Say what you will, but this is one of of my all time favorite albums

[Agileguy_101]

[ratherdashing]

Excellent album. Not as good as "Regatta de Blanc" IMO, but still one of their best.

[BrianS.]

Yep, it's a keeper. I have that on vinyl.

[atreidesheir]

Andy Summers is my favorite guitarist I never learned any licks from.

[Aceman]

Can't hate on Sting & the boys.

[saladin]

Andy Summers is my favorite guitarist I never learned any licks from.

The solo in "Driven To Tears" is one of the few solo's I've wanted to learn note for note.

[MetalManiac]

I don't like the Police, and I never have. Gimmicky tunes more about sell-out pop than true artistic integrity.
Not only that, but the heavy use of the sickeningly sweet chorus wore itself thin well before the second album even emerged.
At that time the massive media machine was more responsible for their viral popularity than any pure talent they possesed( that and the lack of any true artitistic pop artistry per-se in the 70's to provide anything else worth listening to).

[Empty Pockets]

I cannot enjoy their music because it is the soundtrack to "chore day" from my childhood. My mom would blast the Police until the whole house was spotless. Like Nazi internment camps did with Cher.

[Jocelyn]

I have always liked The Police... Now I have King of Pain ringing in my head.

[jeremy]

The solo in "Driven To Tears" is one of the few solo's I've wanted to learn note for note.

we do that song and i usually play the solo similar to what he did since its so distinct

[youngthrasher9]

Say what you will, but this is one of my favorite albums:

[Jake]

Say what you will, but this is one of my favorite albums:

I'm with you 1,000% on this. Amazing album. Their first album is equally fantastic as well. This is the one band I can lay actual claim to seeing them before they were famous - I saw them when they were touring for their first album in front of about 20 people.

[That90'sGuy]

I don't like the Police, and I never have. Gimmicky tunes more about sell-out pop than true artistic integrity.
Not only that, but the heavy use of the sickeningly sweet chorus wore itself thin well before the second album even emerged.
At that time the massive media machine was more responsible for their viral popularity than any pure talent they possesed( that and the lack of any true artitistic pop artistry per-se in the 70's to provide anything else worth listening to).

Let's listen to your "artistic integrity" because Sting has been writing some of the most original and true-to-self music that's ever been written. He got famous because he has always written great music, but he never had to sell out to do it. I've never heard US pop artists interested in "selling out" creating background music that's borderline jazz with French crooning over it. The very fact that you would spit this vitriol simply reflects you as ignorant.

[JOLLY]

I used to have that on 8 track.....lol

[Funkfingers]

In his career span, Sting has written songs ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. (I shall leave you to decide which ones are which.) He has been fortunate to have had some excellent musicians with which to record and perform his material.

EDIT - Sting must be pretty good at fisticuffs too! He survived The Police.

[DrNewcenstein]

Let's listen to your "artistic integrity" because Sting has been writing some of the most original and true-to-self music that's ever been written. He got famous because he has always written great music, but he never had to sell out to do it. I've never heard US pop artists interested in "selling out" creating background music that's borderline jazz with French crooning over it. The very fact that you would spit this vitriol simply reflects you as ignorant.

Agreed. How does playing the music you enjoy playing constitute "selling out"? You may as well say Zeppelin sold out for doing electric blues and folk, since that's what other bands were doing at the same time, or the Beatles for playing rock and roll since everyone else was doing it.

And while we're at it, let's bash Megadeth for continuing to play the same genre they co-created after all these years. Or Stevie Wonder for being so damn stereotypical.

[youngthrasher9]

This is the one band I can lay actual claim to seeing them before they were famous - I saw them when they were touring for their first album in front of about 20 people.

That's awesome.