What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Fifth and final album from the group, after studio fights while recording this one. Reported that Sting and Copeland actually came to blows. But the album sure turned out good. This was the groups first #1 album in the states, but those people with the funny accents across the pond and down under had already made the previous 3 albums #1. Four singles from here of which Every Breath You Take performed the best at #1. Great song but my favorite is Synchronicity II. Two other great ones for me with King Of Pain and O My God. Only thing I don't like is that stupid Mother thing by Summers. That's just annoying. This album came out as I was coming out of my self-imposed hiatus from music listening. Seems like this may have been my first purchase in about 2 years, while I was waiting for disco to die a slow painful death. I outlasted it. That was my goal in life at the time. Now if I can only outlast dance/techno and death/doom metal my life will be complete.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Mother

Best Track - Synchronicity II

Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our Rice Crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so.much heartache he can take
Many miles away
Something crawls from the slime
At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake

Another industrial ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the sky
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to wonder why
The secretaries pout and preen like
cheap tarts in a red light street
But all he ever thinks to do is watch
And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish loch

Another working day has ended
Only the rush hour hell to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a shadow on the door
Of a cottage on the shore
Of a dark Scottish lake
Many miles away, many miles away

1) Synchronicity I - **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5L1LnPZJ2g
2) Walking In Your Footsteps **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJrY-hV84Y
3) O My God ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmkjfPrBZo
4) Mother *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpvZ68EIgA
5) Miss Gradenko **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZVS_b6r4E
6) Synchronicity II ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQd3jxth5k
7) Every Breath You Take ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs
8) King Of Pain ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A0vmhdWaJc
9) Wrapped Around Your Finger **
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWINSRhQU0
10) Tea In The Sahara **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcEumfNE9vM

3's - 4
2's - 5
1's - 1

Grade - 2.3