I enjoyed MLitBoG but I found that new track pretty dull.

I met REM's manager as we were walking our kindergarteners to school just now. I live in a weird little tiny town.

t madly searches for Stand In The Place Where You Live joke with which to earworm the thread

The Police End Comeback Tour In NYC

Yet the Police brought a drive to Sting's songs that his more mannered solo work often misses. The man, at nearly 57, can still rock on material like the unexpectedly strong "Demolition Man," and the years haven't worn down his voice. Early material "Can't Stand Losing You," "So Lonely" and "Next to You" were the purest distillation of the band's original sound, and those lesser-known songs stood their ground with later hits.

After the Cream cover, the band brought out about two dozen uniformed members of the police band for a thunderous version of "Message in a Bottle" that drew one of the night's loudest ovations. Sting wore one of New York's Finest's caps as he sang.

Huh. Also, awww.....

Oh it PAINS me that I couldn't go to that concert... but even the shittiest seats ran about ninety bucks with fees. I kept hoping I'd find someone to enable my madness but everyone I know has too much self control.

It's ok though, I saw them on the Amnesty tour and I think they threw punches after their set and Bono had to break it up. Or something. I've had my epic Police experience.

a spokeswoman said the offer came as a surprise and had done so well that seats behind the stage were being sold for $50 a few days before the show.

Nooooooooooooooo. They were seventy and change BEFORE the freakin fees. ::cries a little::

I saw the Go Gos open for the Police. Andy does indeed shred on "Demolition Man."

That's going to be one of those things I go to my grave regretting intensely. When they were still together, first time around, my mother wouldn't let me go to concerts (too many instances of my sister doing Wild Things during the concerts of her youth).

And I always said if they ever got back together, I'd do my damndest to get to a concert, but because of my own traveling schedule this past year, it just didn't work out.

So I will never see the Police in concert in all likelihood, at least, not live.

I did see Sting on the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour. Thinking of him performing "Roxanne" with no accompaniment other than his guitar and Branford Marsalis on soprano sax still gives me mega goosebumps.

So, fave Police album?

I gotta go with the first one (Outlandos d'Amour). Maybe for sentimental reasons. "Can't Stand Losing You" was my favorite song in high school.

Although I love the next two (Reggatta De Blanc and Zenyatta Mondatta) almost as much. And Ghost In The Machine and Synchronicity almost as much as those.

I started college the year Synchronicity came out, so my tastes changes a lot after that....

Synchronicity was the first non-kid album I ever owned. I wore that thing out. I'm amazed my Mother can hear those songs without running from the room screaming.