Pre-Synchronicity Police: Quite possibly the best band from the 80's

[Taverner]

And I would go out on a limb and say they could be compared alongside The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles.

What say ye?

[chaska]

1. Why pre-Synch? I thought everything little they did was magic, magic magic

[Taverner]

2. For me only half of that album is listenable

All the "hits" I hate. Too radio friendly, and I always felt it was a sellout, and they left all the good material off the album (Murder by Numbers...etc.)

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. Two of my favorite albums of all time are Outlandos D'Amour and

Regatta de Blanc. Saw them on the Ghost in the Machine tour with Joan Jett opening for them, and they were fantastic. However, Synchronicity started the Police on the path to the Dark Side, and the music just wasn't the same from that point.

Truth Hits Everybody is my current theme song, btw... :rofl:

[Richardo]

4. Our part of the GITM tour had the GoGo's as the opening act

THAT was the 80's. Good times. :smoke:

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Yes, indeed!

:hi: :bounce:

[querelle]

7. I Agree

The first couple of albums were by far their best work. I also saw them in concert at the McGill University Amphitheatre in Montreal sometime in the early 80's. Don't remember much of the concert though......Fuckin purple microdot.

Q

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. ROFL!

:rofl: There were some yellow and green and purple microdots at our concert too. :P

[baldguy]

6. .

[SteppingRazor]

9. Come on back down to Earth, Taverner...

I mean, just read that list ... Stones, Zep, Beatles, Police ... one of them just doesn't belong.

Hell, I wouldn't even call The Police the best band of the 80s, a decade that included Talking Heads and the prime years of everyone from Bruce Springsteen to The Cure to U2.

[Taverner]

10. "The Boss" ain't fit to shine Sting's shoes

Sting is, and was, the epitome of "ROCK GOD"

And consider that The Police did with Reggae what The Stones and Zep did with Blues.

[SteppingRazor]

11. "Sting is, and was, the epitome of "ROCK GOD" "

:rofl:



"Taverner, you ignorant slut."


Sting? Epitome of ROCK GOD? You must be joking! Tell me you're joking!

Johnny Thunders could be the epitome of rock god.
Keith Richards could be the epitome of rock god.
But ... Sting? Oh, come now!

[Deep13]

12. Best of the 80s? Doesn't say much.

:shrug:

RAAAAAAHX-ann!