The Soul Cages
The Soul Cages is the third full-length studio album released by English musician Sting. Released on 21 January 1991[13] it became Sting's second No. 1 album in the United Kingdom.[14] This was Sting's first album to feature guitarist Dominic Miller, who would become a regular collaborator.
For other uses, see Soul Cages (disambiguation).The Soul Cages
21 January 1991
April – November 1990
Studio Guillaume Tell (Paris, France);
Villa Salviati (Migliarino, Italy).
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It spawned four singles: "All This Time", "Mad About You", "The Soul Cages", and "Why Should I Cry for You?". Both "All This Time" and "Why Should I Cry for You?" were included on Sting’s 1994 compilation album Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984–1994. The title track won the first Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1992.[15]
Since 2009, the song "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" has been used as the character theme song for Running Man's Lee Kwang-soo.[16][17]
On 15 January 2021, Sting released an expanded version of The Soul Cages to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Along with the original 9 tracks, this new edition includes 13 bonus tracks that consist of remixes, extended mixes, and a pair of songs sung in Spanish and Italian incarnations.[18]
Packaging[edit]
At the time this album appeared, the music industry was starting to shift away from using CD longboxes. Sting, a committed environmentalist, wanted to eliminate the amount of cardboard waste caused by the longbox. The original packaging was a fourfold cardboard case that could be modified to look like a longbox, and folded back into a jewel box sized CD package for home storage. In Germany, the CD was sold in jewel cases as well as longboxes. The cover painting was a commissioned work by the Scottish artist Steven Campbell.
Until the release of Symphonicities in July 2010, The Soul Cages was the only studio album by Sting not to feature a photograph of himself on the front cover, although he does appear on the back cover of both albums.