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 A masterpiece June 8, 2008
With the Police's 4th album, they completely redefined their sound ... and the result is arguably their greatest record.
Sounding unlike anything produced before or since, this song melds superb pop craftsmanship with a surprisingly sophisticated political and spiritual outlook. And while it's perhaps not as accessible as "Synchronicity," it's musically even more complex and sophisticated.
Awesome Album March 25, 2008
This one really is one of my ultimate favorites. In general, The Police are a great band & this is one their best. Very creative.
 another great nostalgia trip March 19, 2008
Another of the vinyls I have been intending to replace in CD for ever so long, a great trip back. Received in perfect condition and a delight to be reunited with some great material.
The Police - More Political With Keyboards Added January 8, 2008
This album saw The Police move in a distinctly different direction from their earlier stuff. The reggae influence was pretty much gone here and the overall sound is slicker in general. Many fans sight this as the band's weakest effort and at the least it is definitely a transitional album. It is one of the bands most somber efforts with politics taking the lead over relationships in the lyrics. Keyboards are also introduced on this album to varying degrees of success. More huge hits came from this one, "Spirits In The Material World", "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", "Too Much Information" and several more tracks got significant AOR airplay. I almost have the opposite reaction to this album as I have the 3 that preceded it. It does not seem to have aged as well to me. While the first 3 have grown on me over the years, this one I seemed to like more when it first came out. Oh well, either way this is another essential Police album if you are a fan of the band.
The Police becomes techno and political November 27, 2007
After their (cheekily) punk debut Outlandos D'amour, after the reggae-ish Regatta de Blanc, after the fine but somewhat aimless Zenyatta Mondatta, came one of the strongest albums of The Police, Ghost in the Machine, before their swan song "Synchronicity". The title derives from a derogatory description by Gilbert Ryle of the Cartesian belief in the mind-body dualism (we think that Sting and the boys just like the phrase, as we don't think they are experts or even knowledgeable on the subject of philosophy of mind). Here they try a more techno sound, with the use of keyboards and synthesizers. This is also their most political album, even if their politics seems sometimes to be somewhat naive and confused. There is the catchy, calypso-inspired hit single "Every little thing she does is magic", the ominous "Spirits in the Material World" (the title is another Cartesian reference, though the lyrics seems too muddled in their attempt to be politically significant), there is the prophetic "Too Much Information" (written more than a decade before Internet), there is "Invisible Sun" (a political song about the Northern Ireland troubles, that doesn't add much but posturing), the nice "Rehumanize Yourself", the utopical if nice ska "One World (not three). There are other songs, generally nice if not very memorable.
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