Song Review: Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting

In Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Diane Keaton plays a neurotic New Yorker named Mary Wilke. On the night Mary and Woody’s character meet, she and her date discuss the “Academy of the Overrated,” an imaginary collection of musicians, intellectuals and entertainers whose work isn’t nearly as great as they are generally regarded.

Musician Sting, the former frontman for The Police, might be in the top ten of such a list I would author. Too polished, too packaged, too careful, too 80’s, then too 90’s.

A music-critic I once dated called him “Stinj,” because she thought the very name was lame (although she happily got on board with U2’s “The Edge.”)

My friend Dan Marsh asked me if I would review a Sting song, and I mistakenly said yes. I had forgotten that Sting’s superstardom didn’t agree with me, and that I don’t like his music.

For this review, I listened to the song, Moon Over Bourbon Street, and the two CDs we own of his music, If I Ever Lose My Faith in You, and The Summoner’s Tale. Ick.

It is especially hard to review this song after heavy doses of Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots in the last few days.

Sorry Dan.

Q: What is more homoerotic than the volleyball scene in Top Gun? A: Sting in the 1984 version of Dune.
Q: What is more homoerotic than the volleyball scene in Top Gun? A: Sting in the 1984 version of Dune.

1 Comment

  1. I mean, I still give Sting props for The Police. And, as long as I’m liking Peter Gabriel, Bono, and the lead singer for Duran Duran, I might as well cut Sting the same slack. Though I must say, Sting hasn’t done anything that’s interested me since about 1992.

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