…unless I get this 2CD Police set Universal Music Group is releasing! 100 lucky posties will find themselves with an amazing addition to their music collection; here’s hoping I’m one of them!
It shouldn’t be new to anyone who knows me to hear of my obsession with Sting. Without a doubt he’s my absolute favorite lyricist of all time. Let’s not forget what a freakishly interesting life he’s lead. Oh, you don’t know anything about that, do you? Guess you need to pick up his memoirs! Broken Music was amazing. I couldn’t put it down. It’s one of the few books I’ve read twice. When I was only a year old, one of my favorite songs, I Burn For You was released. Really though, you don’t get much more sensual than that.
When I was in seventh grade, somebody was jaw-jacking about Puff Daddy and someone laughed at him and told him he didn’t even write any original songs, all he ever did was cover other songs. He rebutted (or tried to) that ‘I’ll be missin’ you’ was a Diddy original–well, that’s where I came in. He didn’t even have the sentence completed before I stood up and said, “Ohhhh hold on just a minute! That’s NOT his song, that’s a POLICE song that was written and popular before he was even out of freakin High School!” I got an extra 100 in class that day for that, and another one when my teacher tried to challenge me on what the song was about. He never thought I’d know it was a stalker song!
Similarly, on my first day in class last fall, I had on a Police shirt and my teacher stopped me on the way out to challenge me to name someone in the band other than Sting, “Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, and Sting’s real name is Gordon Sumner, any other questions?” That was fun. He stumbled over whatever he said after that…
I was elated when I found out The Police were doing a big tour, and lamented when I realized I wouldn’t be able to see them. So that only leaves me with my music. Now that this new police cd is being released, I have to have it. This is an amazing collection! Just look!
Disc: 1
1. Fallout
2. Can’t Stand Losing You
3. Next to You
4. Roxanne
5. Truth Hits Everybody
6. Hole in My Life
7. So Lonely
8. Message in a Bottle
9. Reggatta de Blanc
10. Bring on the Night
11. Walking on the Moon
12. Don’t Stand So Close to Me
13. Driven to Tears
14. Canary in a Coalmine
Disc: 2
1. Do Do Do de da da Da
2. Voices Inside My Head
3. Invisible Sun
4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
5. Spirits in the Material World
6. Demolition Man
7. Every Breath You Take
8. Synchronicity I
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Walking in Your Footsteps
11. Synchronicity II
12. King of Pain
13. Murder by Numbers
14. Tea in the Sahara
AND this police cd comes with a vintage 1979 concert poster. I’m practically drooling over the thing. I just started putting up my posters here in the apartment and got really upset when I found my Police poster was missing! I don’t know where it could be!
I have to throw this out there too, as it’s definitely counted in one of my proudest moments. My ex prided himself on being more into Sting and The Police than me. He had a fuller collection, and was way more knowledgeable about it all. One evening driving home from work, Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” came on the radio, and OMG, I recognized Sting’s voice doing the background vocals. I said something to Ben and he said he could see where I would think that, but it wasn’t him. Guess who was wrong! Finally, I knew something he didn’t! I’d recognize that man’s voice anywhere.
I’m getting a little unhappy again, thinking about missing this tour, every time I hit up ticketmaster for my summer concert plans, I click to check for tickets I can afford. Of course nothing’s changed, but hopefully PPP will ease the pain a little by sending me a copy of the police cd, if not, I’ll just go buy my own copy on June 5th when it officially releases! My iPod is digitally drooling over this little gem already!! I’ll send an S.O.S to the world….it’ll say, “Give me The Police, or give me squash!!” (Squash makes me gag….)
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