It was a war of attricion - and what this means is that can we give our young boys and put them to the gun and accept all the death as opposed to the German young boys who will also go to the death - but if ive got more than you have - then i win - THIS MUST STOP
branford had me listening this song on repeat for days back in the 80's to this day I still listen this song at least once a week, but i've always been looking for some Jazz artist or New Age Jazz Artist to do some music like what branford did on this song But people dont get it wrong, the drummer and the bass and the percussions had Alot to do with what we heard - DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATION OF ANY JAZZ BAND THAT DO MUSIC LIKE THIS?
This is by far my favorite solo effort of Sting's. I loved the singles released off this album. Then you dig deeper and enjoy the atmosphere of songs like this. Not just the musical quality, either. I always was taken by the lyrics on this album. Awesome.
Fantastic Brandford Marsalis ! and fantastic song too. what Sting can do together 4 formidable jazz-men : Marsalis , Hakim , Kirkland (R.I.P.) and Jones !!!!!!!!! i apologize my bad English ! ciao a tutti da Roma, Italia !
such lyrics! where are the new songwriters for gods sake! i love this kind of introspective songwriting! feeds my intellect instead of insulting my intelligence
such lyrics! where are the new songwriters for gods sake! i love this kind of introspective songwriting! feeds my intellect instead of insulting my intelligence
Its an alto sax to be exact. Second the gentleman was member of my mothers band. Sing heard them playing oversea's and wanted to use them when he went solo. My mothers boyfriend was the only one not used. but they made a beautiful album
This song is an excellent piece of poetry in itself. I suspect that Mr Sting had read the poems of Wilfred Owen before he wrote this. "Trapped on the wire and dying in waves" "...stained with the blood of a whole generation" are lines that could have been written into one of Owen's more well studied works such as "Futility".
@andre72DM just watched a live version and it is a soprano saxophone that is being played... it looks similar to a clarinet but a clarinet is a more slender instrument. The soprano saxophone is very easily confused as it is usually a straight instrument, the tenor saxophone is the more recognised curved instrument.
@nicessus2006 it gets even more confusing to recognise the clarinet and saxophone visually as bass clarinets are curved like the saxophone. The only difference between a clarinet and a saxophone however, is the bore, a clarinet is a cylinder with an even-sized bore, the saxophone is conical with the bore becoming progressively wider towards the end.
@andre72DM My school did this a few days ago for a charity concert. I played in it (clarinet) and that's definitely Soprano there... We had a Soprano playing it.
Sting (Gordon Sumner) has always been a political animal and most of his solo work has a political slant to it. This is one of his most powerful and passionate songs beutifully rendered by himself an an excellent selection of some of the finest musicians form the jazz world. I used to play this over and over again and I cried every time I played it.
You're all missing the historical/allegorical (sp?) reference.. The Children's Crusade legend (whether real or an "urban legend") was supposedly set in the 11th century where children trekked off to the Holy Land to convert the muslims.. but they never made it - either died on the way or sold into slavery.. nice comparative tale to bring the 12th century to the slaughter of WWI to the modern drug use in London all for a children's crusade - whether it was real or not - nice compare and contrast
@piper131313 And not only that, but Remembrance Day, the memorial day for fallen WWI soldiers, is also know as "Poppy Day" - Poppies are used as the definitive sign of remembrance because of their blood-red color & how they bloomed so heavily across some battlefields of WWI... Strangely enough, what comes from poppies? Opium. Sting did quite the number on this song. Not only is it very good musically, but the lyrical ties are incredible.
One of my favorites from MTV days. Sting surrounded himself with some bad azz Jazz players (Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones).
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This song is an insult to the men who died in WW1 to stop German Aggression. Read what the Imperial German Army did to occupied Belgium and France. The Free Democracies HAD to stop German expansion at all costs.
This song makes WW1 to appear to be some game that the Generals played with men's lives. NO...it was the survival of freedom!
all the musicians that made rock end up making jazz like Phil Collins, Sting or Claptom and know so that? so that the jazz and is soul is the music that there is to think to compose it and to make these wonders, whereas the rock takes own simple chords for musicians that begin for that reason are but rockers who jazzman, all the good musicians and composotores demonstrate their merit when they do smooth jazz or soul
It was a war of attricion - and what this means is that can we give our young boys and put them to the gun and accept all the death as opposed to the German young boys who will also go to the death - but if ive got more than you have - then i win - THIS MUST STOP
nch09snow 2 weeks ago
branford had me listening this song on repeat for days back in the 80's to this day I still listen this song at least once a week, but i've always been looking for some Jazz artist or New Age Jazz Artist to do some music like what branford did on this song But people dont get it wrong, the drummer and the bass and the percussions had Alot to do with what we heard - DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY RECOMMENDATION OF ANY JAZZ BAND THAT DO MUSIC LIKE THIS?
brendonkas 3 weeks ago
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bassmanjoe 2 weeks ago
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@brendonkas No jazz band does music like this, this is a rare breed. This song in particular is a rare breed, never heard anything like it.
bassmanjoe 2 weeks ago
My favorite track off the album, it's amazing. Actually one of my favorite songs by him period.
bassmanjoe 1 month ago
A genius at work! A rare breed today in popular music!
bassmanjoe 1 month ago
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bassmanjoe 1 month ago
@bassmanjoe his (Franz Ferdinand's) assassination set off a chain of political events that sparked WW1
ericheretoday 1 month ago
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bassmanjoe 1 month ago
This is by far my favorite solo effort of Sting's. I loved the singles released off this album. Then you dig deeper and enjoy the atmosphere of songs like this. Not just the musical quality, either. I always was taken by the lyrics on this album. Awesome.
camvantasco 2 months ago
Turtles, not one of my favorite solo albums. Songs don't do much for me. And a lot of his solo stuff does touch me. Just not here. I'm just saying.
probrojeffro 2 months ago
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bassmanjoe 1 month ago
The first thing I listened to seconds after the 2 minutes silence today at 11:00 11/11/11.
oxygene65 3 months ago
Keep coming back to this one, gotta be in my top 5 Sting songs. Shame he doesn't play it live anymore.
GaughranKen 3 months ago
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bassmanjoe 1 month ago
timeless
muziekbericht 3 months ago
almost remembrance day, ya Canadians. wear those poppies, eh?
jilltbs152 3 months ago
Fantastic Brandford Marsalis ! and fantastic song too. what Sting can do together 4 formidable jazz-men : Marsalis , Hakim , Kirkland (R.I.P.) and Jones !!!!!!!!! i apologize my bad English ! ciao a tutti da Roma, Italia !
fabbux 3 months ago
Every time I go to the post office, I see photos of all those young faces in US military uniforms. I think of this Sting song everytime.
trespasserswilliam1 4 months ago
This is one of the best soprano's melody i've ever heard! Thank you marsalis ^^
xXSnipeRain 4 months ago
Saw Sting two times during the Tour. In Rotterdam, The Nertherlands and Genk, Belgium
NYtoDCtoNY 5 months ago
the best sax solo?? must be close
mensamoo 5 months ago
サックスの鬼才ﾌﾞﾗﾝﾌｫｰﾄﾞ･ﾏﾙｻﾘｽのｿﾌﾟﾗﾉが優雅にそして強く咆哮!～ｽﾃｨﾝｸﾞ"CHILDREN'S CRUSADE"～GOOD! #jazzm
blackandtanful 7 months ago
such lyrics! where are the new songwriters for gods sake! i love this kind of introspective songwriting! feeds my intellect instead of insulting my intelligence
carrier3232 8 months ago 3
such lyrics! where are the new songwriters for gods sake! i love this kind of introspective songwriting! feeds my intellect instead of insulting my intelligence
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carrier3232 8 months ago
Its an alto sax to be exact. Second the gentleman was member of my mothers band. Sing heard them playing oversea's and wanted to use them when he went solo. My mothers boyfriend was the only one not used. but they made a beautiful album
pakleader4 8 months ago
Thats soprano his custom design
gbailey1958 9 months ago
Thats soprano his design
gbailey1958 9 months ago
nice track********
SOULMUSICDX 9 months ago
Saw Sting two times live during the tour
muziekbericht 1 year ago
One of my favorite Sting songs. Clear and beautiful, like running water. Love the nursery rhyme keys. Love Branford's work on this one
Auntkekebaby 1 year ago
Beautiful!
TheCalebson 1 year ago
Poppies for young men,Search Bitter trade
All of for children Crusade
MrRammstein80 1 year ago
This song is an excellent piece of poetry in itself. I suspect that Mr Sting had read the poems of Wilfred Owen before he wrote this. "Trapped on the wire and dying in waves" "...stained with the blood of a whole generation" are lines that could have been written into one of Owen's more well studied works such as "Futility".
MrGoblin60 1 year ago
capolavoro.....grazie per averci dato tante emozioni......
westponente 1 year ago
generations change...
but not the bitter sacrifice of the young.
now it's on the altar of fast fame and mindless idiocy
gabzcatlin 1 year ago
soprano
dsantic 1 year ago
i think it's not a soprano.........but clarinet......anyway Brandford real killin'
andre72DM 1 year ago
@andre72DM It's definitely a Soprano!!! Clarinet has a different tonal quality!!
musicminor25 1 year ago 12
I'm not sure but watch children's crusade live from bring on the night film.........
andre72DM 1 year ago
@musicminor25 agreed....
mensamoo 5 months ago
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@musicminor25 agreed....
mensamoo 5 months ago
@andre72DM Branford Marsalis is a saxophonist. He plays both soprano sax and tenor sax but not clarinet so far as I know :)
nicessus2006 1 year ago
I'm not sure but watch children's crusade live from bring on the night film.........
andre72DM 1 year ago
@andre72DM just watched a live version and it is a soprano saxophone that is being played... it looks similar to a clarinet but a clarinet is a more slender instrument. The soprano saxophone is very easily confused as it is usually a straight instrument, the tenor saxophone is the more recognised curved instrument.
nicessus2006 1 year ago
@nicessus2006 it gets even more confusing to recognise the clarinet and saxophone visually as bass clarinets are curved like the saxophone. The only difference between a clarinet and a saxophone however, is the bore, a clarinet is a cylinder with an even-sized bore, the saxophone is conical with the bore becoming progressively wider towards the end.
nicessus2006 1 year ago
@andre72DM My school did this a few days ago for a charity concert. I played in it (clarinet) and that's definitely Soprano there... We had a Soprano playing it.
Northantrims 3 months ago
Sting (Gordon Sumner) has always been a political animal and most of his solo work has a political slant to it. This is one of his most powerful and passionate songs beutifully rendered by himself an an excellent selection of some of the finest musicians form the jazz world. I used to play this over and over again and I cried every time I played it.
johngal56 1 year ago 2
You're all missing the historical/allegorical (sp?) reference.. The Children's Crusade legend (whether real or an "urban legend") was supposedly set in the 11th century where children trekked off to the Holy Land to convert the muslims.. but they never made it - either died on the way or sold into slavery.. nice comparative tale to bring the 12th century to the slaughter of WWI to the modern drug use in London all for a children's crusade - whether it was real or not - nice compare and contrast
piper131313 1 year ago 4
@piper131313 And not only that, but Remembrance Day, the memorial day for fallen WWI soldiers, is also know as "Poppy Day" - Poppies are used as the definitive sign of remembrance because of their blood-red color & how they bloomed so heavily across some battlefields of WWI... Strangely enough, what comes from poppies? Opium. Sting did quite the number on this song. Not only is it very good musically, but the lyrical ties are incredible.
Khaos427 1 year ago 2
Beautiful song! Kenny had to be happy to play this. RIP KK
tnleverett 1 year ago 2
One of my favorites from MTV days. Sting surrounded himself with some bad azz Jazz players (Kenny Kirkland, Branford Marsalis, Omar Hakim, Darryl Jones).
wamcalif5 1 year ago
this song is so great and so magic !! ( esta cancion es tan buena y tan magica)
munde19661 2 years ago 2
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This song is an insult to the men who died in WW1 to stop German Aggression. Read what the Imperial German Army did to occupied Belgium and France. The Free Democracies HAD to stop German expansion at all costs.
This song makes WW1 to appear to be some game that the Generals played with men's lives. NO...it was the survival of freedom!
Liberal nonsense....
ThoughtTraveler 2 years ago
@ThoughtTraveler
Where are you from? my countrymen remember Passchendale & other slaughters where we were used as fodder.
ericheretoday 2 years ago
WWII was about freedom. WWI was about old man sending European youth for a slaughter...
paulmattt 2 years ago 21
@paulmattt all war is about sending youth to a slaughter
shiites 11 months ago 6
@paulmattt bro this isnt ww2 its the childrens crusade go read way before 41
Occultscience101 8 months ago
Damn good song.
mauriceslf 2 years ago 2
Fragile - gr8 tune
neofunkyman1 2 years ago
all the musicians that made rock end up making jazz like Phil Collins, Sting or Claptom and know so that? so that the jazz and is soul is the music that there is to think to compose it and to make these wonders, whereas the rock takes own simple chords for musicians that begin for that reason are but rockers who jazzman, all the good musicians and composotores demonstrate their merit when they do smooth jazz or soul
SOULMUSICFX 2 years ago