Lmao
Revolver: Bands like the Offspring cite 'Can't Stand Losing You' as an important early punk song. Wasn't it banned by the BBC? Copeland: Actually, we got a lot of mileage out of it being supposedly banned by the BBC. In fact, all that really happened was that we didn't make their playlist, so we turned that into 'Banned by the BBC'. Sting: Wait a minute - it was 'Roxanne' they wouldn't play. Then we had that publicity campaign with posters about how the BBC banned 'Roxanne'. The reason they had a problem with 'Can't Stand Losing You' was because the photo on the cover of the single had Stewart standing on a block of ice with a noose around his neck, waiting for the ice to melt. Copeland: Oh, so it was all my fault? Sting: No, no, I applauded you for doing that Stewart. The only problem is... you didn't actually go through with it. (laughs)
Copeland: Actually, we got a lot of mileage out of it being supposedly banned by the BBC. In fact, all that really happened was that we didn't make their playlist, so we turned that into 'Banned by the BBC'.
Sting: Wait a minute - it was 'Roxanne' they wouldn't play. Then we had that publicity campaign with posters about how the BBC banned 'Roxanne'. The reason they had a problem with 'Can't Stand Losing You' was because the photo on the cover of the single had Stewart standing on a block of ice with a noose around his neck, waiting for the ice to melt.
Copeland: Oh, so it was all my fault?
Sting: No, no, I applauded you for doing that Stewart. The only problem is... you didn't actually go through with it. (laughs)
― frogbs, Saturday, 15 January 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
seriously they could reunite without instruments for a comedy banter tour and I'd be first in line for tickets
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Saturday, 15 January 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
We’re watching Only Murders in the Building; turns out Sting is in the show, in kind of an amusing way (speaking of comedy).
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Sunday, 16 January 2022 07:50 (two years ago) link
Sting otm about Copelands rhythms being completely in danceable though
― frogbs, Sunday, 16 January 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
for bookmarkers who might not have seen: When the World is Running Down, You Make the POLL of What's Still Around – ILM Artist Poll #116 – THE POLICE - (Voting is open until Sunday, Nov 27)
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Saturday, 19 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
box set coming:
https://wmgk.com/2023/08/22/sting-confirms-police-synchronicity-box-set-is-coming/
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 02:56 (eight months ago) link
Does the world need a Sychronicity boxed set?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 05:00 (eight months ago) link
tbh, except for Pet Sounds, I can't think of a single rock album box set that needed to be box set. They all should have been carved up into separate releases - e.g. a remastered (or remixed) edition of the album, a live album, and an outtakes/demos/studio rarities compilation. But economically speaking, when it comes to reissues, album box sets are the most viable products a label can come up with.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 05:45 (eight months ago) link
Looking forward to that 21-minute version of "Mother"
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:57 (eight months ago) link
A whole disk of "Mother" ala the Fun House sessions.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:59 (eight months ago) link
the motherlode
― NickB, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:27 (eight months ago) link
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Extended remix by Arthur Baker.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:30 (eight months ago) link
this is an album that easily could have landed in my top 50 if I'd thought about it. certainly interested in hearing outtakes, but like most box sets, I'd go for a digital version.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 18:26 (eight months ago) link