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# "[[It's Probably Me]]" (Sting, [[Eric Clapton]], [[Michael Kamen]]) – 4:57
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# "Everybody Laughed But You" – 3:53 ''(Excluded from original Canada/US releases)[http://www.stingoop.com/disco/04tensum/tensummmoner_details.htm]''
# "Everybody Laughed But You" – 3:53 ''(Excluded from original Canada/US releases)[http://www.stingoop.com/disco/04tensum/tensummmoner_details.htm]''
# "[[Shape of My Heart]]" (Sting, [[Dominic Miller]]) – 4:38
# "Shape of My Heart" (Sting, [[Dominic Miller]]) – 4:38
# "Something the Boy Said" – 5:13
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# "Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)" – 3:39
# "Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)" – 3:39

Revision as of 09:48, 2 December 2011

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Deseret News(Positive)[3]
Entertainment Weekly(A) [4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
The New York Times(Positive)[6]
Robert Christgau(neither) [7]
Rolling Stone [8]

Ten Summoner's Tales is the fourth solo studio album by the rock musician Sting. The title is a combined pun of his given name, Gordon Sumner, and a character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the summoner. Released in 1993, it explores themes of love and morality in a noticeably upbeat mood compared to his previous release, the introspective The Soul Cages.

This album contained two U.S. hits; "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Fields of Gold" reached #23.[9]

Ten Summoner's Tales was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1993. In 1994, it was nominated for five Grammy awards, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("If I Ever Lose My Faith in You") and Best Long Form Music Video. It did not win Album of the Year or Record of The Year.

A long form video featuring alternate musical performances and live versions of all tracks was filmed at Lake House and released in conjunction with the album. The video went on to win a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 1994 and was directed by Doug Nichol and produced by Julie Fong.

The 1998 re-release CD includes a bonus video track of "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You". It also features the song "Everybody Laughed But You", which was excluded from the original 1993 release in the US and Canada. The song did appear on the original release in the UK, Europe, Japan and other territories, and the "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" single. The instrumental track for "Everybody Laughed But You" was also used with an alternate lyric and released as "January Stars" on the "Seven Days" and "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" singles.

The cover of the album was photographed at Wardour Old Castle in Wiltshire, England, featuring Hrímnir, an Icelandic horse Sting owned for a period. The album was recorded at Lake House, Wiltshire, mixed at The Townhouse Studio, London and mastered at Masterdisk, New York.[10]

A different version of "It's Probably Me", featuring Eric Clapton, was featured in the opening titles of Lethal Weapon 3. This version is available as a single. In 1994, "Shape of My Heart" was featured in the end credits of Léon, replacing Eric Serra's The Experience of Love (a track that Serra eventually used in his 1995 soundtrack for the James Bond film GoldenEye).

Track listing

All songs written by Sting except where noted.

  1. "Prologue (If I Ever Lose My Faith in You)" – 4:30
  2. "Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)" – 5:11
  3. "Fields of Gold" – 3:42
  4. "Heavy Cloud No Rain" – 3:39
  5. "She's Too Good for Me" – 2:30
  6. "Seven Days" – 4:40
  7. "Saint Augustine in Hell" – 5:05
  8. "It's Probably Me" (Sting, Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen) – 4:57
  9. "Everybody Laughed But You" – 3:53 (Excluded from original Canada/US releases)[1]
  10. "Shape of My Heart" (Sting, Dominic Miller) – 4:38
  11. "Something the Boy Said" – 5:13
  12. "Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)" – 3:39

French Bonus disc - five live recordings

  1. "All This Time"
  2. "Roxanne"
  3. "The Soul Cages"
  4. "Walking On The Moon"
  5. "Fortress Around Your Heart"

Singles

Year Title Chart positions
U.S. Hot 100[9] U.S. Modern Rock[9] UK Singles Chart[11]
1992 It's Probably Me - 20 30
1993 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You 17 - 14
Seven Days - - 25
Fields of Gold 23 - 16
Shape of My Heart - - 57
Love is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)[12] - - -
1994 Nothing 'Bout Me 57 - 32

Personnel

Production

  • Produced By Sting & Hugh Padgham
  • Engineered By Hugh Padgham
  • Assistant Engineer, Mix Assistant: Pete Lewis
  • Mixed By David Tickle & Hugh Padgham
  • Mastered By David Tickle

Samples and covers

Shape of My Heart

The backing track of "Shape of My Heart" was used, in a slightly altered way, by rapper Nas on his song "The Message" on the 1996 album It Was Written. In the later 1990s and the 2000s, it became a popular sample in R&B and hip hop songs, possibly inspired by Nas' usage. It has been sampled or interpolated in the following additional songs:

Fields of Gold

Accolades

Grammy Awards

Year Nominee / work Award Result
1994 Ten Summoner's Tales Album of the Year[13] Nominated
Best Engineered Non-classical Album[14] Won
Best Longform Music Video[14] Won
"If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" Best Pop Vocal Performance – Male[14] Won
Record of the Year[13] Nominated
Song of the Year[13] Nominated

Charts

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by Austrian Chart number-one album
18 April, 1993 		Succeeded by
Songs of Faith and Devotion
by Depeche Mode

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  • Stingoop.com Ten Summoner's Tales Release Details
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