Sting - Fields Of Gold [The Best Of Sting 1984-1994]Wow, Sting will be 60 next year!, seems like a short time ago i got a 'Message In A Bottle' and was 'walking On The Moon', this compilation comes from his first four albums, and i feel that some of those individual albums didn't have enough quality to justify having, and yet there's some nice individual tracks that are, so this is one of those discs that collect the best bits of an Artist.
Well i really enjoyed tracks 3, 5-6 & 12-15, but most of all track 3 'Fields Of Gold', it's his best song ever, so full of nostalgia, a romantic moment years ago, remembered years later, it aches with bittersweetness, there's this 'tick tock' throughout the song played by the drumstick, representing the inevitable/inescapable passing of time, the lovely strumming/picking of the spanish guitar makes the song so sunny, at the end of the song Sting sings of the passing years,
'Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold'
sounds so much like they both had children and grew old together, but... they still look back on fondness to their earlier years... in the fields of barley.
Here's a clever/creative video of Sting performing Fields Of Gold on YouTube.
