You Still Touch Me / Lullaby to an Anxious Child [Single]

Sting | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 30, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002G7Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too good for radio!, September 14, 2002

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J. C. Carmichael (Washington, D.C. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Still Touch Me / Lullaby to an Anxious Child (Audio CD)

All four of these songs are amazing! "You Still Touch Me" is an upbeat track included on the album "Mercury Falling". "Twenty-Five to Midnight" is an equally impressive song with a similar tempo. The two remaining tracks on this CD are simply beautiful. "Lullaby to an Anxious Child" implies an almost classical music style with beautifully dark sounding melody. "Pirate's Bride", one of my favorite Sting songs, is arguably the most brilliantly crafted song ever recorded. Every part of the melody is perfect. The lyrics paint a vivid picture of romantic tragedy. A piano adds some classical and jazz subtleties to this beautiful masterpiece.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best selections seldom heard, October 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: You Still Touch Me / Lullaby to an Anxious Child (Audio CD)

Sometimes I have to wonder who actually decides which selections will comprise an artist's album. You Still Touch Me was on Mercury Falling. What I can't figure is why the remaining songs on this extended single were not there as well. Recorded at about the same time, they include a tender evening melody, a bucaneer's lament, and a marvelous tale of musician's failure- played in 7. If choices had to be made, any one of these three would have been preferable to so much of the Tennessee-tinged offerings that ultimately found their way onto the larger album. While You Still Touch Me, for example, is enjoyable, it is bathed in the all-too-familiar and unoriginal STAX-Booker T. & the MGs sound; the other songs on this CD, however, are more authentically Sting in character---inventive, sensitive and ironic---and continue the kind of rewarding explorations he so bravely initiated first in Soul Cages, then in Ten Summoner's Tales. As it happens, I discovered this treasure only recently by chance. A stunning gem, its worth has been unforgivably obscured. It deserves to be heard.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Priceless Gem Lost In Obscurity, February 7, 2006

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Mr. Mister (Mauston, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Still Touch Me / Lullaby to an Anxious Child (Audio CD)

The problem I've had with Sting over the years is that the music which is chosen for radio airplay is oftenly inadequate representations of his best work. What we have in this instance makes even less sense. Here we have a few of the finest songs Sting has ever written appearing as "B-side" tunes on a very hard-to-find CD single, and it's the only way you'll ever hear these songs because they don't even appear on any of his regular albums! I am obviously referring to the songs "Lullaby To An Anxious Child" and "The Pirate's Bride".

Thank you for the music, Sting, but why do you sometimes throw your best music away???