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Favorite "The Police" Song (1 Viewer)

The Police

  • De Do Do Do De Da Da Da

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Don't Stand So Close To Me

    Votes: 11 8.1%

  • Message In A Bottle

    Votes: 11 8.1%

  • Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

    Votes: 12 8.8%

  • Roxanne

    Votes: 9 6.6%

  • Every Breath You Take

    Votes: 12 8.8%

  • Can't Stand Losing You

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • King Of Pain

    Votes: 12 8.8%

  • Spirits In The Material World

    Votes: 5 3.7%

  • So Lonely

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • Wrapped Around Your Finger

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Walking On The Moon

    Votes: 6 4.4%

  • Invisible Sun

    Votes: 5 3.7%

  • Synchronicity II

    Votes: 28 20.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 11 8.1%
  • Total voters
    136
Doug B said:
Can't recall any commercials, but their work has gotten some play in recent soundtracks -- Stranger Things and the Fifty Shades of Gray come to mind.
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Don't know if true but read this earlier on wiki

"The bleached-blond hair that became a band trademark happened by accident. In February 1978, the band, desperate for money, was asked to do a commercial for Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum (directed by Tony Scott) on the condition they dye their hair blond.[22] The commercial was shot with the band, but was shelved and never aired."

 
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" is the song that made me a fan as a kid. I'm a sucker for their back catalog songs like "Does Everybody Stare" and "When the World is Running Down...".

They were my first concert - Ghost in the Machine tour in 1982 - with the English Beat opening for them. They were the biggest non-heavy, hard rock band of the day. I don't especially care for the later albums because they feel over-produced. Their legacy, imo, is tied to people's perception of Sting. He was interesting for a time and I considered myself a fan for a few years/albums. 

 
Canary in a Coalmine. So up beat, tight and energetic. 
 

my buddy had an old Camaro with an 8 track in it, and we had this great, quick, track-switch technique that would let us go from Man in a Suitcase to Canary in a Coalmine to Bombs Away, in a loop, over and over again. :)  3 great songs 

 
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Lots of good ones here to choose from.

But Roxanne just isn't one of them for me. Maybe Eddie Murphy ruined it in 24 Hours.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
Lots of good ones here to choose from.

But Roxanne just isn't one of them for me. Maybe Eddie Murphy ruined it in 24 Hours.
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I managed to convince my older brother it was "headdress" instead of "red dress". I also convinced him that Eddie Van Halen played the guitar solo in the theme song to 80's animated kid show "Thundercats" and was shown as "Edward Van Halen" in the blink-and-you'll-miss-them final credits of each episode. My brother is a moron.

 
Although I love most of their early records, I think the Police peaked with their very first record, Outlandos d'Amour.  Regatta is good, but it was all downhill after that for me.  As weird as it sounds, I'll always associate them with Bad Brains because they combined that reggae drop beat with a pop/punk sound.  When Synchronicity game out, my girlfriend asked me if there was a way to put a scratch in the record so it would skip Mother. She hated that song so much, she could not bear hearing it.  I loved Mother - it was the only song I liked on that record.  That relationship was fun while it lasted, which wasn't very long.

So Lonely or Roxanne for me.

 
Juxtatarot said:
The lyrics in Synchronicity II are what puts it #1 for me. 
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And then it ended before it really began. S2 built the set for the music version of 8 1/2 or it's own apocalyptic dream and then did a Steve Martin "Naaaah!" and evacuated the scene. As an old prog head, many are the times i've shook my rancid noggin and said, "Where did it all go". We got a few Jesuses, Aristotles, Ptolemys and Pythgori of rock & roll, but whence the Newtons & Leibnutz & Bacons, whither the Einstones, Nietszches (beside Jack), Freuds? I listen to today's ego-robots, wound-licking warriors, schoolless pretenders and i'm sad. I've recounted here before jamming w an old friend a few years ago in a musical reunion and us realizing how many musical avenues got closed off to traffic and wondering where a person with an ax goes to argue with the gods anymore.

 
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While the quality of music has definitely declined over the years, at least music videos have improved.  These older vids are a tough watch 🙈

As for the songs, anything but Roxanne will get my vote.  Love these guys.

 
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Heard a lot of mentions to Stewart Copeland over the days since Neil Peart's passing. All three are great musicians.

My five (not sure on order):

Murder by Numbers - love the lyrics, and it was nice and bluesy.
Synchronicity I love the lyrics, I like the way they wind in all the 4 and 5 syllable words; and the second one was just a little over the top.
Miss Gradenko Love the bass and guitar.
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around.

Gotta love 8+ word song titles!

 
peaces said:
Wasn't a huge Police fan but definitely remember listening to Synchronicity on the Walkman but it was inside at the local arcade, "The Gold Mine" in the Mall. 
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God, who else remembers going to the arcade at the mall? My main one was at Plymouth Meeting Mall outside Philadelphia. I can remember the feeling of excitement I got just walking into that place. Probably similar to how people feel now walking into a casino.

 
Ilov80s said:
Exactly what I was thinking. If you go through those acts: Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna and The Police. I feel like The Police really disappeated fast from the public consciousness relative to those others. It seems easy to lose how big they were. 
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It's because they broke up, never to reunite, and Sting's solo career absolutely took off.  It would be as though Phil Collins started making solo records and left Genesis, so there would have been no Abacab, Genesis (the album), or Invisible Touch.  Also, after about four solo records, Sting made no further attempt to continue to be popular, having made all the money he and his family will need for the next 500 or so years.  Even so, I'm pretty confident that most people of age who are under 25 know who he is.  They might even know The Police too.  Breath and Wrapped get a substantial amount of airplay even today.  

 
On a side note, my sister used to cut Sting's wife's hair.  And I think their kids too maybe.  I believe she used to go to their house in Malibu and as you may expect it was spectacular.  

 
Juxtatarot said:
The lyrics in Synchronicity II are what puts it #1 for me. 
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Yup, this is a fantastic song....

Another working day has ended.
Only the rush hour hell to face.
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes.
Contestants in a suicidal race.
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance,
He knows that something somewhere has to break.
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights,
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache.

Voted for So Lonely and would put Synchronicity II underneath for the Police Exacta.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Sting's solo career may have produced the most adequate-but-boring music by any superstar, ever. Well, Jackson Browne still walks the Earth.............so maybe not.
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With you.   I like early Police some but liked the band very little by the end.  Sting bores me.   

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Sting's solo career may have produced the most adequate-but-boring music by any superstar, ever. Well, Jackson Browne still walks the Earth.............so maybe not.
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he gets a deservedly bad rap as the definitive "tunes to tan the taint to" MOR guy, but there's a lot of good songs in there, too. i'll put "It's Probably Me", "Shape of my Heart" (my walk-on song) and others up w anything done in the 21st C, i appreciated his John Dowland resurrection, and his musical - The Last Ship - is as good a folk album as it is bad a play

 
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Uruk-Hai said:
Sting's solo career may have produced the most adequate-but-boring music by any superstar, ever. Well, Jackson Browne still walks the Earth.............so maybe not.
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Why Should I Cry For You is a great song. I'll also take When The Angels Fall and Desert Rose.

 
@wikkidpissah and @Andy Dufresne. The songs themselves are all fine. They are well-written and -performed. To me, though, they are the equivalent of having novocaine injected into my ear drums. 

Since he sold a bazillion solo records and is still played everywhere, I realize my take on Sting being.....just.....okay.........is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 
I’m pretty meh on Sting’s solo career as well, but he had his moments, and Be Still My Beating Heart might be my 2nd favorite Sting song after Synchronicity II. 

 
Funny, I'm actually the reverse.  I find that Summers' and even Copeland's playing gets repetitive after a while, and with a few exceptions there are no backing vocals (excluding Sting mulitracking) or keyboards (which is why the greatest exceptions to that, Every Little Thing, Invisible Sun and Spirits are my three favorites).  When Sting went solo, he opened things up with much wider orchestration and also spread his wings as a songwriter a bit more.  Fortress, Mad About You, All This Time, and Soul Cages are standouts, and there is so much terrifically dark, atmospheric stuff on Nothing Like the Sun.  

 
why wasn't "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around" on the list? Not long enough a name?

 
Oh and I distinctly remember making out with a girl in college with that one "best of" CD on repeat.

 
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
I was blue and lonely
I couldn't sleep a wink
And I could only get unconscious
If I'd had to much to drink
There was somehow, something wrong somewhere
And each day seemed grey and dead
The seeds of desperation
Were growing in my head
I needed inspiration
A brand new start in life
Somewhere to place affection
But I didn't want a wife
And then by lucky chance I saw
In a special magazine
An ad that was unusual
The like I'd never seen
"Experience something different
With our new imported toy
She's loving, warm, inflatible
And a guarantee of joy"
She came all wrapped in cardboard
All pink and shrivelled down
A breath of air was all she needed
To make her lose that frown
I took her to the bedroom
And pumped her with some life
And later in a moment
That girl became my wife
And so I sit her in the corner
And sometimes stroke her hair
And when I'm feeling naughty
I blow her up with air
She's cuddly and she's bouncy
She's like a rubber ball
I bounce her in the kitchen
And I bounce her in the hall
And now my life is different
Since Sally came my way
I wake up in the morning
And have her on a tray
She's everything they say she was
And I wear a permanent grin
And I only have to worry
In case my girl wears thin
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my girl
Won't you be my, be my
Be my girl
 
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

S2

Walking on the Moon

King of Pain

Murder By Numbers

Spirits in the Material World

Those are my absolute favorites.
 
Aerial Assault said:
Funny, I'm actually the reverse. I find that Summers' and even Copeland's playing gets repetitive after a while, and with a few exceptions there are no backing vocals (excluding Sting mulitracking) or keyboards (which is why the greatest exceptions to that, Every Little Thing, Invisible Sun and Spirits are my three favorites). When Sting went solo, he opened things up with much wider orchestration and also spread his wings as a songwriter a bit more. Fortress, Mad About You, All This Time, and Soul Cages are standouts, and there is so much terrifically dark, atmospheric stuff on Nothing Like the Sun.
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You find Copeland repetitive? Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Listen closely to his cymbal work because it's so delightfully unpredictable.
 
dickey moe said:
Aerial Assault said:
Funny, I'm actually the reverse. I find that Summers' and even Copeland's playing gets repetitive after a while, and with a few exceptions there are no backing vocals (excluding Sting mulitracking) or keyboards (which is why the greatest exceptions to that, Every Little Thing, Invisible Sun and Spirits are my three favorites). When Sting went solo, he opened things up with much wider orchestration and also spread his wings as a songwriter a bit more. Fortress, Mad About You, All This Time, and Soul Cages are standouts, and there is so much terrifically dark, atmospheric stuff on Nothing Like the Sun.
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You find Copeland repetitive? Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Listen closely to his cymbal work because it's so delightfully unpredictable.
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I remember watching a video breakdown of one of their songs (may have been Rick Beato) and one of the standout points was that Copeland played each chorus in the song differently.
 
Went with So Lonely, but Sprits in the Material World and Invisible Sun were my introduction to them as a wee lad, and still are up there with my faves. Synchronicity II is brilllant. So many good songs.
 
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