[Zanth]

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Originally posted by chadbang Give me the rawness of the earliest albums, anyday - when it was still rock.

I agree 100% if of course...Sting was perpetually attempting to record Rock albums. He has not and hence your discontentment when said albums were not your thing.

Adult contemporary, Easy Listening, Jazz, Orchestral, World Beat, Calypso, Carribean...these are what he has dabbled with along with rock and roll...but that is best left to his days in the Police.

 

[chadbang]

Yes. well said. I guess I'm just a meat and potatoes guy.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeah, surprisingly, I like him. I have the Police CD boxset, Message in a Box, and bought a couple of the SACD's, and have several of the early Sting albums (only Dream of the Blue Turtle come to mind, though).

 

[chadbang]

In honor of this thread, I just bought "Reggatta de Blanc" on vinyl today (the 2 10"-disc pressing).

Now I just need "Outlandos D'Amour"! That's really my favourite!

 

[MusicLover]

I have (The Police) Greatest Hits and Fields of Gold and I think they are both great, not to mention the great recording quality on Fields of Gold.

 

[Braver]

The Police seem to have a whole bunch of new SACD hybrid remasters out, all digipacks

I was soo tempted to pick up at least Zenyatta Mondatta (I got a real serious case of digipack-fetish

), but decided I was way over budget already

but yeah, they're cool. great musicians too (Copeland drummed for Peter Gabriel amongst others), from back in the day when bands could actually play...

I find I'm totally burnt out on their hits though, can't stand them anymore. with every album having at least a couple of them, that kinda makes it a tough listen

 

[fractus2]

I was just thinking about getting a gh collection from The Police. Do you have the 1998 release with the head shots of the three in sunglasses? Looks like some great songs.

 

[MusicLover]

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Originally posted by fractus2 I was just thinking about getting a gh collection from The Police. Do you have the 1998 release with the head shots of the three in sunglasses? Looks like some great songs.

I have a different one. I think it was released in 2002, an SACD hybrid. Nearly all of the songs on it though are really good. It's definitely worth getting.

 

[grinch]

i just broke up with my girlfriend, who's name is roxanne. bitch.

i believe only the greatest hits cd is hybrid, however all of the actual albums were in separate sacd/hybrid releases. yay for the industry screwing us yet again.