO
Introducing 57th & 9th: Live From Chicago, an exclusive 12” vinyl and companion digital download featuring songs, both new hits and classics, recorded live by WXRT on the 57th & 9th Tour on March 3, 2017.

This record is being produced EXCLUSIVELY FOR STING.COM MEMBERS. It will not be available for purchase in stores or online. The digital download will be made available over the coming weeks and we expect to begin shipping physical copies in a few months time.

SIDE A
01. Heading South On The Great North Road
02. Synchronicity II
03. Spirits In The Material World
04. I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
05. Fields Of Gold

SIDE B
01. Down, Down, Down
02. Petrol Head
03. Pretty Young Soldier
04. Desert Rose
05. Every Breath You Take

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A blu-ray / dvd of the Olympia concert is released on November 10th:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sting-Live...swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1506891755&sr=8-1

 

Awesome

 

Looks like it's only region 2 disc announced so far. Hopefully a region 1 version is coming too.
https://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Olym...8-1&keywords=Sting:+Live+At+The+Olympia+Paris

Playback Region B/2 :This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.

 

Interesting!

At the suggestion of my gf, I pulled 57th & 9th out again recently and it was better than I remembered.

Not Ten Summoners Tales quality mind you, but there are some good songs on there.

 

I have to say , i really love the album , i agree it's not Ten summ. But it's a really solid sting album .......

 

I love it as well. I never fall into that trap of comparing later albums to an artist's prime. I judge each on its own

 

Ditto Mike and David, love this album and is one of my most played this year.

 

If you are only excited by SQ you should probably look at the hundreds of supremely recorded but bland musicians inhabiting the audiophile labels and HiFi shows instead.

And you were wrong about Sting standing for sound quality. Despite all his pretentious endeavours in baroque, classical, musical, jazz etc., Sting is still a pop musician, albeit a very skilled, ambitious and sophisticated one. This and almost all of his previous albums aim at charts and sales and they just can't afford themselves to sound "shy" on radio.

That said, the HD version of his last album sounds pretty decent and inoffensive but what is more important - the music is pretty good.

 

He's recording yet another new album right now... lots of new photos of him in the studio on Facebook and Instagram. For those who care. If you don't, no need for rude replies!

 

I noticed that. I though he was working on the Last Ship to put out a play or something-.

 

Hope it's a rocking one now

 

I hope it doesn’t sound distorted and horrible. Can’t there be an artist champion of high quality audio?

 

"57th & 9th" was a rocking one. It's time to bring the flute out now.

 

Music is oke, sound is very bad. (Cd)

 

The new Blu Ray of the Olympia concert sounds great, ditto performance:

 

Interesting - hadn't heard about this!

 

Killer news ! thanks

 

If he keeps up the Police-like vibe of 57th, I'll be interested in this for sure.

 

didn't really love 57th, but didn't hate it either, but i'll be in for a new one for sure.

 

That’s about how I felt about it too, but, the sound quality really burned me up. At least I would have been happy with so so songs with a great sounding album.

Still, I’m a sucker and will probably buy this one too.