The Police - Reggatta De Blanc UHD (1979 - Rock) [Flac 24-192 SACD RIP]
“Are we not all blessed to be living in the time of Willie?”
"To warm up the evening, guys, we're going to play a punk song ... which like all punk music is great crap!". With words of this tenor, Sting used to stir up and provoke the audience with the skyline bristling with multicolored crests who attended the first concerts of the newborn Police.
Legend or truth, in this curtain dated 1977, there are hidden a couple of truths that are only apparently conflicting.
One, that the Police are in some way indebted to the climate of musical renewal (read the punk movement in a broad sense) that exploded in the second half of the 1970s. no frills that seemed to have attracted the attention of those musicians who looked to the "new".
But there is also a second truth: the distance, sometimes abysmal, that separates the Police sound, so full of great taste and musical substance, from the raw roughness and sound poverty of punk.
The Police are probably, together with U2, the most successful band produced by the new wave. The reason for this exceptional appeal exerted on the public is to be found in a handful of factors. The objective of this card, centered on the second Lp "Reggatta de Blanc", dated 1979 and probably the most significant album of the entire discography of the group, is precisely that of tracing and analyzing these aspects.
Three blond old men
They had, to start from the top, three oxygenated heads, apparently the consequence of an advertising campaign for a shampoo. But the Police, fortunately, were something else, musicians of great depth, each with different experiences and attitudes.
To begin with, Steward Copeland (drums), despite being a great admirer of punk, had played, until the enlightening meeting with Sting in 1977, in none other than a well-known progressive group, the "Curved Air", devoted to a mixture of rock and classic and set out, after the glories of the early 70s, towards an inexorable decline.
Sting (voice and bass) for his part, alongside his teaching activity, cultivated an inordinate passion for jazz (which was widely manifested in his subsequent solo career) and was noted for his uncommon charisma by leading, with little luck, a feeble band, Last Exit.
Andy Summers (guitar) was an appreciated and, let's face it, seasoned session player. Already companion in fortune of Eric Burdon since the 60s, the guitarist, born in 1942, arrives at the big break with the Police after turning 35.
The average age, rather high for an emerging English band of that era, is certainly a key to understanding the class of a sound that exploded in all its maturity already in the debut album, the splendid "Outlandos d'Amour. "of 1978, of which" Reggatta de Blanc "represents a sort of confirmation and further consolidation according to a line of expressive continuity.
Tracklist:
1. The Police - Message In A Bottle
2. The Police - Regatta de Blanc
3. The Police - It's Alright For You
4. The Police - Bring On The Night
5. The Police - Deathwish
6. The Police - Walking On The Moon
7. The Police - On Any Other Day
8. The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You
9. The Police - Contact
10. The Police - Does Everyone Stare
11. The Police - No Time This Time
Playing Time.........: 41:35
Total Size...........: 1503,88 MB
