{"id":40739,"date":"2008-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/synchronicity-3\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T00:00:00","slug":"synchronicity-3","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/synchronicity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as the fifth and final album by Simon & Garfunkel (Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/i>) was their best, so is The Police\u2019s fifth and final effort, Synchronicity<\/i>. At the time this review was been written, the three members of The Police had announced that they were reuniting for a summer world tour. Welcome back, boys, it\u2019s been a long time. No word yet whether they will go into the studio to recreate some of the magic and record a new album, which is what many Police fans like myself are hoping for. It would definitely be what you might call a must-own.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

So far, Synchronicity <\/i>is the high-water mark by which all other Police and Sting albums are judged. More than half the songs in the second part of the album were hit singles, though the first part is equally as impressive. Both \u201cSynchronicity I\u201d and \u201cSynchronicity II\u201d are great rock tracks, but I\u2019ve always preferred the former (even if it never became a single). Nowhere will you hear such upbeat material come out of frontman Sting, but at least now we all know he does have it in him to rock out when he needs to. If only his subsequent solo albums had the energy that Synchronicity <\/i>does.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Police sound of old can be heard on reggae-tinged tracks like \u201cO My God,\u201d \u201cTea In The Sahara<\/st1:place>\u201d and \u201cMurder By Numbers.\u201d Unfortunately, those tunes pale in comparison to the other instant classics found on this album. There\u2019s plenty of variation that makes for an exciting listen from beginning to end. At one end of the spectrum you have a pair of brief experimental numbers by Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, respectively, \u201cMother\u201d and \u201cMiss Gredenko.\u201d And then you\u2019ve got the hit trilogy of Sting-led singles, \u201cKing Of Pain,\u201d \u201cWrapped Around Your Finger\u201d and the greatest Police song ever, \u201cEvery Breath You Take.\u201d So help me, I\u2019ll never forgive Puff Daddy for stealing the music for \u201cEvery Breath You Take\u201d for his own purposes on the Princess Diana\/Notorious BIG tribute, \u201cI\u2019ll Be Missing You.\u201d When the rapper went to #1 with it, you could almost hear a collective groan by rock music aficionados everywhere. Sting never should have allowed a thing like that to happen.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

If The Police do decide to have another go and attempt to put together a sixth album, they should really focus on having the new material pick up where Synchronicity <\/i>left off. In particular, they would be best served if they went into the direction that \u201cWalking In Your Footsteps\u201d and \u201cMother\u201d were going in. For some reason, those are the two songs that stood out the most for me. The music was inventive and was so different from anything the trio had ever attempted before. Certainly, they should recruit reliable producer Hugh Padgham to help them achieve a feat that many consider next to impossible. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":26855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7080],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40739","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-police","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40739"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}