Sting – The Dream Of The Blue Turtles

This is an excellent pressing. I have compared it to an OG Japanese Pressing, this holds up really well, cut slightly hotter, so it is a bit punchier. The Japanese Pressing is a bit more refined and silkier, which also works for this album.

An absolutely stunning pressing, and beautifully packaged. An audiophile's delight without the hefty price tag of an "audiophile" release

Yes, the audio is incredible on blue vinyl, which is kinda rare as coloured vinyl can sometimes sound crap

Scored myself a NM copy and it sounds great! Hard to believe this album came out 40 years ago!

No indication anywhere on cover, inner sleeve or label that this is a Singapore pressing.

This is a great album and it's going to be 40 next year! Sting's first solo outing with a band of virtuoso jazzers no less which included Kenny Kirkland on keyboards [from the Wynton Marsalis band], Daryl Jones on bass, Branford Marsalis on saxophones and Omar Hakim on drums. The themes are as diverse as the scope of the music which delve into the human condition, lost love and regret, romance, obsession, nuclear war, self analysis, the environment and vampires. Gloomy and very serious stuff at the height of Reagan's America, Thatcher's Britain and the underlying threat of The Russians.
1985 was the year of Live Aid, Miami Vice, and BMX while Concorde crossed the Atlantic faster than a bullet and the Space Shuttle occasionally orbited the earth. With satellite TV and CD it felt like the future but now it's a distant memory. Not all mid 80s albums by major stars have aged well but The Dream Of The Blue Turtles has aged well simply because there's an actual band playing the bulk of the music with occasional Synchlavier sequencing, a high end sampler workstation that only rich musicians could afford to buy and tinker around with. In fact Frank Zappa liked it so much he recorded a whole album with it! But all tech aside, Gordon Sumner, Sting to you and me, was a human hit machine and from the formation of his old band The Police in 1977, everything he touched turned to gold for a decade or more.
There was even a big budget MGM production made for cinemas, which tells the tale in documentary style about the start of the "turtles" band. Sting and co. are quizzed by the press in the Eiffel Tower no less, and then we get to see rehearsals in a grand French mansion in the country as a fly on the wall, before the band finally hit the road and play live. This is intercut with Sting being interviewed at home in England presumably, there's concert footage, and between dates he even stands in as a midwife to help his wife Trudie deliver their new baby at a local hospital! All very gripping stuff indeed.
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles is still dour, fearful, forbidding and super sensitive but then again because it was Sting, we wouldn't want it any other way! Oh and lastly, where did the title come from you may ask? He actually had a dream about big blue turtles!

My copy is dark greenish blue translucent color versus brown.

Wow und nochmals wow! Das ist mal wirklich ein ganz großes Erlebnis! Für so etwas wurde der Begriff Audiophil erfunden

This album has always held a very special place in my heart (as does much of Sting’s earlier material including the Police) an album I connected with very deeply as a young teenager.
I have to say, this recently acquired 1985 Blue AU pressing blows away my OG CD of the same album (which I’ve owned since the ‘80’s). It’s a larger, more present, more open, wider soundstage and more visceral. It’s beautifully mastered and the blue vinyl has surprisingly low surface noise (vintage coloured vinyl records can often be noisy).
Overall a stellar album on vinyl and highly recommended.

Such a good record and pressing, etc. Silent, wide separation, bass and midrange well balanced. Appears to be pressed at , Polygram Industries Messageries, and the lacquer cut on West , as the vinyl label show. This's the Sting debut album as soloist.