outlandos d'amour (the police)
What an awesome album. I really, really liked it. Exciting combination of reggae, punk and rock, with incredibly dark lyrics- a strong emphasis on isolation, longing, loneliness. I like pretty much the whole album, I especially love "Next to You," a spectacular, rocking, anthemic opener; "So Lonely," with that energetically sweet, catchy, frustrated chorus, and a touch of reggae in the verses; "Peanuts," a great, crazy, frantic rock track; the classics "Roxanne" and "Can't Stand Losing You." When the tracks aren't awesome, they settle for interesting- "Be My Girl-Sally" has got a long, weird, lyrical/nursery rhyme interlude about a man and a blowup doll; "Masoko Tango" is a cool, polyrhythmic instrumental closer; and "Born in the '50s," a bold, brash, growly-voiced revolutionary track, is mainly interesting because it's funny hearing such a bombastic anthem about people who are now fiftysomething dads. Speaking of which, probably the most lastingly strange, interesting thing about this record is to think of Sting today. This is such, such a cool album, and Sting today is the definition of mild. It was fun listening to tracks of this album alternating with "Fields of Gold" and "Desert Rain."
Anyway, it's an extremely cool, adventurous record, and there's something poetically sad and interesting to think that, even though I'd love to hear more of The Police, there are precious few albums in their catalogue before they morph into the guys who made "Every Breath You Take."
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