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Total votes: 41 (39%)
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Total votes: 63 (61%)
Total votes: 104

Band: The Police

111 by Bradley R Weissenberger_Archive
John George Peppers wrote:stewart copeland is every bit as good live as one would imagine.

Stewart Copeland's drumming was a pretty big letdown for me. I've seen that guy be a monster, and this show was pretty tame.

John George Peppers wrote:Watching the crowd during Every Breath You Take was great. All these assholes bear hugged their significant others sang the song drunkenly in their girls face. I started laughing my ass off when just then a hippy girl tapped me on the shoulder and said, "They don't get it do they." No, they certainly do not hippy girl, they certainly do not.

It's unbelievable. This song is about a stalker, and it's no mystery.

The most effective songs were from "Outlandos D'Amour", which kind of makes sense. "So Lonely" and "Next To You" were really good. "King Of Pain" was really good, too.

"Walking In Your Footsteps" is a ridiculous song. That is, it deserves ridicule.

The crowd blew fourteen shades of ass-water.

I wish that they had built towers and blown around garbage like in the "Synchronicity II" video.

I wish that The Police had dyed their hair blonde for Wrigley again.

Why exactly did I go to this show?

Band: The Police

115 by j_harvey_Archive
burun wrote:
j_harvey wrote:Overall the show was good, but I could have done without the dino animation.

Was that for "Walking In Your Footsteps"?


Yes. They had a big light display thing going on. It was mostly just abstract colors, but for some reason they decided to get really literal on two songs. "Walking In Your Footsteps" with some pretty sad animation of dinosaurs walking over live images of the band while they played and photos of children for "Invisible Sun".

Band: The Police

116 by Edd Tastyhead_Archive
The Police are a crap band who released the occasional not crap song here and there.
The majority of Outlandos d'Amour ain't bad but the rest of the albums are utter wank supported by a couple of OK-ish tunes and every now and then a true classic.
I had a Police phase when I was about 12 but soon realised that these were guys who took themselves far too seriously and thought the world wanted to hear every half-baked dull tune they had to offer (sadly enough it seems that was kind of true).
All in all when you compare how much good stuff they did to how much bad stuff they did I'd have to vote CRAP.

Band: The Police

119 by FuzzBob_Archive
John George Peppers wrote:The funny thing was that the show was lost on 85% of the crowd. THe crowd was like the guy with girlfriend in front of me. He was a really big douche who was dancing off beat, in a night at the Roxbury style and also patting his girlfriends ass to the wrong beat.

No one appreciated any musicianship and just wanted to hear Sting play the hits note for note. Watching the crowd during Every Breath You Take was great. All these assholes bear hugged their significant others sang the song drunkenly in their girls face. I started laughing my ass off when just then a hippy girl tapped me on the shoulder and said, "They don't get it do they." No, they certainly do not hippy girl, they certainly do not.


I've been incredibly curious w/r/t who actually showed up at their sold-out arena shows, since they're basically overlooked by most people who fawn over the whole '78-'83 rock era, and aside from Signals-era Rush and Men At Work, I can't think of anyone they've influenced-- much unlike the gazillion Joy Division and Go4 ripoffs from a few years ago. (Please feel free to fact me up if I'm wrong.)

I suppose an arena full of douchebags need a cultural archetype, too... who better to fill that role than Sting?

With that said, NOT CRAP based on Stewart's great drumming and Andy Summers' eclecticism/general coolness.
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