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The Police - Synchronicity (1983) {Japan 1 st Press}

The Police - Synchronicity (1983) {Japan 1 st Press}

BAND/ARTIST: The Police

  • Title: Synchronicity
  • Year Of Release: 1983
  • Label: A&M Records #38XB-2
  • Genre: New Wave, Pop Rock
  • Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u,Log) / MP3 CBR320
  • Total Time: 00:40:05
  • Total Size: 318 / 167 Mb (Scans)
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Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by English rock band The Police, released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1983. The band's most successful release, the album includes the hit singles "Every Breath You Take", "King of Pain", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and "Synchronicity II". At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year and won three. At the time of its release and following its tour The Police were hailed as the "Biggest Band in the World". The album was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the U.S. Billboard 200, and sold over 8 million copies in the U.S. Synchronicity was widely acclaimed by critics. Praise centred on its cohesive merging of disparate genres and sonic experimentation. Rolling Stone described "each cut on Synchronicity not simply a song but a miniature, discrete soundtrack." It has since been included on their lists of the "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" and the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2009, Synchronicity was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Simultaneously more pop-oriented and experimental than either Ghost in the Machine or Zenyatta Mondatta, Synchronicity made the Police superstars, generating no less than five hit singles. With the exception of "Synchronicity II," which sounds disarmingly like a crappy Billy Idol song, every one of those singles is a classic. "Every Breath You Take" has a seductive, rolling beat masking its maliciousness, "King of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" are devilishly infectious new wave singles, and "Tea in the Sahara" is hypnotic in its measured, melancholy choruses. But, like so many other Police albums, these songs are surrounded by utterly inconsequential filler. This time, the group relies heavily on jazzy textures for Sting's songs, which only work on the jumping, marimba-driven "Synchronicity I." Then, as if to prove that the Police were still a band, there's one song apiece from Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, both of which are awful, as if they're trying to sabotage the album. Since they arrive on the first side, which is devoid of singles, they do, making the album sound like two EPs: one filled with first-rate pop, and one an exercise in self-indulgence. While the hits are among Sting's best, they also illustrate that he was ready to leave the Police behind for a solo career, which is exactly what he did.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. Synchronicity I [3:24]
02. Walking In Your Footsteps [3:38]
03. O My God [4:03]
04. Mother [3:07]
05. Miss Gradenko [2:01]
06. Synchronicity II [5:04]
07. Every Breath You Take [4:15]
08. King Of Pain [5:01]
09. Wrapped Around Your Finger [5:15]
10. Tea In The Sahara [4:17]

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