The Police pt2
Yesterday was album 2, Regatta de Blanc.. white reggae. oh dear. not the biggest fan of reggae music but the album really is incredible. opens up with message in a bottle, probably one of my favorite songs of all time. main thing i noticed listening to the whole album is stewart copeland’s drumming… he’s simply amazing. boom boom de whap boom boom whap. all over the place. stunning, really… hard not to focus on it. Bring on the night, another great song… i used to love it so much i named a bbs i ran when i was twelve after it. Now, twenty years on, i’m being paid to build very similar community sites for bands. If we had gotten the sting site, that would have been a full circle. strange.
Walking on the moon… bed’s too big without you. great songs, really moving away from any lingering punk impact and embracing straight forward pop/rock songwriting. No Time This Time is killer, Does Everyone Stare could be a bauhaus b-side. Still a lot of throwaway filler tracks, but listening to it now, you can hear almost every major indie band of the late 80s and 90s in them.