Citadel Correspondent

The lyrics are creepy.

I liked "Roxanne" (their first hit, from an earlier album) better.

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Hmm... whoring or stalking? All fun subjects. Still, Sting has a very pure voice. All of the Police albums were good, IMHO, and I had all of them.
(I like the Moulin Rouge version of Roxanne a lot as well.)

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I could be picky and point out that in "Every Breath You Take" it's the singer who's the stalker, and in "Roxanne", it's the object of the singer's affection who's the whore, but I won't.

Whoops, I just did, didn't I?

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Does it matter? It's prolly the same guy. He got her off the streets with his love and affection (he wouldn't, at that point, talk down to her, though his grammar was fairly crappy) and then she became a famous super model and rejected him and he was forced to stalk her while improving his verbiage at night school... Many years later, after becoming a professor (with a class full of lolitas) he built a fortress around his heart, surrounded it with fences and barbed wire and hoped the Russians loved their children too. Then he took up tantric yoga.

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jedishampoo.livejournal.com

That's after he became the sorceror's apprentice, right?

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When he was living in that house next door to Scylla... with Charybdis on the other side? Yeah... That was while he was in school. Sorcerer was his greek prof. He sort of took over his position after some fairly funny business involving a ring.

Edited Date: 2010-02-04 08:51 pm (UTC)

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LOL.

The tantric yoga thing is probably what sent me over the edge into thinking that Sting is a bit pretentious. I like the Police's sound better than I like Sting's as a solo act.

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I liked his first and second solo efforts (my first concert was his Dream of the Blue Turtles tour) but stopped listening after that.
He still looks hot though. While assuredly pretentious, the yoga does keep him in nice shape.

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(nosing in here) I saw that tour - that was made of awesome. His band then was one amazing group of musicians, and he had yet to start taking himself QUITE so seriously. *lol*

The Police were the first Eighties band to convince me that good music hadn't gone away completely somewhere around 1976. I was a hopeless fan of what they now call *sigh* classic rock, but they won me over (although I still don't particularly like "Roxanne.") I thought Synchronicity was a vastly-underappreciated concept album - people liked it less because they were trying something different, I guess. Mr. HG's band actually does decent covers of several Police songs.

Edited Date: 2010-02-05 05:46 pm (UTC)

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I saw Sting on tour, but don't remember which album it was for. The show I saw was pretty blah... nothing shiny or memorable. Or maybe I was just mad that I wasn't seeing The Police, which I always loved more than just Sting on his own. :)

And I loved Synchronicity! Synchronicity II was my favorite song. Pretentious but it had a sweeping sound I loved.

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Odds are you saw one of the tours after Blue Turtles... It was his first solo tours, and played smaller venues, with not as much fanfare as his later ones. But all his players on that tour were pretty well known jazz musicians in their own right, and because he only had one solo album, he did tons of Police stuff. It was wonderful.

Synchronicity II has special meaning to me. It came out while I was going through the demise of my first marriage, and I can remember driving home from my shit job SO many nights, listening to it, and feeling that dread and sense of the my world unraveling around me just like in the song. The whole album is really so good... I really need to get it on CD, I still have the cassette tape. *lol*

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*glomps* Welcome!
To my recolection, Synchronicity did pretty well. The singles from the album certainly got a lot of air play on both the radio and MTV at the time. Anyway, as I mentioned, it is definitely my favorite Police album and was the one I listened to the most often. I'm not a huge fan of Roxanne either. As far as their early stuff, I like Message in a Bottle better.
I didn't know Mr. Helliongoddess was in a band!! That's pretty nifty.

heck... nowadays effing Journey is considered classic rock. Nothing against Journey, but to me "classic rock" is always going to be the stones and led zepplin and other bands that were around in the 60s 70s.

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Oh, and where did you see him in concert? We were living in Virginia and saw him at William and Mary. I was 14 and mom said I couldn't go because it was a school night, but then my best friend won tickets on the radio and mom conceded that it was FATE. Since it was my very first concert I was really impressed by the whole thing. And his band was good... didn't he have one of the Marsalles (spellng???) guys playing woodwinds? I want to say it was Winton Marsalles (spelled phonetically, because I've only heard it and not seen it).. but you might know better than I.

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Argh! W&M Hall is where I saw the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour - Where and when were you living in VA? *jumps up and down*

And yeah, he had Branford Marsalis playing sax, Kenny Kirkland on keyboards, Darryl Jones on bass, and Omar Hakim on drums - all pretty well-known and respected jazz/rock folk.

And just to brag on my sweet babboo, he is an awesome guitarist himself. When he was in his late teens/early twenties, he was lead guitarist for a band that played as opening act for most of the big bands of Southern Rock - Allman Bros., Marshall Tucker, etc. - all up and down the eastern seaboard. He stopped playing for many years and - with some heavy nudging from me - picked it up again while we were dating, and has a band now with people from where he works.

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Oh, my god!!! We were at the same concert!!!!!!!! That is so trippy, especially since I'm not even sure why I asked except that I thought I remembered you were from that area. We were living in Newport News, so it was a bit of a drive. And it was between 1984 and 1986, but I think the concert was in 1984 or 1985. I probably still have the tee-shirt somewhere. Hee! Remember everyone playing vollyball with big balloons before the show started? That is so funny!!
Good for you making your boy play again. It is probably, if nothing else, a great creative release for him. Musicians must play music! Have you met any famous musicians through him? You should collaborate on a story/concept album; he does the music and you write the story... all you need is an artist for the pix!

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Ok this is getting really, truly weird. I have written you a message, rather than continue to spam jedi's journal (and to preserve what little privacy I try to maintain, for reasons I will explain in the msg.)

Yeah, it is very good for him to play - both the practicing and having the friends with the band has been really good for him. We had both gotten way too isolated there for a while, and unlike me, he is a natural extrovert.

What's ironic is he has a computer-based learning program for the guitar now up in his rock-man-cave in the new house, and he spends hours and hours up there alone practicing (plus he has practice usually one night a week.) When I first started writing and rp-ing on LJ, it almost brought us to the brink of a separation, because he couldn't cope with me wanting to have time to IM with my friends, be alone to write, etc. He was really kind of threatened by me suddenly having this activity and friends that didn't involve him, and took my time away from him, even though it was making me incredibly happy, and pulling me out of a really deep depression.

Now he is doing the same thing, and I am secretly cheering, "yay!, now you see what I was doing, you have a life and something to do, and see, we DON'T have to be glued at the hip all the time to be happy, do we?" I'm so glad I just kept doing what I wanted to do and was patient, and gave him time to figure it out.

He actually asked me a couple of times back then, "you're not going to run off and leave me for one of these women, are you?" "No," I said patiently,"don't be ridiculous," while I thought, "unless you can't quit being such an insecure child..." Men. He's six years younger than me. He's still growing up. ^______^

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Got the message and will reply - have a very overdue valentines smut to finish before anything else gets done!! *glomps*

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jedishampoo.livejournal.com

There's not much from the Police that I don't like. "De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da" and "Message in a Bottle" and "Spirits in the Material World" and yeah... I had ~~have~~ a thing for the Police... Actually, if I ever have a son he'll be named Stewart (for Stewart Townsend, don'tcha know).

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I knew there was another song of theirs I liked a lot: "Spirits in the Material World". (Couldn't think of the name of it.)

At the time, I was more into New Wave, particularly the Cars, and starting to get into David Bowie's stuff.

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