I thought that song was great when I was about 11, even though I had no idea what he was going on about. By the time I was old enough to realize how silly it was my fondness for it was firmly entrenched. Totally stupid, but not a bad hook. As fake as fake-punk got.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Because it's a hopelessly pretentious sack of tepid, runny DUNG wherein Sting grabs an unsuspecting Paul Bowles novel by the sensitive bits, pours syrup all over it and then proceeds to bugger it inconsiderably, whilst coming up with some of the worst couplets of his already pock-marked career. It's AWFUL!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Very interesting.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Then after performing the works of Elizabethan lute master John Dowland for US TV last weekend he was asked about the rumours.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm listening to "Bring On The Night" right now and I'm kinda freaking out about it.
I also just listened to "Born In The 50's." My God. "My mother criedWhen president Kennedy diedShe said it was the communistsBut I knew better"
AGHHHHHHH!
― Davey D (Dave Depper), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/PoliceSynch.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Just about the best mother fucking thing from 1983. Beware. I don't care if John D. jumps on my ass. I really don't care. I'll willingly take a beating for this record.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a little black spot on the sun today.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
something i remember: sitting in 8th grade art class and telling john crichton (who wasn't a particular friend of mine, just the kid sitting next to me) that synchronicity was coming out the next day. he looked at me and said "so what?" i said something like the police were the best band in the world and he just kind of shook his head.
in retrospect i think it's the least of the police, but that's a relative measure and i'll defend most of it on one ground or another.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(but it's not the best thing from '83, even if i thought so then)
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
KING OF PAIN
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Listen to the fucking BASS on that!
"Synchronicity I" is pretty underrated.. and I still love "Oh My God" and "Tea In The Sahara."
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and then there's 'mother'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yup..
"Mother" adds character. Police albums aren't complete without at least 1 huge WTF moment.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
And I like that "Mother" is in 7/8.
many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark scottish lake many miles away
― kamerad, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
oh scottish monster please listen don't devour me
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I WILL LISTEN HARD TO YOUR TUITION
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
ska horseshit is horseshit
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
I know they get no respect these days but I still feel - walking on the moon - if it comes on in public. I love the double snare hit near the end and the subsequent hi hat solo of sorts
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
Cool Copeland and Summers bits more than make up for even the band's worst moments.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
even sting's depths in to wretched irrelevance and this photo
http://https%3A//pbs.twimg.com/media/BNnKXTeCIAAohZo.jpg
cannot destroy how good the Police are
― akm, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:47 (six years ago) link
bah https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNnKXTeCIAAohZo.jpg
― akm, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
The horror
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
Sting in bringing the tantric lute jams SHOCKAH!
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Let "Tantric lute jams" never again be spoken of on ilx
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
fuck tha Police
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
My favorite Sting and Police. No "Russians," sadly.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
i absolutely love everything about the police except the words. sometimes I just want to pitch a tent in their sound.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
when I get that urge I usually just listen to I Advance Masked
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:14 (six years ago) link
love that record, so joyfully underachieving
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
best Fripp solo ever on the title track, imo
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
The guitar solo on Mother is almost note-for-note an echo of Fripps guitar solo on Enos Golden Hours.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
/ darkness / is good! Double tracked hi-hats in stereo
― calstars, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
indeed. their 4-disc boxset is great from start to finish, plus its great to get to hear their progression from one year to the next. there's almost something Beatles-like there, the way they evolved so quickly over only 6 or 7 years. even the minor songs have awesome moments on them - that neat little guitar lick on "Contact" during the chorus, for example.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
i absolutely love everything about the police except the wordsi
...and even when the words finally fucking stop they go so hard on the dey-yo-yo-yos
― del esdischado (NickB), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
been hitting 'shadows in the rain' a lot lately, lyrics are actually okay on that
― del esdischado (NickB), Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:23 (six years ago) link
Hmm, I still don't hear the power pop. Maybe "Born in the 50's", and if you squint sideways something like "Next to You" miiiiight fit, but you'd have to be pretty generous with what you consider power pop.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:07 (one week ago) link
fuck, i’m like “fall out” is who-style powerpop, and i assumed it was on outlandos, but no. i actually only knew it from an off-the-air recording i made from wlir in 82 of police playing live from like 79. last listened to in the 80s? that memorable? senility?
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:26 (one week ago) link
Last three tracks on Reggatta are power poppish
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:28 (one week ago) link