The Police?
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Topic: The Police?
Posted By: stonebeard
Subject: The Police?
Date Posted: July 07 2005 at 16:25
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So... Does anyone like them besides me? ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
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Posted By: spectral
Date Posted: July 07 2005 at 16:46
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Definitely a cool band. Influenced by prog I reckon!! Shame Sting became sh*te after the band ended. ------------- "...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine." |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 07 2005 at 17:25
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I have always LOVED the Police,especially Stewart Copeland's drum work. -------------  |
Posted By: Hangedman
Date Posted: July 07 2005 at 20:45
| I love the police, especially "Reggata De Blanc" |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 01:16
| Yes, Police were a great band, and... well, Sting became uninspired afterwards, but only much later on. His earliest, a bit jazzy solo albums are very good! (Dream of the Blue Turtles, Nothing Like the Sun, Soul Cages). Later albums have some good songs but on the whole they are boring pop. |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 10:00
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Agree, in fact better than anything the Police did. I would be less harsh on the later abums than you, but indeed he did not reach that level again. |
Matti wrote:Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 10:08
I agree too, I'm one of those who think that the first four Sting albums are superior to the Police albums. In fact, I must say, that The Police is a group that have steadily declined in my affections and estimation ... can't put my finger on it ... today I walked up to a friend to lend him PFM's Storia Di Un Minuta and he was holding a Police singles compilation and I felt a strange aversion to this band I once liked ... For me the Dream Of The Blue Turtles is the clear pinnacle of Sting's work ... this one seems to get better and better with time ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 10:10
YES!!! Original sound, great songs, great band! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 08 2005 at 13:02
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A little know fact about "The Police" is that they originally named themselves "Strontium 90" and consisted of four musicans. Sting played rhythm guitar and sang, the other muscians were the same. They played as one of the Gong related bands on the Gong festival of May 14th 1977. And what is the Gong relation, you ask? Well, the 4th member was bass player Mike Howlett of Gong. There is a sampler on which one can hear Strontium 90. Here a link: http://biotop.umcs.lublin.pl/~kniescio/strontiu.htm - http://biotop.umcs.lublin.pl/~kniescio/strontiu.htm Sting also appeared as singer in concerts of Eberhard Schoener (where is the entry in the archives, by the way?) and on the CD "Flashback" by Eberhard Schoener. -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |