I don't like to get nostalgic in these posts but I just remember getting really excited when this album came out. I was a freshman in college and Grant, Dave and I blew off some rehearsal or another one weeknight to drive from Fort Worth to Dallas to see them at Reunion Arena (which was recently demolished). We all got yelled at the next day when we showed up in our Police t-shirts.
I like the Police because they resisted doing the "has-been" tour for a really long time, something like 25 years, then they did ONE tour and that was it. As far as this album goes I think it has some fine moments, but the first two albums to me have more of a raw feel which really makes this band memorable. It's like Sting took piano lessons and had to work keyboards into this album. "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" is the big hit off of this album (see the cheesy 80s video below) but I think my favorite cuts are the lesser known ones like "Too Much Information" and "One World (Not Three)".
Plus there is a lot of jumping around, which a lot of bands from that era seemed to do. Jumping around is cool. Oh yeah, we were also really excited when we figured out that the computer-looking pictures on the album cover were actually the three band members: Andy, Sting and Stewart. The "ghost in the machine" are humans, man.
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1 comment:
they really do look cool in those hats. what a great song. i've always liked ghost in the machine.
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