In the late 70's The Police showed up on the music scene with Roxanne. Everytime I hear this song, it reminds me of 48 Hours with Eddie Murphy. He sits in a jail cell with headphones on screaming this song at the top of his lungs. Anyway, they had a few hits including "Message in a Bottle", "Don't Stand So Close to Me" & "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic". Then in 1983, Synchronicity was released and I was locked in as a fan of the Police at a tender young age of 11. I saw the videos for "Every Breath You Take", "King of Pain", and "Wrapped Around your Finger" often on MTV. The song that really sucked me in was "Synchronicity II". It was much heavier and raw than the other songs on the album. The video opened with Sting hanging from a pipe screaming with a background that could have been in Mad Max. It was a dark and erie song. I bought the album and listened to it from beginning to end over and over again. Each song I listened to was so different from the previous track withs songs like "O My God" followed by "Mother" (which I wish I could find as a ring tone for when my mom calls. I'm cheesy like that).
On side two (when there was a side two), were the three hits of "Every Breath", "King of Pain" and "Wrapped". The song that I always loved was the last one on the album, "Murder By Numbers". The music was so simple with just a drum beat and symbols opening the song with the base and guitar joining in half way thru the first verse. It was a mysterious song about how a murderer might think and how a president is also a murderer, but never gets his hands dirty or gets convicted and put in jail for the crime. It ends with Sting playing random base guitar notes..............then all three guys quietly give a sarcastic clap, as if to say, "It's over guys., We're done here. It's been hell working with you". This album is one of the main reasons why I got into rock music and I wish they didn't stop making music.
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Yea....I want that ring tone too!! It has to be somewhere!!!
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It's a real shame the members of The Police had to part their own seperate ways because they were such a great band. None of their solo worked matched the quality of the material released in The Police. By the way I am linking your blog to my two.
The Police were awesome. It's a shame that Sting turned out to be such a stuffed shirt in his solo career. His stuff just puts me to sleep. The Police had so much fire to them.
my sister LOVES Sting
she bought the police Message in a Box box set. It's decent. I cannot get into the police all that much. There are some interesting tracks in that box set, especially one live track with some screaming woman in the background that is literally disturbing.
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