| Product Summary | | Label: A&m/geffen/interscope | | UPC: 00606949359720 | | Release Date: 3/4/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60591661 | | Item#: M7F94G | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23257 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2003 A&M Records Ltd. Under exclusive license to Polydor Ltd.
(C) 2003 A&M Records Ltd. Under exclusive license to Polydor Ltd.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | The Police: Sting (vocals, bass); Andy Summers (guitar); Stewart Copeland (drums). | | Recorded at Wissellord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands. | | This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players. | | The Police: Sting (vocals, bass); Andy Summers (guitar); Stewart Copeland (drums). | | Recorded at Wissellord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands. | | For their third album, the Police, now official megastars, began to move away from the new wave-reggae hybrid they introduced on their first two releases. There's a bit more funk in the rhythm section on tunes like "Driven To Tears" (a tune that also represents a heightened socio-political bent in the lyrics). Andy Summers' avant-garde roots are also more apparent here, as on the eastern-flavored "Behind My Camel," and the quirky, abstract tone of "Shadows in the Rain." On the ominous-but-catchy "Don't Stand So Close To Me" Sting plays Cole Porter, rhyming "shake and cough" with "Nabokov." The album is best known for the monster hit "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da," ostensibly a nonsense song, but under the surface the lyrics bear a serious message about global alienation and postmodern disaffection. |
Producer: The Police; Nigel Gray |
Engineer: Nigel Gray |
| | Artist Overview | | Their innovative rock/reggae fusion, superb songwriting, and crossover appeal put the Police light-years ahead of many of their 1980s new-wave colleagues in terms of artistic resonance. Emerging just after the punk explosion of the late '70s, the trio rode to international stardom on a string of hit singles, and when they reached the top, they called it a day. Charismatic frontman Sting (aka Gordon Sumner) remains a pop icon whose appeal shows no sign of waning; members Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers also went on to successful, though less high-profile, solo careers. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/04/2003 | | Original Release Date : 1980 | | Catalog ID : 493597 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 38m : 16s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00606949359720 |
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