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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Synchronisity by the Police
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 11:17:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 11:17:07 1983
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Why do people despise Andy Summers's song "Mother" on the Synchronicity
album.  I, for one, found it to be one of the more interesting pieces
on the album.  It was in fact my motivation to buy the record.  After
having heard "Every Nose You Pick" as well as "Synchronicity I & II" and
"King of Pain", I thought that the Police had gotten back on the track
of creating good, progressive but non-pompous music.  A track they had
abandoned with the "Zenator Mondale" album (not good) and "Ghosts in
the Machine" (better in parts, but too overdone and pompous).  But I was
not fully impressed enough to buy the record. (I stopped buying Police
albums after "Regatta de Blanc".)  When I heard.  I'm really sick of people who
say "Well, the Police are punk, so I'm really surprised that any of them
can play at all, but they're not really good musicians" simply because they
don't make noise like Eddie van Halen or Steve Howe or dog knows who.  First
off, they are doing better and more creative things than any other mainstream
rock musicians.  Secondly, the Police are not/were not/never will be punk.
They are veterans of serious groups who dyed their hair and played reggaesque
punkesque music.  A cardinal sin, for sure, but their end results make up
for their posing, which is more than I can say for Missing Persons and that
other "punk" group, A Schlock of Feagulls.