Outlandos

So, an altogether disappointing successor to the almighty 'Outlandos' - no soulful 'Roxanne', no inspired 'So Lonely'; plenty to take down in evidence against them.

Reggatta de Blanc 1979

So the Police's true musical identity only emerged with the issue of 'Outlandos', whereas 'Reggatta De Blanc' now stands or falls according to its effectiveness in consolidating the sound and the style that has become, in the minds of the record buying public, the Police.

Reggatta de Blanc 1979

The band's career is selectively represented, with 'Outlandos d'Amour' and 'Zenyatta Mondatta' getting six songs each, 'Reggata de Blanc' and 'Ghost in the Machine' four, and 'Synchronicity' a whopping eight.

The Police 2007

If you own the 'Outlandos To Synchronicities' video check out the 'Demolition Man' track from Gateshead, notice Sting does not swear.

Live Ghost In The Machine 2001

Their second album, 'Reggatta de Blanc', had just reached Number 1 in Britain, but their American set was still dominated by numbers from the debut, 'Outlandos d'Amour'.

The Police Live! 1995

The cuts from their 1978 'Outlandos d'Amour' showed all the characteristics that would combine to make the band both so commercially attractive and musically innovative.

Message In A Box - The Complete Recordings 1993

Only half as comic as 'Be My Girl', his cockney ode to a rubber dolly on 'Outlandos d'Amour', Andy Summers '' Mother 'is a blast of pure primal scream in 7/4 time, the sarcastic cut of his Freudian recitation intensified by a brute rhythm attack recalling Robert Fripp's experiments with spoken words and white rock noise on' Exposure '.

Synchronicity 1983

'Zenyatta Mondatta' isn't; but neither is it a knockout to cap 'Outlandos d'Amour' or 'Reggatta de Blanc'.

Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

But unlike 'Outlandos d'Amour' and 'Reggatta De Blanc' (two concentrated attempts at wedding machine-gun punk to sensual reggae), there's unity in Zenyatta Mondatta's very diversity.

Zenyatta Mondatta 1980

'Voices In My Head' serves as a new wave mood piece should anyone care for some hot Andy Summers riffing and lyrical references to Bombay and Afghanistan, could be an outtake from 'Outlandos d'Amour', the first Police record.

Zenyatta Mondatta 1980