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The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta [Digipak] Audio CD

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The Police Band: The Police
Title: Zenyatta Mondatta [Digipak]
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Release Date: 2003-03-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Don't Stand So Close to Me 2: Driven to Tears 3: When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still ... 4: Canary in a Coalmine 5: Voices Inside My Head 6: Bombs Away 7: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 8: Behind My Camel 9: Man in a Suitcase 10: Shadows in the Rain 11: Other Way of Stopping

It's The Police, what else can be said?
There's no fillers in this one. I listen to this album almost 30 years ago for the first time and still amazes me as the first. If there's something to be told is that the digipack doesn't have any lyrics. The remaster is impecable. I'm going for the whole collection.


TOP five BEST album OF all time (please disregard the cliche bayybuh!)
It was the first music i ever bought. I remember when "don't stand so close to me" came out. I loved and love that song and remember hearing the other songs from the album on the radio. Almost thirty years later "When the world is running down" is my favorite, because it captures the police in a nutshell. The police had a wonderful edge in their lyrics, but the lyrics and instrumentation didn't assault the listener like punk music. Existentialist lyrics probe life vigorously, but doom and gloom is wonderfully avoided. Zenyatta Mondatta playfully dances with some potentially scary issues like psychological instability (shadows in the rain, canary in a coalmine), post-modern disconnect (when the world is running down), political impotence (de do do do, de da da da) the enormous influence of pop culture (driven to tears). This album also has refreshing humility (very hard 2 do without sounding insipid), wittily avoiding egocentrism (don't stand so close to me) and adds nifty atmospheric twists to the concept of romantic pain (voices in my head). Every one of the songs has a wonderful life of its own yet becomes muscially and lyrically stronger when combined together on this gem. .


Good Album
Great early work from one of the best rock bands of all. If you like the police at all, you should own this album.


Zenyatta Mondatta
This is an outstanding album. This was the first album I bought by the Police; it's also the last album that they would have reggae as their main impetus for their songs. It includes the hits "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (#10), "Driven to Tears" (#35) & "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (#10). The album itself went to #5 & was their first major success on the American charts. Zenyatta Mondatta is a very consistent album, there isn't a bad track on it. There's also two instrumentals: "Behind My Camel" & "The Other Way of Stopping"; they're both interesting & also the last instrumentals they would record. "Man in a Suitcase" is an outstanding album track.

The unquestioned leader of the band was Sting who did lead vocals & bass. A charismatic individual, he wrote most of the songs. Andy Summers (guitar)& Stewart Copeland (drums) more than ably assisted Sting. Their next two albums would find them enjoying greater success but turmoil between the individual members would lead to their breakup after Synchronicity. These guys were on the cutting edge of the New Wave movement of rock 'n' roll bringing their mix of reggae & rock to the mainstream public. Many consider Zenyatta Mondatta to be the Police's finest album but, personally, I reserve that title for Synchronicity.


Buy Them All
Buy them all. It's an album by the Police. Original melodies, rhythms, harmonies and textures. Polished recording that sounds unaffected.


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