The Police- Wrapped Around Your Finger (REACTION & REVIEW)
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Song Link: • The Police - Wrapped A...
Can we just appreciate Stuart Copelands drumming for a bit? 😀 Guy is awesome.
This video of him on the 07-08 tour shows just how cool he can make this song live: ua-cam.com/video/mmBdz1txGSo/v-deo.html
Agree
Would have posted this If noone had done before! It's like a master class in percussion.
The man is RIDICULOUS!!! 😎💯💯
@@MilwaukeeMartin Wow!
The Police at the top of the game, the best song on the album IMO, sadly this was their last studio album.
Justin, "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles", Sting's first solo album which was released 2 years later, is fantastic and deserves a full reaction.
OMGosh...YES. PLEASE. I was 11 years old when that masterpiece was released. I bought the album with my birthday money. Fortress Around Your Heart caught my interest, but Russians...? That was what led me to Peaches Records on that fall day in Orlando. Children's Crusade and Black Seam are still on my favorites list to this day.
❤️❤️❤️ this track. It’s in my Mt. Rushmore of Police songs. The bass part is simple but great. From being played on a fretless to the drop D tuning, adding the occasional flourish of harmonics and changing it up periodically to keep it interesting while being repetitive. All of the musician keep it interesting during the repetitive nature throughout. Excellent!!!
Man!!! I got chills throughout your reaction. I’ve heard this song hundreds of times! One of my favorites off the album. It’s been a long time since I’ve gotten chills! Great song and great reaction!!!
Thank you so so much Chuck!
For those of us who were around in 1983 - this was the main hit of that autumn
It was certainly a hit, but I think the main hit was Every Breath You Take. Which is unfortunate since this song is so much better.
Might be this classic trio’s best song. All three so good, offering little Easter Egg surprise touches throughout. Sting’s mythological and literary ref heavy lyrics. Classic.
I think you would like Sting's first album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" - it was the next thing he did after Synchronicity. His solo sound reminds me more of tracks like this and Tea in the Sahara.
Such a great album it is! And the movie that went with it was fantastic too. I miss those mid-80s days.
@@justintime42000 there's a movie?
@@manualboyca It’s called “Bring On The Night.”
This song represents everything that was best from the Police, great melody with those reggae notes, great vocals as usual with this song as well, all in all one of their best!
Every time I hear this song, I think of the MTV video showing Sting, in slow motion, knocking over some large gold wedding bands. I'm glad there wasn't a popular MTV video for "Tea In The Sahara", because that's my favorite song on this album.
I think for the video of this, Sting had to speed up his actions and ' the mouthing of the lyrics' a lot faster, so that when it was slowed down, it would match up.
There were also lots of large candles on pedestals if I remember correctly.
@@justintime42000 Yes, you're correct.
Best overtly pop song on the album. Stewart's entire performance is minimalist gold, but that kick drum sound is buttah.
It IS such a vibe isn’t it??? So glad to see you enjoying your first listen as much as I enjoyed mine. So unique as an album and it impacted me so much with its ideas, concepts and lyrics. And oh, the music!
Definitely! Great stuff here :)
This song was a huge hit. when it came out. Constant video play on MTV and always on the radio.
The build up with the bass lines leading up to "Devil and the deep blue sea behind me" and Steve Copeland's flam following that. Sublime!
Great song, intelligent lyrics, subtle but masterful musicianship.
The Police were so subtly sophisticated. Simple. Direct. Groovy. It is no wonder they were SO popular. They had a vibe and could really write great songs! AND the lyrics are interesting.
This whole album is pure gold. Police was, at the time, a band that Alex Lifeson from Rush would listen to quite a bit. You can here the influence in Spirit of Radio.
The influence of The Police on Rush was at its peak on their later albums Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows, which for me are the last two classic Rush albums.
Not just Alex. Neil was a huge Police/Stu Copeland fan. You can hear it all over the Signals album.
@@pentagrammaton6793 You might like the album Counterparts. I believe it came out in ‘93. Rush hired a grunge producer who got rid of the thin, glassy production of the previous 3 albums and fattened up the sound. There’s very little keyboard on the album, too.
@@jaybird4093 I do like Counterparts, and Rush had some solid albums after '85, but none of them were classics. You have to go back a long way to hear the boys playing like their lives depended on it.
Signals had more of a Police influence
Masterpiece of a song. Pure genius! Stellar arrangements.
It was on the radio A LOT! The Police were very popular at the time and this song extended their relevance.
Happy Thursday. The most underrated day of the week. Recommend a dive into Sting’s solo material.
I’m totally on board with that! (Solo Sting)
Tea In The Sahara is my favourite off the album and it’s a great closer. So ambient and relaxing, Unless you include Murder By Numbers which is a cool little blusey tune to end it off.
Tea in the Sahara is great, and I always knew it as the closer because my parents bought the vinyl instead of the cassette/CD.
Do yourself a favour, check it out live, even on their later tour, they often played it to perfection, all elements were amazing live
Tea in the Sahara is exceptional
In 1978, when I left the country for two years to forsake worldly things and serve a mission for my church, the hottest thing on the radio was Donna Summer.
It's crazy how fast culture can change. When I got home, disco had died, punk and new wave had taken its place and at the church dances I could no longer boogie to Hot Stuff, but had to figure out how to bounce about to Rock Lobster.
I had a hard time trying to survey the new musical plain. Fortunately I met a lovely young lady named Debbie who introduced me to a threesome calling themselves, the Police, playing some stuff called reggae on a record called Zenyatta Mondatta. It was a sweet revelation. I've been a fan ever since.
Thank you, Debbie.
And thank you, Justin for a nice morning jolt.
City Boy is also great first thing in the morning!
RULDS?
@@jaybird4093 I am.
@@Habichiwoowoo Me, too. Nice to meet you, Brother. 😊
And you too, sir!
I forgot how much I loved this album. By the time of Sychronicity, The Police had refined their reggae-punkish sound into a thing of sheer beauty.
F1rst-- is this the most esoteric song ever???
If you’ve never dived into the lyrics…
I don’t see this as a tropic beach ballad. It’s got to be played in the smoking room of elites in some medieval castle, or in a scene from Eyes Wide Shut.
I know this song so that means it was well known at the time. This is a great song for just listening to. If this is yacht rock then get me on a yacht. I look forward to when you start listening to Stewart's solo work.
We’re not letting yacht people claim all the great softer rock tunes. Unless we’re invited, yes.
You want to see the live version of this….drum cam….it’s brilliant.
This Reggae/Rock sound was created by The Police in the 80’s. So epic. So unique. I adored this group so so much. Was saddened when they broke up. But Sting became a successful solo artist when he experimented and turned to jazz fusion. Just JP please explore the solo career of the amazing STING. I recommend a favorite I truly love, the track. His first solo single “If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free”. You’ll love it.
JustJP The Wrapped around your Finger” music video is a much see.
Have a good day. ❤
Justin, you are an indefinable kooky character and god bless you for that, here's to marvelous September and fall.
"Now we turn it up!" - Exactly... this song has the best slow build. Iconic Police song, really cool video, probably sold the album more than any of the other songs, with the exception of Every Breath You Take (which is kind of creepy). That fadeout has so many great extemporaneous notes.
"Water Sarlacc" made my day
Absolutely one of my favorite Police songs. The video is absolutely ridiculous I love it so much. I think the string around the finger was supposed to be a reminder but usually blood flow got cut off by then😂 way before cell phones and reminders LOL. Thank you so much for reacting❤️
Some of my favorite male song writers and vocalists were British and knew and liked each other. Guess it is not a surprise. Sting, Robert Plant, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins!
Sting did try this time, yet even he cannot compete with his line from 'Driven to tears' - "My comfortable existence Is reduced to a shallow meaningless party"
Too many cameras and not enough food
This was all over the radio back then. Maybe their best 🎵
They had you from the first bar. ❤️💛💙 The reaction at 1:26 and then again at 1:40 - 😍
Reminds me of my own reaction when I discovered The Police and this song.
There's a beauty in adding new elements during the fadeout. It makes your brain and heart work overtime wondering what other magic there can be where that came from. Unlike you, I LOVE when that happens.
Hey JP, you have to check out the video. Really reflects how the song comes together.
It has such a moving and lovely haunting quality to it. One of their best.
Love the slow fade. Also the many layers of Andy’s guitars. If only they didn’t implode as a band after this album.
Or hadn't Stings head bulged out of proportion, bringing some really ponderous lyrics on this album as well.
They went out with a bang. If they had released an album after this it probably wouldn’t have been that great
@@SoundlabStudios63 You’re probably right; they may have used up their creative animosity with Synchronicity.
Much like Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles, best to go out when you’re on top
Copeland's use of small cymbals in this song is pure genius. In fact the entire song is pure genius from all 3 guys. Splendid!
Did you just ask: "Don't you vibe with this?" Absolutely, back in 1983 when music was still a higher-grade to what it is now in, I certainly did. Good to see Gen Y and Z finally catching up on why we were so spoilt musically in the past.
Yes, those are references to being "between a rock and a hard place". Sting loved to include literary references in his songs. What a fantastic lyricist!
I LOVE when they add things in the fade out!!!
My take on the lyrics: This song has always given me Sorcerer’s Apprentice vibes. I imagine Sting as a young novice sorcerer who is enlisted by a woman sorcerer. The two fall in love, and Sting notices the ring around her finger, which is where she gets her power from. Through the course of the song, Sting’s magical knowledge has surpassed his instructor, and he is able to steal the ring and become the master.
Sting was going through a divorce at the time this album came out, so putting it in that context, this song seems like a message to his ex that she thinks she is in charge when it’s really him. In fact, taking it a step further, listening to the first three songs on side 2 we see Sting dive increasingly more into madness from Every Breath (stalking and pleading to return), King of Pain (crying out in agony), and now this song (exerting dominance). The last song, Tea in the Sahara, is about some sisters who died in the desert believing a man would come back to save them. This is not a direct reference, but the theme of the album Synchronicity, or two seemingly unrelated events that are somehow connected, might lead us to believe that this relates to Sting dying inside waiting for his loved one to return. (I could probably write an essay on this album)
It doesn't get better... My favourite song off of my favourite Police album... Exquisite. At the end of the second line Scylla and Charybdis are mentioned.. they are two monsters from Greek myth, living on either side of the Straits of Messina... One on the Sicily side, the other one on the Italian side.... I was on a cruise there quite a while ago but guess what I had on the headphones as we sailed past them... It had to be done.... Keep on Rocking.
My favorite song on the album. Glad we got here!
Impossible not to just vibe with this.
Definition of wrap (someone) around one's (little) finger -informal - : to have complete control over (someone) - She has him wrapped around her little finger.
Stewart Copeland uses the reggae "one drop" in this song, i.e. no bass drum (or crash) on the downbeat... listen for it, it is so cool
You should hear Rufus Wainright covering this alongside Sting on guitar , it’s on You Tube. Remarkable.
For a more jazzy version, go listening the Sting/Rufus Wainwright rendition of this song. A bliss. 🤩
My sister went to a local gig in the 1970s to see this unknown 3 piece Where they any good I asked yeh they where,what are the called The Police..Never heard of them!
When this came out I was in college. It was very popular. The whole album was. And I was so uninformed I didn't realize the reggae influence. I just knew it sounded different than what I'd ever heard. Great review.
At this late stage in their career, the reggae influence was no longer prominent in The Police. It was the case on their first three albums but on the Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity albums, only a tiny trace remains, if anything.
I saw The Police in concert in 2008 on their last tour in Kansas City. Great show. Amazing musicianship. And Sting was just too cool.
Nothing wrong with pop and catchiness, especially when it's done with such skill and quality as this
Definitely one of my favorites by The Police :)
There's a live video version of this, where Copeland comes into his own.
High class song writing, from a quality band.
beautiful track
The second side of Synchronicity is definitely backloaded with the majority of the best tracks.
This song isn't the best of them, in my opinion, but considering the sheer quality of the material, it's still right up there with some of Sting's best early mature work.
I prefer "Tea in the Sahara", though. Hopefully you'll turn your attention to that "zoned out" tune later on.
I like watching you discover music which was a big deal back in the day when I was in college/high school. LOL Saw the Police and Sting (solo) live several times and always a great show. Lyrics for both often took from literature. Did you know Sting was once an English teacher? Mephistopheles is the demon to whom Faust sold his soul ("Doctor Faustus")
One of the very few albums in which all the hits are on the back half.
Always been my favorite track on this album
Merry Christmas JustJP!!! To you and your loved ones, and I hope you are having a lovely day too! (re 00:30). Christmas Day, 2022.😄🌲🌲🌲
Possibly my favorite track from this album! Good jam…
👍🏻👍🏻
Look, as a drummer, its IMPOSSIBLE to explain in this comment HOW GOOD this is! 💯 But then... I KINDA don't actually have to, really. 😎💯
I found Soundlab Studio's interpretation to be an interesting take on the lyrics.
I never knew the backstory of Sting's divorce during the making of this album, nor did I associate the apprentice/master tie necessarily to a female sorcerer.
To me, in a mix of mythologies, it always felt more like a Gandalf/Saruman story, where initially it was Gandalf the Grey to Saruman the White, and morphs to Saruman "of many colours" to Gandalf the White.
No, Gandalf was never Saruman's apprentice, but Saruman was the head of the Wizard Council. Until Gandalf's test against the Balrog and Saruman's corruption by the palantir.
perfect, this song was always perfect. Just like the whole album. How is it possible that you never listened ?
Wasnt the type of music I was generally around growing up :)
@@JustJP I always forget about cultural differences between countries. It was a huge hit in Poland and you can still hear the police on the radio, a very popular song. I forget that in the US there is a filter for bands from Europe, although the police filled stadiums during this last tour around the world. Like Dire Straits, Genesis, David Bowie, Queen.
❤️ i agree with you on the fade out 🙃
One wonders how many listeners back in the day got the Scylla and Charybdis reference.
Great reaction! New sub. 🥰
My Favourite Police track
I've always found the second side of Synchronicity to have a slightly Middle Eastern sound - mysterious and haunting: particularly this song and "Tea in the Sahara" - the latter of which seems almost an antidote to the dark story of "Wrapped Around Your Finger".
Lyrically, this song tells the story of a young student of the occult arts (think Alistair Crowley) - the master has the student "wrapped around your finger" like a daughter might have her daddy wrapped around her finger: somewhat like being "under her thumb", but less forceful and more influential. This control is exercised using manipulation (Scylla and Charybdis symbolize being forced into choosing the lesser of two evils) and a magical ring (perhaps a metaphor for a wedding ring, given Sting's relatively recent separation from his wife). While not entirely willing, the student enters a Faustian bargain with the devilish master (Mephistopholes is the devil in the story of Faust) - but with the hidden intent of surpassing the master ("You will see it come to its fruition"). As the student grows in skill and utilizes his talent, he does exceed his master's grasp, breaks free of the bargain, and in return enslaves the formerly greater magician.
One of my faves!
You should check out Rufus Wainwright singing this with Sting.
Boldog Karácsonyt! 😂
The Police are in many a persons top 15 bands of All Time. Now you see why.
Given Sting's interest in Eastern religion ( eg. tantric sex ), and the old story about the university grad told by the guru to empty himself to make room for new knowledge, I always thought the song was about a guru/disciple relationship.
The song Secret Journey has a similar theme, IMO.
@@jaybird4093 Musically speaking I find "Secret Journey" much more interesting and contrasting !
@@a.k.1740 Secret Journey is in the running for the fourth spot in my Police Mt. Rushmore. Does Mt. Rushmore mean anything to the British?
@@jaybird4093 I'm not British but Mt. Rushmore speaks to me, at least because it can be seen in Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest and as a parody on the Deep Purple In Rock album cover .-))
What would be your 1st, 2nd and 3rd spot in your Police Mt. Rushmore?
@@a.k.1740 Synchronicity 2, Driven to Tears, and Wrapped Around Your Finger. #4 is a toss up between Walking On the Moon, Voices Inside My Head, Shadows in the Rain, Secret Journey, and Darkness.
The best song on this album. Andy Summers shines with his guitar and guitar synthesiser, helping to surpass the "Scylla and Kharybdis" thing.
Please react to "Bed's Too Big Without You", the mono version. It really summarises what the band was about together with "Walking On The Moon."
That’s a great track. I enjoy the mono version much more than the album release.
@@jaybird4093 It was actually the first track I truly heard from the band, on a cassette. The version on the album "Reggatta De Blanc" was a huge disappointment.
Once again, proof of Sting's Everest sized genius......
Great song from them. It’s in my top 3
Tea in the Sahara is next and it is also fantastic.
love this song !!
Brilliant track
I never realized it's a reggae beat. Maybe because it feels a hair slower than the reggae songs I've heard. It always sounded exotic to me though. I just now realized after 40 years that the title is clearly referring to a wedding band (it's gold) - though I've always thought it is about a shift in power from one person to another. It's the breakup revenge song. You've crushed me but I'm going to pull myself through this and its you who will be sorry. Well, at least he's doing something with that pain. In a negative way, one of the more positive songs on the album?? LOL.
Hey Justin: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju, full album. Leave this blandness behind. 🙃
I'm cool with this.
I like Kaleidoscope too ! Kaleidoscope and Juju share the same sound engineer and producer as The Police's first three albums: Nigel Gray 😉
@@Katehowe3010 hahaha you're welcome!
@@a.k.1740 yeah, they were so startlingly inventive and original that in many ways, the rest of the 80s alternative scene might as well have gone on permanent vacation!
@@pentagrammaton6793 Yes, anyway from my point of view, the whole so-called alternative scene was only really interesting until 82/83. After that, it's on a case-by-case basis. The work of Siouxsie & The Banshees still interests me until '87 (their non-album single "Song from the Edge of the World" is still valid) but I never hooked on their last three albums and for me their last big LP remains the excellent Tinderbox (which is maybe my favorite of them all).
New Zealand reggae legends HERB'S song FRENCH LETTER an anti nuclear weapons testing song it's very powerful
I will see your face turn Alabaster! When you find your servant is your Master. You’ll be wrapped around My finger.
What a great album!
Justin you are right in part though don’t knock progressive rock which also had some catchy pop notes though just more instrumental and a bit deeper.
Once met a woman so cold, ghostly and frigid. It froze my heart, when she said I'm a Banshee named Bridget. A slave to me forever she declared as she grabbed my finger. It was a captivity that would forever drag and linger. I screamed no to the ghastly Bridget, and swiftly cut off the ensnared digit! Wrapped around no witch's finger but at Peace, and please no need to call The Police..
The beds to big without you...for some fusion reggae "vibing"...
Sting was very bitter about his divorce, and it was reflected in the first three songs on side two.
Masterpiece!!!
In Stewart's defense, he probably didn't know when they were going to fade - I'm guessing the band had another minute or two of music, and then producers decided on the fade.
I really hope you add a listen to 'Murder By Numbers' which was on the cassette and CD, but not on the Vinyl.
It's pronounced (as Sting did in the song): Meff-a-stoff-a-leez
Maybe the best song The Police have ever done along with King of Pain.
The telephone is ringing... is that my mother on the phone?
Tea in the Sahara is the next one to hit.
This song puts me to sleeeeeeeeeeeep.
I think the Greek critters are "Skilla" and "Sha-Rib-Dis".
And then "Meffi-Stoffa-Leez". There's an "Anglo-Greek" (just not sure if it's part of actual Greek, and not just part of what English Greek scholars of the time decided made sense) tendency to "keep the "e's" - as well as to pronounce them as "ee" always.
So "Irene" is not "Eye-Reen", but "Eye-Reenee".
Had a Greek girlfriend called Ariadne, once (for short time before being sent back to friendzone), and I know her name was pronounced "Arry-Yad-Knee", so it's probably a proper Greek thing, too, and not just one of those things that scholars dreamed up. Got some Greek relatives, too, but they have names like Kevin and Anne (that kind of name, I mean). They still have some occasions where they smash big piles of plates, but I doubt if they know a single word of Greek.
From what I recally "Scylla and Charbybdis" refers metaphorically (or some such form of speech) to the Straits of Messina, between Sicily and Italy, which had whirlpools, and could be dangerous to ships. Southern Italy was part of the Greek world for a long time. Archimedes came from there, for instance.
Ka-rib-dis. 🙂
@@pentagrammaton6793 Hmm ... yes, that's consistent. And it's what the Ancient Greeks would say, too, I think (from what I've read). Koine Greek would've used something like the German/ Scots version of "ch", and then I think in modern Greek it would be "K" again. That's all depending on whether I've remembered what I've read. (I once got to wondering what the correct pronunciation of "Archimedes" was, so went and got lost down a rabbit hole. Lots of barking, lots of echoes, but as usual, no porcupines.)
Oh hang on, those are the thoughts of some Jack Russell, not mine. How'd they get there? Sorry, gotta go kill the Rottweiller next door - unless the humans save his life again.