Buy new:
$11.98
FREE delivery Saturday, May 11 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Ships from: Amazon
Sold by: RapidPrimePros
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Saturday, May 11 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35. Order within 10 hrs 32 mins
Only 7 left in stock - order soon.
$$11.98 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$11.98
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon
Ships from
Amazon
Sold by
RapidPrimePros
Sold by
RapidPrimePros
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
100% satisfaction guaranteed. Ships direct from Amazon.
FREE delivery Tuesday, May 14 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$11.98 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$11.98
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.

Ten Summoner's Tales

Sting Format: Audio CD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,003 ratings
Amazon's Choice highlights highly rated, well-priced products available to ship immediately.
Amazon's Choice
$11.98 with 14 percent savings
List Price: $13.98

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime
FREE Returns
See all 22 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Listen Now with Amazon Music
Ten Summoner's Tales Amazon Music Unlimited
Price
New from Used from
MP3 Music, March 8, 1993
$10.49
$10.49 —
Audio CD, March 9, 1993
$11.98
$1.99 $1.52
Audio DVD, DTS Surround Sound, May 16, 2000
$39.99
— $35.95
Audio, Cassette
$67.85
$67.85 $6.54
Includes FREE MP3 version of this album. Provided by Amazon Digital Services LLC. Terms and Conditions. Does not apply to gift orders. Complete your purchase to save the MP3 version to your music library.
Available at a lower price from other sellers that may not offer free Prime shipping.

Frequently bought together

Ten Summoner's Tales
$11.98
Get it as soon as Saturday, May 11
Only 7 left in stock - order soon.
Sold by RapidPrimePros and ships from Amazon Fulfillment.
+
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
$12.76
Get it as soon as Saturday, May 11
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Nothing Like The Sun
$12.26
Get it as soon as Saturday, May 11
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
Some of these items ship sooner than the others.
Show details Hide details
Choose items to buy together.

From the brand

Previous page
  2. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (Amazon Exclusive Red Vinyl)
    Glorious [Amazon Exclusive]
    Forever [Black/Clear Split LP] [Amazon Exclusive]
    Can We Please Have Fun (Amazon Exclusive Opaque Bone Vinyl)

    Amazon Exclusive Vinyl

  3. Dark Matter
    Let It Be
    Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) [Black Ice 3 LP]
    Back to Black

    Best Sellers

  4. NCT DREAM 'DREAM( )SCAPE' [Jewel Case Ver.] [Amazon Exclusive]
    Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration Of Tom Petty [Tangerine 2 LP] [Amazon Exclusive]
    LOOM [Translucent Coke Bottle Green LP]
    Rock Montreal + Live Aid [2 Blu-ray/4K]

    New Releases

  5. ROOM UNDER THE STAIRS [Explicit]
    Back To Black: Songs From The Original Motion Picture [Explicit]
    Forty Licks
    Higher

    Digital Albums on Amazon Music

Next page

Track Listings

1 If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
2 Love Is Stronger Than Justice (The Munificent Seven)
3 Fields of Gold
4 Heavy Cloud No Rain
5 She's Too Good for Me
6 Seven Days
7 Saint Augustine in Hell
8 It's Probably Me
9 Shape of My Heart
10 Something the Boy Said
11 Epilogue (Nothing 'Bout Me)

Editorial Reviews

Product description

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales - CD

Amazon.com

The former jazzman-turned-punk is now more middle-of-the-road than a yellow stripe. But Ten Summoner's Tales is by far the most engaging of his solo records. The singles "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" and "Fields of Gold" prove the man can lighten up long enough to go deep. "She's Too Good For Me" would have been a good Police single if it weren't for the pseudo-classical midsection that takes its joke far too seriously. Still, you wish he would loosen up and enjoy the rock once in a while. --Robert Wilonsky

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.81 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ A&M
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2139445
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1993
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 20, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ A&M
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000005IL1
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,003 ratings

Customer reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars
4.7 out of 5
1,003 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

David A. Baer
5.0 out of 5 stars the sacred geometry of chance
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2008
Verified Purchase
If he had never played another note, TEN SUMMONER'S TALES would by itself have cemented Sting's stature as one of the late 20th century's premier song writers. The music on this 1994 release still beguiles and satisfies, neither one stingily.

'If I Ever Lose My Faith in You' proves Sting the past master of the oblique love song. He approaches his object in a circling pattern, canvassing all things that might serve as the existential center of the universe but fail to do so before the tenacious matter of his love for this woman. Though the Police hinted at the genre with the mildly obsessive 'I'll Be Watching You' and Sting himself would crown it with 'I'll Still Love You' on the Brand New Day CD, 'Lose My Faith' is the real flower in mature bloom. It is exquisite song-writing, performed unforgettably by what Sting has elsewhere called his 'unschooled tenor'.

Rich, contemplative, plagued (yet again) by the memory of loss, the title track 'Fields of Gold' is among Sting's career-topping tunes. By itself it would established a lesser artist's legacy.

Yet there is uproarious humor here too. `Love is Stronger than Justice' spins its trope of visiting righteous men liberating a Mexican village from its evil overlords around the circumstance that `We only stopped for a few burritos ...' `Seven Days' remains one of my favorite glimpses of Sting's brand of self-deprecating humor. Its tale of pursuit of a woman whose future has also attracted of a rival the singer calls `Neanderthal'. Its turn of phrase captivates from the first line to the last and, so, must be quoted here:

Seven days was all she wrote
A kind of ultimatum note
She gave to me, she gave to me
When I thought the field had cleared
It seems another suit appeared
To challenge me, woe is me
Though I hate to make a choice
My options are decreasing mostly rapidly
Well well see
I don't think shed bluff this time
I really have to make her mine
It's plain to see
It's him or me

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late

The fact that he's six feet ten
Might instill fear in other men
But not in me, the mighty flea
Ask if I am mouse or man
The mirror squeaked, away I ran
He'll murder me in time for his tea
Does it bother me at all
My rival is Neanderthal, it makes me think
Perhaps I need a drink
IQ is no problem here
We won't be playing scrabble for her hand I fear
I need that beer

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursdays on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late

Seven days will quickly go
The fact remains, I love her so
Seven days, so many ways
But I cant run away

Monday, I could wait till Tuesday
If I make up my mind
Wednesday would be fine, Thursday's on my mind
Friday'd give me time, Saturday could wait
But Sunday'd be too late
Do I have to tell a story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

With similar staying power, this version of `It's Probably Me' continues to haunt.

Discovering `The Shape of My Heart' is this reviewer's reward for the preparation of these lines. I had somehow missed this gloriously intuitive statement. Although this masterful work walks around naked without the music's clothing, let us risk the embarrassment:

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He doesn't play for the respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
Those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who smile are lost

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape of my heart

This little-known tune is worth the price of the CD here. But there is so much more on this, Sting's fourth solo studio album. Remarkable, enduring artistry, pieces of it available alternatively on the FIELDS OF GOLD anthology.
4 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Rockman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great record
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
Verified Purchase
Great no problem.
Helpful
 Report
Photoscribe
5.0 out of 5 stars My Boy Stingsy!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2004
Verified Purchase
This album, and "Nothing Like The Sun" are the only two male artist albums released in the 90s that were worth a damn, and wow, were they ever! Sting pretty much cemented his repuation as a literate rocker with this and the other album. No one was writing intelligent lyrics and memorable melodies like this man between 1990 and 2000. "Nothing" is the better album, but "Summoner's" sounds like "Nothing, Pt. II"

"Love Is Stronger Than Justice" is the "Rock Steady" of this collection, telling another classic story framed with jouncy, guitar-driven backup. It's pretty much "The Magnificent Seven" with a fraternal rivalry twist. "She's Too Good For Me" is a resume of all the things a man's girlfriend hates about him, leading him to come to the title conclusion. "Seven Days" is another excellent "listing" song, running down the reasons why a man should or shouldn't confront his rival for a lady's affections. "It's Probably Me" is a jazzy/bluesy number of a man talking to a lady, reminding her of the things he's done for her.

There seems to be a theme of contentiousness of some sort running through a lot of the songs on this album, with Sting's characters having SOME problems with their ladies, usually some character trait she doesn't like or a rival that he feels shouldn't be there. His characters also seem to want some measure of privacy, reveling in it in "Nothin' 'Bout Me".

Sting was the writer laureate of The Police, and albums like "Zenyatta Mondatta", "Ghost In The Machine" and "Synchronicity" gave strong hints as to the direction he was going with his songwriting. They come to full fruition with "Nothing Like The Sun" and have a great addendum with "Ten Summoner's Tales".

Sting is the best thing to happen to rock since the first great wave of the British Invasion in the sixties. He joins Jim Morrison, Gary Brooker and Keith Reid, ELP, The Beatles and his own contemporaries like Renaissance, The Eurhythmics and Simple Minds as a member of the royal court of intelligent rock songwriting.

Someone tell Randy Newman to give his 2002 Oscar (r) back for reconsideration! His throwaway song for "Monsters, Inc.", a song which I'm sure NOBODY remembers, won that year. There's no way that bozo warrants a statuette up against Sting, Enya and Paul McCartney, who were his competition. A latter day legend, a legend-to-be, and an undeniable legend! AMPAS has SERIOUS judgmental issues!
10 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Maria S. Santiago
4.0 out of 5 stars Sting
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2023
Verified Purchase
Recibi el paquete en perfectas condiciones en el lugar que se indico'.
Helpful
 Report
photoactivist
5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding achievement in surround music!
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2010
Verified Purchase
(this review has been updated in response posts below, giving it highest recommendations)

I have been looking forward to the purchase of this album's DTS edition for quite a long time. And with costs as high as they are, I am a little skeptical over what I've just received.

The listing for the item says it's packaged in a DTS Jewelcase, however the one I received is in a regular cd case. The product photo shows the full DTS Jewelcase cover, while the one I received appears to have the cd case insert cover with the DTS info printed over the top, as well as what appears to be a very digitized rear case insert that is worse quality than printers in the 90's. The rear insert does not have a barcode printed on it, lending more fear to the idea that this was made in someone's upstairs computer room. The spine insert reports the audio is 20-bit; I haven't ever heard of 20-bit audio, and was expecting this to be a 24-bit album.
Does anyone who has previously purchased the DTS edition of this album happen to know if all of this is corresponding with their purchase experience? I don't want to open this package if some person just purchased one and ripped a bunch of copies to distribute on their own. This really sucks.
Helpful
 Report
David Holm
5.0 out of 5 stars Great lyrics, Great production
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023
Verified Purchase
I was cautious about buying a Sting Album
I now have his first four. All are Great
Helpful
 Report
Len Lemus
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing could be finer than afternoon tea with Sting!
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2022
Verified Purchase
In the afternoon, I put this CD on and allow the beautiful music to stimulate and soothe, to entertain and to comfort. It is a great selection.

Love the artist and love the music.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Translate all reviews to English
Dillip K. Senapati
5.0 out of 5 stars Good one, excellent music. Good to have in collection.
Reviewed in India on December 8, 2021
Verified Purchase
Packaging was good delivery service from Amazon side all good. The album is excellent one enjoyable music. Value for money. Though it's all costlier. But good quality and important is also the music and lyrics, all good.
Customer image
Dillip K. Senapati
5.0 out of 5 stars Good one, excellent music. Good to have in collection.
Reviewed in India on December 8, 2021
Packaging was good delivery service from Amazon side all good. The album is excellent one enjoyable music. Value for money. Though it's all costlier. But good quality and important is also the music and lyrics, all good.
Images in this review
Customer image Customer image Customer image
Customer imageCustomer imageCustomer image
Report
Manou
5.0 out of 5 stars J'adore !!!
Reviewed in France on July 9, 2021
Verified Purchase
Très beau cd de Sting. Très bonne musique.
Report
Eduardo Novoa
4.0 out of 5 stars Hay que tener cuidado con esta compra
Reviewed in Mexico on March 22, 2020
Verified Purchase
Si tú, como yo, estás re-adquiriendo este disco, toma en cuenta que la versión de este álbum es la de EUA y le falta la canción titulada "Everybody Laughed But You" que sería el track 9 en el CD.

Me di cuenta porque es una de las que más me gusta del disco y no la incluye. Investigué un poco la razón de esto y descubrí acerca del versionamiento que tiene este álbum en la página de Discogs.
4 people found this helpful
 Report
Rafael A.
5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Cuentazos!
Reviewed in Spain on March 30, 2021
Verified Purchase
Un auténtico discazo que se sacó de la chistera el señor Sumner.
Y la producción espectacular, como en casi todos sus discos en solitario.
Report
A BOY
5.0 out of 5 stars レオンの音楽でふと欲しくなりました。
Reviewed in Japan on July 5, 2018
Verified Purchase
相変わらずのSTINGです。
傷等もありませんでした。
パソコンの取り込み終わりました。
3 people found this helpful
 Report