I will turn 50 in November of this year, so my project for 2023 will be to listen to and review one album from each year of my life, 1973 to 2022. The only qualification is that it has to be an album I’ve not reviewed previously.
1987
Top Grossing Albums of 1987:
- Slippery When Wet – Bon Jovi
- Graceland – Paul Simon
- Licensed – Beastie Boys
- The Way It Is – Bruce Hornsby
- Control – Janet Jackson
Grammy Award for Album of the Year of 1987:
- The Joshua Tree – U2
- Whitney – Whitney Houston
- Bad – Michael Jackson
- Trio – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
- Sign “☮︎” the Times– Prince
Other Albums I’ve Reviewed from 1987:
- Criminal Minded – Boogie Down Productions
- Never Let Me Down – David Bowie
- Paid in Full – Erik B. and Rakim
- Appetite for Destruction – Guns N’ Roses
- 8 – Madhouse
- 16 – Madhouse
- Faith – George Michael
- Actually – Pet Shop Boys
- Franks Wild Years – Tom Waits
Album: …Nothing Like the Sun
Artist: Sting
Release Date: 5 October 1987
Label: A&M
Favorite Tracks:
- The Lazarus Heart
- Be Still My Beating Heart
- Englishman in New York
- We’ll Be Together
- Straight To My Heart
Thoughts:
Revisiting The Police for the 50 Years project didn’t go well but fortunately my favorite Sting album from when I was younger holds up pretty well. At the time Sting was establishing himself as a singer/songwriter who used jazz arrangements and working with Brandford Marsalis (at the time when he was still an up-and-coming artist). It’s definitely softer than Sting’s work with The Police but not the “soft rock’ that would plague the last few decades of his career. I’ve always loved the sax solo and the drum break in “Englishman in New York” and they still sound “cool” after all these years.
Rating: ***1/2