'Time Bomb'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
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.
Regatta de Blanc, (very much a sentimental favorite tied in with all sorts of high school memories) with Outlandos as a very, very close second and Zenyatta solidly third.
My Police Heresy: I really don't much care for "Roxanne." It sits in my brain alongside the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" in the I feel vaguely ashamed of not reverently loving the way I know I should, but it just sounds kind of dreary to me corner.
Ghost in the Machine was the first album my older brother bought and I confiscated it right away! It remains a sentimental favorite. Although I haven't listened to any of them in years!
Yeah, "Roxanne" is pro'lly not in my top ten fave Police songs.
Although it was awesome when Eddy Murphey sang it in 48 Hours.
I loved Soul Cages, which was probably the first Sting I bought (and that tour was my first Sting concert) but my favorite Sting song ever is Fragile.
My Police Heresy: I really don't much care for "Roxanne."
I like the Moulin Rouge version and the Fall Out Boy cover. We used to play a drinking game to Roxanne that involved splitting into two teams; half drank on "Roxanne" and half on "Red light."
Definitely Outlandos d'Amour. With a nod to Ghost in the Machine for the supremely bad French of "Hungry for You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)".
I saw the Go Gos open for the Police
Me too! Boston Garden.
I'm a little partial to Ghost in the Machine because that's the tour I saw them on. But the first album is so awesome, and Zenyatta has "Canary in a Coalmine" and "When the World is Running Down."
Me too! Boston Garden.
Cleveland!