I can attest to this statement. This album was SO HUGE. I feel like because now there are so many places to put music out there - we don't have music that gets as big as some of these albums did. Same can be said of movies and TV. There are, obviously, pros and cons to this.
This is a really deep cut. For an album with lots of singles.... this was not one of them. The groove here is so so strong. and the guitar playing is amazing. I love when the band explodes into the chorus. I think Stewart Copeland wrote this one?
Andy Summers is a badass guitarist. Partly because he has been playing professionally since the late 60's! He's about 10 years older than Sting and Stewart but their chemistry was cool. Andy is 79 and I think he's still at it. This song shows how capable all 3 are at playing jazz! They were, musically, the best band in the world back then. In my opinion.
The Police are one of my all-time favorite bands. Not just one of the best 80’s bands, but one of the best bands ever. That groove is tight as hell! And, the whole Synchronicity album is 🔥
My interpretation of the song is that the narrator and Miss Gradenko work closely together in the KGB. Despite their training to subvert all emotion, Miss Gradenko is falling for the narrator. She’s dressing more provocatively around him. She’s passing him love notes. She’s revealing her feelings to him. Yet, he’s too dense to pick up on her infatuation. He only sees the changes in her as dangerous anomalies. I’ll bet these lyrics sprouted from a story told to Stewart Copeland by his brother or father. I believe they both worked for “the company “.
LOVE THIS TUNE! Copeland is a BOSS. Probably why he started The Police and recruited Andy Sommers and Sting. This is what a power trio can sound like. Also, the most pleasing phrase to the human ear is not "cellar door." It's "take me now." And Miss Gradenko wrote the note.
Justin. You need to read the novel "1984" and some Soviet history. Everything was grey. People who stood out from the crowd, such as lively Miss Gradenko, were quickly cut down or were disappeared by the KGB. Miss G. Doesn't fit into her uniform... Perhaps her figure is as irrepressible as her character. So she is warned, perhaps by a man who wants her but is afraid to express himself.
Its ok with the album its fine but really the best songs on Synchronicity is Synchronicity I/II Every breath you take, King of Pain, Wrapped around your Finger and Tea in the Sahara. Love those tracks. Btw this was wrote by drummer Stewart Copeland
I've always like this song, even though there are SO many better-known songs off this album. Someone mentioned albums that represented a particular summer... my mind immediately went to The Cars' self-titled album from 1978. My friends and I listened the heck outta this album during a summer a few years after that. While there aren't many overly complex songs on the album, "Moving in Stereo" is probably one of the most iconic, and cool-to-listen-to-in-headphones songs around.
Always up for a little Russian spy intrigue....as a child of the Cold War. See the movie “Atomic Blonde” for a good feel for that period. Plus Scarlet Johansson 😍 Decent song but sooo many great Police songs like King of Pain, Every Breath You Take, Syncronicity II (“Many miles away something crawls from the slime in a dark Scottish lake” ). And Sting’s solo work. It just got better and better. The philosophy of Syncronicity is interesting...the interconnectedness of all things working in unison...very Zen. Ps, On a visit to Jamaica in 82, I bought a bag of ganja from a little schoolboy (British shorts, white shirt) right off the plane. Don’t remember much of that week except crashing a rental motorcycle into some kind of banana plantation.
This is such a great show of musicianship, an absolute killer song, this one along with "Mother" are completely far out from the mood of the album. Andy Summer is a genius, his solo is brilliant and you can hear the Fripp influence, before synchronicity Summers did a couple of records with Robert Fripp which are unique.
An interesting deep cut (as I believe *they* call non-single tracks now). I'm glad you didn't pick Mother. Someone once described Copeland's playing on this track as a "lobster beat". It's a tasty rhythm. He isn't a boring drummer. The lyrics might have something to do with espionage. Possibly inspired by Stewart's brother Miles, who used to be in the CIA. Since you graciously asked, I'll repeat my requests re: 80s canon from a while back: The Blue Nile: Tinseltown In The Rain Prefab Sprout: Bonny The Associates: Club Country Hey, fellow JustJPers, can I get a hand here? Come on. You know these songs.
Harri Palomäki i relate 100🎨% mate. Any prefab would enthrall the senses coz “words don’t hold you- broken soldiers“/ “ do i love you ?yes i love you!! “ come second to none! PartyFearsTwo is the first call for me - but coz this is JP, i always welcome the underdog tune. E.g.any Associates track!! “mysterious” from Crimson Red or Stay Close to me from High. Friend , it’s all inspired stuff! Is that enthusiastic enough? I could go on...!! 😶
@wpla bobihocdwbaby @kevin M Much obliged, comrades. By the way, re: Associates, I was torn between Party Fears Two, Club Country, Skipping and several others.
"I'm glad you didn't pick Mother." --- made me laugh. I can't help but wonder if Andy Summers was deliberately trying to sabotage the album with that track, knowing how at odds they all were with each other at the time. I'm not sure, but it kind of sounds like he might be the only member of the band playing on the track.
I LOVE this song... it's one of my three favorites off this album (the others being Synchronicity I and Synchronicity II). It's funny that you mention the vocals being the only thing you didn't like... I never really thought about it before, but unlike most of the songs on this album, Sting didn't write this one (Stuart did), so I wonder if Sting didn't give it his best because it wasn't his song and it felt more like an obligation to him. Also for what it's worth, there was a *tremendous* amount of animosity between all three members of the band at this time, and they broke up after not long afterwards. Anyway, really astute observations and analysis all around. Cheers man.
@JustJP Thank you for reacting to my to song choice, another meticulous analysis, very enjoyable. The guitar part takes me back to when I was learning to play and he plays the chord changes here in individual notes arpeggio style. Interesting dissection of the lyrics, I was in high school when this album released, the Cold War was on, at the time I imagined this song was about the trials of a political dissident. I'm sorry it's a brief song.
I love all the Police albums up to the second side of Synchronicity. Mother, Miss Gradenko, and Synchronicity II are a great block. The second side is part ubiquitous and Sting's whitebread solo career.
3 experts on their last album. Not my favorite on Synch. but not bad of course. So much ground to cover, in just 5 albums. I saw you reacted to Driven to Tears (one of my favorit Police tracks). I'm looking forward to "When the World is Running Down"
Ha! Love that you've done this one. Not the Police's greatest song by any means, but I always liked it (and it is much better than the other non-Sting outing on this album, Mother - now if they had done Summers Someone To Talk To on the album...)
Just discovered your channel today! You might like these two Top 10 radio hits by the Police: "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
That was pretty interesting. That's cool to hear your background growing up with Jamaican dance hall. I can hear it, but I wouldn't have known if it was just an accenting or if they really incorporated the form. Makes me think the Pixies were probably influenced some by the Police. That's also cool thinking about the aesthetics of words like that. As you were talking about that I swallowed an olive by accident, and I thought, hey, that's a nice phrase, "swallowed an olive." I'm thinking I'll make my next recommendation to give some love to a new song: Esperanza Spalding "To Tide Us Over (mouth)".
'Miss Gradenko' is BALLS, dude, most underrated song of Synchronicity, a melodic relief the torturously awful 'Mother' that preceded it, the worst song of the album. It was also a good lead in to Synchronicity II, the climax of side one of the vinyl album.
One of my favorite guitar solos, weird but not overly and yet catchy. I think you missed the point on the lyrics though, it's about a lively person in a dead corporate environment.
Totally disagree. This song was released in the height of the Cold War. This is about Soviet repression and way people have a way of disappearing when they don’t conform the communist party. Don’t forget that Stewart Copeland wrote this song, and his father worked for the CIA in the counter intelligence service.
Every one always recommends "Synchronicity part 2". Try "Synchronicity part 1". I think that you will like the energy and odd meter. And, since you mentioned to keep recommending artists, I will recommend Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+ revolution. Great musicianship and totally unique.
This is a great choice from this album which is kind of a turning point in their musical style - while "Miss Gradenko" is the one connected strongest to their earlier style.
Great song. I had the LP when it came out and this one I played more often the the hits on the album. I was discovering lots of quirky songs at that time, like David Bowie's It's no Game.
So this is my 126th listen to this track after my first way back in 83 when I heard it on cassette. I agree 100 percent to this review and definitely Stings voice is distant in the mix. Whether this is for artistic expression or merely as Stuart Copeland, the drummer and founder of the group, said in an interview that Sting didn't want to lend his vocals to the track since he didn't like it and added to that it was written by Stuart...who knows. However on this listen I sense a eerie reverse reverb on the vocals giving the song a sinister vibe plus some of arrangements seem inverted in some way. The guitar, for example sounds like its being played backwards. The overall reggae and ska undertones, which really is a disguised rip off of the real reggae and ska bands around that time lends an awkward juxtaposition to the setting and subject matter. I always think of it as a good filler track and prelude to Synchronicity II.
My initial feeling for the song was, oooh, why “that “ song, so many great songs on the album but, as John explained, it was a guitar song... I see it totally different now. I enjoyed it and wished it wasn’t so short. I see now, it is a tight compact intricate little song and I agree about the vocals but, they’re growing on me. Stuart has a different song style and phrasing, drummer... and a bit atonal but I miss the big P as a working band so much I need to listen harder to all of their songs like this one that didn’t really care for before. So, John, good one, makes me want to try and learn it too. Good on ya mate. Jamaican Justin Justice... sweet. Explains a lot... great analysis as ever. Try Jeff Beck albums: Blow by Blow, songs: Scatterbrain ua-cam.com/video/9xoC0rHd01w/v-deo.html Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers ua-cam.com/video/89OTZV-NHkU/v-deo.html Wired: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ua-cam.com/video/UAy_NQoADR8/v-deo.html Sophie ua-cam.com/video/U3Xtqfa2nTM/v-deo.html Peace and Music
This track is one of the few that Stewart Copeland wrote. My favorite song that he wrote for The Police is "Darkness" from the album "Ghost in the Machine". Your roots are in Jamaica? Very cool! 🇯🇲Do you like reggae? "Is this Love" by Bob Marley and the Wailers it a great song. It's one of the few reggae tunes that have an extended form.
This is the last song I'd choose to hear from this album. I was always fond of 'Synchronicity II' which I thought should have made their greatest hits with the rest of the singles. If you like music with vocal sounds as lyrics listen to some early Cocteau Twins.
Haha Okey you asked for it! ^^ please do something by Marillion :D if you look for something not too long, maybe do The great escape, Berlin, the space, or Easter. Pick one! :D Now I will stop whining ;)
Sorry to say but he has very little idea about the song. There are some classic arpeggios guitar riffs by one of the masters Mr. Andy Summers. These riffs give you east european vibes, not jamaican. The song is all about espionage when the cold war was on its peak. Sometimes reminds me of a movie called the "The Russia House".
This is a bit for die hards only song. "It's Allright For You", "Does Everyone Stare" and "Darkness" represent Stewart Copeland better. Especially "Does Everyone Stare" and "Any Other Day" bring Copeland's style of humour forward.
Really makes me laugh how WHENEVER anyone picks a track to go into bat for an album it is invariably one of my least favourites. Okay, so not really everytime but head scratchingly often...
The Police were a fantastic band but not my favorite song of theirs. They were phenomenal live for a three piece band and I had seen them during this tour. As others mentioned this is not a great representation of the Police.
You sort of got the meaning, but you're too young to see it through the "cold war" prism that colored Western perceptions of the world in the early 80's. The fictional political meeting clearly happened somewhere on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Our assumption was that in the Eastern Block, staid conformity was demanded, and individualism wasn't just frowned upon, but aggressively repressed. You did not want to stand out. "Letting your feelings show" or looking "too alive" in your uniform could bring unwanted scrutiny, scrutiny you really didn't want if you were passing information about the Directorate to the West. Yes, Miss Grandenko has turned against the communist regime and is cooperating with the Americans or the Brits. The anti-communist espionage theme of this song makes even more sense when you consider that it was written by Stewart Copeland, who is the son of one of the founding members of the CIA and, at least when it comes to Capitalism vs Communism, leans pretty far to the political right for a rock star.
This is a really grating listen. It's' a mess. Corporate tosh. Did you know : the first time they released Roxanne nobody noticed. Second time it peaked at no 12 (UK) and for that, it's in the Rock n' roll hall of fame. Go figure.
Back in the day I didn't know anyone who didn't own this record. This album was fairly representative of my summer of '83.
This album made my Dad a Police fan.
I can attest to this statement. This album was SO HUGE. I feel like because now there are so many places to put music out there - we don't have music that gets as big as some of these albums did. Same can be said of movies and TV. There are, obviously, pros and cons to this.
This is a really deep cut. For an album with lots of singles.... this was not one of them. The groove here is so so strong. and the guitar playing is amazing. I love when the band explodes into the chorus. I think Stewart Copeland wrote this one?
He does an awesome version of this with his superband, Gizmodrome. Check them out on UA-cam.
Andy Summers is a badass guitarist. Partly because he has been playing professionally since the late 60's! He's about 10 years older than Sting and Stewart but their chemistry was cool. Andy is 79 and I think he's still at it. This song shows how capable all 3 are at playing jazz! They were, musically, the best band in the world back then. In my opinion.
I’m a simple man. I see someone listening to Miss Gradenko and I like and I click
The Police are one of my all-time favorite bands. Not just one of the best 80’s bands, but one of the best bands ever. That groove is tight as hell! And, the whole Synchronicity album is 🔥
My interpretation of the song is that the narrator and Miss Gradenko work closely together in the KGB. Despite their training to subvert all emotion, Miss Gradenko is falling for the narrator. She’s dressing more provocatively around him. She’s passing him love notes. She’s revealing her feelings to him. Yet, he’s too dense to pick up on her infatuation. He only sees the changes in her as dangerous anomalies. I’ll bet these lyrics sprouted from a story told to Stewart Copeland by his brother or father. I believe they both worked for “the company “.
rtwbikerider Check out “Red Sparrow” with Jennifer Lawrence. Good film about sex spies in the KGB.
I like it I like it
Yes, this is the correct interpretation, IMHO.
LOVE THIS TUNE! Copeland is a BOSS. Probably why he started The Police and recruited Andy Sommers and Sting. This is what a power trio can sound like. Also, the most pleasing phrase to the human ear is not "cellar door." It's "take me now." And Miss Gradenko wrote the note.
Justin. You need to read the novel "1984" and some Soviet history. Everything was grey. People who stood out from the crowd, such as lively Miss Gradenko, were quickly cut down or were disappeared by the KGB. Miss G. Doesn't fit into her uniform... Perhaps her figure is as irrepressible as her character. So she is warned, perhaps by a man who wants her but is afraid to express himself.
Its ok with the album its fine but really the best songs on Synchronicity is Synchronicity I/II Every breath you take, King of Pain, Wrapped around your Finger and Tea in the Sahara. Love those tracks. Btw this was wrote by drummer Stewart Copeland
I've always like this song, even though there are SO many better-known songs off this album.
Someone mentioned albums that represented a particular summer... my mind immediately went to The Cars' self-titled album from 1978. My friends and I listened the heck outta this album during a summer a few years after that. While there aren't many overly complex songs on the album, "Moving in Stereo" is probably one of the most iconic, and cool-to-listen-to-in-headphones songs around.
I prefer the songs: Wrapped Around Your Finger, King Of Pain, Synchronicity II, and Every Breath You Take.🎧❤️
King of Pain is just brilliant isn't it?
Exactly my favorites from that album as well! And also Tea In the Sahara!
every little thing
I would not have picked this particular song, but man can Andy Summers play guitar or what?
Always up for a little Russian spy intrigue....as a child of the Cold War. See the movie “Atomic Blonde” for a good feel for that period. Plus Scarlet Johansson 😍
Decent song but sooo many great Police songs like King of Pain, Every Breath You Take, Syncronicity II (“Many miles away something crawls from the slime in a dark Scottish lake” ). And Sting’s solo work. It just got better and better.
The philosophy of Syncronicity is interesting...the interconnectedness of all things working in unison...very Zen.
Ps, On a visit to Jamaica in 82, I bought a bag of ganja from a little schoolboy (British shorts, white shirt) right off the plane. Don’t remember much of that week except crashing a rental motorcycle into some kind of banana plantation.
Weird pick for the police but still a pretty good song
I agree. The only odder choice would have been Mother. Though, I do like Mother because its so weird. But as a request it doesn't make a lot of sense.
This is such a great show of musicianship, an absolute killer song, this one along with "Mother" are completely far out from the mood of the album. Andy Summer is a genius, his solo is brilliant and you can hear the Fripp influence, before synchronicity Summers did a couple of records with Robert Fripp which are unique.
Yes indeed, one of my favorite guitar solos ever. The whole song is criminally underrated.
This is a deeep cut. lots of good songs on this album...
An interesting deep cut (as I believe *they* call non-single tracks now). I'm glad you didn't pick Mother.
Someone once described Copeland's playing on this track as a "lobster beat". It's a tasty rhythm. He isn't a boring drummer.
The lyrics might have something to do with espionage. Possibly inspired by Stewart's brother Miles, who used to be in the CIA.
Since you graciously asked, I'll repeat my requests re: 80s canon from a while back:
The Blue Nile: Tinseltown In The Rain
Prefab Sprout: Bonny
The Associates: Club Country
Hey, fellow JustJPers, can I get a hand here? Come on. You know these songs.
Harri Palomäki i relate 100🎨% mate. Any prefab would enthrall the senses coz “words don’t hold you- broken soldiers“/ “ do i love you ?yes i love you!! “ come second to none! PartyFearsTwo is the first call for me - but coz this is JP, i always welcome the underdog tune. E.g.any Associates track!! “mysterious” from Crimson Red or Stay Close to me from High. Friend , it’s all inspired stuff! Is that enthusiastic enough? I could go on...!! 😶
I’ll ditto The Blue Nile!
@wpla bobihocdwbaby @kevin M Much obliged, comrades. By the way, re: Associates, I was torn between Party Fears Two, Club Country, Skipping and several others.
Added to the list :)
"I'm glad you didn't pick Mother." --- made me laugh. I can't help but wonder if Andy Summers was deliberately trying to sabotage the album with that track, knowing how at odds they all were with each other at the time. I'm not sure, but it kind of sounds like he might be the only member of the band playing on the track.
Love the police and specially Steward Copelands drumming..thanks Justin enjoyed your reaction
Ty Marcel!
I LOVE this song... it's one of my three favorites off this album (the others being Synchronicity I and Synchronicity II). It's funny that you mention the vocals being the only thing you didn't like... I never really thought about it before, but unlike most of the songs on this album, Sting didn't write this one (Stuart did), so I wonder if Sting didn't give it his best because it wasn't his song and it felt more like an obligation to him. Also for what it's worth, there was a *tremendous* amount of animosity between all three members of the band at this time, and they broke up after not long afterwards. Anyway, really astute observations and analysis all around. Cheers man.
@JustJP Thank you for reacting to my to song choice, another meticulous analysis, very enjoyable. The guitar part takes me back to when I was learning to play and he plays the chord changes here in individual notes arpeggio style. Interesting dissection of the lyrics, I was in high school when this album released, the Cold War was on, at the time I imagined this song was about the trials of a political dissident. I'm sorry it's a brief song.
Anytime! Thanks John
I love all the Police albums up to the second side of Synchronicity. Mother, Miss Gradenko, and Synchronicity II are a great block. The second side is part ubiquitous and Sting's whitebread solo career.
Dude, your voice is excellent. You should keep up the good work with your gift.
Well thank you for that Jeff
3 experts on their last album. Not my favorite on Synch. but not bad of course. So much ground to cover, in just 5 albums. I saw you reacted to Driven to Tears (one of my favorit Police tracks). I'm looking forward to "When the World is Running Down"
Ha! Love that you've done this one. Not the Police's greatest song by any means, but I always liked it (and it is much better than the other non-Sting outing on this album, Mother - now if they had done Summers Someone To Talk To on the album...)
Walking on the moon,message in a bottle,SPIRITS IN A MATERIAL WORLD My Favorite, that was the most obscure choice.
Awesome deep track request. 🙏🏼🎶
Nice to see you delving in to the Police . JP - treat yourself next to 'Murder by Numbers'
I don’t like t,his album very much any more. But I still like this song. The guitar has a great progressive rock sound to it. Especially that solo.
Philip Glass take note, this is the proper way to do arpeggios.
Nice to see this song in a reaction video. It's highly underrated. I thought you would be more impressed, but it was a nice analogy.
Ty Aaron :)
Just discovered your channel today! You might like these two Top 10 radio hits by the Police: "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me."
Thanks Marcus! I'm actually familiar with those two
That was pretty interesting.
That's cool to hear your background growing up with Jamaican dance hall. I can hear it, but I wouldn't have known if it was just an accenting or if they really incorporated the form. Makes me think the Pixies were probably influenced some by the Police.
That's also cool thinking about the aesthetics of words like that. As you were talking about that I swallowed an olive by accident, and I thought, hey, that's a nice phrase, "swallowed an olive."
I'm thinking I'll make my next recommendation to give some love to a new song: Esperanza Spalding "To Tide Us Over (mouth)".
As long as you didn't choke on the olive :D
@@JustJP True, that would have sounded less aesthetically pleasing.
Please do Marillion.
'Miss Gradenko' is BALLS, dude, most underrated song of Synchronicity, a melodic relief the torturously awful 'Mother' that preceded it, the worst song of the album. It was also a good lead in to Synchronicity II, the climax of side one of the vinyl album.
Mother is comic relief it’s hilarious. Have a soul
Apparently one of Stings favorite Police songs.
One of my favorite guitar solos, weird but not overly and yet catchy. I think you missed the point on the lyrics though, it's about a lively person in a dead corporate environment.
Ah that makes sense now, ty!
Totally disagree. This song was released in the height of the Cold War. This is about Soviet repression and way people have a way of disappearing when they don’t conform the communist party. Don’t forget that Stewart Copeland wrote this song, and his father worked for the CIA in the counter intelligence service.
Hey JP if you like concept albums a 1967 gem ahead of its time (Moody blues "Days of Future Past") must listen all in one session.
Every one always recommends "Synchronicity part 2". Try "Synchronicity part 1". I think that you will like the energy and odd meter. And, since you mentioned to keep recommending artists, I will recommend Esperanza Spalding Emily's D+ revolution. Great musicianship and totally unique.
Cette chanson, qui est bien trop courte, est un monument !!
This is a great choice from this album which is kind of a turning point in their musical style - while "Miss Gradenko" is the one connected strongest to their earlier style.
Great song. I had the LP when it came out and this one I played more often the the hits on the album. I was discovering lots of quirky songs at that time, like David Bowie's It's no Game.
So this is my 126th listen to this track after my first way back in 83 when I heard it on cassette. I agree 100 percent to this review and definitely Stings voice is distant in the mix. Whether this is for artistic expression or merely as Stuart Copeland, the drummer and founder of the group, said in an interview that Sting didn't want to lend his vocals to the track since he didn't like it and added to that it was written by Stuart...who knows. However on this listen I sense a eerie reverse reverb on the vocals giving the song a sinister vibe plus some of arrangements seem inverted in some way. The guitar, for example sounds like its being played backwards. The overall reggae and ska undertones, which really is a disguised rip off of the real reggae and ska bands around that time lends an awkward juxtaposition to the setting and subject matter. I always think of it as a good filler track and prelude to Synchronicity II.
Me hubiese gustado conocer a la señorita Gradenko.... 🤔🤗😁
Hey JP! I recomend you Secret Journey from the album Ghost in the Machine. Love this reactions from The Police. Keep'em coming!
Ty Lauta!
Don’t forget about Mr. Bungle you may hate it or love it just a fair warning it’s not for everyone! I really liked this song though Police rock!
Love the police these are cool
My initial feeling for the song was, oooh, why “that “ song, so many great songs on the album but, as John explained, it was a guitar song... I see it totally different now. I enjoyed it and wished it wasn’t so short. I see now, it is a tight compact intricate little song and I agree about the vocals but, they’re growing on me. Stuart has a different song style and phrasing, drummer... and a bit atonal but I miss the big P as a working band so much I need to listen harder to all of their songs like this one that didn’t really care for before. So, John, good one, makes me want to try and learn it too. Good on ya mate. Jamaican Justin Justice... sweet. Explains a lot... great analysis as ever.
Try Jeff Beck albums:
Blow by Blow, songs:
Scatterbrain
ua-cam.com/video/9xoC0rHd01w/v-deo.html
Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
ua-cam.com/video/89OTZV-NHkU/v-deo.html
Wired:
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
ua-cam.com/video/UAy_NQoADR8/v-deo.html
Sophie
ua-cam.com/video/U3Xtqfa2nTM/v-deo.html
Peace and Music
Try Sting's solo album Dream of the Blue Turtles it's a great listen he explores many styles my fav is Moon over Bourbon Street
Napoleon Bonaparte by Budgie
This track is one of the few that Stewart Copeland wrote. My favorite song that he wrote for The Police is "Darkness" from the album "Ghost in the Machine".
Your roots are in Jamaica? Very cool! 🇯🇲Do you like reggae? "Is this Love" by Bob Marley and the Wailers it a great song. It's one of the few reggae tunes that have an extended form.
Ty Jay! I do enjoy reggae, though I don't listen to it often tbh.
This is the last song I'd choose to hear from this album. I was always fond of 'Synchronicity II' which I thought should have made their greatest hits with the rest of the singles.
If you like music with vocal sounds as lyrics listen to some early Cocteau Twins.
Omg, the chord changes though! Walking in Your Footsteps is totally the weakest link in this album.
great to see you have some really good comments on your feeds
We're a good crowd here :)
I really think you would like "Worship The Sun" by Jesse Roper
Haha Okey you asked for it! ^^ please do something by Marillion :D if you look for something not too long, maybe do The great escape, Berlin, the space, or Easter. Pick one! :D
Now I will stop whining ;)
Haha, no worries :) Ty Thijs
Will you react to a song by the band oysterhead. I believe you might be the first if you do it. P.S. I can’t seem to choose one.
Next police you should check out - Voices instead my head
My mistake voices inside my head
Billy Thorpe Children of the Sun
Thats a good one :)
Sorry to say but he has very little idea about the song. There are some classic arpeggios guitar riffs by one of the masters Mr. Andy Summers. These riffs give you east european vibes, not jamaican. The song is all about espionage when the cold war was on its peak. Sometimes reminds me of a movie called the "The Russia House".
Copeland said the song is about North Korea in an interview.
This is a bit for die hards only song. "It's Allright For You", "Does Everyone Stare" and "Darkness" represent Stewart Copeland better. Especially "Does Everyone Stare" and "Any Other Day" bring Copeland's style of humour forward.
Solely to hear your interpretation of the lyrics, requesting "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" by Bob Dylan.
Really makes me laugh how WHENEVER anyone picks a track to go into bat for an album it is invariably one of my least favourites. Okay, so not really everytime but head scratchingly often...
Rich Musgrave : It’s like bringing a rock for “show and tell”
It's certainly one of my favourites. Synchronicity II is probably THE favourite.
The Police were a fantastic band but not my favorite song of theirs. They were phenomenal live for a three piece band and I had seen them during this tour. As others mentioned this is not a great representation of the Police.
Stewart copeland music
Yeah it's just ok. They have much better. ✌
You sort of got the meaning, but you're too young to see it through the "cold war" prism that colored Western perceptions of the world in the early 80's. The fictional political meeting clearly happened somewhere on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Our assumption was that in the Eastern Block, staid conformity was demanded, and individualism wasn't just frowned upon, but aggressively repressed. You did not want to stand out. "Letting your feelings show" or looking "too alive" in your uniform could bring unwanted scrutiny, scrutiny you really didn't want if you were passing information about the Directorate to the West. Yes, Miss Grandenko has turned against the communist regime and is cooperating with the Americans or the Brits.
The anti-communist espionage theme of this song makes even more sense when you consider that it was written by Stewart Copeland, who is the son of one of the founding members of the CIA and, at least when it comes to Capitalism vs Communism, leans pretty far to the political right for a rock star.
This still a great song but the police have done many better tunes.
Not one of my favourite Police tracks but it's ok.
Your uniform don't seem to fit
You're much too alive in it
This was written by drummer Stewart Copeland. All of Sting's compositions on this are better.
This is a really grating listen. It's' a mess. Corporate tosh. Did you know : the first time they released Roxanne nobody noticed. Second time it peaked at no 12 (UK) and for that, it's in the Rock n' roll hall of fame. Go figure.