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That's funny. Considering that I never, you know, showed any offense to what you said, I think I know where you pulled that from.
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Consistently terrible. 
Except that the experiments are failures and diversity doesn't always mean greatness - if I release a 10-song album and every song is a different genre than the others is that a masterpiece? |
I said the album was diverse AND it worked. Of course I'm not saying it's the best simply because it's the most diverse.
While they did trade out their old reggae influences for something new they didn't lose their substance, the lyrics have never been stronger, than melodies have never been stronger and the musicianship has never been stronger.
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"Tea in the Sahara" is boring and pretentious. "Every Breath You Take" is the most boring song they ever made. "Walking in Your Footsteps" sticks out in a negative way. "King of Pain" gets tiring on repeat listens. "Synchronicity I" is annoying. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is better than I claimed but still isn't a highlight in their discography.
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Not fast paced rock =/= boring.
Well maybe there is, if they are synths they sound like some kind of Idiophone which is what I thought they were.
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If it sounds like pop, I DGAF if it has 37 time signatures, it's pop.
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The Police were ALWAYS a pop band. And if you'd write off an extremely complex song as pop just because it has a really catchy melody then you are an idiot and you should join progarchives where all the other members of the anti pop brigade reside.
If you have listened to real synth pop, you'd know the subject matter was a little more straightfoward and sexual than say Jungian philosophy.
One thing the band didn't come become was watered down, smoother production yes (and since you're a Pink Floyd and Steely Dan fan I can't see you having a problem with that), more of an emphasis on jazz and world music, but Sting's songwriting abillity hasn't diminished, let's face it he was always the songwriter of the group.
They went from making simple love songs to making pretty grandoise stuff about all kinds of things and I can understand why you find that pretentious and prefer their older stuff, if you know anything about my tastes you'd understand why I prefer the latter.
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That "sentence" should be changed to "GITM has some crap" which it does.
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None of the songs are bad, some are less than great but that's an issue with every Police album, Synchronicity is easily their most consistantly successful, Mother doesn't bother me THAT much, I always assumed it was a joke, and guess what, that's one of only two songs Sting didn't write, lol. And Walking in your Footsteps drags a little too long, but overall it's my favorite Police album and one of my favorite 80s albums period.
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Not one of the highlights but still shit.
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Your debating skills are just astonishing. What makes this one so bad and De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da a masterpiece?
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Omegaman gets dreadfully old but the rest are good.
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Omegaman is one of the most underrated Police songs, the guitar is crazy.
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Synchronicity is the first Police album I heard and I thought three things when I heard it.
1: "This doesn't sound like 'Message in a Bottle'."
2: "Wow, this song is a pile of turd."
3: "This song is a lot better than the others."
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So you hate the album primarly for not sounding like the previous albums? So a band can't evolve? It's understandable if you prefer the older stuff but if you're gonna judge their music by nostalgia alone it's no wonder you're being so biased.
I also want to know what is so terrible about Every Breath You Take, I think it's a great song just overexposed.
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The Police were my favorite band for about 2 1/2 years but even then I thought that album was awful. It's basically Sting with his terrible solo output featuring Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.
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How is it any more of a Sting solo album than the others? He was always the primary songwriter of the band and Summers and Copeland didn't really have less input here than previous albums. The only song that really resembles Sting's solo material is Walking in Your Footsteps (the only song with a noticable absence of Summers' guitar) and I do consider that one of the low points of the album. But overall it's still very much a group effort.
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I think you should stop taking personal offense to what everyone says. I don't think I've read an exchange between members that features you that didn't contain a statement similar to the one you started your post with here. Just because I don't like Synchronicity and don't agree with you doesn't mean I took personal offense or something.
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If I recall, you're the one who told me to f*ck off because Synchronicity is my favorite album. You're the one trying to tell me how wrong I am. And you're doing a very poor job of it so all you have accomplished is annoying the crap out of me.