Yea me too as a yank, I only just now watched a doc about the "Troubles" as they called it, on youtube. im told im half Irish by birth yet i dont think i want to visit there, really a shame
Looks okay to me, better than the slums I lived in. Those buildings still had windows! I don't see iron bars all over the buildings. I don't see everyone packin', only soldiers harassing people.
@@shanemitchell477 You may want to read up on the period known as "the troubles" in Irish history. You may have grown up in the slums, but I bet you nobody was setting off car bombs in your neighborhood on a regular basis. This is a music video. They're not going to show the dead bodies of civilians in the street.
@@elliscrane Army 7 years, you mean IED's in Iraq? You mean setting off explosives as the explosives engineer underground 1 mile away from my hood for 17 years? 30 years 3500 deaths (during the troubles). 20000 murders in the usa with guns per year. You do the math.
I love you too baby ❤ l live everything under the sun that's where God Lives and Love the rain and My wildflowers LSAT on sidewalk and talked to the Biggest Dragon Fly ever for twenty minutes he was beautiful he moved around showing me his color's gotta go Buddy great Times 💙🤍🤎❤️🖤🧡💜🧩l love Music Police the stories he tells me in music your's too
I saw green lightening the other night never saw that before except for when l went to the Great Flyins in Oshkosh Wisconsin the northern lights comes out every 7 years And the Air planes are there and everyone's camping from all over the world check it out ❣️🤎🤍🤟🍒🥾🏕️🌍🌎✅✔️❤️😁😺😉
We had to camping every summer no matter what happens my mom and dragged us all over the USA and Dad vacation in a tent Koa campground or rest stops balonga peanut butter sandwich beeni weenies cowboy Stew worn out outside love the police as soon as l could get out the Album at home summer's over WOW Feet hit ground runnings and Welcome Home 🧩🧩🧩🍒
To reinforce what others have said below, 39 years later and this song is as relevant to our current situation as it was to Northern Ireland in 1981. One of the best aspects of this song is that it's understated instead of loud and blaring. A brilliant work.
There used to be a song ‘ Been a miner for a thousand years ‘ ! Of course Margaret Thatcher had it in for you miners, but then Arthur Scargill refused to compromise at all and really sold you all down the river for his own extreme ideology !! I remember the Miners’ strike, so well portrayed of course in the film ‘ Billy Elliot’.
This song is absolutely haunting now, released in late 1981. I had just joined the Army, a 17 year old kid. As many have said, one of their forgotten gems. 43 years ago, an absolutely incredible song from an unforgettable album!
The Police made some instantly recognisable signature songs, but had a habit of creating absolute underrated gems like this. I have been listening to The Police since the early 80s and they never tire on me, will always come back to their music eventually. An exploration of the dark and troubled times in Northern Ireland.
Such a legendary song . Back in the early 80s when music and bands meant something. I miss these type of songs and the great artists who performed them.. we now dwell in a society where its all rubbish.
I was 14 in the Fall of 1983 when I first heard this song and saw this video on MTV. I had learned and kept track the violence in Northern Ireland from the time I was 12 years old in 1981. I was very moved by the meaning of this song and the video. I'm 54 now and love this song as much as I did back then. What a band! What a masterpiece!❤
The way this video ends at 4:16 with Sting singing the words, “All I want is a place somewhere, far away from the cold night air!” really adds to how poignant this song is and perfectly describes the fear in Northern Ireland during the IRA days. That lyric was taken from the song “Wouldn’t It Be Lovely?” from the musical “My Fair Lady”.
@@shawnkavanagh2951 neither side is squeaky clean here Shawn. Between the crown forces, the loyalist factions and the republican factions, there's blood on everyone's hands. All I can hope for now is we try to move on and live and love in this wee country and try to be accepting of each others cultures, languages, etc. I hope that you can find peace with the past like I did and we can be neighbours. I was raised protestant (small P) and only in my adult life have I learned to accept and love my Irish roots as well as my british ones.
@@aaronholmes8568 Empire and tyranny isn't just about color nor just religion, its about free will and who wields it. Justice for me (the crown, the cartel, the robber barons) not for thee.
Back in the 80s when I was at school I heard the police on the radio and used to think they were a pretty decent band. I listen now in my 50s and appreciate how good they actually we're.. 🙂
When I was a kid (late 80s) I listened to it every night, laying in my bedroom and looking to the stars through my window. I always imagined that I built a space gear and traveled through the universe and to far planets.
Quite literally the most depressing songs ever written. And one of the most beautiful - because it was about something real and not teen angst narcissism
Totally agree other bands were good at it too , depeche mode especially, omd , big country simple minds list goes on . The Police had a very distinctive sound a lot of teens could learn a lot from 80s music
@@phibsterletgamer1774 The sad thing is todays Teen is lead to believe Ed Sheeran is talented,so if your unlucky enough as a teen where your parents/older sibling was into shite music in the first place before Simon Cowell and the likes came and murdered music, created a horrible picture of popular music where teens think because it's played on the radio it must be good,most people around them are listening to the same shite because that's all they have ever heard,so they know no better!! We can't judge Teens for that! In reality the finger should be pointed at other people.. Just go and pick any random week from the 60's/70's/80's and look at the top 50 singles charts, you will know probability 10 and more of these tracks from each week that you will not only know, you will love so many of those tracks... In a way I feel privileged to grow up in a time where music was real,fresh,new and with a concept behind it that you were learning about the world around you without even knowing at times.....But sadly those time are gone:( Now shaking your ass and having a cool hairstyle sells records.. Please listen to the 2018 British Christmas singles chart number one!!!! Seriously,How did we get here?
I visited Belfast in 80's as teenager. I was camping in front of the railway station when police came and escorted me and some other people in an armored car like the one in video to the police station. They put us in the room, brought us a heater, in the morning made a coffee for us and drove back to railway station. Was the best experience with police I ever had. I remember there were soldiers with machine guns on almost every corner...I visited Northern Ireland last year again, it's a huge difference. Normal country now
Very POWERFUL and HAUNTING song . My parents are from Belfast Northern Ireland so the video is very emotional to me,THE POLICE were an exceptionally talented group ..
Yes they were great ! I love the Police ! Great songs !Their music takes me back to the mid 80's or so, hanging out with my ex. A simpler, carefree time as I navigated my late teens, and frankly felt quite lost as far as what I was going to do for the rest of my life. And yet my social circle and the great music of that time, kept me going and gave me some fond & lasting memories.
@@PatriciaMoreno-ff8pr I was about 11 or 12 when I first heard and loved the Police, I had a crush on Andy Summers and THEN Sting, then back to Andy Summers. I hadn't crushed on Stewart Copeland though. From them, I went on to Iron maiden, a heavy metal British band, etc. Great times.
@@Revere71 I did enjoy the 3 albumns by the Police BEFORE "Ghost in the machine". I am almost 100% sure that "Ghost in the machine" had been the bands 4th albumn. With "Regatta de Blanc", "Outlandos D'amour, Zenyatta Mondatta coming FIRST. Then "Ghost in the machine", and "Synchronicity" being last. BUT, for sure "Ghost in the machine" is made up of songs that are just way different than past songs by The Police.
An absolutely amazing and chilling track by The Police. For me, it still stands out as their best single. I find that it brings me to a very nostalgic place in my life at the tender age of 10 at the time it was released.
This song has as much relevance here in our country as it did for the Irish troubles in the 70s and 80s. It's very subtle and not in your face, which is why it's timeless. And Stewart Copeland is a rock GOD!
@@INSOMNIAREX I assume you're trolling - wasn't a lot of 'factory smoke and acetylene light' in and around Pnohm Pen when the Khmer Rouge were 'runnin ting'. Plenty dirt farming though! And for all that Northern Ireland was a sh1† - show that very nearly went 'full Yugoslavia', compared to Cambodia, really, it was Peppa Pig...
As a frenchman, it makes me exactly the same if the lyrics aren't written on the jacket of the disc. I could understand some snippets, as a teenager... For example "killing everybody in the human race" (And I really liked this idea, except my mother and a few friends...) Which is very different from "they're only going to change this place by killing everybody in the human race", which probably means it is a better solution to leave it. Because the human race won't change.
Agreed, it's so sad, the White Washing of America by our own government. I'm surprised we know anything that happens outside of America. When will that freedom be taken away
Most likely their most bold song they put out, knowing of the response after the release, but for inspiration to those whom faced oppression. Which makes this song relevant to this day , since history tends to repeating itself in the end for greed.
The artists the Police themselves said that the song while at the time written in 1981 specifically about The Troubles in Northern Ireland has morphed into a lament /commentary on oppression and occupation from a child's viewpoint. Sadly there are too many places on the planet now where that is happening. Such a powerful song
That's actually not a bad name for another band (wouldn't be surprised at all if there is indeed one called like that), or at least a Police tribute band lol.
There is. The Invisible Sun the song is searching for is God. A relationship with Him is the only thing that can give us true hope, even in hopeless situations like the ones the song describes. Not just believing, but knowing that you'll go to heaven when you die makes living worthwhile, no matter how difficult it seems. Our life on Earth is only temporary. Our soul is eternal.
Being a musician myself, this by far has been a band way beyond their times. Have heard them in the late 80s, well into the 90s n now, this kind of music is too hard to cover, must humbly admit
It's actually one of Sting's simpler songs musically. The bass is a pumped eighth note riff from D to B in the verse and a repeated seventh/pentatonic pattern in the chorus. The Guitar lines are two simple riffs in the verse that are the same just over different chords and the drums are paired back to a straight 2-4 in the verse with accented cymbal and floor tom crashes in the chorus.
I was brought up in Holywood (near Belfast) and lived all of this. I recall the BBC banned this song because it showed the 'United Kingdom' in it's true form. I'm worried about what's happening now with this Brexit problem, burning buses oh no.
Let’s hope someone with common sense sorts it out, it really isn’t an insoluble problem, just the brits getting of there bums and doing some graft ,which has always been difficult for Tory imbeciles.
I knew it.....I was just about to ask if anyone could remember this being banned,by the B.B.C.....thank you,for answering my question,even before I asked it.
The video was banned. The song got played. I watched the video for the first time ever today, 40 years later. .. I reckon if we'd seen it back then, Northern Ireland could have been a better place sooner. I had no idea what Northern Ireland looked like or its people. Such a shame. So much time and lives wasted.
Yeah me too and I must have listened to the album a thousand times. It's not in this upload for example. ua-cam.com/video/qv7ZNPga1jQ/v-deo.html Maybe this is the single, and that bit's not on the album? Or this is an extended remix maybe? It seems about a minute longer than most of the versions on UA-cam. I think they did the right thing to leave it out on most versions, it kind of turns the song into a bit of a piss-take.
From the song "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" from the musical play "My Fair Lady", a comedy about British class distinctions. (Itself based on the play "Pygmalion" by G.B. Shaw.)
That line about the factory smoke and acetylene light is one of the most haunting, stark, bleak lyrics I've ever heard. It comes to mind a lot. A dark masterpiece of a song. 💎
This song deserves more praise And to reiterate what others have said, nothing has changed. This song mirrors global society and probably will do so forever
xxxmonxxx I miss the 80s MTVs first year I was nine 1981-1990 was great From Beavis and Butthead and Yo MTV raps to the Present day ITS A J😂🤣KE NOW!!! I want my 80s back BLACK CONSERVATIVE MUSIC 🎼🎵🎶🎶🎙️🎤🎧🎧🎷🎸🎹🎸 LOVER SIGNING OFF 1980-1988
Una cancion oscura de The Police pero a la vez un clasico no muy difundido en las radios casi nada, diria que los fanaticos acerrimos de esta gran banda la conocemos y apreciamos...lo escucho en Long play es increible lo envolvente del sonido.....eternamente The Police.
At the end he's singing; "All I want is a room somewhere, Far away from the cold night air" The following ( and implied missing lines are; "With one enormous chair. Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?" Eliza Doolittle sings it in My Fair Lady
I’ve been wondering what the hell he was singing at the end. It’s not in the album release, at least not in any version I’ve heard before seeing the video. Thank you!
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The Police weren't around very long as a unit - but long enough to become one of the greatest bands of all time. Immortality guaranteed.
About as long as the Beatles were which seems long enough.
Absolutely
They managed to make five albums between 1978 and 83, which is an impressive achievement!
@D Z The Beatles lasted a little longer than the Police. 1962-70 and 1977-84, respectively.
@@macmacreynolds8712 Beatles were playing in Hamburg starting August of 1960 ... if we are getting factual✌
I saw this on MTV ages ago. I have always liked this song.
When this is the only footage you get to seen of Northern Ireland (as a Yank) in the early 80s, it stays with you.
i was a soldier there in belfast
Exactly
Because you clearly weren’t meant to
Yea me too as a yank, I only just now watched a doc about the "Troubles" as they called it, on youtube. im told im half Irish by birth yet i dont think i want to visit there, really a shame
@coolcatsguitars You should visit. It's a beautiful place. Friendly people.
Ghost in the Machine is still an amazing album, even 40 years later.
It's good but I think it had too much brass, trumpet, sax etc.
It's currently 104am in south dakota and I'm listening to ghost in the machine on vinyl.
@@TheGodParticle its better than zenyatta middatta fuck that garbage album
@@kurtspringer4071 you have good taste in music...
:')
One of the best songs The Police ever did.
+azapro911 XX
i don't like it more .. too creepy
because of that its great
your mum is creepy
The video is somewhat somber, but very real.
I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE POLICE FOR 40 YEARS
PARTY, BBQ ANYWHERE GREAT MUSIC... TIMELESS...
Growing up in Belfast in the 70s and 80s was no joke
Looks okay to me, better than the slums I lived in. Those buildings still had windows! I don't see iron bars all over the buildings. I don't see everyone packin', only soldiers harassing people.
@@shanemitchell477 You may want to read up on the period known as "the troubles" in Irish history. You may have grown up in the slums, but I bet you nobody was setting off car bombs in your neighborhood on a regular basis. This is a music video. They're not going to show the dead bodies of civilians in the street.
@@elliscrane Army 7 years, you mean IED's in Iraq? You mean setting off explosives as the explosives engineer underground 1 mile away from my hood for 17 years? 30 years 3500 deaths (during the troubles). 20000 murders in the usa with guns per year. You do the math.
@@shanemitchell477You're only seeing the surface. Learn more before you speak.
I can't imagine living like this. Those poor people, that's all they knew.
Three extremely talented people who made some of the most relevant and powerful music ever created.
Jerry, I like your style..
@@paulmcivor5246 AWWW!
Wish people would listen to some of these songs now and refleck about our world today!
This is why I have huge respect for Sting. At the height of their fame they released this. What a gear change and what a great bloody song...
Sting and grease monkies?
I love you too baby ❤ l live everything under the sun that's where God Lives and Love the rain and My wildflowers LSAT on sidewalk and talked to the Biggest Dragon Fly ever for twenty minutes he was beautiful he moved around showing me his color's gotta go Buddy great Times 💙🤍🤎❤️🖤🧡💜🧩l love Music Police the stories he tells me in music your's too
I saw green lightening the other night never saw that before except for when l went to the Great Flyins in Oshkosh Wisconsin the northern lights comes out every 7 years And the Air planes are there and everyone's camping from all over the world check it out ❣️🤎🤍🤟🍒🥾🏕️🌍🌎✅✔️❤️😁😺😉
We had to camping every summer no matter what happens my mom and dragged us all over the USA and Dad vacation in a tent Koa campground or rest stops balonga peanut butter sandwich beeni weenies cowboy Stew worn out outside love the police as soon as l could get out the Album at home summer's over WOW Feet hit ground runnings and Welcome Home 🧩🧩🧩🍒
Still gives me goosebumps after all these years .
Is one of them "Invisible." You know what Geese say: "I Goose to be an Invisible Bump."
Same
@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113
You are the reason why I believe abortion should be legal
@@penrodbarker3144I feel that way about libs.
To reinforce what others have said below, 39 years later and this song is as relevant to our current situation as it was to Northern Ireland in 1981. One of the best aspects of this song is that it's understated instead of loud and blaring. A brilliant work.
Bring back the black and tans
I am number 100
🙂👍👌
Its also relevant in 2022 when i think about what Ukrainians are going through at the moment.
@@jedimasterjoe5386 Free and Unite Ireland
@@victoriabegdorian3735 shut it tiag
One of the best songs of the Twentieth century
I was an underground coal miner for 30 years.
Still here, listening to The Police, best music ever...
Excellent song and video, apart from the colour overlay. Let the people from the past speak for themselves.
my gramp was a miner for 40 yrs. walked with a hunch. I wouldnt go into a coal mine
for 5 minutes.
If you're a coalminer who likes Sting you might want to look into "We Work the Black Seam", that is if you haven't heard it already.
"underground coal miner".
Is there such a thing as an above ground coal miner? 😂
There used to be a song ‘ Been a miner for a thousand years ‘ !
Of course Margaret Thatcher had it in for you miners, but then Arthur Scargill refused to compromise at all and really sold you all down the river for his own extreme ideology !!
I remember the Miners’ strike, so well portrayed of course in the film ‘ Billy Elliot’.
Easily one of their best most underrated songs.
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
This song is absolutely haunting now, released in late 1981. I had just joined the Army, a 17 year old kid. As many have said, one of their forgotten gems. 43 years ago, an absolutely incredible song from an unforgettable album!
This song was absolutely controversial even in 1981, as it was a clear reference to the then-active Troubles in Northern Ireland.
most. underrated. police. song. ever. made.
agreed
My vote for most underrated Police song is Omegaman, but this one certainly doesn't get the praise it deserves either
One of their very best, a bit more dark and brooding sound
Absolutely. Fucking. Agree.
That's basically every song the Police made except Roxanne
The Police made some instantly recognisable signature songs, but had a habit of creating absolute underrated gems like this. I have been listening to The Police since the early 80s and they never tire on me, will always come back to their music eventually. An exploration of the dark and troubled times in Northern Ireland.
Why not since the late 70's 78/79??
Such a legendary song . Back in the early 80s when music and bands meant something. I miss these type of songs and the great artists who performed them.. we now dwell in a society where its all rubbish.
Well not all of it is, but know what you mean!
Same here!
The best song on that LP!
The Purple Love Assistant
@@ahappything7850 Agreed. Love the songs _Darkness_ and _Secret Journey_ as well but _Invisible Sun_ is simply incredible.
Or you just haven't adapted to modern music because your brain stops responding to new trends as it did before age 30
Truth
Very hard to understand how this song is underrated. One of the best police song in my mind
Love this song, and the video matches the mood of the song perfectly!
How long were they together for?
@@kzcb9630 from 1976 to 1984
The other Police songs are timeless or a universal theme. This one is kid of dated due to the specific context, but still vague enough where it isn't.
IS THE BEST!
the thumping bassline that runs through the verse drops away into a chasm for the chorus. absolutely fantastic.
🎶🎶🎶!
The last two lines are from My Fair Lady. I have been listening to the song since 1985 only realised it now!
Listening since 82 when I was 3. I'm told I would dance to The Police with headphones holding on to the stereo before I could walk.
I'm 45 and grew up on them because of my dad
Highly intelligent song.
I was 14 in the Fall of 1983 when I first heard this song and saw this video on MTV. I had learned and kept track the violence in Northern Ireland from the time I was 12 years old in 1981. I was very moved by the meaning of this song and the video. I'm 54 now and love this song as much as I did back then. What a band! What a masterpiece!❤
The wokes band this video, the wokes back then were just getting started, what killjoy wankers hey?
You will never get a band this good again. The imagery of a terrible time in Northern Ireland.
It spoke to more than Ireland. It's still more than relevant now. More so.
should have lived through it mater
The way this video ends at 4:16 with Sting singing the words, “All I want is a place somewhere, far away from the cold night air!” really adds to how poignant this song is and perfectly describes the fear in Northern Ireland during the IRA days. That lyric was taken from the song “Wouldn’t It Be Lovely?” from the musical “My Fair Lady”.
That bit’s beautiful
"the IRA days"? You mean the days where Crown forces killed with impunity?
@@shawnkavanagh2951 neither side is squeaky clean here Shawn. Between the crown forces, the loyalist factions and the republican factions, there's blood on everyone's hands. All I can hope for now is we try to move on and live and love in this wee country and try to be accepting of each others cultures, languages, etc. I hope that you can find peace with the past like I did and we can be neighbours. I was raised protestant (small P) and only in my adult life have I learned to accept and love my Irish roots as well as my british ones.
@@aaronholmes8568
Empire and tyranny isn't just about color nor just religion, its about free will and who wields it.
Justice for me (the crown, the cartel, the robber barons) not for thee.
@@aaronholmes8568 good man. 👍
There has to be an invisible sun
It gives its heat to everyone
There has to be an invisible sun
That gives us hope when the whole day's done
Yes, there is am invisible sun, and his name is Jesus Christ. I know that for a fact.
@@IotaEtaSigmaYou poisonous individual! If you know it's JC then please provide us all with the evidence?
@@IotaEtaSigmaplease stop and let's enjoy the music
@@valleyofthedolls Each to their own, oh tolerant one,
Back in the 80s when I was at school I heard the police on the radio and used to think they were a pretty decent band. I listen now in my 50s and appreciate how good they actually we're.. 🙂
I don't believe I'm that old !
Yep. Wrote a lot of great classics.
We were slightly spoiled at the time.Didn;t realize how good we had it with what was on the radio.
They were stellar. With one of the greatest drummers to ever pick up the sticks.
Invisible sun is poetry.
When I was a kid (late 80s) I listened to it every night, laying in my bedroom and looking to the stars through my window. I always imagined that I built a space gear and traveled through the universe and to far planets.
Best time to be a lad
Wow... I had and I still have the exact same imagination and desire..
Yer they really grew some good shit back then hey space cadet
Evocative of a time in my youth when I had wings to fly through a limitless universe full of dreams.
@@davidmccrory5604you must've had a terrible childhood to have no imagination as a child . My sympathies
the police most serious song they ever did and my favourite
Right man
@@olivierroger7799 the only serious one i think lol
@@thebunk8588 you should probably read more of their lyrics. I'm not their biggest fan but this was not their only serious song
Fragile is serious enough.
@@edvinlaine Sting solo made Fragile his own after 9/11 - It's very sorrowful.
2024 and still hauntingly prophetic. I was a teenager listening to this and it still manages to cut deep to the bone given my Irish heritage
Quite literally the most depressing songs ever written. And one of the most beautiful - because it was about something real and not teen angst narcissism
Totally agree other bands were good at it too , depeche mode especially, omd , big country simple minds list goes on . The Police had a very distinctive sound a lot of teens could learn a lot from 80s music
Muito bon
globalturfwar YES!! 👍
That's real. I need to show my kids these jams when they are old enough 🙂
@@phibsterletgamer1774 The sad thing is todays Teen is lead to believe Ed Sheeran is talented,so if your unlucky enough as a teen where your parents/older sibling was into shite music in the first place before Simon Cowell and the likes came and murdered music, created a horrible picture of popular music where teens think because it's played on the radio it must be good,most people around them are listening to the same shite because that's all they have ever heard,so they know no better!!
We can't judge Teens for that! In reality the finger should be pointed at other people..
Just go and pick any random week from the 60's/70's/80's and look at the top 50 singles charts, you will know probability 10 and more of these tracks from each week
that you will not only know, you will love so many of those tracks...
In a way I feel privileged to grow up in a time where music was real,fresh,new and with
a concept behind it that you were learning about the world around you without even knowing at times.....But sadly those time are gone:(
Now shaking your ass and having a cool hairstyle sells records..
Please listen to the 2018 British Christmas singles chart number one!!!!
Seriously,How did we get here?
I visited Belfast in 80's as teenager. I was camping in front of the railway station when police came and escorted me and some other people in an armored car like the one in video to the police station. They put us in the room, brought us a heater, in the morning made a coffee for us and drove back to railway station. Was the best experience with police I ever had. I remember there were soldiers with machine guns on almost every corner...I visited Northern Ireland last year again, it's a huge difference. Normal country now
Its not a country (and never was).
The British police took you in like that?
Sounds cool as hell, but wondering - what compelled them to bring you in?
@@Anw120 They thought they were eyes for the IRA.
It's had its share of pain
Anne Scholey yep and the pain was self inflicted religious tribalism.
Very POWERFUL and HAUNTING song . My parents are from Belfast Northern Ireland so the video is very emotional to me,THE POLICE were an exceptionally talented group ..
Most underrated police song
Agreed. I also love Synchronicity II.
Textually certainly
This song is just 1 of the many great songs on "Ghost in the machine", The Police were such a great band.
Yes they were great ! I love the Police ! Great songs !Their music takes me back to the mid 80's or so, hanging out with my ex. A simpler, carefree time as I navigated my late teens, and frankly felt quite lost as far as what I was going to do for the rest of my life. And yet my social circle and the great music of that time, kept me going and gave me some fond & lasting memories.
@@PatriciaMoreno-ff8pr I was about 11 or 12 when I first heard and loved the Police, I had a crush on Andy Summers and THEN Sting, then back to Andy Summers. I hadn't crushed on Stewart Copeland though. From them, I went on to Iron maiden, a heavy metal British band, etc. Great times.
"Ghost" IS their BEST album. Full stop.
@@Revere71 I did enjoy the 3 albumns by the Police BEFORE "Ghost in the machine". I am almost 100% sure that "Ghost in the machine" had been the bands 4th albumn. With "Regatta de Blanc", "Outlandos D'amour, Zenyatta Mondatta coming FIRST. Then "Ghost in the machine", and "Synchronicity" being last.
BUT, for sure "Ghost in the machine" is made up of songs that are just way different than past songs by The Police.
@@juliegogola4647Outlandos D’Amour was before Regatta de Blanc, but other than that you’re correct.
Andy’s guitar tone and thematic solo are killer on this track.
It just doesn't get any better at one of the coolest intro of any song ever!
Black
I was in the seventh grade in 1981 when I saw this on TV.
And ending
@@mikehead9126 Wow that's incredible.
cinqo7 fuck yeah! Absolutely!
Thank God 🙏Belfast has come a long way since this video was made.
No it hasn’t, thanks to the hopeless politicians, English Irish and EU.
wrong you dont live there
Brexit has undermined the Stormont agreement.
It has indeed. Anyone who reckons it hasn't has never been to the city or wasn't alive during this time.
@@mygoogle1594Incorrect. It is the EU that has undermined Stormont.
This song is a masterpiece, wish I could like the video more than once
Well some of the video was shot where I live dark days but best times living in Belfast still live here
@@briandavis8939 You misread his comment lol
One of the very best songs on my combat patrol playlist when I served in the military. Even the young troops could dig this song.
An absolutely amazing and chilling track by The Police. For me, it still stands out as their best single. I find that it brings me to a very nostalgic place in my life at the tender age of 10 at the time it was released.
we are about the same age. I got into the Police at about age 11 and saw them live at age 13. So cool to have seen them in person back then!
So was their song "One World" off the same recording. Insane, eh?
concur..., and- same
This song has as much relevance here in our country as it did for the Irish troubles in the 70s and 80s. It's very subtle and not in your face, which is why it's timeless. And Stewart Copeland is a rock GOD!
It's actually about the Khameer Rouge in the early 70's. You know Pol Pot and friends!
@@INSOMNIAREX I assume you're trolling - wasn't a lot of 'factory smoke and acetylene light' in and around Pnohm Pen when the Khmer Rouge were 'runnin ting'. Plenty dirt farming though! And for all that Northern Ireland was a sh1† - show that very nearly went 'full Yugoslavia', compared to Cambodia, really, it was Peppa Pig...
Hauntingly beautiful.
Thats right Steptoe.
Sure is...
could this have inspired U2's first album?
@@robinsss e
Yes.
When I was a teenager,this song had a strange appeal to me. Only as an adult did I truly understand.....
As a frenchman, it makes me exactly the same if the lyrics aren't written on the jacket of the disc. I could understand some snippets, as a teenager... For example "killing everybody in the human race" (And I really liked this idea, except my mother and a few friends...) Which is very different from "they're only going to change this place by killing everybody in the human race", which probably means it is a better solution to leave it. Because the human race won't change.
Agreed, it's so sad, the White Washing of America by our own government. I'm surprised we know anything that happens outside of America. When will that freedom be taken away
Now you understand the horror of Man's inhumanity to man. The British Empire brutal.
@@stephanearthaud8308 lol. You've got it!
I loved this song as a kid without ever knowing the political ramifications of it. Never saw the video until years later.
The best band of the 80's hands down
Oh, you mean The Clash.
@@brianbiechele1958 LOL not even close
So realistic song . black & white video tells everything , makes me so sad . its truly takes me back in time . Bravo Police .
+Reuben Binyamin Its only a matter of time...things have a habit of going around!!!
+Reuben Binyamin Can't believe how they're getting away with today's self obsessed unimaginative shite.
Yeah, maybe sitting down and actually writing and composing will come back into fashion.Stevie Babe
This is all beyond me....scrolled down to see what I posted all I have is Noodles37uk comments...what did I say??
Well i haven't been cheeky. Stevie Babe
*There has to be an invisible sun that gives us hope when the whole day's done...*
@@SpikeMichaels There are many mansions and many rooms too see.
Beautiful.
Most likely their most bold song they put out, knowing of the response after the release, but for inspiration to those whom faced oppression. Which makes this song relevant to this day , since history tends to repeating itself in the end for greed.
Happy 39th Anniversary to one of the most poignant and utterly fantastic songs ever.......❤
Would not it be weird, if, " ", was an "Invisible Sum."
One of their best tracks...very powerful message behind it.
Makes me think for all the good woman men and children brutally murdered in Ukrane,,
@@maureent6800 yeah, that automatically comes to mind...
The artists the Police themselves said that the song while at the time written in 1981 specifically about The Troubles in Northern Ireland has morphed into a lament /commentary on oppression and occupation from a child's viewpoint. Sadly there are too many places on the planet now where that is happening. Such a powerful song
One of my favorites from The Police ❤
The synth. The snare. The lyrics. Andy's screeching work in the back. Seriously hard to get any more musical.
The BEST Police song ever made.🇮🇪
Thanks and thankfully there is peace in Ireland.
The Police knew exactly what they were doing when they made this song, this song still has great meaning still today, just a amazing powerful song
Best Band in 80's by mile
Maybe best band ever!
Apart from Madness!!!
Funny low little love the Police get these days. Sad.
@@mariobrigantaccio2355 Maybe they're not even human. Are you kidding me man? I like the Police, but I think of about 942 bands I'd rather listen to.
kilometer - metric system
The Cops! Hell of a band, and Sting is a musical genius. Stewart Copeland on percussion just adds to this bands musical perfection. ✌🏾😎
The Cops! 😂
That would be The Police
serekithegreat don’t forget Andy summers amazing guitarist all 3 of them are perfectionist at their craft
That's actually not a bad name for another band (wouldn't be surprised at all if there is indeed one called like that), or at least a Police tribute band lol.
Winter has come. Time to listen to The Police again.
After 40 years of military service and constant dealing w/ internecine troubles, this song is the story of my life.
i was in Jackson Correctional when i heard this song, changed my life
There is. The Invisible Sun the song is searching for is God. A relationship with Him is the only thing that can give us true hope, even in hopeless situations like the ones the song describes. Not just believing, but knowing that you'll go to heaven when you die makes living worthwhile, no matter how difficult it seems. Our life on Earth is only temporary. Our soul is eternal.
Being a musician myself, this by far has been a band way beyond their times. Have heard them in the late 80s, well into the 90s n now, this kind of music is too hard to cover, must humbly admit
It's actually one of Sting's simpler songs musically. The bass is a pumped eighth note riff from D to B in the verse and a repeated seventh/pentatonic pattern in the chorus. The Guitar lines are two simple riffs in the verse that are the same just over different chords and the drums are paired back to a straight 2-4 in the verse with accented cymbal and floor tom crashes in the chorus.
@@thewomble1509Way to miss their point.
@@v-town1980 Way to sound u🙄neducated.
I was brought up in Holywood (near Belfast) and lived all of this. I recall the BBC banned this song because it showed the 'United Kingdom' in it's true form. I'm worried about what's happening now with this Brexit problem, burning buses oh no.
Let’s hope someone with common sense sorts it out, it really isn’t an insoluble problem, just the brits getting of there bums and doing some graft ,which has always been difficult for Tory imbeciles.
I knew it.....I was just about to ask if anyone could remember this being banned,by the B.B.C.....thank you,for answering my question,even before I asked it.
I didn’t know this song was banned by the BBC, but I agree with you about the Brexit problem !
English ‘ up themselves ‘ again ? !!!
The video was banned. The song got played. I watched the video for the first time ever today, 40 years later. .. I reckon if we'd seen it back then, Northern Ireland could have been a better place sooner. I had no idea what Northern Ireland looked like or its people. Such a shame. So much time and lives wasted.
Thank you freedom loving drummer Stewart for pounding us freedom loving humans into the Invisible Sun with your snare drum strikes !!
A god of the drumkit. Astounding.
Final line of lyrics is from My Fair Lady. "all I want is a place somewhere far away from the cold night air". Immortal.
sometimes just a strong drum part with heart, pulse great vocals, a cool guitar lick and great lyrics is all it takes! Love this song!!!
its about the hunger strike in Northern Ireland 1.2.3.4.5.6 people died I think.. not sure. Great video too!
Classic, sting and police had amazing talent.this is an classic.
One of their best songs.......
I've always loved that whoa oh oh whoa part.
That is partially what makes the dark-toned and haunting(ly cool) part of this song.
This masterpiece of sound and picture is so deep and meaningful! its a song you can listen to on repeat and it just gets better and better!
One of the best songs of The Police
This entire album is sheer, splendid brilliance. Every song a gem. Got the LP to love for a long time.
Compelling and phenomenal, makes a powerful statement
Truly powerful and compelling and tells the story and era like it was
My favorite Police song hands down! Saw them in 84, and it ROCKED!!! Thanks for posting!
Copeland's snare sound is incredible and well known, but the cymbal work on this one are some of the best I have ever heard.
I only just noticed that bit at the end - 'All I want is a place somewhere, far away from the cold night air.'
fossie32 This particular clip is the first time I ever heard it too. Quite a surprise.
Yeah me too and I must have listened to the album a thousand times. It's not in this upload for example. ua-cam.com/video/qv7ZNPga1jQ/v-deo.html Maybe this is the single, and that bit's not on the album? Or this is an extended remix maybe? It seems about a minute longer than most of the versions on UA-cam. I think they did the right thing to leave it out on most versions, it kind of turns the song into a bit of a piss-take.
From the song "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" from the musical play "My Fair Lady", a comedy about British class distinctions. (Itself based on the play "Pygmalion" by G.B. Shaw.)
The end sounds a bit like "don't stand so close to me".
@@forastero4ever The intro to that song is every bit as awesome too!
their best song and most powerful one
A visual and aural powerhouse for anyone who patiently perseveres against life’s demons. A masterpiece and their best work by far.
I think this really this could be my favorite song ever, and I mean in my entire life. Still amazes me after so many years.
one of those super tracks ..
+Ali Kathum Autumn '81. The charts on a Sunday afternoon, Radio 1 were the highlight of the week for us teenagers.
I just realized that last two lines, that's the tune from Sharpe. Which came after this. Always something new to discover after all these decades.
That line about the factory smoke and acetylene light is one of the most haunting, stark, bleak lyrics I've ever heard. It comes to mind a lot. A dark masterpiece of a song. 💎
This song is incredible. Every single note is just moving my whole body.
Superb track...my favourite Police song ...haunting, dark lyrics....
Haunting but beautiful.The North was a bleak spot back then.
One of my favourite Police songs. Haunting.
Superb classic. Writing is tops, too.
The impact of this particular song and music video remains undiminished after 40 years.
The sound of this track (especially the howling aspect) used to terrify the HELL out of me as a kid!
This song deserves more praise
And to reiterate what others have said, nothing has changed. This song mirrors global society and probably will do so forever
Excellent song. Reminds me again how good 80's were.
+xxxmonxxx ...the people this song is about might disagree with you.
+JCCyC
That's thrue, but it is history just like WWII. We can't change the past. Only the future.
JCCyC as Sting said people will look back at this period in time and blame the british for what they did to the Irish.
xxxmonxxx I miss the 80s MTVs first year I was nine 1981-1990 was great From Beavis and Butthead and Yo MTV raps to the Present day ITS A J😂🤣KE NOW!!! I want my 80s back BLACK CONSERVATIVE MUSIC 🎼🎵🎶🎶🎙️🎤🎧🎧🎷🎸🎹🎸 LOVER SIGNING OFF 1980-1988
Still listening in 2019! And you?
still listening forever
@@jcmc9115 Same here.
damn straight!
🙋🏽♂️
absolutely!
2:30 that little boy...
Una cancion oscura de The Police pero a la vez un clasico no muy difundido en las radios casi nada, diria que los fanaticos acerrimos de esta gran banda la conocemos y apreciamos...lo escucho en Long play es increible lo envolvente del sonido.....eternamente The Police.
Al comienzo no me agradaba pero luego le cogí gusto,es mejor que temas pop como "So lonely".
Andy's guitar playing on this shows what a great player he is pure sugar
Hypnotic, haunting, enigmatic, dark, mysterious.
And I will always need an invisible sun, a sun that will provide me with warmth and give me the happiness I need to live well...
At the end he's singing;
"All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air"
The following ( and implied missing lines are;
"With one enormous chair.
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?"
Eliza Doolittle sings it in My Fair Lady
Will this be Belfast again .after Brexit?
It's place. Not room he meant 😉
I never heard that! Thanks!!!
I’ve been wondering what the hell he was singing at the end. It’s not in the album release, at least not in any version I’ve heard before seeing the video. Thank you!
Just how fabulous were the Police? Extremely. Could you imagine One Direction trying to do a cover of this?
Preach! 🙌
Dude how can you even make a phrase with the words "the police" and "OD" together without feeling bad? The police is a legend , cheers!
Yes
This chocolate is so good you can't turn it into shit.
+purplepelican69 What the hell are you even talking about?
Not alot of bands music become timeless...The Police pulled it off spectacularly