The Police - Synchronicity

The cover of this one is weird, different from the version I've seen other places. Maybe it's a re-release. At any rate, this was the last studio album the Police ever made together. All solid tracks. I think it's probably safe to attribute the influence of the song Synchronicity II to my later love of the strange and macabre. Pretty sure it was after I first heard that song that I started reading Poe and Lovecraft. I guess I had pretty sophisticated taste in music for a little kid. This came out when I was eight. And even if this is a rerelease, I remember clearly being into the Police as early as fifth grade.

Sophisticated... I mean. Look, I have already copped to the fact that Sting is king of the Tools and all Toollandia. And lines like:

"If we explode the atom bomb,
Would they say that we were dumb."

I mean, look. I'm not claiming the Police are high-art. But I'm totally unashamed of my love of their work. And they beat the entire wardrobe off any of the shit that's new NOW...

Shit. I'm doing old man rant.

Police good. Okay?

Updated Saturday May 10, 2014

Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

I've heard a lot of shit-talk about Huey Lewis lately. Which is weird because I don't think he's even made any music in the last decade or so. Has he done anything recently? I haven't heard it if he has. I kinda figured he was just old and retired and rich now. I dunno. I liked him in the 80s. I'm not gonna claim his music changed the world or anything. His big dumb haircut and his big dumb chin were... big and dumb. But I'm looking at the track list now and it looks pretty good to me. "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "I Want a New Drug", "If This Is It". It was just dumb mindless 80s pop, but so was everything else. It was the fucking 80s. You never hear anybody talking trash about The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Updated 24 May 2014:

Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down

Did he wear white pants on every album cover? Signs point to yes.