When the World is Running Down, You Make the POLL of What's Still Around – ILM Artist Poll #116 – THE POLICE - (Voting extended to Friday, Dec 2, 2022)

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Does anybody need more time?

Bee OK, Monday, 28 November 2022 06:00 (two years ago) link

lol I'm just sending my ballot in now :)

poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 November 2022 06:24 (two years ago) link

we’re we supposed to get confirmation emails?

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link

lol I'm just sending my ballot in now :)

― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Monday, November 28, 2022 12:24 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's alright for you

Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link

"O My God"

#15 on my tracks list.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link

What is everyone's favorite Synchronicity single?

Mine: "Synchronicity II." "King of Pain" almost gets points because (a) its effrontery (b) its excellent arrangement.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link

"Synchronicity II" is my #1 track overall. Their absolute high water mark, imho.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:52 (two years ago) link

Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish LOCH

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link

Props to Sting for (sorta) rhyming with "crotch."

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link

Synchronicity II also my top vote from that album (and the only one in my top 10).

Unintentional, no doubt, but I hear "S II" as The Police tipping the hat to Rush, who'd already mastered their own version of their sonics and skank on the previous year's Signals.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 November 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link

many miles away……

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 14:22 (two years ago) link

We know all the suicides are fake

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link

I made a little playlist of the songs on my ballot and my main reaction listening to it is what a phenomenal groove band they were. Almost every song — especially the non-singles — is built on one great groove or another. Which is why for all the surface connections they are a much different proposition than Rush. The Police absorbed and understood the space and movement in reggae and dub better than maybe any contemporaries. (This was mostly gone by Synchronicity, one of the reasons it's my least favorite.)

"O My God" and maybe "Wrapped Around Your Finger" are the last gasps imo.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 November 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link

Yeah WAYF does have some of that slinky spaciness.

gotta say the live version of Walking In Your Footsteps is pretty great

frogbs, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link

I guess I'm the only one who much prefers "Synchronicity I" over "II"?

birdistheword, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link

I just like the rush - also some amazing polyrhythms in there IIRC.

birdistheword, Monday, 28 November 2022 15:25 (two years ago) link

Logic so inflexible
Causally connectible

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 November 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link

xxp nope, I vastly prefer it

sleeve, Monday, 28 November 2022 16:13 (two years ago) link

I like the rush of "Sync I" and it's also maybe the most Rush-like thing they ever did. I can totally hear it in Geddy Lee's voice. (And Peart was into Jung, too.)

I had a professor in grad school who threatened to fail us if we cited Jung or Joseph Campbell in our papers.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link

re-humanties-ize yourself

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

I am very psyched for this rollout

Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 November 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link

xxp nope, I vastly prefer it

same

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 28 November 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link

spotify stats:

https://i.ibb.co/LpywVF4/Screenshot-2022-11-28-184622.jpg

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 28 November 2022 18:48 (two years ago) link

Surprising how steep the dropoffs can be, at least on the bottom end (like after "King of Pain," the next popular track gets less than half the plays).

birdistheword, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link

as usual I am blown away by the orders of magnitude there re: most plays

lol yes xp

sleeve, Monday, 28 November 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link

"EBYT" numbers truly astonishing

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link

Glad "So Lonely" is so high. Did that have some afterlife I'm not aware of?

xpost I think it's a keystone of an earlier season of Stranger Things.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link

Ah that would make sense. Good call, Stranger Things.

Hello everyone, confirmation emails have not yet gone out but they are still coming. I got a bit lazy on my four day vacation. I have come back to work and I'm swamped and won't be able to run this thing this week like I had planned. It will run next week no matter what. Sorry but work is out of control at the moment.

Good news is if you still need to make a ballot then you may...up until Friday, December 2.

Bee OK, Monday, 28 November 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link

I think Wrapped Around Your Finger should be after King Of Pain in terms of total plays but I really don't understand Spotify's ordering mechanism sometimes

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link

I like both "Synchronicity"s but consider the four songs in-between them a wasteland.

I remember a review of the 1986 Police compilation in the local alt-weekly that suggested that "Invisible Sun" was the only song on the record that wasn't about romantic issues but also wasn't a hit, thus undermining the band and their audience's pretensions to significance.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link

I mean, "Spirits in the Material" world isn't about romantic issues, and you'd be hard pressed to say "Don't Stand So Close to Me" is, either.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 November 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link

Wasn't Invisible Sun banned in the UK?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 November 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link

the video definitely was

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link

according to that revolver interview anyway

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 November 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link

I think "Russians" alone discouraged me from ever wanting Sting to write about something *important*. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all he's done for charity, but he's recorded better songs for beer commercials.

birdistheword, Monday, 28 November 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link

We work the dark ale together

Godley and Creamsicle (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 November 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link

guys we don’t have to be cool. ebyt is a monster track with a sound that deservedly got ripped off immediately and for years. sync ii is… fine. it’s a good riff.

poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:21 (two years ago) link

my biggest surprise listening back through everything was maybe “walking on the moon” which always bored me when I was young and foolish but wow… Stewart just absolutely kills it. up there with “in the air tonight” for lead drums.

poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link

they really got a lot of mileage out of reggae verse/rock chorus

poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Monday, 28 November 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link

I respect EBYT's many achievements and I voted for it (unlike some of the other big hits), but it's never been a personal fave.

And otm about the drums — the cymbals! — on "Walking on the Moon."

copeland is the best cymbalist in rock music

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link

the fill that opens “every little thing she does is magic” is my personal fav moment among many

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:28 (two years ago) link

"On Any Other Day" would be in my top 10 were it not for the homophobic lyric

"It's All Right for You" is still a banger imo


Is it homophobic? The whole song seems to be a riff on suburban life. But I’m certainly willing to be convinced otherwise.

FWIW, I’ve been listening for the past few days to just random tracks on Spotify. It’s amazing how solid and fresh albums 2-4 are and how little I care to listen more than the spare track on albums 1 & 5. Most of those songs are just totally played out for me in a way even the biggest hits off the others aren’t.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 00:40 (two years ago) link


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