Sting
With Mother’s day around the corner, it got me thinking about the perfect present for my mum, and after lots of umming and ahhing about flowers, bears and adopting various animals, I plumped for this album.
When I was growing up and my mum would do her ironing on a Saturday afternoon in the bay window of our house, plug in the cassette player (we were so old skool) and get a bit of Sting on the go.
Whilst I was a kid and wanted Spice Girls on full blast rather than some “boring grandad” - those were my childhood words, and not my journalistic opinion - I have now come to love that CD and the memories it holds.
Released in 1993 (when I was just six years old) it was played for about 5 years, once a week, until I finally got my mum onto CD’s and the old tape and it’s tales of love and morality went into a drawer somewhere.
Harbouring all manner of hits that I have on my iPod these days, the standout tracks have to be Fields of Gold, which has become one of the greatest songs of all time (in my opinion at least) and Seven Days which my mum and I used to sing over and over again, even once the tape had finished playing.
So, if you buy anything for 1p from Amazon this month, why not make it this album? Or at least something that makes you think of home, just as this does with me.
FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison
1. Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You)
2. Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
3. Fields of Gold
4. Heavy Cloud No Rain
5. She's Too Good for Me
6. Seven Days
7. Saint Augustine in Hell
8. It's Probably Me (Sting, Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen)
9. Everybody Laughed But You
10. Shape of My Heart
11. Something the Boy Said
12. Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)