I saw them on this tour. The Go-Go's opened. Good memory. Thank you for the video.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome :) thank you!

Secret Journey to me is the most underrated song by The Police. Love the keyboards on the intro.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

I like it a lot too, very different

@GAoctavio

Жыл бұрын

Its a guitar synth!

I saw the Police and XTC at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago in 1980

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

I would've loved to see that show! :)

@richbowie76

Жыл бұрын

@@statesandkingdoms Lol I was a sophomore in hs and had never heard of Xtc I just went to see the Police ! I bought my copy of Black Sea the the following day !

@johnmavroudis2054

Жыл бұрын

THAT would have been a hell of a show. XTC is my all-time favorite band.

@toddhill7483

Жыл бұрын

What a fortunate concert experience to have seen XTC before they gave up touring. I wish I saw that coming. What a double bill that must have been!

Interesting information about the album sequencing. I never knew! I've always felt this was one of the better albums by The Police as I find the songs consistently better than on other records. But I'm just a casual fan so people shouldn't take my opinion to heart.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

It does have some great songs :)

I totally understand what you guys mean about track sequence. I have made playlists of some of my favorite bands albums that I felt like the track sequence weakened the effect of the album.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

It's fun to discuass, some albums it really makes you wonder what they were going for ..

This is what I would consider a top heavy album. It starts and finishes strong and has some of the best Police tracks out there.(Invisible Sun, Secret Journey, Darkness) I would concur with the "redundancy", and I particularly do not care for the use of wind instruments on this release. Say, have you guys heard Stewart Copeland's solo material, under the pseudonym Klark Kent? He plays all the instruments and handles all the vocals. The album Kollected Works includes most of his essential material. Thanks for the review.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

oh I need to check that out- thank you!!

The emergence of the horn section during the tour courtesy of The Chops was the beginning of the end. A completely alien concept which had absolutely nothing to do with the sound of the police and marks the dominance of stings creative control from his days in a jazz band in Newcastle Ironically, two of the best Police songs of all time are Darkness and Omegaman. - ironically those written by Stewart and Andy!

This is my favorite Police album... if nothing else for the brilliance of "INVISIBLE SUN"... which is an absolute masterpiece.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

Yes, great song!! :)

Favorite band and album. Never get tired of Ghost. Many of the songs still resonate today and are relevant for the times we are living in. The alternate sequence is nice I like it. Sound quality of picture disc is not very good unfortunately.

Invisible Sun was “grunge” 10 years before Grunge. I could imagine that being on Nevermind by Nirvana. The Abbey Road 1/2 Speed is supposed to sound incredible.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

Interesting to listen to invisible sun in that context!

@KRAZEEIZATION

Жыл бұрын

@@statesandkingdoms Lots of grunge had two chords for the verses, then a heavy chorus. Something in the way by Nirvana springs to mind. Invisible has the two chord slide then it descends into another two chord chorus. It’s about Northern Ireland, there was footage of the armed forces in the video. 1981 was a bad year as hunger strikers died in prison. I think the BBC banned the video at the time.

Demolition Man- great Live track!

@ImpartiallySpeaking

2 ай бұрын

It’s not even Sting playing bass on the album on Demolition Man. Danny has to record the bass part due to Stings bass playing having been "too sloppy" to be worthy of inclusion on the album. Ironically Danny never got any recognition on the album sleeve

I’d like to hear versions of the songs with the saxophone stripped-out.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

Maybe… would be interesting

I like Ghost alright but Synchronicity is my favorite Police album.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

Mine too :)

Ghost in the Machine is my favourite album from The Police because of its bubbly production, more diverse influences with the addition of sax and synths, and the overall vibe that darkens somewhat at times, however I recognize that it is the tracklist which poses a real problem because of certain pieces too linear in their arrangements ("Hungry For You", "Too Much Information" and "Rehumanize Yourself") plus some which are way too long for what they are ("Demolition Man" and "One World" that drags on), but anyway the alternate-sequence album doesn't solve that problem at all from my point of view (as good as the three added single B-sides are). I find the first three songs ("Spirits in the Material World", "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Invisible Sun") are perfect in their original order of appearance, as are the three songs that close the album ("Ωmegaman", "Secret Journey" and "Darkness") are ideal in this configuration. What doesn't work for me is the album's soft belly in its middle ("Hungry For You", "Demolition Man", "Too Much Information", "Rehumanize Yourself" and "One World"). Maybe the order of these tracks should have been rearranged keeping "Demolition Man" at the end of side one and "Too Much Information" at the beginning of side two which works pretty well, but swapping "Hungry For You " by "Rehumanize Yourself" on side one and vice versa on side two. I don't know if the result is very conclusive because if it works with "Rehumanize Yourself" as the penultimate track on side one, whether "Hungry For You" precedes "Demolition Man" or "One World", there isn't much variation in the end. There is also the case of "Someone To Talk To" (not retained for the album in Alternate Sequence) composed and sung by Andy Summers, which is another single b-side released in 1983 (as "Once Upon a Daydream") but which always seemed to me to belong to the Ghost in the Machine sessions, both its style , its sounds and its instrumentation are similar to it (we can even hear that famous saxophone which Sting played on the 81 album).

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

It's an interesting one to talk about for sure, thank you!

My favorite of theirs even though I have to admit the first 2 are probably stronger albums. Stole so many bass riffs from that guy.

@statesandkingdoms

Жыл бұрын

Haha. Yeah it's still great - it's got my favorite song on it :)

I feel like Ghost in the Machine is the Police’s Sgt Pepper (obviously not as good or as important)

The emergence of the horn section during the tour courtesy of The Chops was the beginning of the end. A completely alien concept which had absolutely nothing to do with the sound of the police and marks the dominance of stings creative control from his days in a jazz band in Newcastle Ironically, two of the best Police songs of all time are Darkness and Omegaman. - ironically those written by Stewart and Andy!