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@hughcdavies

2 жыл бұрын

The Police - and Sting - Discord Ha, that always was the story - Discord.

@JohnnyBeane

9 ай бұрын

Just joined!

@HIWATTSteve

2 күн бұрын

@@JohnnyBeane That site is almost as bad as the Police "wiki." It's for little kids. Most were not even alive when the band was together.

I can't believe some of the songs they left off. So good. Sting was on fire. Fucking brilliant.

I'm reading Andy Summers' book "One Train Later" (pg 295) and he goes into detail about these tracks, which are Sting's demos. I am glad that these exist to reference exactly what Andy is explaining.

@Tabish29

Жыл бұрын

I'm reading it. I like the book so far, but he hasn't gone into depth about the interrelationships within the band. That's what I really want to learn more about.

it gives me that a.m. radio feel like I am 1000 miles out in the islands...

@Rockito15

2 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

Don't You Believe Me Baby would have been a big hit if released.

It amazes me how overlooked Secret Journey is. Even Summers said he thought it should have been have a single. I honestly like both of these versions just as much as the official album’s version.

@brettblankenship3872

3 жыл бұрын

It was released as a single and got an amazing amount of airplay for being such a quasi mystical sounding song. The 45 picture sleeve was really cool too!

@digidrum2003

3 жыл бұрын

Actually one of my fav Police songs!!!

@Auntkekebaby

3 жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful song-one of my favs.

@petebraidis4655

3 жыл бұрын

It hit #46 as a single in the US in 1982

@garryleerob

2 жыл бұрын

@@brettblankenship3872 Not in the UK.

These demos give us a really cool glimpse into Sting's song production process. For instance, if you recall the style of the fade out vocal on the final studio recording of "J'Aurais Toujours Faim De Toi (Hungry For You)," you can hear the same fade out vocal on "It's Never Too Late."

27:45 - 47:50 I heard this demo while traveling through Lima, Peru in 2018, initially I thought it was a Sting song, but then I realized that they were the demos that were recorded at the AIR recording studios in Monserrat de the Ghost era in the Machine......

"Don't Think We Could Ever be Friends" would have likely been a hit. Actually, I think Sting used the blueprint of the song for "We'll be Together" which became a hit later in 1987,

The verse chords in Don't Give Up Your Daytime Job are just like Saturday In The Park by Chicago.

Man this is so cool, very interesting to hear these demos Sting brought into the studio for GITM. I could just imagine Stewart & Andy looking at each other while listening to a couple that didn't make the cut though lol! Much thanx for this.

@mariomessina6389

2 жыл бұрын

These demos would have sounded amazing g had Andy and Stewart played on them . We know how vital Andy and Stewart were to the police sound. It's why I think many people wondered why stings solo music was so different . He never could have duplicated the sound without Andy and Stewart. That shows u how amazing their chemistry was despite their frustrations over musical creativity

@deanrane1961

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariomessina6389 So true. It's something you just can't manufacture on an assembly line. Seeing them live was really incredible man.

Don't Give Up Your Daytime Job is gold.

So cool to hear these demos. As a lifelong fan of The Police it's interesting to hear where Sting was at at this stage of his career. The tunes that didn't make the album definitely foreshadow his solo career sound. If I had to pick, I wish "Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends" made the cut over "Rehumanize Yourself" on the actual album....And as much as I love Ghost In The Machine, respectfully I'd love to hear the tunes with no saxophone.

This is awesome! I was always a huge Police fan and there are a few songs on this demo I've never heard before. Amazing to hear a new Police song after 40 or so years. I gotta say they cut the right songs off this album. Thanks for posting this!!

This sounds like when i was high as hell back in the late 80's and i was listening through my huge Radio Shack headphones played from an RCA tape deck !!!

Interesting demo material. Very keyboard and drum machine driven. As far as I know, Ghost In The Machine is the only Police album that had demo material recorded, before the polished studio recordings were actually made. I`ve never heard any other demos from previous Police album. So, if you're looking for some interesting rare demo material by The Police, this is the stuff to get.

@gregb91401

4 ай бұрын

Some of the ideas from early Police songs began in Last Exit. That’s where you find some of the beginnings of early Police material

Imagining these guys gearing up in the studio and Stewart, Andy each have a few songs or so for the band to work out and Sting goes "I have here about two dozen.. fully realized DEMOS!"

@sivolaa

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao, I think it happened for real!

@juliosanchez8263

3 жыл бұрын

Also, imagine the look on Sting's face when Stewart and Andy turn this mediocrity into pure magic

@tubebeaver1

3 жыл бұрын

Yeeeaah...but Stew & Andy's contributions are some of the best. Darkness is the best Police song ever, hands down (imho).

@CaesarDarias

3 жыл бұрын

Branford Marsalis has commented how impressive it was to see that Sting arrived in the studio with fully produced demos.

@TheKinoEye

3 жыл бұрын

Sting played for Stew and Andy a new song by Grace Jones. They really liked it. Sting then goes, "I wrote it!" Haha. "Let's do it." They did but with a Chicago blues flavor. Song's called Demolition Man.

'Every Little Thing she does Is Magic' : At its original speed before Hugh Padgham 'tweaked' it a smidgen resulting in the slight odd key and Sting's voice sounding a fraction higher pitched than normal.

Don’t You Believe Me Baby was a banger.

The demo of One World is so relaxing.

@markcoomber8222

9 ай бұрын

Yes. all of The Police's material written by Sting has needed the energy and technical proficiency of Messrs Summers & Copeland to elevate it above lounge music.

Never heard this demo . great post . thank you.

An amazing demo collection of an album that was life changing.

Amazing! Even these demos are superior to the stuff that passes for music these days.

"Don't You Believe Me Baby" ROCKS!! Although, "I Can't Stop Thinking About" You sounds very similar...

This is phenomenal

This is an incredible document. You can see what a genius songwriter Sting is. But, in the final product, Andy and Stewart give his songs life. As contentious as it was, this artistic collaboration was next level shit.

better then the released versions

Impressive how nearly-complete these songs were of the ones that made the record. One can understand now why Stu and Andy felt they were relegated to a backup band. Yet, this was still a great record that I consider their peak effort. Sting's solo career was very successful but nothing he did was anything close to what this trio put out in their short time together. It's a shame they didn't just take a few years off to do some solo works and then continue their journey in the late 80's. On the other hand, it's clear from this demo it wasn't really a band anymore. It was Sting and the 'other guys'. I never got to see them in their full glory in the early 80's. I did see them twice on the reunion tour however and enjoyed it, even though it wasn't the same band who took the world by storm, it was a just shadow.

new wave

It is my favorite song off that album... And on a great stereo up loud... It truly moves my soul!!!!

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - pretty much went out as per the demo. SC said they couldn't improve it.

Buenísimo!!! Santiago de Chile.

The Police should have included all those unrealeased demos and came out with a wonderful double\2LP album!! Something like "The White Album" by the Beatles! )))))

@sivolaa

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree!

excellent thanx

Sting said the finished version of “Every Little Thing…” on the album IS the demo. They tried re-recording it multiple times but could not get it to sound as good as the original. So, it was just polished up a bit.👍🏻

@Auntkekebaby

Жыл бұрын

Sure is. CRAZY!! So glad because the energy of that demo is everything with Stewart on top. Sting is something else.

my favorite police record

@tinfoilhatter

2 жыл бұрын

everything's sting's~~~~ the right-way-'round, mate~

sting should record its never too late...

I wish Never Too Late and Don't You Look At Me made it. I would love to hear Andy and Stewart on those.

@SeatLeonMK2

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@mancuniancandidatem

9 ай бұрын

The version of Don't You Look at Me from Stings first band Last Exit is fantastic. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoOdrNFxZbyvgM4.htmlsi=mkq-t-0R__3vuub6

This is great, and thank you. I always thought "Low Life" and "I Burn for You" were out-takes from Ghost sessions. I guess I was wrong.

@thewomble1509

2 жыл бұрын

"I Burn.... was written back in Newcastle in '76 for Sting's first wife, Frances Tomelty.

@peterjonas4971

2 жыл бұрын

@@thewomble1509 Thanks! I mean the recording, not when it was written.

@thewomble1509

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterjonas4971 Sorry , i misunderstood. it's a great song either way!

@hughcdavies

2 жыл бұрын

I Burn for You was a song Sting wanted to do forever, but Stewart and Andy thought it wrong for The Police as an album track. However when suggested for the film Brimstone and Treacle it fitted. So the did it there, adding in the Bass coda that was originally played to Shadows in the Rain. Low Life dates from 1977 and has the same heritage as Roxanne. It's about the red light district in Paris. You can tell it is not from the ghost sessions, but from earlier studios.

@vantarpon6849

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughcdavies I never understood why they didn't put it on an album - their version (it's been recorded by others previously) is so cool and sounds so Police-like.

Love it

Brilliant album. I wish it was released in a box set with all the demos. Stings demos go in a more commercial direction.

Having some of that and a Baby Ruth this morning.

Look for Sting and Last Exit 1972, half these songs were already there. In bits.

Every Little Thing She Does is Magic sounds like the album recording before it was sped up. It sounds out of tune because I’m so used to the pitch on the album. The tape was sped up for the final album so it’s slightly faster and about 50 cents sharper.

Is that lo-fi ? The sound quality has a charm !

@SUP3RKAPON

6 ай бұрын

Love how the synth sound in the "spirits in material worlds" demo

Yes.

I can't tell if Sting was making demoey demos or honestly enjoyed that 80s synthy sound. He could of put these out in there original form and made a techy synth lp to revival any Brit synth duo...the key is they are complete songs not blips and beeps.

Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends (Take 1) - Did it come out on a single B-side? Very good!

Some of these demos sound like Sting was trying to be a jazzy Depeche Mode

@markportier5466

Жыл бұрын

Very funny and on point. :)

Dont Think We Could Ever Be Freinds sounds like Level 42.

Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends...Did Shalamars label know about this or Imagination?

Ok, But I am missing drum sound, where Is Stui Copeland 🎶🥁 🎵 My favorite percussionist 👍😝

I’m sad that some of these never made it onto the record to be honest

The bonus track here, Can't stand losing you, was not a track on the original Ghost in the Machine LP, it was a track from their very first LP, Outlandos d'Amour.

one track sounds like an outtake from steely dan "don't think we could ever be friends"

where you find this.. some of these songs NEVER made it onto the albums. some of these songs i never heard before

Fantastici police il demo di ghost the machine è ricco di altri pezzi stupendi

@sivolaa

3 жыл бұрын

Esatto! È un peccato che molti non siano stati inseriti sull'LP finale, con il tocco di Summers e Copeland sarebbero potuti diventare brani affascinanti.

@bepivisintainer2975

3 жыл бұрын

@@sivolaa verissimo. Da dove stalta fuori sta chicca?

@sivolaa

3 жыл бұрын

@@bepivisintainer2975 Erano demo già reperibili su KZread in realtà. Su internet ho poi trovato un sito dove queste demo venivano ordinate tutte in questa raccolta, perciò ho semplicemente pubblicato la raccolta stessa a scopo prettamente informativo.

@bepivisintainer2975

3 жыл бұрын

@@sivolaa sei un grande! Grassie fes fes fes

these sound saw raw and true,you hear the vocals much more clearly in these demos better than the album versions?

One world is enough for all of us, but the band couldn't stick together!

👁 El ojo

Would have preferred some of these unknown tracks to have been on the Ghost album, instead of some of the less interesting ones, that eventually made the cut.

"It's Never Too Late" could have clearly been on the finished album

Don't you look at me tho 👌😍

how can this version of Every little thing she does if magic be a demo if one can even hear Jean Roussel keyboards on it?

wow, it's sting-and-the-boys, minus the boyz~

iis he using the Oberheim OB-XA?

Spirits has a gospel twist with Stings vocal approach on the demo.

Police=sting gooood

@LookingTheBest

3 жыл бұрын

Police = Stewart Copeland to me, nothing beats his Drumming.

Where can I buy this album??

can't stand losing you è la reprise a Berkeley

Think I prefer Every Little Thing… at this tempo.

What? No Omegaman? My fave.

@albertbiko9869

3 жыл бұрын

Because is a song written by Andy Summers, and these demos belongs to Sting...

@sivolaa

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite tracks from this album either.

@gypate74

3 жыл бұрын

@@sivolaa Same here, very catchy and good lyrics.

What is Sting saying, "Spirits In The Material*ly?

@ChrisColeChicago

3 жыл бұрын

One vocal is singing "world" (the end of the lyric) and the other is singing "we" (the beginning of the lyric).

Where is the "" Omegaman?? "" 🧐😐🧐

@kalypsokeith1851

2 жыл бұрын

That was written by Andy, and these are demos made by Sting.

Damn I came looking for the Darkness demo and it's not here! Still a great find cheers!

@SeatLeonMK2

2 жыл бұрын

But it was written by Stewart, so it’s not on here

@fetJackal

2 жыл бұрын

@@SeatLeonMK2 why would anything by Copeland not be on this list?

@IfUfindthisURlost

2 жыл бұрын

@@fetJackal because it is a collection of the demos Sting brought to the sessions.

I love just about every track on this album except for "Hungry For You", which I find repetitive & boring.

44:02

54:44 54:56

sounds like music from an ad

@JesusChrist5000

3 жыл бұрын

lol!

@birdman4274

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. "Every Little Thing She Does" sounds like a Persil advert 😂

@maximxxdrive453

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all !

a bit like a John Carpenter Soundtrack

@LazerBrendan

Жыл бұрын

some of the same synths used in both

Horns ruined songs 4-9 on the album.

@nedhill1242

Ай бұрын

Not!

Sting was very good without Andy and Stewart, but never truly brilliant again. They should have done a few more albums in the late eighties and mid nineties - there was still plenty of juice in the tank.

@vantarpon6849

2 жыл бұрын

It would have been great if they stayed together for another 2 or 3 albums at least, but ego got in the way. Also, there should have been so much more collaboration on this album - with Andy allowed to "guitarify" the songs more and be higher in the mix - like Zenyatta. That would have been so much more edgy and cool.

@Auntkekebaby

Жыл бұрын

Sting was brilliant after. It's just different music. Incredible writer and composer.

@paulcavanagh1294

7 ай бұрын

He had more hits after the Police, so what do you mean?

Official lp is better

@tufty7026

3 ай бұрын

Of course: Andy and Stewart got their hands on it.