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.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
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.
Trudy Booth - Aug 08, 2008 8:55:20 am PDT #9062 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
JZ - Aug 08, 2008 9:24:50 am PDT #9063 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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.
lisah - Aug 08, 2008 9:29:22 am PDT #9064 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
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!
tommyrot - Aug 08, 2008 9:47:10 am PDT #9065 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
smonster - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:38 am PDT #9066 of 10003
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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."
megan walker - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:55 am PDT #9067 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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)".
Scrappy - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:55 am PDT #9068 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I saw the Go Gos open for the Police
Me too! Boston Garden.
DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 9:53:54 am PDT #9069 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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."
DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 9:55:09 am PDT #9070 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Me too! Boston Garden.
Cleveland!
Barb - Aug 08, 2008 10:36:29 am PDT #9071 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
My Police Heresy: I really don't much care for "Roxanne."
I didn't like the original iteration. It wasn't until the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour and I heard his stripped down, utterly elegant, beautifully jazzed version of it, that I truly fell in love.
And then the Moulin Rouge version sent me completely over the edge. It was, in fact, the inspiration for a key scene in the Carmen book. (In one of my rare < mememe> moments, that scene is easily one of the best things I think I've ever written.)
As far as album, I love all of them, but I'm a Ghost in the Machine girl, but Regatta has "Message in a Bottle".