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It was okay, very 80s. Had no idea Every Breathe You Take was on this album
Wow, I did not like this. I did not expect to dislike it this much. The lyrics are atrocious and it's all so mid
Earns the name by being a very well-ordered setlist full of hits
This is so nerdy. Even the hits sound nerdier in context.
Was a very interesting alt rock album. Felt a bit all over the place with the vibes though.
Strong start but not much else other than the one big song. Never really listened to The Police other than what plays at the grocery store and probably wouldn't revisit this. 6/10
Great album. Love how the bass and drums sit together. The vocals are really distinctive too.
Buen álbum, repleto de obras cumbres que a día de hoy suenan en la radio, pero un sentimiento de que infravaloran canciones que las siento igual de buenas que las "mainstreams".
the fifth and final album release by the police, and definitely their most famous release too. with its artsy concept revolving around the concept of synchronicity and coincidence, more than a few smash hits on a single record, and with an energy so distinct it's not easy to compare it to other bands in a similar timeframe, this is probably the one police album you'd need to listen to out of all the others. i love this album a lot. i have it on vinyl as well. so it was a very awesome re-listen. there's a lot to say about each of the individual songs that make up the album, the laid-back pop anthem "every breath you take" already recognizable to millions... but for me the standout tracks are both synchronicity parts, the first is a little quick and the shouting, calling hooks make me want to belt out along with the other band members. the second half mellows out the speed but the voices are spellbinding. pop isn't for everybody, and i do agree, sometimes the lyrics get a little silly (looking at you, walking in your footsteps) but this is probably one of the strongest efforts when it comes to radio smash-hit music made in the 80s. you hear music from this album... no, the police in general in any public place and you know your day is going to get a little better.
Heard before?:❌️/✔️(not entirely) Will listen again?:❌️
Police trying to be pink Floyd to some success
only for Every Breath You Take other wise zero
Too much police
1.) Synchronicity I: Fine song. Sounds like a generic The Police song. 2.) Walking In Your Footsteps: Didn't know Sting was a dinosaur kid. I like to think if they disbanded because of a song on this album it would be this one, not Mother. 3.) O My God: I like this one. Bass-forward, saxophone in the background, an eerie bridge: sounds like the 80s. 4.) Mother: Perfectly normal. 5.) Miss Gradenko: Not my favorite on this album. Its a weirdly catchy song. 6.) Synchronicity II: I < II. Has more 80s action sound. Always forget that this is about a Loch Ness Monster. 7.) Every Breath You Take: Everyone knows this one. Good song. Would be funny if this song were from the perspective of the Loch Ness Monster from Synchronicity II. 8.) King Of Pain: Always think I don't like this song but has a good chorus. I get the first verse not needing the synths for progression to verse 2, but I think it's missing something. 9.) Wrapped Around Your Finger: I forget about this song. Good synth intro. Honestly prefer the verses over the chorus. Don't want to be near Sting's fingers, I guess. 10.) Tea In The Sahara: This song feels disjointed. I liked the intro of this one but nothing really panned out. I would skip this one, and I didn't skip Mother. 11.) Murder By Numbers: My favorite song on the album. I like the emphasis of the beat on the drums being almost surgical mixed with the laxxed guitar playing.
I was not prepared for the album that has "Every Breath You Take" on it to be so ass. Highlight: EBYT
I did really want to love this, but when I was finished with it I really had no desire to listen again. I don't think The Police really speak to me, but I definitely appreciate them. It is a cool album and concept with some really great hits, but as a whole just fine for me. Top Songs: Synchronicity I, Walking in Your Footsteps, Every Breath You Take, King of Pain
Never been much a fan of Sting and again he is the weak link on this album. I’d love to hear this with Adrian Belew singing on it instead including/especially the Summers’ song. Actually this whole album really just makes me wish i was listening to King Crimson which is a sideways compliment of sorts.
Not gonna lie, I was relieved when the album ended. Not a bad album, I just don't like it: Every Breath You Take is just the classic it is, but still, does not make me like the album. I'm not their biggest fan, I don't like the sound and I don't really like Sting. I don't know, I just don't like their songs.
I quite enjoyed my Police greatest hit back in the day. Found this a bit of a struggle. Every Breath You Take feels quite an anomaly as its close to pop perfection - whereas everything else is quite pompous and jarry and and annoying (esp Mother!). Only listened once. Did not enjoy.
The Police had some great songs. Most albums also had some crap filler on them. This one has three big hits and a lot less crap ones. So does that mark it as their best album?
6/10 Best songs: Murder by Numbers Significantly better than the other album by The Police on this list (Regatta de Blanc), but like, that's not saying much. I find this album perfectly fine. There's really nothing wrong with it, but there's nothing particularly interesting about it either. It's extraordinarily 80s in that new wave way, but what else would you expect from an album on this list??
yknow, i actually like the police. This was a nice album, felt thoughtful
An almost perfect album! The rating is brought down only by Andy Summers' unbearable manic screaming ⅞ timing track "Mother." Anything with Sting's name on it is golden. This album famously showcases Sting's biblical and poetic writing, and the production quality is stellar as always. While "Every Breath You Take" is THE song, for me, "King of Pain" is tops, with "Wrapped Around Your Finger," and "Synchronicity II" close behind.
very funny of the police to show they could be good with "mother" then instantly go back to being boring
Pretty annoying, nothing I especially liked about it, lots I disliked. Guess I’d rather listen to this than Bon Jovi
Found this and real mixed bag. Amazing single and some other good songs but song God awful ones too.
3/5, good sound but nothing special onestly
Meh. Some great songs, some very bad songs. Average to 3 stars.
Weirdly dull songs, great drumming. Favourite song is the opener.
Überraschenderweise anders
gostei bem menos do que esperava
This was a lot more artsier than I was expecting from such a mainstream band. At their most experimental moments, I can hear some eighties King Crimson in this. "Mother" is easily the nuttiest cut on here and must have confused anyone who brought this record just for the singles. "Every Breath You Take" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" sound exactly like how I expected the rest of this album to sound like. I don't get the culture appropriation claims. They're clearly influence by a lot of music all over the world, but they are doing their own thing with it. Perhaps I was mindlessly sat on the Sting hate bandwagon, but I'm surprised that a Police record would be so up my street.
Groovy though some songs can become annoying with the onslaught of sound. There are some very good standout songs like murder by numbers and every breath you take imo
Mother is weird. Murder By Numbers is a banger
Rarely are final studio albums this good. But The Police nailed it with this album. If one was on most college campuses in this time, they heard at least one of these songs once a day.
Some great (if a little creepy) hits, some weird (and very creepy) non-hits. Not something I'll be returning to. 4/10
Pretty ordinary with the odd flourish. Woeful vocals.
Couple of bangers (I really like the title track), but more of the same really.
No. There are a few good songs on here but there’s also some things like mother that are so annoying and not good. They miss more than they hit
Not my favourite Police album
The perfection of the 80s rock trio
I had to listen to Sting wail about how every girl he dates is his mother but Mama by My Chemical Romance didn't make the cut????
I really enjoyed a lot of these songs, including ones I had never heard of (Like Synchronicity II). I will be listening again.
This was fun. Some hits on here which are great.
It is 1983 and rock's trajectory is hitting its terminal endstage. This was where it was all headed. Here's what we get this year: The Police, Souxsie and the Banshees, Talking Heads, New Order, Eurythmics, Echo and the Bunnymen, R.E.M. - just to name a few. What happens this year is refinement based on the past decades of innovation and though production wouldn't yet make it obvious, the remasters that were year down the road made it clear that we had reached the zenith in '83. Starting with Elvis and passing along through landmarks such as The Beatles, Woodstock, Pink Floyd, and The Sex Pistols, rock's journey is basically completed this year with the release of watershed albums, among them this one - a masterpiece - Synchronicity. If you wanted to end a band or a movement with an album, this would be it. At a brisk 39 minutes, this is a collection of songs that are at turns fun, angry, beautiful, thoughtful, and odd. The musicianship is great. The songwriting is excellent. Everyone is at their peak despite what's happening behind the scenes. It's everything a good rock album should be. There's nowhere for rock to really go after this year although 1984 does an impressive job of keeping up its spirit with some great albums. Everything after that is basically a homage to or heavily inspired by what has already happened although Nirvana gets to place the final period on the end of rock history about ten years later with In Utero (or Unplugged if that's your thing). For all intents and purposes, however, we are done here. Mission complete.
I am certain this album was made to later become a jukebox-esque musical. Also some of the tracks suck. Very very 1980s
Side one is so does so many interesting things and moves and shakes and not all the songs are for everyone but there is so many layers and so much depth. A band exploring. Toying with options. Hoping you’ll catch up. Side two is Sting.
I enjoyed the second half of this album far more than the first half. I can't help but here King of Pain as Weird Al's King of Suede which I find far more entertaining. Most of this album is forgettable and doesn't really add anything that reviewing Reggatta de Blanc didn't offer.
The two title tracks are great, as is most of side two. All three musicians are in top form. Ironically, this album seems to have less of the tension that drove previous Police albums forward; it's as though they all knew the band was done, so they didn't need to fight it out through the music. Good album, but not the band's best.
More interesting than I feared. Mother is hilarious. I can’t believe I’ve never heard King of Pain before. The creepiness of Every Breath you Take is so much better in the context of the album. Good time had.
Should listen to again, don't remember much.
Nice album
not what i thought the police sounded like lol but yeah it’s okay. has that stalker song ‘every breath you take’ song lol
Nærmer seg prog på tittelsporene. Dypper tærne i experiementell rock / post punk på Mother. (Passer ikke akkurat inn i The Police sitt mye mykere reportoir.) Funker nok likevel best (som album) i soft rock/sophisti pop territoriet den ender opp i på B-siden, selv om de mer energiske tittelsporene er høydepunktet.
The Police får til mye bra, og det er en variert og god plate. Fra de mer progga tittelsporene til Gary Numan-aktige "Miss Gradenko" og world-aktige "Tea In The Sahara". Syns "Mother" kunne vært byttet ut med en Sting-komposisjon. Syns "Walking In Your Footsteps" også kunne vært byttet ut med en annen Sting-komposisjon. Jeg savner kanskje de mer new wavete-låtene, og kanskje hadde The Police utrettet alt de kunne utrette sammen i studio på dette tidspunktet.
I listened to the whole the police discography before this and I gotta say it’s one of the weaker albums everything before every breath you take was underwhelming and after that was good
Some people seem to have a real bee in their bonnet around this one. I thought it was alright yaknow, some great tunes in the midsection, but dragged towards the end. Maybe you needed to be there back in't day to understand why people hate the police, other than ACAB xx
This project has kind of confirmed that The Police really aren't for me. Thought this album was musically a bit weaker than the Reggatta De Blanc
A band that I know! Great band. Some great tunes. Good album.
Man, Aerosmith and these guys are the two bands I never knew I loved until I started this
A strong end saves this album
definitely 2 or 3 tracks I liked more than the rest but I wouldn't say the Police excite me very much. mother sounded 'interesting'
weird as fuck
Don’t want to say that this is a one-song album. But it’s close.
Nothing too specific to say
Awesome album from awesome musicians
Some interesting songs.
This album put me to sleep.
Очень неоднозначно. С одной стороны есть и супер известная Every Breath You Take и другие интересные треки, но чет так тяжелоо.. 5.5/10 Every Breath You Take и Wrapped Around Your Finger
Хорошо звучит, но по большей части скучно. 1 - Every breath you take 2 - King of Pain / murder by Numbers
every breath you take är bra, resten är lite meh
Big fan of the police
I can see why people would like it but it's not for me
WTF was that Mother song. This is not the Message in a bottle police that i know. Didn't like it.
I actually like the police, even though it is 80s. String has a distinctive voice and the music is more than just synth pop. 3.7
Enjoyable but not memorable. Every Breath You Take was the only song I knew. 7/10 Quite Likeable
The hits are hits but the nots are not
O my god, every breath you take and murder by numbers. Three immortal songs within one album. Exceptional
Tämä poliisien levy kiilasi edellisen polliisilevyn kuin mopojonnen aitaa päin. Jokainen henki jonka otat-biizu on vähä väljähtynyt jo, mut hyvä että sekin oli mukana. Tässä oli kivoi juttui.
Käytin pari kertaa levyn läpi, tuntuu olevan melkonen sekotus erinäköstä biisua. On psykedeelistä, on suoraa balladia, poppia, rokkia. Hyvät biisit on todella hyviä, huonommat biisit on vähän keskivertoja - pääasiallinen fiilis levystä on kuitenkin hyvinkin positiivinen, vaikka on vähän hölmöjä veisuja välissä.
Pensé que me iba a gustar más de lo que me gustó…
What a painful listen… Sting’s singing lacks any charisma or interesting quality to me. The whole album sounds hollow and emotionally fraught - it makes sense that this was their last studio album because i don’t think anyone really wanted to be in the studio. Even Ev’ry Breath You Take, which i had in good memory, became a slog. The only song that made me feel something - anything besides annoyance - on here is Mother! Batshit and without Sting as lead vocalist, nice. Goodness, what a disappointment.
First half was rough, back end was fine but all these songs are pretty much the same
Ok
Ear worms I fear. Backing music was good though
Two really good songs make for a good album. This thing has like 6 good/great songs. If that’s not 5 stars I don’t know what is.
This is more of a 3.5/5 out of ten but unfortunately this site only lets you judge art through a set of only five numbers. This aside, this record really has some incredible highs out of songs like the rush of title track, the guitars of King of Pain, and then obsessive, sneaky desperation of Every Breath You Take. That being said, Tea In The Sahara tries to pull some weird ahh deep shit parable for no reason. The production itself is pretty clean, prepped with all of fair amount of musical 80s toys without having to rely too heavily on them. Sting has to be the mvp of this album, nailing the vocals and the bass.
They have talent but might be a little overrated for my taste
Instrumentally more interesting than I was expecting. Very fun!
Really fun! Too bad their most famous song from this album is my least favorite of theirs ever.
This album reallt was a mixed bag for me. There were some songs I loved like murdered by numbers and synchronicity 1, and some others I really hated like mother. And others I was kinda meh about. 3.5
Songs like Walking in Your Footsteps may be too silly for some, but for me, The Police have that uncanny ability to make it work. The lyrics would make me wince in any other context, but with that gorgeous percussion in the background and Sting's unique cadence, it just works. I have to make a stand for Mother as well. It's far from a highlight, but I was led to believe it's one of the worst things I'll ever hear. It's a bit misguided, sure, but the hate is incredibly overblown. Those are the supposed low points of Synchronicity, so you can guess how I feel about the rest of it. It's the sound of a band that knows what they're doing and they're having fun with it, an incredibly confident step forward that turned out to be their last. Favourite track: King of Pain
I didn’t like this at all. The Police are the Eagles of early 80s pop-rock.
I didn't realize there were so many people who hate The Police until I started reading some of the reviews here. Why the hate? Sure Sting is probably an egotistical ass. Did they sell out and become a pop band? I don't think so. That may be a part of it but I think they evolved and just got into different music than they made on the first record or two. That's not really a bad thing. I mean they only released 5 albums and are still one of the top 120 artists on Spotify 40 years later. That's got to count for something. Or maybe that does prove they sold out and became a pop band... By the time they got to this album, they really were a different band than the one that released Outlandos D'Amour. I prefer their 'older' stuff but this record is still pretty solid. Synchronicity II is fantastic, one of their best lyrically I think. Dickish as he may be, I do feel like Sting doesn't get enough credit for his ability as a lyricist. And Every Breath You Take is so misunderstood. It wasn't meant to be a sweet love song, it was meant to be more sinister and examine a dark part of humanity. Yes, it's creepy but that's the point. It's weird when people play that song at their weddings, it's like they never actually listened to it. King of Pain is great as well, I think the 'hits' on this record are justifiably regarded as such. Overall I really like this record. Maybe not my favorite of The Police but I would happily listen to this any day of the week. 4/5
very lovely 80s music 8/10 sting you freaking genius
this is an album that really holds up to the test of time. I first heard most of this album when I was in elementary school and really dove into it in high school when I became obsessed with Sting's music. listening to it now, it really is an incredible stack of music. Of course the one exception is the terrible mother song! The second half of the album really shines, but even the opening tracks are solid and memorable.
J'adore Every breath you take, j'ai bien aimé King of pain mais le reste c'est super mid pour moi
Ouais pas mal
Good as usual -
It has some really good songs.. It has some really bad songs. Teleported me to the past though.
TL;DR: Fun, experimental and the highs are high. Also self-indulgent and uneven, especially in the back half. BEFORE: I've always been lukewarm on The Police, but I like some of the singles from here so I'm going to listen to this with an open mind. AFTER: That delay pedal gets a real workout on here. I enjoyed this more than expected, particularly some of the more experimental stuff. It's not perfect - there are a couple of duds and the energy really drops off on Side 2. HIGHLIGHTS: Synchronicity I and Walking In our Footsteps are pretty cool. Weird synths and textures, and Synchronicity I has something funny going on with its structure or time signature that I like. Definitely more experimental than I expected. O My God has a killer bassline and synth washes at least a decade ahead of their time. Synchronicity II is one of The Police's best songs and Every Breath You Take - while overplayed and a little creepy - is great in the context of the album. LOWLIGHTS: The energy and quality drops off markedly on Side 2 and Sting's lyrics are often embarrassing and self-indulgent. Miss Gradenko is annoying even across 2 minutes. There is something missing from The King of Pain for me - a hook or extra gear that should be there but never arrives. I went back and listened to it again just to check if I was missing something. OTHER: Andy Summers' vocals on Mother came out of left field. The music is good and it reminds me a little bit of Captain Beefheart and the demented carnival music of NZ's Headless Chickens. I liked it more than I expected given its reputation. VERDICT: A light 4 stars. Better than I expected.
i'm sorry for the 2 but that walking with dinosaurs song is so incredibly cringe
A sick prog album in the front half and lame sting songs in the back. Suffers from a track listing problem. Sounds like a band about to break up
Álbum com uma sonoridade muito estranha, não esperava isso do The Police. Every Breath You Take é lendária, lembro quando ouvi pela primeira vez numa aula de inglês no colégio, e já curti muito. Que fase. A música Mother, que porra é essa huahuhuahua. Muito creepy.
#77 Weirder than I expected, but still very 80s. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. The second side is way stronger than the first. Highlights: Syncronicity II, Every Breath You Take, Wrapped Around Your Finger.
Ook weer zo'n dilemma. Wat zou je eraan geven als je de artiest niet kende, en de door Sky Radio en elk winkelcentrum platgedraaide hit nog nooit gehoord had? Want in eerste instantie denk je: de Police, dat wordt inhaken met bekend repertoire, maar ik kende alleen maar dat ene nummer. Het duurde even voordat ik het album als geheel kon beoordelen. En dan is het interessante, goedgemaakte pop met een eigen, herkenbaar geluid. Familiarity breeds contempt: de hit kan ik echt niet meer aanhoren. En het nummer Mother toont maar weer aan waarom we van die Andy Summers verder nooit meer wat gehoord hebben. Verder allemaal erg de moeite waard, na al die jaren.
Ik kan mijn tekst over Regatta de Blanc wel herhalen. Ook op dit album staat met King of Pain één echte uitschieter. Door dit soort nummers had ik hoge verwachtingen. Maar tja, de rest is vooral vergeetbaar. Nou ja, Mother natuurlijk niet. Maar dat levert een dik minpunt op.
Ik vind het eigenlijk verbazingwekkend dat een artiest als Sting, die toch op menig snobfestival als North Sea Jazz niet zou misstaan, maar 2x in de snoblijst staat. Zoals ik al zei bij het andere album van the Police, inmiddels een slordige 2,5 jaar geleden: de snobs kunnen dus wel keuzes maken. We hebben het er maar weer mee te doen. Wat ik apart vind aan dit album, is dat het lijkt alsof ze kant A en kant B hebben omgedraaid. Het begint met vage jazzy uitgesponnen nummers en een hoogst irritante Koot en Bie-esque ode aan de moeder van Andy Summers. Vervolgens krijgen we de grote hits achter elkaar. Meestal is het andersom. Door dat gekke begin kan ik hier geen vijf sterren van maken, maar het tweede deel zou dat zeker wel verdienen. Wrapped around your finger is trouwens nog gecoverd door Green Lizard. Hadden we die hier al een shoutout gegeven?
Not really my type of music but a few good songs
Good pop
An amazing album that remains fresh and exciting all the way through. One of the reasons why this is the case is because all the well known songs and singles are in its second half, so you get all the hits by the time you'd normally start getting bored. The first half is just fantastic, gets you pumped up with the more rockish vibe. The second half is more chill but just as good. There's also a nice variety of sounds, with very worldly tunes, while remaining cohesive. There's also some more experimental songs (Mother) that make it more interesting and original.
Life is too short to listen to The Police.
Great album.
“Every Breath You Take” elevated this album to a 3. There’s some weird stuff on here and lots of the songs feel forced or just trying too hard. EBYT has an effortlessness to it. King of Pain is also solid.
nc
Great
The Police's final album is their most diverse, their most ambitious, and their least immediate. Though the band's internal turmoil would have probably lit the spark of WW3 if they had stayed together even another year, there's a sort of free-form collaboration going on here. Not everything hits (especially not "Mother") and some of the lyric writing is clunky (especially on "Walking in Your Footsteps") but the album is remarkably consistent outside of those 2 issues. It was clear the Police wanted to go out with a bang; at that point, it feels like their biggest-ever hit in the eternally misunderstood "Every Breath You Take" was intentional. I always get a kick out of hearing that in a romantic context, because the song is, of course, about a stalker. The band's technicality also shines through on several songs, like in the boss-battle 6/4 groove of opener "Synchronicity I" and the philosophical musings of its sequel "Synchronicity II." The band's most vivid lyrical imagery appears on "King of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger." The production is also distinctly very airy and offers a lot of negative space to let the songs breathe, which I find mostly absent on previous Police releases. All in all this is among the best final albums of a band's career and one of the most ambitious releases from a group as mainstream as they were in the 80s. Few bands ever decide to call it at the very peak of their career and end up as anything more than a "what-if" question decades later. The Police have never had any doubts about their place in pop history, and it's largely because of this album. Key Tracks: Synchronicity I, Synchronicity II, King of Pain, Wrapped Around Your Finger
no major complaints
Another Police album?! Fucks sake... Bland.
Synchronicity裡面我其實只喜歡Walking in your footsteps.... 聽聞當年這張專輯把MJ的Thriller拉了下來，但扣除他的歷史性這張我真的覺得還好.... 最後一首murder by number是我少數第二首有興趣的…… 整張專輯給我的感覺就是很Beatles....雖然這麼說有點粗淺了但這是真的，，，
I wonder if they got Pete Townshend to do the computer keyboard thing from Baba O' Riley for the title track. Already too much pan flute on Walking in Your Footsteps, which I believe was the working soundtrack for Medicine man. Mother is absolutely terrible. I know everyone misunderstands Sting's lyrics, but Every Breath You Take is a banger, but I'm not sure it's enough to warrant rating it higher than Regatta de Blanc. King of Pain is awful. Wrapped Around Your Finger is bad too. I do not like the Police. Murder By Numbers is not a terrible close out of the album.
"Mother" lost this album 2 points sadly jeeeez louise.
Some all time greats but also a number of filler songs. Can’t rate it too low because of the huge hits, but not an album I would generally listen to end to end.
Honestly, it was fine. I think it's more a product of it's time and a little overrated. Good album, but maybe not great.
Sadly ThePolice didn’t make a ton of music, but what they did make was wonderful. This was the perfect album to end on.
It's okay but I prefer the other album I had by them.
all songs are great, even mother. all other songs are banger though
7/10 Fav Tracks: Every Breath You Take, King of Pain, Murder By Numbers Fav Lyric: Theres a little black spot on the sun today Heard before? --------–- ✅ Saved a new Song? ----- ✅ Saved Album? -------–-- ✅ Will Listen Again? ---––– ❌
Good ideas here but then tons of 80s cheese.
Love the police! Amazing album with great songs! Plus idk why but i love this album cover!
Really varied, not perfect but a young talented band having fun and trying things. Low 4
This is the final Police album and they're not going down quietly. There are multiple versions of the band across Synchronicity, the title tracks being the particularly frenetic, exciting spine of the first half of the record. The second half is much more chilled out but each side offsets the other nicely. I grateful for the almost total lack of reggae (especially in Sting's vocals) but this is a rare occasion when the fantastic percussion pulls focus throughout. The performance and production of the drums is simply sublime and raises the game of the entire project. Mother is an unhinged delight, I love the degree of playfulness and demented delight The Police bring to this song, especially Sting. I didn't think they had it in them. On first listen Every Breath You Take drew an eye roll from me simply due to over-familiarity, but I take it back, in the context of a record which goes to as many places as this, a contemplative slice of well written cheesy pop is exactly what the LP needed. I'm stunned at how well rounded the album is.
I enjoyed it more than the other, a couple of bits of great songwriting and some welcome kooky moments, solid 3 for me
A classic. Has way more corny lines than I remembered but still great.
This is The Police's final album, and arguably one of their best. Every Breath You Take is the obvious hit here, but songs like King of Pain and O My God are very solid. Essential new wave.
3/10
Meh
Did not enjoy the first half. 'Mother' was so bad and put me off the next few songs too. Had to fight myself to not skip it. The second half is a much easier listen. Overall, could not wait for the album to be over
Pretty chill. A bit samey after some time but still good 7/10
Defund The Police
I did not care for this album. Syncronicity II was about the only song I really enjoyed. I’ve never much cared for Every Breath You Take, and Mother was just something else. If you want to listen to an album about a creepy weirdo, this is definitely the album for you. If you don’t want to be uncomfortable throughout the listening process, I’d say skip it.
It seems like yesterday, but I was 18 when The Police released their final studio album, and I was a massive fan. Popular critical opinion would have you believe that "Synchronicity" is the band's masterpiece. While it is not a poor record by any stretch of the imagination, it is far from my favourite of theirs - in fact, it is the least played of all my Police albums. My main issue lies with the stylistic choices on Side One, which move away from what I enjoy about their music. There are no real stand-out moments here, though the strongest cut is the closing track, 'Synchronicity II'. Meanwhile, the inclusion of 'Mother' remains baffling. If they insisted on including it at all, it would have been better suited as a coda or a hidden track - or, given the jarring nature of the song, left off the record entirely! Side Two, however, is a completely different matter: it is faultless. It kicks off with the ubiquitous 'Every Breath You Take'. A younger generation of music listeners often gets their knickers in a twist over this song, viewing it strictly through a modern lens. I have never heard it as a simple stalker song, nor as a romantic love ballad either. At the time of release, Sting’s messy marriage breakup was front-page news in the UK press, and knowing that context shapes the track completely. Instead, I have always interpreted the lyrics as a piece of hypocritical self-justification from the narrator. It perfectly captures that desperate stage of a relationship collapse where someone tries to frame their own selfish, cruel actions - in this case, an affair with his wife's best friend - as an enduring, noble form of "love". The narrator deceives himself just as much as he tries to monitor his ex-partner. He warps his own betrayal into a delusion where he remains the devoted guardian, even though his actions have shattered their mutual trust and invaded her privacy. Following that opener, Side Two delivers three quite wonderful tracks: 'King of Pain': A brilliantly structured single that builds from a delicate piano intro into a soaring full-band crescendo. 'Wrapped Around Your Finger': A subtle masterclass that offers welcome echoes of earlier Police sounds. 'Tea in the Sahara': An atmospheric, beautifully understated low-key song that closes the original vinyl release perfectly. Overall, Synchronicity is a fine, very good album, but its inconsistent first half keeps it from true greatness. Overall Rating: 4 / 5 Side one 1 "Synchronicity I" (3/5) 2 "Walking in Your Footsteps" (3/5) 3 "O My God" (3/5) 4 "Mother" (1/5) 5 "Miss Gradenko" (3/5) 6 "Synchronicity II" (4/5) Side two 1 "Every Breath You Take" (5/5) 2 "King of Pain" (5/5) 3 "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (5/5) 4 "Tea in the Sahara" (5/5) Total - 37 Average - 3.7 394/1001 206/394 albums reviewed were new to me.
Easiest 5 star rating I’ve ever given. LOVE this album. Great listen on vinyl
Штошшшш... Это было интересно. Дихотомия альбома столь сильно выражена, что такое ощущение, что первую часть отдали под эксперименты с этникой, вот этой всей world music и прочим. И если песня Mother приятно встряхнула, то остальной материал не особо впечатлил. ... И тут начинается вторая сторона, такое впечатление что Стинг такой типа: "Наприкалывались? Ну и хватит с вас. Щас я загружу вторую сторону радиоротационными поп-хитами и бессмертным синглом который будет кормить вас всю оставшуюся жизнь". Безусловно, Every Breath You Take как и Wrapped Around Your Finger и другое., это крайне талантливые и очень мелодически приятные песни, но как я и говорил в начале, дихотомия альбома СТОЛЬ выражена, что это отталкивает от его дальнейшего переслушивания. Учитывая что такую приятную и качественную поп-музыку я самовольно слушаю довольно редко, а всё что было отведено экспериментам на пластинке - мне не сильно-то и зашло. Как-то так.
a couple of good songs here (every breath you take, king of pain) but the rest not so much. giving it a 2 because of the 2-3 good songs but without those this would be a solid 1
I like the mother song Lots of vibes with a little bit of punk Fun listening
was great
I liked it!
3.5
last song is a sleeper.
Recorded around the same time as I Advance Masked... you can tell in the first two seconds of the first track!
A lot of classics on here but the rest was meh.
Overall excellent music but tarnished by one awful song (Mother). 4 stars
378/1089 got to Every Breath You Take and it’s kinda wild just how far it is beyond the songs before it. and then King of Pain comes along and actually surpasses EBYT, loved everything about the sound of that song. So distinctly 80s but in a timeless way not datedly so i had 3 songs i genuinely enjoyed which is decent i guess faves: king of pain, every breath you take, wrapped around your finger 47/100
The Police have never excited me. They’ve also never offended me. This band is fine.
Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Sehe gutes Album!
Vraiment bon ! J'aime !
Classic
vibe vibe vibe vibe vibe
4.2/5 not my favorite by them but most acclaimed
Созерцания мира сквозь шипасто-серебряные очки. На мое личное удивление группа не 70-х годов, что стало довольно очевидным после переслушивания. Звук слишком чистый для 70-х и музыка отходит в сторону от среднестатистического рока того времени. Безумно приятно слушать некоторые композиции очень прочный и одновременно лёгкий вокал. Потрясающие мелодии, очень спокойная и добрая ? Музыка. Оценка 7/10.
Has anyone suggested therapy for sting’s mommy issues? I learned where they got the name miss gradenko in spy kids today King of pain and wrapped around your finger is my favorite so far
I was looking forward to the stalker song. Before it: experimental tracks that don't fit together, each one pulling in a different direction. Meh. Then Every Breath You Take arrives and the album suddenly sounds like a band with a purpose. I noticed it before I knew the context — I thought "ah yeah, the romantic song, it's really good. But if you listen to the lyrics... this is really psycho, controlling behaviour. Like stalking." Turns out Sting confirmed exactly this: he wrote it about surveillance and obsessive jealousy during his divorce, and finds it uncomfortable that the world adopted it as a wedding song. The melody is warm. The sentiment is a threat. One of the great accidental misreadings in pop history. Everything after the stalker song is better — King of Pain fits, Wrapped Around Your Finger has something. But still. 2/5 — one genuinely great track, carrying an uneven album, that turns out to be about something completely different from what everyone thinks.
Started off much better than expected with the driving opener "Synchronicity I". Part II of that and the radio classic "Every Breath You Take" was decent too. Unfortunately these were the only highlights as the rest of the tracks were either pretty forgettable or even hard to listen to (lowlight "Mother"... why?) All in all, didn't get me interested in The Police's other work. 2.5/5 - okay
Tracks 6-9 are good, Mother sticks out like a sore thumb, the rest are songs, but not the way I like it
It's good when Sting isnt being a creep, unfortunately It keeps happening
Mother
Nicht durchgängig überzeugend, aber ein paar der prägendsten Titel der 80er sind drauf!
Synchronicity : j’aime bien ! King of pain ! Reprendre à tea in the Sahara Et ça finit bien avec murder by numbers Vraiment surprenant cet album ! 8/10
Thoroughly enjoyable. EBYT is one of the greatest jealous lover songs of all time. King of Pain is a highlight Synchronicity 2 has a brilliant intro and the song stands up. It was a brilliant coda to the Police’s short time together. Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland are very underrated.
I remember this dropping in middle school and a girl getting it as a present at her birthday party (her parents actually got her 2 copies because of the multiple cover thing lol) and we kept trying to play it backwards and hear hidden messages lmao
Synchronicity I = ASS Synchronicity II = Iconic
It came, it went, and I don’t really have anything to say about it. I already forgot about it. Okay background music, but nothing on this album intrigued me. Plus that one song is creepy.
I have never cared for the police. I don't like their boring white boy reggae sound. I don't like their 80's douchebag aesthetic. I don't like that Sting's primary claim to fame is taking too long to fuck. That being said, even I can't deny the moments of musical brilliance on this album. Sure there were a few tracks that reaffirmed my pre-existing biases against the group ("Walking in Your Footsteps", "Tea in the Sahara", and "Mother"), but they were outnumbered by beautifully crafted songs like the "Synchronicity 1 &2", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and "King of Pain". I hate to give props to a band who's most famous member is a bassist with a stupid nickname who refuses to wear a shirt, but they earned it. ACAB.
Not The Police’s strongest showing. A couple solid songs, but also a couple that were quite strange.
67/100
Very cool album and some questionable songs
No
Every breath är bra. Men vad hände med brontosaurus och bongotrummor? Nej tack.
Wow Las primeras canciones son buenas y también está la del estalker recomendado
Actually a really upbeat album. Also some songs that I knew as well. Didnt know they sang Every Breath you take. This album was released 7 days after I was born.
Has it's highs and lows, not really my favourite genre. But I thought I don't like the police at all and this album really changed my mind.
🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 (rounded up because of Synchronicity I & II, solely enough to carry the album) Sometimes this list makes me feel like an alien. General consensus lists this firmly as an ass album—“the police make music for people who don’t like music,” at worst, and at best, some forgettable, self-absorbed noodling saved only by the second side, which one reviewer compares to a Beatles album in that every song has its own character. Both the first and last sentiments are criticisms and compliments that I’ve lobbed at other albums myself, so it’s not like I think they’re unreasonable—far be it from me, also, to say Sting isn’t a self-absorbed noodler (I do not feel called to white knight him today. Not now, my gorgeous fedora and katana. Stay sharp in brim and blade to fight another day). Even so, I’m genuinely baffled how I landed so opposed to consensus (which, ironically, also results in a middling rating from me). The Police makes music for people who don’t like music?? Someone should’ve let me know. Synchronicit(ies) is/are forgettable? Did we listen to the same songs? “I” is hypnotic, borderline sublime, and channels the subject matter with such sweeping, rushing emotion that it couldn’t have been constructed intellectually—this was something the Police felt first, were entranced by, and they’re transferring it to me, spiritus mundi. Its a crystalline, mountaintop waterfall, accelerating with every subsequent listen. I feel it stronger now that I’ve started reading Jung like Sting clearly did, but I’ve felt this song for much longer than I’ve known what a “synchronicity” is. “II” is goosebumps-inducing—it would be a wry portrait on its own, maybe forgettable even if relatable, were it not for the synchronicity aspect—the “many miles away” verses are, and I’m not kidding, some of my favorite lyrics ever. It’s not that they’re word-by-word genius, but they capture something so evocative with such simplicity, and that’s masterful to me. It’s a shame, then, that songs like “Walking in Your Footsteps” don’t capture the same mystical quality, or even, I don’t know, some more intentional humor—maybe I’m biased because I love the concept, but I see the vision, and as a kid listening to this in the back of the car on the way to school, I wanted it to be better. Even then, I got some secondhand embarrassment from rhyming “you were God’s favorite creature” with “but you didn’t have a feature” (what does that even mean??) only to find out it’s “but you didn’t have a future,” which is bad in a completely different way (not to mention, glaringly, that dinosaurs were already extinct fifty million years ago. Who wrote this, Rodrick Heffley?). Even so, I think it has far more character than anything on the second side besides, I’ll admit, that one voyeur song on the second side. I’m not sure where anyone got “Beatles” from—it’s truly such blank, sanitized pop to me, at least musically, and nothing jumps out to me. How did these end up chart toppers, but neither Synchronicity did?? How does anyone hear the music in “Tea in the Sahara” or “King of Pain” and think it’s more fun than “Mother,” which—because I guess I’m destined to hear Pere Ubu in everything now—is barely more abrasive than any other punk, but that people act like is audio ripped from a snuff film? “Miss Gradenko” may not be some remarkable display of sublimity, but I’d much rather hang out with her than any of her second story neighbors. What are we doing? What’s going on? It really does make me so sad, sometimes, that something I feel so deeply—to the point where I sound pretentious talking about it (imagine that)—is just garbage to some people. I really want to make it objective somehow, like it’s one of us or the other that’s the problem, just to validate my feelings, or justify having a strong defensive reaction, but what else is there to say? Giancarlo Esposito “We are not the same” dot jpeg 1: Bad | 2: Okay, No Desire to Revisit | 3: Good, Conditionally (OR Inconsistent Mix of Qualities) | 4: Great (OR Technically amazing but missing the sauce emotionally) | 5: Amazing
Every Breath You Take is just... transcendently good imo. Synchronicity II is also really really good, and I enjoyed the whole back half of this album quite a bit. I looooove Sting's voice and that's all I have to say about that!
Every breath you take is good, but the rest is low 4
I have never listened to a Police album in full and I have to say that this wasn’t really what I expected to hear. It’s way more produced and new wave-y than I thought it would be. Not that I expected, like, a garage rock record; I just didn’t anticipate this much polish and studio craft. I have to respect “Mother” as a truly bananas left-turn moment on an otherwise very normal 80s pop record. They are on some Captain Beefheart shit on that one, and it kind of goes? It was more interesting to me than the very careful craftsmanship of the first few songs. I did not know the Police had that in them. Then we’re back to well-mannered new wave, then the Big Hit, and on to the end. Not much here for me to write home about. I enjoyed some of the harmonies and most the bass work, I guess? I think my favorite track was “Miss Gradenko”? The “Synchronicity” songs were fun? I think part of my problem is Sting’s voice. He has an almost constant hooting-and-hollering tone in his singing that can be really jarring.
2.2/5 While every breathe you take is an all time banger, there wasn't much else to get excited about on this album.
A streak of 5 star songs as long as any other artist has on an album but as with many hip hop albums there are some clear filler tracks on this album that lowers it to 4 stars for me.
Ugh, why not outlandis or zenyatta. This album is the beginning of the end
There's is some good stuff scattered through the album
This was fine I guess.
funnily enough, I got this album on vinyl the other day for £12. obviously it's a classic album, so that was a pretty good deal just to have it on the shelf. unfortunately, I don't really like the album. lol. the first four tracks are all over the place and none of them are particularly good. 'walking in your footsteps' and 'mother' are two pretty low lows to me, and having those two separated by just one song is so weird. what a jarring change of pace in such a short time. 'miss gradenko' is okay, and 'synchronicity II' is a step in the right direction. then of course we get to 'every breath you take', which is a fantastic song and, I think, carries a lot of the weight of this album on its back. 'wrapped around your finger' is also a vibe. side B is a lot better than side A overall - to me it doesn't really have a miss on it. just makes the first half seem worse in comparison because what the hell were they doing? absolutely just messing about. no wonder virtually all the visualisers & music videos are on side B. 2.2/5
Wow. WOW. As a millennial, my only familiarity with The Police is terrible solo soft rock from Sting that flooded the radio. This is NOT that. It’s got groove, it’s got soul. It’s a great blend of pop, some prog rock, some funk and a lil somethin’ from Sting’s vocals that actually doesn’t feel grating for once.
King of Pain is so good
I didn’t love this as much as Maddi did :(
Wow this was really great. I've always thought of The Police as more of a singles band and never listened to a full album. I knew people who were into them in high school but I didn't trust their musical opinions, and what I knew of them and Sting made it seem like they were wannabe reggae/world music without any legitimacy and Sting just didn't seem cool. I maintain that Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic is awful, but that's not on this album! This album is really cool, and I've reappraised Sting also (I love Desert Rose, which is a really cool collaboration that legitimizes Sting's world music exploration). The title track is a big highlight for me on an album I will definitely listen to again.
Sting can write a hell of a song and Stewart Copeland is one of the best drummers of all time. Even if you can sometimes tell that this album was made by people who didn't like each other, it all comes together and works.
great 4.5
I think if my biggest hit on my album was my single slow ballad song in an album when the rest of my album was clearly trying to discuss the current state of the world, I’d take a long walk off a short bridge. Synchronicity was an interesting listen. Of course, I like anyone on the planet, have heard “Every Breath You Take”. I wouldn’t have anticipated the album to have so many interesting songs on it. A personal favorite was “King of Pain”, while songs like “Walking in Your Footsteps” brought to mind fears of going extinct much like the dinosaurs (sans a comet, add a nuclear bomb). “Murder by Numbers” was another interesting one. Hardest listen was “Mother” but maybe my enjoyment of it was in the tongue-in-cheek way in which I thought about My Chemical Romance’s “Mama” and how “Mother” walked so it could run. Ultimately a solid album. I had an alright time with it. Sometimes it leaned into simplistic in its lyricisms and somewhat surface level, but it wasn’t a bad listen. 4/1001
every breath you take, wrapped around your finger, king of pain, tea in the sahara
Love but also kind of annoying at times.3.5/5
Im sick right now
I thought it sounded nice, very Police. 3.4
Ok, I fell asleep while listening to it, SORRY! But I never was super keen on The Police to begin with so I was never expecting to fall in love with this album anyway. I'll Be Watching You is a classic (duh) but nothing else really stuck out too much. I like the nontraditional rhythmics, like the first two songs felt very inspired by African percussion IMO. Otherwise it's kinda like a normal soft rock album, besides Mother. Maybe my rating would be different if I really listened, but I really cannot be bothered.
I didn't give this a very focused listen and I might have to do that some time. I don't know when I'll rush to do that though. It's pretty prog in parts. That's certainly more interesting to me than the reggae inflected pop rock record I first heard. Still feels kind of a difficult listen to me though. I think I struggle with the delivery style in general.
I was quite curious about this album popping up. And containing the four banger "Synchronisity I", "Every Breath You Take", "King Of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" it could easily be a four stars album. But the other tracks are more or less filler and "Mother" almost ruins it for me! 3,5
이건 인정이지...근데 내가 아는 곡만 되게 이질적으로 들리네
great album from a band i’ve never properly explored. really nice funk sound to it
What a fascinating and great album. Sting is kind of a lot to handle but the lyrics to 'Synchronicity II' make up for everything. Also the production is absolutely perfect.
Synchronicity I: meh 3/10 Walking in your footsteps: very Madagascar vibes 2/10 not my vibe O my god: 3/10 only for the sax Mother: what the genuine hell is this I’m crying 0/10 Miss Gradenko: I don’t mind it 4/10 Synchronicity II: whatever 4/10 Every breath you take: one of my pitch perfect music discoveries, perfect song and clearly the star of this album 100/10 King of pain: whatever 5/10 Wrapped around your finger: okayy 6/10 Tea in the Sahara: okay I like this one 6/10 Murder by numbers: I’m neutral about this one 4/10
Would've been a five star pick if that monstrosity 'Mother' want included
I adore this album sososo much, its such a jam.
Like the Talking Heads, but generally more turgid and less inventive. “Synchronicity I” is a fabulous kick in the face, and it made me really optimistic for the rest of the album, but “Walking In Your Footsteps” really kills the momentum. “O My G-d” is a really nice number, and kinda brings the vibe back, but then you have a double punch of just okay artsy experiments that, while I don’t dislike, certainly do not impress in any way shape or form. “Synchronicity II” brings it back, and is an incredible song. In fact it’s the best song on the A-side. And even better - opening up the B-side is “Every Step You Take,” which is THE song!! A melancholic, jilted, obsessive, incredible classic of a rock song, and the best song The Police have to offer by a long shot. “King of Pain” is up there too, with a great hook and really great verses (the repeated backing vocals of “that’s my soul up there” are really effective in the song’s execution in my opinion), with a great vocal performance from Sting. As the album winds down, there’s some forgettability in some of the songs, especially the incredibly unimpressive closer, but overall it’s fine. I enjoyed this album mostly, even if it had a couple of unabashedly bad moments. 7.1/10
i fuck with the police 8/10
I wanted to like this actually, and it’s got a couple great moments. But overall it screams 80s cheese, really not a lot to like about this for me.
I like it except that one weird song. Alright.
Дічь
8/10
A lot of drugs went into a generation for people to think this was good.
Perfect album.
I was somewhat nervous heading into this, thinking I'd be greeted with a fairly standard wanky 80s album, but this was far more volatile, unhinged and fractured than I could have ever hoped for. Structurally, this felt disjointed in the sense of each member seemingly wanting to pull into different directions from one another – there were some interesting diversions and complexities to the songwriting, even if the album itself is largely indebted to pop-rock sensibilities. Tonally and sonically, it also felt rather angular and off-beat in some aspects, with a dark psychological undercurrent to it. Therefore, I can see myself returning to try and further unpack the intrigue, and perhaps even purchasing this.
The beginning of this album was sonically engineered for me to loathe. Messy genre fusion incorporating the grating yelpy 70s rock vocals, sometimes with reggae accent amidst some van halen ass synths. And then Mother comes in and is like a shitty Suicidal Tendencies song that tonally made no sense. It did hit its stride more with me once we got to funkier pop staccato stuff and jazz elements and Stings vocals were a bit less grating. It alternates from some fairly decent, albeit creepy, songwriting with some absolute cornball shit. I won't return to this project as a whole, but Murder by Numbers, King of Pain, and O My God were standouts for me where the blending genres worked better and I didn't end up hating the whole thing. -Listened on 2026 beach trip
minus one star for whatever the fuck that fourth track was
I thought this album was overplayed and overhyped when it first came out. It's nice to revisit it every once in a while.
This is The Police's last album, made when they were at their most popular. It is a very good gateway into The Police, but Ghost In the Machine and Outlandos D'Amour are better albums.
Couldn't get through it
Such a weird album with lots of feedback, atonal melodies, pseudo math rock components and yet still has some typical police elements among the melodies. Pretty fun!
Lots of great tunes, a few not so good (Mother? Maybe I just don't get it).
Had some weirder stuff on there than I was expecting. A rip off of a devo song, maybe not a rip off but they ape a few genres on this, it's like they wanted to try everyone's style. It's a weird listen but I bet it fit right in at the time. (mother). The rest of the album is much better. Strong finish.
Has a triple through from Every Breath you Take, but, has Mother, so... High 3s.
I’m on the record about my fondness for The Police. I would say I liked Synchronicity more as an album in my twenties than I do now. The tracks are great, but as a whole it’s a bit on the frenetic side.
Enjoyed this less than Regatta, which I gave a three. Not bad enough for a two, so into the middle bucket you go. Get lost in the muck and the mire.
Un álbum bastante sólido. 8,5/10
1 - 9/10 2 - 7/10 3 - 8/10 4 - 6/10 5 - 8.5/10 6 - 9.5/10 7 - 9/10 8 - 9/10 9 - 9.5/10 10 - 8.5/10 11 - 8/10 5/5 masterpiece
Niet hun beste
Really enjoyed this album, I like Sting, haven’t really listened to the Police beyond the obvious hits but they have a pretty broad range and this record is very diverse musically, even mixing in jazz sounds with some of the more electronic synth/pop-rock sounds. Really interesting and occupies a musically unique space for sure.
A masterpiece.
Overrated
Definitely an album of two halves; Side One is quite experimental, but honestly I just did not get along with it at all. Most of it was pretty awful to listen to and although I appreciated the variety and the ingenuity... just... no. Not like that. Side Two is basically all of the big hit singles. The music on this side is arguably a bit bland, but it's also pretty good? Definitely enjoyed it more than Side One. The vocals are decent throughout (besides on "Mother" where it's all just a bit weird). Instrumentation is good, and fairly varied. Balancing out at a 3.
He just sings in the same voice for the whole album, and it's not a pleasant style Initially I pulled a face at mother, but idk it clicked and it's by far the coolest song in this album. I don't think it's on the right album tho honestly it was so good this album is now boring High 2
POLISの最後の最後のスタジオアルバム 当時は聴いてませんでした。 今聴くとソングライティングもアレンジも演奏もおしなべて高品質。 Synchronicity II のPVは今見るととても微笑ましいですが、最もロックな感じのこの曲もとても抑制が効いていて細かい所にも目が行き届いていると感じます。 Synchronicity II 以降のEvery Breath You Take、King of Pain 、Wrapped Around Your Finger、Tea in the Sahara、それから当時アルバムには収められなかったMurder by Numbersはどれも聴く価値のある曲だと思います。 Murder by Numbersは比較的わかりやすくテンションコードを響かせて大人っぽい雰囲気を出していますが、むしろその前のTea in the Saharaの方がアレンジ的にはヤバい位に削ぎ落とした音数とメロディとリズムの組み合わせで作り手としての底知れなさを感じます。 もちろんフックが強力で今となってはエバーグリーンミュージックと言ってよいEvery Breath You Takeは何度聴いても飽きることがない名曲。 でもこのアルバムが最高傑作かというと、どうでしょう？ 他のアルバムにも結構魅力的な曲が入ってるし、各自のソロアルバムも聴きどころは多いからね。
Wow. This is such a cool album. While I love the classic like "Every breath you take", I really love the experimental and harmonies of synchronicity 1 and 2. It's so cool and exactly my vibe and similar to the music ive made. Mother was a little traumatic for me haha, but overall really cool experimental album
first half of this album: jeepers creepers, buddy, I mean *I'll* vibe to it nonetheless, but okay second half starting with Synchronicity II: absolute gold.
Not their best - envisage myself doing the rumba in a suit to most of these tracks
it was ok
Not a band with any real originality. Cod reggae with silly lyrics. Sting always more palatable as a singles act
Outstanding
had to skip first track - was really annoying me. I thought I liked the Police - but now I'm questioning that! persevered with second track, couldn't listen to next two. Liked the second half of the album so very mixed feelings overall.
Meh. It was ok.
Weak 3. Wasn’t that special to me
Yknow, usually I think bands reach perfection via honing their formula and combining adventurous ideas with skilled songwriting. The police is like miking adult contemporary glop with experimental bullshit in a stand mixer on high and sometimes it spits out the best songs you ever heard and sometimes it’s too much of one of the two ingredients
This is a pretty big record for The Police. Yielding some of their bigger hits, namely Every Breath You Take (which has been sampled, used, and recreated in various works), as well as Wrapped Around Your Finger. I know these are the biggest hits off the album, but I think the album is really a good balance. Not to mention that this album was their most successful release, the collection of songs really brings together these instrumentally and personally different people in Sting, Stewart and Andy. This was a great selection randomly thrown my way.
Really surprised by the vitriol against Sting and The Police in general. Ok, so tantric sex may not be your thing or it might be your thing and you just think it probably shouldn't be brought up in polite company. Sting might be a pompous intellectual git but how does that relate to the music? So they were a very popular band at the time and the album sold a crap ton of records and your parents probably listened to them so it's your obligation to diss them, I get it. However to me a musically interesting album with some definite highlights. One massive massive hit that still gets copious airplay but other hits that I like better. Let's agree to just not mention "Mother." I have always enjoyed Stuart Copeland's drumming and this is a highlight on many tracks. I don't have any The Police songs in my play lists but I nearly gave this 5 just to spite the haters.
A band who is better than I remember every time I revisit them. Not as complete a statement for me as their previous albums, but the singles are upper echelon- some of the very best chart topping music of the eighties.
Mostly very acceptable background music. I put it on an it played in the background and mostly my attention wandered. Non-offensive Mother is very interesting, I liked the more experimental track. Synchronicity II is stand-out.
I wish I could do half star ratings. Police is classic, great tunes, but a bit too ancient for me to rate any higher
i grew up with this because my moms obsessed with the police. so i am a little biased. could be without the creepyness in mother and every breath you take
Really not that good. Some bass is ok. Some synths are ok. Mother is truly terrible. Lots of paul simon influence but more basic and it's not good. Pretentious. Boring.
Really strangely enjoyable. Take Mother far away though. I've always thought that The Police were quite an acquired taste and that hasn't changed
Don’t want to say that this is a one-song album. But it’s close.
Good
Ok. Rarely would choose this.
Steward Copeland is a fascinating drummer. This album is not better than Reggatta de Blanc but it's exceed my standards.
Good album with some classics, but also a few other great songs. Favourites: Every Breath You Take, Walking In Your Footsteps, Wrapped Around Your Finger, Synchroicity I and II
Police are such a great band with completely unique approach and sound. The drumming is especially superb. I was expecting to go for maximum here, but I haven't listened to them in a long time and coming back to this, it seems like a solid 4 stars, but it is lacking for 5 in some ways I feel.
I just realised that P Diddy kinda ruined 'Every Breath You Take' for me. Fine album, but got to take points away for making me think of that guy.
Few good ones, but what were they thinking with mother
Thoughts before listening: I feel like this is typically considered the Police's best album. It's also their most pop-oriented and radio friendly. For that reason I personally prefer some of their earlier, slightly rawer records, but this is definitely good. Review: Very good album with some of the band's biggest hits. Its a bit of a mixed bag though with the hits being pushed to the second half of the record. The first half has some weird, experimental stuff on it that doesn't quite click (I do however enjoy "Walking in Your Footsteps") while the second half is basically all iconic, classics of 80s new wave and pop rock. 4-stars
The only songs of interest are those not written by Sting. Mother is like a slap around the face, but not in a good way. Miss Gradenko is really good, apart from the "Nobody But Us" bit which sounds awful. Every Breath You Take is no less creepy for the repeated listens, and the rest is just boring standard 80s pop.
It's a police album alright. I liked how it was more diverse than I expected but still sounded like the Police, some punk, some jazz influences. Overall probably I won't come back to it again. Solid 3 stars.
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This album was like winding up a toy car. Honestly, have heard from some that The Police had their breakthrough with Synchronicity, but I felt like the highlight started with Synchronicity II and ends with wrapped around your fingers and that's really all you need off this album. Though that highlight segment is quite good, favorite track is King Of Pain.
meh
Nah... Whiny, boring, annoying.
Was ready to rag on this but the music is really good All the synth stuff….
fave song: King of Pain (the beginning of this album was rough. the second half was much better)
A very chill album that I could definitely put on in the background. I would consider this a 3.5 because it's very close to a 4.
Every move you make is a classic, but nothing really stuck out to me (and I like The Police). Mother! was certainly comedic.
Bang average.
I'm surprised how hard and unpleasant I thought that listen was.
I'd expected a bit more from this one!
Their last effort before imploding, Synchronicity is about half of a really good album. Side one is by far the weaker of the two sides. The playing is really good, but the side is marred by Sting’s (and Andy Summers’, on the one song he composed and sang for this album) less-than-tuneful wailing on several tracks. It doesn’t really get going until the side closer, Synchronicity II, which is a great song. Side two is pretty strong, though seems short at only four non-extended songs. It opens with “Every Breath You Take”, a pretty great ballad as long as you don’t listen too closely to the creepy stalker-y words. This is followed by “King of Pain” and “Wrapped Around Your Finger “, both great songs. The album then closes with “Tea in the Sahara”, which I find to be a weaker song. In summary, almost greatness, but doesn’t quite get there. For me, not as good as Zenyatta Mondatta, which I hope is on this list. 3.5 stars, rounding down.
Not a fan. I think it has aged badly.
An improvement from the last one
I listened to this album on my drive to work, rushing through the morning but just managing to keep my schedule and routine on track. I went into Synchronicity with some skepticism following on from Reggatta de Blanc, which had been a very strange album to reconcile in my brain. Luckily, Synchronicity wound up being an incredibly strong album, without many of the issues which plagued the last Police album I listened to. In comparison to Reggatta de Blanc, this album feels like a much better blend of new wave rock sounds with some reggae influences, and Sting sings in his normal voice rather than putting on the exaggerated accent which plagued the previous album. The band also displays far more of a willingness to make weird artistic swings, which they only teased doing on a handful of Reggatta de Blanc tracks: Mother and Every Breath You Take are genuinely weird pieces of art that I fully respect the ambition of, in addition to enjoying them as songs outright. Sting's lyricism captures an interesting poetic sense that lends the songs a lot of interesting depth, and there is an earnest sincerity to Sting's delivery sometimes that serves as a fun contrast with his more clever or poetic songs. There were even a handful of moments where some jazz influence cropped up, taking me by surprise in a delightful way. All in all, Synchronicity is an incredible glow up from Reggatta de Blanc, and I'm so happy to have gotten a new impression of their sound. Highlights: Walking In Your Footsteps, O My God, Mother, Miss Gradenko, Synchronicity II, Every Breath You Take, King Of Pain, Murder By Numbers
Did not expect to like this album this much ,really great drumming which seems to be the centre piece for most songs , the album gets better with multiple listens , really liked this one
Day 311 Inoffensive MOR pop music, pleasant enough Highlights Walking in your footsteps Every breath you take
The Police aren't my favorite bands. Sting's delivery is a little grating for me, and the tepid mix of reggae leaves me uninterested. This album has a lot of their hits though, the radio singles are all fine. The album tracks vary from meh to ugh.
Not a huge Police fan, but still a nice album
6.18.26 everyone hating on 'mother' when that was one of the most interesting tracks on here. big into this one which i wasn't totally expecting. shout out my mom Favorite Song: Synchronicity I Rating: 4.5/5
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Lowkey nice I guess
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Wel mooi, zit goed in elkaar etc. Heel strak. Maar dit spreekt me niet erg aan
8/10 Muy buena album, buenas canciones, divertido, es alegre, no cansa ni aburre
Some all time classics, with a bit of mid mixed in the middle.
Nowhere near their best for me personally.
Good album cover. Good year. 1983 is *the* year. Flashdance, etc. Anyway. Okay why is this theatre. The Police - well no, Sting - will forever remind me of my dad and the Corolla and the English man in New York. I want that nostalgia. But this was fun! Sting must be a total freak. I want to rate higher just for the note on “aaaaches” - it has ALWAYS hit. Fuck. Why not.
An absolutely amazing album. I had heard the back half before. But it plays so well with the front half. The only less than great song was Mother. Overall great album.
Many consider "Synchronicity" to be the high point of The Police’s discography. However, I have a slightly different view and have always felt somewhat at odds with the album as a whole. Even compared to its predecessor, "Ghost in the Machine", the band had moved away from the post-punk, white reggae (Regatta de Blanc) new wave sound of their early albums, experimenting instead with synthesisers, sequencers and new forms. Driven by the egos and rivalry of three very self-assured alpha males, this experimentation escalated into hubris that culminated in "Synchronicity" and subsequently imploded. If you listen closely to the album, you realise just how much Sting, Summers and Copeland play against each other rather than with each other. They had nothing left to say to each other. Added to this is the crystal-clear yet cold production, which makes it difficult for me to connect with the album. While the album features some of the band’s best tracks (Synchronicity I & II, King of Pain and Wrapped Around Your Finger), it also contains some dreadful ones (Every Breath You Take, Miss Gradenko and Mother). Listening to the album from start to finish, it seems so cold, passionless and self-indulgent that you almost freeze to ice. In fact, 'Synchronicity' was probably the last good album this trio could have produced before things turned sour. It contains some of their best songs, as well as a lot of self-indulgence.