This was one of those special videos that would grab you and keep you at the tube watching till the end. Then, you and your buddies could leave and start the night of drinking and whatever. Ahh, Senior year was too cool. Great music and videos and great parties! Cant forget about the chicks, god I loved the 80's!
I watched this on MTV as a teenager. Awesome lyrics beginning to end.......Just imagine it...Right now... Many miles away...there's a shadow... on the door...Of a cottage... on the shore...of a dark... Scottish.... lake.
a great song gets better to me when i find an official music video or concert footage like this... one of my favorite songs just got better. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
This is one of those songs that every time I hear it I recognize it, I know that it's The Police, but I never can remember that the title is Synchronicity 2.
@TomasTigre the only reason i know the title is synchronicity II is because i thought it was unique, and decided to commit it to memory. its one of my favorites next to message in a bottle and quite a number of others.
@mozeus5 Not so far - but it does have that theme. It was the 80's and these guys were all VERY tired of one another. The Cold War was still dragging on and with the ever-present notion that civilization was teetering on the mood-swings & mental health of some 70+ year old geriatrics in the US and USSR was never really a comfortable situation. So the Police represent that , the drone and oppression of the normal , coupled with the surreal possibilities of the untamed world.
I remember watching this video with my dad back in the eighties , and the 3:25 mark where sting is close to the camera my dad said he looked crazy and I replied yea that's the whole idea. This was not meant to be a pretty or lovely video. It was meant to rattle peoples senses and move them out of there comfort zone to realize the horror of nuclear holocaust! I thought he looked cool as hell in this video though. Made about the time that he was filming the movie Dune.
@Newsensation1978 The hell, I love this video and badass Sting! He had this look and attitude before the Billy Idol craze of that time. He was doing the blonde spiked hair and giving those looks in the late 70's, and so was Billy Idol, but I'm just saying this was nothing new for Sting. The look of the guys and the post apocalyptic look of the vid just goes well with the song.
Say what you will about Sting (today) but back then he and the Police were the shit! They meant business and were a great rock band that just happened to peak right at the height of 1980's excess. They were not 80's music though...
Evaluating these lyrics for extra credit in my AP English class. I thought about doing something recent, but nothing I could think of was strong enough as poetry. Besides, it gives me an excuse to abuse the replay button.
@roxannegrent Sorry but even Sting stated this song was titled Synchronicity; referring to Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity. Stated in Time magazine article: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically."
Thanks for posting this! I hadn't heard it in years until it played on Sirus/XM the other day and I haven't been able to get it out of my head:) This song ROCKS!
I think cream rises to the top and stays there. Talent is out there but Rocks just not as mainstream as it was, It takes 1 BIG BAND or influence to change things, thats all it takes
@cent892 Sadly with the current state of the music industry and commercial radio the likelihood is that the '1 BIG BAND' will never get signed or played! All of the current Big Bands that started years ago didn't break till their 3rd or 4th album. Nowadays you are dropped if your first album isn't a hit. People should ignore the radio + TV and trawl reverbnation and myspace music for their audio pleasure - there is far more self financed innovation there than in any record shop at the moment.
@cent892 Sadly with the current state of the music industry and commercial radio the likelihood is that the '1 BIG BAND' will never get signed or played! All of the current Big Bands that started years ago didn't break till their 3rd or 4th album. Nowadays you are dropped if your first album isn't a hit. People should ignore the radio + TV and trawl reverbnation and myspace music for their audio pleasure - there is far more self financed innovation there than in any record shop at the moment.
Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga (please--that's a nasty man in a nasty woman's body.) ,Kayne West, Chris Brown are a "humiliating kick in the crotch" to artists and the entire music world and former music world. From @9339phil2332's statement, "The '90s, the '00s and the '10s suck, music-wise." NONE of that is music.
@hellomynameissimon2 im 12 and i have been taught to like all of these bands and im glad i was because as you said none of it is music, well your right its just bubblegum crap and people are autotuning their voices and getting gazillion dollar contracts. I just don't understand.
I'm only 24 and i can see the regression in music regardless of who it was made for. I know plenty of kids who still dig the police. its just scary when you meet people who don't know or don't like the beatles and the stones? thats wierd right? surely respect for music is more important than what is produced for the relevant generation.
The only people who like 70's and 80's generic pop are posers.
Anyone who has real appreciation for music likes all of the real stuff right? dylan? stones, etc
@PinkneysDefiant Not really, kids who listened to Dylan and the Beatles were probably not fist pumping to Cab Calloway or Nate King Cole. If some 15 year old kid today doesn't know any of these 60's, 70's, or 80's acts, it's not an insult. He has his own generation to listen too. He goes to parties that play kate perry and 50cent. Music made by 20 year olds is not meant for people who where 20, 20 years ago. So don't compare.
STING: "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"
@RandomShellAccount So you're comparing a rock band with a teeny pop act. That was one hell of a case, how did you ever manage to get that point across? At any rate, I'm not a fan of story telling with such explict grammar, I'll take the slightly jaded lyrics of Editors, White LIes, or Interpol (all modern acts). They're a throw back to the poetry of Ian Curtis.
Top comment by Jarrefan is dumb. I love the police and am on here cuz I'm playing this song at a gig tomorrow and am learning it... BUT there is way more music these days due to the crushing blow of the internet on the music industry. Were not limited to a few major distributors. We get so much music now. Its wonderful. Wake up!
@ChuckJax23 I agree. Although I dislike a lot of these popular new artists, there is plenty of good artists out there, even if underground. I don't know why people always have to come to these comment posts and mention popular artists or other things that have nothing to do with this wonderful music. Another good thing now is how easy it is getting for people to produce/record their own music.
I wish people would stop mentioning today's lame ass musicians when it comes to older music, it's just played out. To each their own though I say. I mean, I bet people who grew up listening to Big Band music wasn't too keen on this either even though to us this song is EPIC!
@hellodarkness84 I agree- what's the point of hating on someone elses music? You may not like it, but everyone's taste in different. That being said, I think today's music is largely synthetic, which is why I don't like it. The only emotion you get is from the persons voice, which is usually modified as well. It's made to sell, and sell it does.
@hellodarkness84 I agree- what's the point of hating on someone elses music? You may not like it, but everyone's taste in different. That being said, I think today's music is largely synthetic, which is why I don't like it. The only emotion you get is from the persons voice, which is usually modified as well. It's made to sell, and sell it does.
@acr08807 Yeah, but vice versa as well--Sting doesn't claim to be a virtuoso, and I doubt that Benny Goodman ever claimed to be a songwriter/lyricist (though I don't know). I think Sting s great in his own way.
@pdynamics1: actually Mtv used to air the live version of Synchronicity I from the "Synchronicity Concert" home video, as its own music video. They also did the same with King of Pain, though less often and I think from an outdoor concert.
But yeah, no non-live conceptual videos unfortunately.
@RandomShellAccount OMFG dude thank u. u made my day!!! I agree my generation's "pop" so call artists have a lot of behind-the scene ppl arranging their success. The police is a band that shows my generation what a true musician is all about. Each of their members are true artists. I can say tho One Republic's Ryan Tedder is an amazing talent, so there is still hope for us
@RandomShellAccount I can name drop a shit band for every one you just mentioned which were around during any given year in the 80s. Fucking youtube people get all nostalgic and immediately become grumpy old people. At any rate, you shouldn't understand Lady Gaga or Kanye West, they are not for you, just like The Police was not for your parents.
Today's songs are part of a recursive pop culture that talks about itself. The Police were one of many bands that had the talent to create lyrically dense structures that actually told you a story about someone other than the band. We have a word for that... two words actually: imagination and creativity.
I can sum up a band like Arcade Fire's lyrics in one sentence: How cool it is to feel, like, um, something.
@RandomShellAccount And, you'd have drunken yourself into a blur rather fairly understandably so. The ignorant kids and relative youth these days have absolutely no true, genuine passion for music at all whatsoever, nor any real, substantive knowledge or familiarity of it as a whole at all whatsoever.
This is coming from a 22-year old relative youngster, by the way, who feels rather reasonably alienated by, and within, this particular generation, at least considered as a "mainstream" whole.
@RandomShellAccount And I think about all of the great JAZZ bands I grew up listening to, the ones as far back as the 1920s, right up to the 1970s, and I hear Britany Spears and Alicia keyes and all the rest of the minimally talented pop performers, and there isn't enough liquor to blot out how I feel. One reason Sting sounds good is because his drummer is jazz trained, and he employs a lot of jazz licks.
@IndianaParkWars Synchronicity: an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated. Its good to know, CAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
@9339phil2332 If you look closely at the album cover, there's a clip pictured that states: "Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle". A lot of people miss that, but then again, there's no more clever album covers in existence. The '90s, the '00s and the '10s suck, music-wise.
@moparholic1 Indeed! Back then, art appealed to cerebral intellect and the pursuit thereof; nowadays, all it appeals to is brain-stem impulsive activities like racism, sex, murder and drugs. Gladly, it's just about burned itself out, soon to be replaced. Hopefully by something better.
@SenorSpode Sorry, but this is a shallow statement. Good music has existed forever, and will continue to exist forever. People are just too unmotivated to truly search it out.
@Ka2Spider1 The point I was trying to make is that in contrast to years gone by, there's not as much good music. As you said, you have to search it out. And usually, that means either going Indie or the live circuit. God knows the big labels are asleep at the wheel here and have been for 15-20 years. Everybody wanted to be Nirvana or Jewel. Fuck that.
@SenorSpode every generation thinks their generation's music was the best. But the truth is, if their music is as good as they say, it'll be around a lot longer than they will. Like European American Jazz classics. Sometimes, like great painters, the artists has been dead years before their work is recognized. Like John Coltrane receiving a citation from the Nobel Peace Prize committee for musical excellence.
@lamontlewis Trust me ROCK CAN NEVER DIE!!! that's TRUTH, and sure, Jazz, Classical, Country, even rap and hip hop will have some timeless classics, but the basic BAND elements make up your drums, guitar and bass
@IndianaParkWars its basically when two unrelated things happen, but they are connected in some way
In this song The Dad is going through all these things in his day, and each time something bad happens, the song switches to talking of the lochness monster getting closer and closer to the top of the Lake Lochness
so in Laymens terms, The monster rising symbolizes the Man becoming closer and closer to Becoming a Monster inside. Hope this helped
This song is the bomb! I got the best of the Police in 86, and played it so much, i can't really listen to it anymore. This song was not on it, so i haven't heard it a million times. I love it! Thank you! :)
Not really...He has always looked like this for the most part. Keep in mind the puck rock scene started less then 5 to 10 years earlier. So that filtered into a lot of the British rock in a big way.
@GenVirtu. No, I do not believe he looked like this for a particularly long time :). In this particular video there is a great resemblance between Billy and Sting. Complexion, Hairstyle, hair colour and even they way he shapes his lips when he sings in this video.
Actually, I think Sting's appearance in this video is a lot like that of the character (Feyd-Rautha) he played in "Dune". And the movie and this video were both filmed in the same year, so...
@flashchrome That's totally wrong. As far as 80's music goes, before the Police, there was nothing. Billy Idol came along a couple of years later.
While Billy Idol was a pop-rock icon, Sting was a god, like Bono, & video presentation was an afterthought to their kick ass, reggae-style of rock.
Synchronicity II was not even one of their most popular songs; only hard-core Police fans appreciated its raw power, intensity & post -apocalyptic shock lyrics.
These three could make more music than a full symphony orchestra.
Fricksheeze 1 week ago
I'm 25 years old, and this is one of my fave songs. By one of my fave artists.
rupefan 3 weeks ago
Sting kind of looks like Neil Patrick Harris.
hefalonicle 3 weeks ago
Great classic from the Police. Long before Sting went solo and started to bore us all to death. Very creative band, they were!
Pacisdiligo 2 months ago 3
@Pacisdiligo Indeed.
ratnazambhava 3 weeks ago
@Pacisdiligo Fields Of Gold anyone? ;-)
ratnazambhava 3 weeks ago
thumbs up if u like better than synch. 1!
wiisrock87 3 months ago 5
looks like 3 people don't know what real music is... Im 12 and love this kind of music.
wwegurl2080 3 months ago
@wwegurl2080 its great that you love this kind of music. but nobody cares how old you are. cool story.
stevusmaximus229 3 months ago
Fun fact: the set was made from leftovers from the movie Dune.
ornjoos 3 months ago 6
Love to hear Sting wail..."Yo-o-o...yo-o-o..." When God made Sting, He broke the mold. Incomparable artist.
Superchick2 3 months ago
How is this song not extremely famous?
waggy5678 4 months ago 2
This was one of those special videos that would grab you and keep you at the tube watching till the end. Then, you and your buddies could leave and start the night of drinking and whatever. Ahh, Senior year was too cool. Great music and videos and great parties! Cant forget about the chicks, god I loved the 80's!
stucat06 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Jesus, they have a way of just making rock. Just awesome. The weird thing is, I'm only twelve. NO JOKE
thecooperpooper 5 months ago
Jesus, they have a way of just making rock. Just awesome. The weird thing is, I'm only twelve. NO JOKE
thecooperpooper 5 months ago 2
dammit....my air guitar broke
joel487 5 months ago 2
I watched this on MTV as a teenager. Awesome lyrics beginning to end.......Just imagine it...Right now... Many miles away...there's a shadow... on the door...Of a cottage... on the shore...of a dark... Scottish.... lake.
MrGoodNamesWereTaken 6 months ago
*their
irock006 6 months ago
Thanks for posting, but you really need to brush up on your grammar....."there official video"???
Cucumberdrx 6 months ago
epic song for dune
MultiLiamm 6 months ago
Best song by Police and Sting also, likely.
Jorsalfar 7 months ago
this video needs more views
MultiLiamm 7 months ago
honk honk honk
djmm1397 7 months ago
Every time I hear this song I think of my ex-wife. Ugh.
Gildmirth0 7 months ago
@Gildmirth0 the "humiliating kick in the krotch" coming back to haunt you?
wishuhadmyname 5 months ago
everytime i hear this song i think of john carpenters ''the thing''
MultiLiamm 7 months ago
a great song gets better to me when i find an official music video or concert footage like this... one of my favorite songs just got better. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
(one more thing: what kind of guitar is that?)
static1994 7 months ago
This is one of those songs that every time I hear it I recognize it, I know that it's The Police, but I never can remember that the title is Synchronicity 2.
TomasTigre 8 months ago
@TomasTigre the only reason i know the title is synchronicity II is because i thought it was unique, and decided to commit it to memory. its one of my favorites next to message in a bottle and quite a number of others.
static1994 7 months ago
Thanks; good to hear after many a year!
deliazard 8 months ago
So LOVE this.......
candyndublin 8 months ago
Absolute greatness!
captmclain 8 months ago
does the volume fluctuate for anyone else?
No worries, I can always enjoy this louder ;)
JgHaverty 8 months ago
@JgHaverty Yeah, the volume kinda fluctuates on my end too, but its no problem. "For best results, play at maximum volume." lol
static1994 7 months ago
nice outfit gordon
boats752 8 months ago
Belo som; o batera detonou
marcko1956 8 months ago
I see young Harkonnen in his eyes in this clip :))
mcbure1 8 months ago
the theme song to "2056" -- Get up close and personal with the future!!!!
citizenpoet 8 months ago
Two people clearly couldn't see the shadow on the door.
itzwicks 8 months ago 2
Let's not rate bands, it could get really messy. People can get touchy when it comes to who they think are the top bands, or whatever.
TheLiebeExperience 8 months ago
Is this video filmed in an insane asylum? Cause that would fit them really well. They look really nuts in this, but in a good way.
PyrateCop 8 months ago
any real music conossiour should consider the police in the top ten rock bands of all time
DrKooBot 8 months ago
0:30 Any1 see that marshall amp
THEGUITARSHAMMAN 8 months ago
cai na prova de amanha...
DanielTheUnamed 8 months ago
Vai cair na prova de amanha e tenho que ficar assistindo essa porcaria..
DanielTheUnamed 8 months ago
I love "angry" Sting, he's slightly hotter than regular Sting! ;)
TheMelamia 9 months ago 2
Is that Dolph Lundgren Singing???
mozeus5 9 months ago
@mozeus5 haha
JgHaverty 9 months ago
Comment removed
mozeus5 9 months ago
@mozeus5 Not so far - but it does have that theme. It was the 80's and these guys were all VERY tired of one another. The Cold War was still dragging on and with the ever-present notion that civilization was teetering on the mood-swings & mental health of some 70+ year old geriatrics in the US and USSR was never really a comfortable situation. So the Police represent that , the drone and oppression of the normal , coupled with the surreal possibilities of the untamed world.
proadmin1 9 months ago
@proadmin1 Ok Thanks. Well put
mozeus5 9 months ago
Is it too late to fire the costume designer of this video?
bluemonkjd 9 months ago
I swear that DAMN Loch Ness Monster stole my tree-fiddy
chapmanstickman 10 months ago 27
@chapmanstickman I laughed till I hurt on your comment.
kevinstroup 7 months ago
I heard this while at the pawn shop last night, it was pretty funny
MetallicBill 10 months ago
A humiliating kick in the crotch to those who dislike this song!
easy2120 10 months ago 4
If you want good present day music listen to Jukebox The Ghost or Panic At the Disco.
digirosariofan 10 months ago
Hey, Queensryche fans check out their version of this song right here on youtube.
SPEClES8472 10 months ago
Back to the loch with you, Nessie!
SPEClES8472 10 months ago
great song too bad sting is so full of PC bullshit
boats752 10 months ago
I remember watching this video with my dad back in the eighties , and the 3:25 mark where sting is close to the camera my dad said he looked crazy and I replied yea that's the whole idea. This was not meant to be a pretty or lovely video. It was meant to rattle peoples senses and move them out of there comfort zone to realize the horror of nuclear holocaust! I thought he looked cool as hell in this video though. Made about the time that he was filming the movie Dune.
ou812BD 10 months ago
@ou812BD nuclear holocost? what sort of shit you been smoking?
boats752 10 months ago
@boats752 actually dumb ass its a comment sting made in an interview one time about what the video was about! I just didn't make this up!
ou812BD 10 months ago
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE AND HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG. What's up with Sting tryin to go Billy Idol though??? Damn worthless director.
Newsensation1978 11 months ago
@Newsensation1978 The hell, I love this video and badass Sting! He had this look and attitude before the Billy Idol craze of that time. He was doing the blonde spiked hair and giving those looks in the late 70's, and so was Billy Idol, but I'm just saying this was nothing new for Sting. The look of the guys and the post apocalyptic look of the vid just goes well with the song.
Don1970 7 months ago
Neil Patrick Harris does a great job in this video.
lol, I really love this song!
NJWells92 11 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Such a cool song...
kenerasor 11 months ago
Say what you will about Sting (today) but back then he and the Police were the shit! They meant business and were a great rock band that just happened to peak right at the height of 1980's excess. They were not 80's music though...
babachewbaba 11 months ago
the first time i heard this song was iLas vegas on the hotel on our tv.
erik19882010 1 year ago
Evaluating these lyrics for extra credit in my AP English class. I thought about doing something recent, but nothing I could think of was strong enough as poetry. Besides, it gives me an excuse to abuse the replay button.
BrianaGhostGirl 1 year ago
It is Synchronicity 2...
What? 1 dislike? The Police have been tainted :o
KajiekBrighteyes 1 year ago
I this song is called "many miles away" not synchronicity 2 but its amazing anyways i love this song!
roxannegrent 1 year ago
@roxannegrent No... itis called Synchronicity 2.
hardykid567 11 months ago
@roxannegrent Sorry but even Sting stated this song was titled Synchronicity; referring to Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity. Stated in Time magazine article: "Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically."
1972matthewg 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this! I hadn't heard it in years until it played on Sirus/XM the other day and I haven't been able to get it out of my head:) This song ROCKS!
artielangelova 1 year ago
0:35 OMG he beating the hell out of them drums lol. I'm 13 i love the police
thyssenelevator97 1 year ago
I'm 16 years old, and this is one of my favorite songs.
BarquilloBandit 1 year ago
@BarquilloBandit You are wise beyond your years, my friend....I salute you!
vinceeverett2010 1 year ago
True art!
MikeBurke1974 1 year ago
i love very much conceptual art so that's in part why i used to listen this and other great bands like rush,genesis tool,etc...
moparholic1 1 year ago
I fell in love with this song when I first heard it, good job Sting
Scoutman3100 1 year ago
One person is out of synch
thegonz9 1 year ago
young sting totally looks like neil patrick harris
therammingrods 1 year ago
@therammingrods i was thinking DJ Qualls xD
BoneDaddy216 1 year ago
I think cream rises to the top and stays there. Talent is out there but Rocks just not as mainstream as it was, It takes 1 BIG BAND or influence to change things, thats all it takes
cent892 1 year ago
@cent892 Sadly with the current state of the music industry and commercial radio the likelihood is that the '1 BIG BAND' will never get signed or played! All of the current Big Bands that started years ago didn't break till their 3rd or 4th album. Nowadays you are dropped if your first album isn't a hit. People should ignore the radio + TV and trawl reverbnation and myspace music for their audio pleasure - there is far more self financed innovation there than in any record shop at the moment.
jur451c 1 year ago
@cent892 Sadly with the current state of the music industry and commercial radio the likelihood is that the '1 BIG BAND' will never get signed or played! All of the current Big Bands that started years ago didn't break till their 3rd or 4th album. Nowadays you are dropped if your first album isn't a hit. People should ignore the radio + TV and trawl reverbnation and myspace music for their audio pleasure - there is far more self financed innovation there than in any record shop at the moment.
jur451c 1 year ago
Not sure i would put alot of the 80's stars up as paragons of virtue though i agree that the music today is weak and in too many cases debased.
projectguy1 1 year ago
Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga (please--that's a nasty man in a nasty woman's body.) ,Kayne West, Chris Brown are a "humiliating kick in the crotch" to artists and the entire music world and former music world. From @9339phil2332's statement, "The '90s, the '00s and the '10s suck, music-wise." NONE of that is music.
hellomynameissimon2 1 year ago
@hellomynameissimon2 im 12 and i have been taught to like all of these bands and im glad i was because as you said none of it is music, well your right its just bubblegum crap and people are autotuning their voices and getting gazillion dollar contracts. I just don't understand.
Coolguysexplosion 1 year ago
I'm only 24 and i can see the regression in music regardless of who it was made for. I know plenty of kids who still dig the police. its just scary when you meet people who don't know or don't like the beatles and the stones? thats wierd right? surely respect for music is more important than what is produced for the relevant generation.
The only people who like 70's and 80's generic pop are posers.
Anyone who has real appreciation for music likes all of the real stuff right? dylan? stones, etc
PinkneysDefiant 1 year ago
@PinkneysDefiant Not really, kids who listened to Dylan and the Beatles were probably not fist pumping to Cab Calloway or Nate King Cole. If some 15 year old kid today doesn't know any of these 60's, 70's, or 80's acts, it's not an insult. He has his own generation to listen too. He goes to parties that play kate perry and 50cent. Music made by 20 year olds is not meant for people who where 20, 20 years ago. So don't compare.
Firstserger 1 year ago
STING: "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"
KATY PERRY : "I kissed a girl and Iiked it"
I rest my case...
RandomShellAccount 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount So you're comparing a rock band with a teeny pop act. That was one hell of a case, how did you ever manage to get that point across? At any rate, I'm not a fan of story telling with such explict grammar, I'll take the slightly jaded lyrics of Editors, White LIes, or Interpol (all modern acts). They're a throw back to the poetry of Ian Curtis.
Firstserger 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount Or Rihanna....I'm a rock star...over and over and over. Laughed my ass off when I heard THAT! he he
teojlo 1 year ago
I love this freaking song!
Copeland drives me insane in this tune!
ROCK THE F*** ON ! ! !
Oh... I just noticed, looks like one person was looking for Billy Idol instead. LOL
theforcesdatb 1 year ago
Comment removed
theforcesdatb 1 year ago
I did a stylistic analysis on the lyrics of this song in my rhetoric class. The song is briliant! Love it :D
slicknick2208 1 year ago
(3:28) I heart you too Sting
weichlac 1 year ago
that set's completely made out of music equipment! I can't even afford a damn mic stand WTF!?
weichlac 1 year ago
Top comment by Jarrefan is dumb. I love the police and am on here cuz I'm playing this song at a gig tomorrow and am learning it... BUT there is way more music these days due to the crushing blow of the internet on the music industry. Were not limited to a few major distributors. We get so much music now. Its wonderful. Wake up!
ChuckJax23 1 year ago
@ChuckJax23 I agree. Although I dislike a lot of these popular new artists, there is plenty of good artists out there, even if underground. I don't know why people always have to come to these comment posts and mention popular artists or other things that have nothing to do with this wonderful music. Another good thing now is how easy it is getting for people to produce/record their own music.
hellodarkness84 1 year ago
The Police were so much a part of the landscape, when I was growing up. It took me a long time to realize how much I loved it. And love it I do.
torkymonkey 1 year ago
I wish people would stop mentioning today's lame ass musicians when it comes to older music, it's just played out. To each their own though I say. I mean, I bet people who grew up listening to Big Band music wasn't too keen on this either even though to us this song is EPIC!
hellodarkness84 1 year ago
@hellodarkness84 I agree- what's the point of hating on someone elses music? You may not like it, but everyone's taste in different. That being said, I think today's music is largely synthetic, which is why I don't like it. The only emotion you get is from the persons voice, which is usually modified as well. It's made to sell, and sell it does.
g00dz 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@hellodarkness84 I agree- what's the point of hating on someone elses music? You may not like it, but everyone's taste in different. That being said, I think today's music is largely synthetic, which is why I don't like it. The only emotion you get is from the persons voice, which is usually modified as well. It's made to sell, and sell it does.
g00dz 1 year ago
@hellodarkness84 Sting is good, but no way is he the kind of musician that Benny Goodman was.
acr08807 1 year ago
@acr08807 That's just a matter of opinion...
hellodarkness84 1 year ago
@acr08807 Yeah, but vice versa as well--Sting doesn't claim to be a virtuoso, and I doubt that Benny Goodman ever claimed to be a songwriter/lyricist (though I don't know). I think Sting s great in his own way.
derek4ur 1 year ago
great sound quallity..but my vinyl record still sounds better
lunarpking 1 year ago
Sting is so FUCK'IN cool. What a magnetism & presence. A true showman!!!
Thebearcat66 1 year ago
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
nosrednayrrek 1 year ago
DUNE - the Baron's nephew....Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
nosrednayrrek 1 year ago
DUNE - the Baron's nephew....Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen
nosrednayrrek 1 year ago
Too bad they never made videos for King of Pain and Synchronicity 1 as well.
pdynamics1 1 year ago
@pdynamics1: actually Mtv used to air the live version of Synchronicity I from the "Synchronicity Concert" home video, as its own music video. They also did the same with King of Pain, though less often and I think from an outdoor concert.
But yeah, no non-live conceptual videos unfortunately.
geezerbill 1 year ago
This song seems like a true anthem to destruction, disorder and chaos, especially the beginning.
chapmanstickman 1 year ago
i knew this song tanks to guitar hero
crisscrash120 1 year ago
I think of all the great bands I grew up with in the 80's like the Police.
And then I think of Justin Beeber ,Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Nelly, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Chris Brwon ...and all the current 'chart toppers'.
And then I drink myself into a blur.
RandomShellAccount 1 year ago 58
@RandomShellAccount OMFG dude thank u. u made my day!!! I agree my generation's "pop" so call artists have a lot of behind-the scene ppl arranging their success. The police is a band that shows my generation what a true musician is all about. Each of their members are true artists. I can say tho One Republic's Ryan Tedder is an amazing talent, so there is still hope for us
Ben10888 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount I can name drop a shit band for every one you just mentioned which were around during any given year in the 80s. Fucking youtube people get all nostalgic and immediately become grumpy old people. At any rate, you shouldn't understand Lady Gaga or Kanye West, they are not for you, just like The Police was not for your parents.
Firstserger 1 year ago
Comment removed
RandomShellAccount 1 year ago
Comment removed
RandomShellAccount 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount Best. Comment. Ever.
Today's songs are part of a recursive pop culture that talks about itself. The Police were one of many bands that had the talent to create lyrically dense structures that actually told you a story about someone other than the band. We have a word for that... two words actually: imagination and creativity.
I can sum up a band like Arcade Fire's lyrics in one sentence: How cool it is to feel, like, um, something.
Cinemalogue 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount Just because they aren't your definition of talent doesn't mean they aren't talent.
Cyantist2 1 year ago
@RandomShellAccount Yes, the charts now are pathetic and the music blows
EvolvingQuest 11 months ago
@RandomShellAccount And, you'd have drunken yourself into a blur rather fairly understandably so. The ignorant kids and relative youth these days have absolutely no true, genuine passion for music at all whatsoever, nor any real, substantive knowledge or familiarity of it as a whole at all whatsoever.
This is coming from a 22-year old relative youngster, by the way, who feels rather reasonably alienated by, and within, this particular generation, at least considered as a "mainstream" whole.
GmanGregilla 11 months ago
@RandomShellAccount And I think about all of the great JAZZ bands I grew up listening to, the ones as far back as the 1920s, right up to the 1970s, and I hear Britany Spears and Alicia keyes and all the rest of the minimally talented pop performers, and there isn't enough liquor to blot out how I feel. One reason Sting sounds good is because his drummer is jazz trained, and he employs a lot of jazz licks.
lamontlewis 10 months ago
Hang in there, Sting!
SenorSpode 1 year ago
This song is my fave by them!!
MzMeanE 1 year ago
i only only know about this song because of neal shusterman.
TheGeoshark 1 year ago
This year my school's marching band is playing music by Sting, and this is the closing song :D It's my favorite outta the 4 they're playing.
I wish more people my age listened to actual good music like this
DaggerAran13 1 year ago
what is sychronicity
IndianaParkWars 1 year ago
@IndianaParkWars Synchronicity: an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated. Its good to know, CAUSE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
9339phil2332 1 year ago 2
@9339phil2332 If you look closely at the album cover, there's a clip pictured that states: "Synchronicity: an acausal connecting principle". A lot of people miss that, but then again, there's no more clever album covers in existence. The '90s, the '00s and the '10s suck, music-wise.
SenorSpode 1 year ago 12
@SenorSpode yea, but of course i never bought any of the police CD's :(
9339phil2332 1 year ago
@SenorSpode i remember that i had noticed it that's right that was clever !!!
moparholic1 1 year ago
@moparholic1 Indeed! Back then, art appealed to cerebral intellect and the pursuit thereof; nowadays, all it appeals to is brain-stem impulsive activities like racism, sex, murder and drugs. Gladly, it's just about burned itself out, soon to be replaced. Hopefully by something better.
SenorSpode 1 year ago
@SenorSpode luckily there are few exeptions like rush and tool who still do great,by the way excusé my english cuz i'm québécois !!!
moparholic1 1 year ago
@moparholic1 (1) RUSH!!! Right on!
(2) Your English is remarkable. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't've known. Cheers!
SenorSpode 1 year ago
@SenorSpode Nirvana
NoDontBugMe 11 months ago
@NoDontBugMe Negative. I do like Smashing Pumpkins, however...
SenorSpode 11 months ago
@SenorSpode Sorry, but this is a shallow statement. Good music has existed forever, and will continue to exist forever. People are just too unmotivated to truly search it out.
Ka2Spider1 10 months ago
@Ka2Spider1 The point I was trying to make is that in contrast to years gone by, there's not as much good music. As you said, you have to search it out. And usually, that means either going Indie or the live circuit. God knows the big labels are asleep at the wheel here and have been for 15-20 years. Everybody wanted to be Nirvana or Jewel. Fuck that.
SenorSpode 10 months ago
@SenorSpode every generation thinks their generation's music was the best. But the truth is, if their music is as good as they say, it'll be around a lot longer than they will. Like European American Jazz classics. Sometimes, like great painters, the artists has been dead years before their work is recognized. Like John Coltrane receiving a citation from the Nobel Peace Prize committee for musical excellence.
lamontlewis 10 months ago
@lamontlewis Trust me ROCK CAN NEVER DIE!!! that's TRUTH, and sure, Jazz, Classical, Country, even rap and hip hop will have some timeless classics, but the basic BAND elements make up your drums, guitar and bass
MetallicBill 10 months ago 16
@MetallicBill i would like to extend my full agreement towards all effects of this statement. thank you for posting it.
static1994 7 months ago
@MetallicBill hey hey my my
MultiLiamm 6 months ago
@IndianaParkWars Synchronicity is when things get all outta hand, kinda like anarchy
bigdsears 1 year ago
@IndianaParkWars its basically when two unrelated things happen, but they are connected in some way
In this song The Dad is going through all these things in his day, and each time something bad happens, the song switches to talking of the lochness monster getting closer and closer to the top of the Lake Lochness
so in Laymens terms, The monster rising symbolizes the Man becoming closer and closer to Becoming a Monster inside. Hope this helped
gta4rulzu 1 year ago
@gta4rulzu yeah thanks
IndianaParkWars 1 year ago
This song is the bomb! I got the best of the Police in 86, and played it so much, i can't really listen to it anymore. This song was not on it, so i haven't heard it a million times. I love it! Thank you! :)
TerryT420 1 year ago
Sting is hot
PurityJordison 1 year ago
"Pretentious art house gits?" Stu Copeland was trying to scam the punk craze to make a buck, he was tired of doing prog rock with Curved Air.
SwiftRivers1 1 year ago
The Police were a bunch of pretentious art-house gits, but they sure could rock.
SimuLord 1 year ago
One of the music videos that amused me when I was little.
Wow..that set!!
flowers321 1 year ago
I can't believe they didn't put this on their greatest hits album!
thepouge1 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
POLICE ARE BETTER THAN YOU
AmmoNightmare 1 year ago
I think what get's me is the mundane mixed with the surreal, and of course that post-apocalyptic theme to the video.
proadmin1 1 year ago
love the savage pounding on the drums by Stew
MJLU280 1 year ago
EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO AND THE POLICE's BEST SONG Sometimes THE SONG IS BETTER THAN THE VIDEO IN THIS CASE THE VIDEO AND THE SONG THEY ARE INCREDIBLE
TRUEMAN8919 1 year ago 2
Are the Police in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame yet?
If not, They totally should be.
GenVirtu 1 year ago
@GenVirtu yes they were inducted in 2003.
MJLU280 1 year ago
@GenVirtu So should Rush.
g00dz 1 year ago
@g00dz completely agree-rush hasnt been inducted yet? wth are they waiting for??©
AthenA2ptO 1 year ago
Sting looks like a billy idol copy...
flashchrome 1 year ago
@flashchrome
Not really...He has always looked like this for the most part. Keep in mind the puck rock scene started less then 5 to 10 years earlier. So that filtered into a lot of the British rock in a big way.
GenVirtu 1 year ago
@GenVirtu. No, I do not believe he looked like this for a particularly long time :). In this particular video there is a great resemblance between Billy and Sting. Complexion, Hairstyle, hair colour and even they way he shapes his lips when he sings in this video.
flashchrome 1 year ago
@flashchrome
Actually, I think Sting's appearance in this video is a lot like that of the character (Feyd-Rautha) he played in "Dune". And the movie and this video were both filmed in the same year, so...
khymera915 1 year ago
@khymera915 I had thought that also. He did pretty good in that film.
thepouge1 1 year ago
@flashchrome That's totally wrong. As far as 80's music goes, before the Police, there was nothing. Billy Idol came along a couple of years later.
While Billy Idol was a pop-rock icon, Sting was a god, like Bono, & video presentation was an afterthought to their kick ass, reggae-style of rock.
Synchronicity II was not even one of their most popular songs; only hard-core Police fans appreciated its raw power, intensity & post -apocalyptic shock lyrics.
spittlebits 1 year ago