While their subsequent chart-topping albums would contain far more ambitious songwriting and musicianship, the Police's 1978 debut, Outlandos d'Amour (translation: Outlaws of Love) is by far their most direct and straightforward release. Although Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland were all superb instrumentalists with jazz backgrounds, it was much easier to get a record contract in late-'70s England if you were a punk//p>
ew wave artist, so the band decided to mask their instrumental prowess with a set of strong, adrenaline-charged ock, albeit with a eggae tinge. Some of it may have been simplistic ("Be My Girl-Sally," "Born in the '50s"), but Sting was already an ace songwriter, as evidenced by all-time classics like the good-girl-gone-bad tale of "Roxanne," and a pair of brokenhearted eggae-ock ditties, "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely." But like all other Police albums, the lesser-known album cuts are often highlights themselves -- the frenzied rockers "Next to You," "Peanuts," and "Truth Hits Everybody," as well as more exotic fare like the groovy album closer "Masoko Tanga" and the lonesome "Hole in My Life." Outlandos d'Amour is unquestionably one of the finest debuts to come out of the '70s punk//p>
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The Police played a five minute commercial tonight for their new tour. Specifically, they played Roxanne opening up the Grammy Awards. It was great...I'm buying what they are selling-24 years after I first saw them, I can't wait to see them a second time.
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So, tonight, I get the chance to tackle two musical firsts: Seeing Elvis Costello for the first time, and seeing The Police for the first time. I've never seen Sting, either, but this is a Police show, dammit. :)Links ahoy, so bear with me.I remember hearing "Roxanne" as far back as when I first lived in California, which was probably 1979.I'm sure I heard their music again in the intervening year
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My first concert was August 17th 1983 when a young 12 year old me watched The Police (With R.E.M. opening) rock the Hartford Civic Center. June 26th. I am driving up to Dallas to see them and I feel my music life will be coming into a full circle.Then: a leaping StingThis past weekend: a leaping Sting
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The Police played a five minute commercial tonight for their new tour. Specifically, they played Roxanne opening up the Grammy Awards. It was great...I'm buying what they are selling-24 years after I first saw them, I can't wait to see them a second time.
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Could hear "Get Up Stand Up" by the Master Marley as we walked up to the stadium gates and were greeted with one of the greatest bands in the world. Can't even remember the opening tune cause I was in another world - couldn't believe I was there. Filth concert, sucking beer, watching the full moon, and one of the best gigs of my life! I will never forget it...ever!
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Can't wait to go & see them in concert in September. Foolishly gave away my ticket to a concert in Brighton, just before they went their separate ways so never saw them the first time around. Really looking forward to this & having great fun listening to all the old albums again. Particularly like Mother on Outlandos D'Amour album!
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| 1 Next to You |
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| 2 So Lonely |
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| 3 Roxanne |
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| 4 Hole in My Life |
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| 5 Peanuts |
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| 6 Can't Stand Losing You |
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| 7 Truth Hits Everybody |
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| 8 Born in the 50's |
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| 9 Be My Girl - Sally |
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| 10 Masoko Tanga |
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