The Police - Secret Journey demo version 2 (rare audio)

[zerosum68]

so awesome...LOVE Ghost in the Machine so much...

[zindi1138]

ghost in the machine is the best album of the 80s.

[policefan1982]

Sting didn't even want to sing Omegaman for GITM because Andy wrote it. Sting was not exactly a team player. Any fan of the Police should read Andy's memoirs. Interesting life story, a good writer, and he has that dry English sense of humor.

[POLICEchout]

@policefan1982

I read somewhere that their label wanted Omegaman to be the first single off the album...Sting(y) would have none of that! Oh well, great song buried in the album nontheless...

[PhantomMarquis]

— Don't know if it was Hugh Padgham's choice or the Police's, but the lyrics of the initial third mini-verse don't pull the song together very well—I find that the final production works much better. But it's still very nice to hear the song in its more organic state!

[rg2027x]

Copelands drums bring it to life..

[JACPUNK]

muy buena version pero me quedo con la que salio en el disco

[dominicsunday]

ah aha ... it really needs Stewart!!!

[voncoolio]

Everything except the drums is better than the original, in my opinion!

[vanhelganw]

I love that there are people out there who love this is much as I do, and that I happened to come across such a rare gem. I think "haunting" is such a good description of many of Sting's songs. Ever heard "Once Upon a Daydream," a B-side from the GITM sessions? I think it is on the Message in a Box set. Gives me chills! Thank you POLICEchout, I am now going to listen to everything on your playlist..

[doublemandala]

@vanhelganw ...you will find this love you miss...

[spitfire71068]

The finished "Ghost" version is much better, but this is an impressive demo.

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

Almost 30 years old, sounds like last week!

Terrific song/demo!

[hugfrombug]

Sting is the coolest songwriter. Period. I have never ceased to be fascinated by his haunting songs.

[policefan1982]

Yes, Sting. Stewart is much better than your drum machine.

[bitchum]

well put. i can never understand why sting always seem to be snarling at stewart for what he does. stewart copeland is one of the best drummers EVER!

[TheAnanda9new]

@policefan1982

I totally agree with you ;o)

The Drummachine is the TR-606 from Roland (i guess) in demo version 1, too . I still work with this vintage instrument and other TOYS from these old times.

If interested in, feel free to see and listen in my Facebook Profil, my name is Germ3

The "Ghost In The Machine" Tour, in the Grugahalle Essen/Germany in 1981 was my first Concert I´ve ever seen and I still have the Tour T-Shirt ;o)

Live Long and Prosper xxx

[policefan1982]

@TheAnanda9new

The Police 01/1982 was my 2nd concert. They were not yet popular in the US, and my HS classmates told me they wanted to see the opening act, the GoGos, but not the Police!

Stewart Copeland is incredible drummer. Too bad they couldn't all get along.

[bugmusk6]

@TheAnanda9new Is it possible to find one of those tr-606 machines?

[10111999montana]

thiis is brilliant. Thanks for posting it Policechout!!!

[Sadlovers44]

the best band of the...

[zerosum68]

this is great...not to bad for a "demo".

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

Everybody log-off YouTube as soon as you can untill december 22. I'll do it in an hour.

[sdc1977]

Anybody else here depressed as hell that George Bush is leaving office in a few weeks???????

I am.

Any suggestions on how to cope????

[theScutches]

Shoot yourself. You'll do the world a favor.

[sdc1977]

You too, cuntface!

[theScutches]

OH BOY, if I had a cuntface I'd never leave the house!

What I should have said was shoot yourself on camera and then have someone post it on youtube. Just think of the views it would get. That should make you feel better right?You self important dickhead! Considering you went on youtube and viewed a video of a Police demo and posted something totally unrelated. No one gives a fuck on how depressed you are! Especially for such a stupid reason. Go tell a psychologist.

[panhead55]

LOL, right on. the police rule, that should make this fella not so depressed.

[linkian209]

you should shoot your self

[linkian209]

i am because we will be under the Supreme High Chanseller Obama for 4 years. And Remember!!!! Change...Its all you'll be making for the next 4 years.

[mamorris85]

I wish they would have included the extra vers in the studio version. The words make the song's story better. "though I can see no logic, there has to be a plan. You answer me with questions, you are a holy man." I love the studio version, but after hearing this it looks like they compromised and cut it back.

[jwpfcupp]

Simply Awesome! An in-your-face All-Sting Choir a capella chorus opening on the GITM Album would have turned this song into a classic on the level of Roxanne and Message in the Bottle. This song may have better placed as the second track to Syncronicity (sorry Andy-I probably would have dropped Mother). Sting's hunger, genius and refined work definitely carried the day.

[Haeystyn]

for someone who loved the police in the eighties all this Youtube stuff now is manna from heaven

[Tubes12AX7k]

This is one of my favorite songs from ANY band, EVER.

[Polorf]

la cagaa las versiones "rare"

[calfskinhit]

Where is the live version of this gem... anybody know?

[pegosse29mc]

so good. superbe.

[PittSteel1979]

Awesome bass line! Love the intro! This could have appeared on Ghost structured as is.

[scifitim]

Love this song, onbe of the best on Ghost in the Machine......cool version....

[winwolf06]

Interesting intro, it brings to mind Yes and their amazing vocal harmonies.

[luzhizui]

This definitely has something on the album version especially the guitar bits on the 'chorus'.

[torbene77]

amazing that you got hold on that material - thanks for posting. what an awesome song. I'd really love to hear that one live - along with Omega man! :-)

[POLICEchout]

I love Omega Man! one of my all time faves...i'd love to hear that live, but i have the feeling they never did it.

[luzhizui]

They should have recorded it like this on the album, and made it into abit of an 'epic', which would have partially rescued an album which was abit 'patchy' I reckon.

[Bodiefassa]

they didnt when i saw em last year

[razzmatazz1974]

i loved the 2 demo versions you posted. secret journey is a very dark and intense song, one of the best they ever did. but its highly underrated and unknown for most people.

if im right, they only played it live twice in the ghost in the machine tour, 1981. they didnt include it in the 2007 tour setlist, althought they included some songs that are not so famous. A pity

[rock2208]

musical genius..

[plumsource]

this one sounds fairly complete though - changed little for the recording. Interesting if this IS just Sting's rough demos, that he was delivering fairly complete songs by this stage with little space for the others input - the slippery slope!

[netrom75]

yes, one of many, it´s the way a number evolve before thay feel it´s the right one.-just produsing it, from first idea -

[netrom75]

good versionbut shame on the drummashine

[pcs56]

These are probably the original versions Sting threw down by himself as he was writing; before Andy or Stewart even heard them.

[jem2017]

I like the analog beatbox. Drum machines like the one you can here on these tracks fell out of style quickly in the 80's once digital-sample based drum machines were introduced. But analog machines continued to be used in rap and hip-hop, which later led to a general revival of interest among musician in these old boxes for their distinctive sounds.

[POLICEchout]

I concur...I have a Mattel toy drum machine that came out in 1981. I love it.

[NotAValidUsername]

A nice alternative to demo version 1 of this song. Great vocal harmonies by Sting.