Sting - Mercury Falling (Expanded Edition) (1996/2026)

Sting has announced an expanded edition of his fifth studio album, Mercury Falling, to mark the record’s 30th anniversary, although sadly this is not a physical release. The 1996 album features the UK top 40 hits ‘Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot’, ‘You Still Touch Me’ and ‘I Was Brought To My Senses’ and was Sting’s last album to feature the production talents of Hugh Padgham, which underlines the feeling that this record was the end of a certain phase in Sting’s solo career.

This digital deluxe offers 19 bonus tracks culled mostly from CD singles of the era, with eight new to streaming, including three tracks performed on UK TV show, TFI Friday. There’s the usual selection of club-oriented remixes which sound pretty dated these days, although I wasn’t a fan at the time. These include two versions of Nothing Like The Sun‘s ‘Sister Moon’. The track ‘Moonlight’ was from the soundtrack of 1995 romantic comedy, Sabrina.

Tracklist
01 The Hounds Of Winter
02 I Hung My Head
03 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
04 I Was Brought To My Senses
05 You Still Touch Me
06 I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying
07 All Four Seasons
08 Twenty Five To Midnight
09 La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
10 Valparaiso
11 Lithium Sunset
12 Moonlight
13 The Bed's Too Big Without You
14 Lullaby To An Anxious Child
15 Beneath A Desert Moon
16 This Was Never Meant To Be
17 The Pirate's Bride
18 Giacomo's Blues
19 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Classic Edit)
20 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Full Testament Mix)
21 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Great Divide Mix)
22 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (A&G Great Divide Dub)
23 I Was Brought To My Senses (Steve Lipson Remix)
24 Sister Moon (Hani Commissioned Club Mix)
25 Sister Moon (Hani Commissioned Dub Mix)
26 Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot (Single Edit)
27 You Still Touch Me (Edit)
28 You Still Touch Me (Live At TFI Friday)
29 Lithium Sunset (Live At TFI Friday)
30 Message In A Bottle (Live At TFI Friday)