Outlandos d'Podcast: A show about Sting Podcast
1) 10: Ten Chaucer's Fart Jokes
Like Cnut commanding the tides to recede, Sting brings his band to his new manor house and says "I command thee to make hits!" — only when Sting does it, it actually works. Therefore, Sting > Cnut. So...Show More
2) 9: The Oedipus Cages
The elder Mr. Sumner was kind enough to die, thus breaking Sting’s writer’s block (or did it?), and the daddy-issues tunes came flowing out like so many single tears across a stoic, chiseled face. It’...Show More
3) 8: ...Nothing Like the Police
As the length of Sting's hair peaks, so does his career as a solo artist, and the people of central America are forever grateful to him for mining their trauma like so much Aztec gold. Songs discussed...Show More
4) 7: The Dream of the Green Revenues
Sting goes looking for more people to exploit for authenticity and comes up with a crew of American jazz session players whose brilliance he does not deserve. Songs discussed include "Fortress Around ...Show More
5) 6: SynchroNOcity
Like a lover who wants to show their soon-to-be-ex what they'll be missing, Sting turns in his finest creative performances to date before promptly giving Stewart and Andy the ol' Irish goodbye. Using...Show More
6) 5: Ghost in the Drum Machine
Donning the shortest men's running shorts that scientists of the time could produce, Sting and the boys headed to the sunny island of Montserrat to produce a feel-good summertime album about . . . Des...Show More
7) 4: Zenyatta Da AT-ATs R ATTACKING!!
For "Zenyatta Mondatta," Sting and boys head into the studio with a killer sound and yet, sadly, almost no actual songs to record. In our studio, we have a slight hiccup with Meg's mic, but if we were...Show More
8) 3: Appropriation de Blanc
Meg nods politely while Adam goes full-on music dork explaining why "Regatta de Blanc" is peak Police. He even dusts off the ol' guitar next to the fireplace for analysis of the "Message in a Bottle" ...Show More
9) 2: Metal Speedos d'Amour
The Police's TOTALLY AUTHENTIC™ punk rock debut album "Outlandos d'Amour" hits big, and Sting finally makes it into the Queen Mother's limo with a little help from his buddies Stewart and Ol' Granny A...Show More
10) 1: Local Geordie Gordy Makes Good
We recount the epic tale of Gordon Sumner's birth to a shipwright (or was he a milkman?) in Ye Olde Kingdom of Northumbria, Anno Domini 1951 (and, possibly, how he was murdered by MI6 so that Sting co...Show More