Actually, I did, but I just felt like a piece of shit. It is not a happy album. "This was our final studio album. Indeed listening to this opening track, 'Synchronicity I', it doesn't take much of a leap of imagination to foresee the Police as a fusion group. "So what about the songs Well, as a starting point how about 'Every Breath You Take', now one of the most played records ever This track has two faces - one of surveillance and creepy observation the other of hopeless devotion - and to this day it amuses Sting that people choose this song for their wedding - "It's a very sinister song, but it's seductively dressed up." And I couldn't really share it. My feeling before we made the album was that we had to change our sound, because there were a lot of clone groups who sounded a bit like us. A performer of greatness taking veiled risks. Hopefully, it'll be synchronistic. I think it's my function to vanish behind the handiwork, in a sense, and just let it stand on its own," was how Sting saw it. Popular Song Lyrics. If I was them that's how I would do it too. So it was very clear to me during the making of this record this was the end of the Police. It's a case of statistical certainty. He smiles with a mouth that looks like it's about to bite the head off a baby doll. Thus began their ascent from the teeny-bopper category.Not only is 'Synchronicity' The Police's best album, but it is probably one of the most socially relevant records in recent years. It features the non-album track "Once Upon a Daydream" on the b-side. And now because I'm who I am I lead a rarefied kind of life that's unique to me and a few other people and the man in the street won't be interested in what I want to tell him. Like Bowie, Sting has the ability to orientate this world to his own pace.
Now the ear candy factor is upped to include guitar smears, synthesiser leads, afro-rhythms, in general a continuation of 'Ghost In The Machine's' aural enhancements applied here with more restraint than exuberance... something to listen to, enjoy even, while waiting for Sting-o to get some teeth into those laments. And the band was riding on the crest of a wave, but the music, the subjects were very personal to me... this was almost, and I'm trying to say this in a way that doesn't insult the other members of the band because I couldn't have done it without them - they're fantastic and I respect them - but this was almost a solo record in the sense that the subject matter was very personal to me. We were very much thrown together by accident and we're very distinguished by strong egos. From the favourable ones you'd gather that this trio is God's own gift to the discriminating pop music fan, while from the few (but firm) detractors you get the picture of three new wave poseurs manipulatively using reggae and punk elements to serve their own emotionally chilly and ultimately banal music. "In 'O My God', Sting drops his third-world mannerisms to voice a desperate plea for help to a distant deity: "Take the space between us, and fill it up , fill it up, fill it up! If it is Sting's record it still requires their expertise.It is also nearly inscrutable. In the lyrics, paranoia, cynicism and excruciating loneliness run rampant.The cuts on 'Synchronicity' are sequenced like Chinese boxes, the focus narrowing from the global to the local to the personal.
The songs worked with three instruments. Message in a Box: The Complete Police Recordings, booklet, A&M, 1993 "There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out/there's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt/There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed/There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread" ...and as the privileged minstrel to this court of lunacy. And in 'King Of Pain' Sting enters a realm he never dared before. If the song is about as meaningless as its title, a mere galvanising exercise, the following 'Walking In Your Footsteps' focuses the character of the LP: a fresh response to being wealthy global citizens in a world on the brink of termination. ""I think we'd become so refined as a group of musicians that we realised that the three instruments just playing solo and ensemble was perhaps the best way of doing it - and it just seemed to happen. With one breath, with one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance, A shared romance Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Stewart Copeland, whose aggressive complex drum strategies have made the Police one of rock's most artful dance bands, is now keeping a harder, simpler beat, investing his few critical flourishes with the energy and imagination he used to spend on a whole drum roll. There's a domestic situation where there's a man who's on the edge of paranoia, and as his paranoia increases a monster takes shape in a Scottish lake, the monster being a symbol of the man's anxiety. But every box contains the ashes of betrayal. (Critical Essay). That he sites this intriguing meditation in a sumptuous pop melody and sings it multi-tracked voices of chill purity is no more than a skilled writer/performer fulfilling his dues, but that he does it at all is remarkable.The ambiguities persist in 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', a naif's trip to Costello country aswirl with luxurious harmonies.
"On 'Synchronicity' being more minimal than 'Ghost In The Machine'..."The title of the album refers to coincidence and things being connected without there being a logical link. Top Lyrics of 2011.
The concept interested me in that it was about accidents and some of the greatest things that happen in music with a band are accidental, or apparently accidental. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1983. I wrote a lot of these songs in Golden Eye, Ian Fleming's old home on the north shore of Jamaica. Even Sting is singing with more dramatic economy, retreating from his grandstand yells into richer, more forceful tones.In short, everything you know about the Police is not wrong, but dramatically altered in concept and rearranged in execution. There were lots of overdubs, but the overall feel was spartan. With one breath, with one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance, A shared romance