THE POLICE "THE BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU"
; "THE POLICE \"THE BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU\"")
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One of London’s quintessential punk turned new-wave turned pop sensations, The Police ruled the top of the charts for a solid 3 years with a series of wildly successful full-lengths and fully accepted hit singles that culminated in their massively successful LP “Synchronicity,” released in 1983 to much fan-fair and eventually selling 8,000,000 copies in the United States alone. Looking back on their unique styling, skilled songwriting and masterful lyrical composition, one can only stand amazed at the subtle maneuvering in which they were able to appeal to the widest range of audiences while maintaining total integrity and sophisticated, highly intellectual dispositions during a time when pop as a corporate force of bland, edge-cutting formulaics were being revived, redeveloped and strengthened once more under the reactionary corporate assault on the advances of sophisticated popular music during the 60’s and 70’s. Blending punk rock, new-wave, jazz and reggae without fully owing allegiance to any of these genres, Sting and band members Stewart Copeland & Henry Padovani championed a new pop approach that blended strong, irresistible song structuring and rhythmically undeniable groundings with urbane, subtly discerning themes that borrowed as much from the literature of Carl Jung & Paul Bowles as much as it did the critical theory of Foucault and the philosophical discourse of Spinoza & Schelling---nevertheless appealing to everyday themes of working-class plight, existential despair and innocent desire. Theirs is an example of a band pulling off the high order of retaining full artistic integrity while refusing to relegate themselves to falsely pretentious circles of unimportant artistic babbling…and their songs continue to speak volumes in sound and story years after their project crumbled under the pressure of personal strain of individual dispute.
| Tracklisting | ||
| Side A. | ||
| 1. The Bed's Too Big Without You | ||
| Side B. | ||
| 1. Walking On The Moon | ||
| Artist | Title | |
| THE POLICE | THE BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU | |
| Label | Cat.# | |
| A&M | MM-307 | |
| Year | Format | |
| 2008 | 12" | |
| Additional Info. | ||
