The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
by Sting
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Sting bestography
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Sting on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sting is ...Nothing Like The Sun which is ranked number 1215 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,434.
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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Dream Of The Blue Turtles rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | martintho | Top 38 Music Albums of 1985 | 9/38 | 4 |
| 2026 |  dihansse | Top 47 Music Albums of 1985 | 47/47 | 0 |
| 2026 | Foxforce5 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 72/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1985 | 8/77 | - |
| 2026 | machiaj | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 47/100 | 51 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 74 Music Albums of 1985 | 21/74 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 801-900 | 13/100 | - |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1985 | 2/50 | 5 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 45 Music Albums of 1985 | 4/45 | 5 |
| 2026 | tim0505 | Top 38 Music Albums of 1985 | 10/38 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 231 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,066 | |||
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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/04/2026 18:24 |  Leonard | 6,647 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/09/2026 02:58 |  CaptainPain | 3,418 | 61/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2026 11:16 | martintho | 4,733 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 72.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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The Dream Of The Blue Turtles forum mentions
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Sting's first, and best, solo record. While I can't imagine The Police performing this material, Sting was still writing very good songs and using this as a platform for his own distinctive sound. His later efforts would be much more MOR, and much less interesting. Best cuts: the bluesy "Consider Me Gone" and "Moon Over Bourbon Street" and the more up-tempo "Fortress" and "Shadows in the Rain" (which is actually better than the Police's version). I like the short, jazzy title track as well.
Beautiful songwriting. Classy playing. Sophisticated production - Not as bad, thankfully, as so many overproduced '80's albums. This guy doesn't get much love anymore(probably because he comes across as being a pretentious, tree hugging, tantric sex gloating, ego maniacal beardy bore). But for this album he deserves a little place in every music lover's heart. He probably won't get it, even though this album is better than almost all of the Black Flag, Husker Du, Minutemen, Replacements, and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel back catalogues put together!
Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/22/2020 09:55 | #247069 | TOP COMMENT
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Ol Gordy managed a good one here even with the inclusion of lame Police cover and the self indulgent title track.
Check out the making of this album in the documentary “Bring On the Night “ easily available on YouTube , wonderful interviews with the band , the man himself and even wifey
I've always loved this album. It's full of great songs and has a fantastic atmosphere running through it. Some of Sting's greatest post Police songs here. If you love somebody, moon over bourbon street, fortress around your heart, Russians, and, love is the seventh wave, are all great. The rest isn't bad either, including a new of version of Police song, shadows in the rain. Excellent album.
Jboy56 08/11/2024 07:36 | #304707 | TOP COMMENT
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I bouht this in 1985 and considered it a very memorable album uite many good tracks. Many of them can still be heard in classic rock radio stations (Edited)
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