Holy Crap!! That's a tough one. I think that I would definitely love to hear something off of Outlandos.... To go back to that earliest stuff would give the best glimpse of their rawest, most punk-like music. To see them (Sting especially) rockin Next To You, Fallout, Landlord or even Peanuts would just be fantastic. Man In A Suitcase is definitely a fav as is Canary In A Coalmine. I love Voices, even though it's rather monotonous. Walking On The Moon would be great.
The problem is, I can be very indecisive when it comes to a favorite Police song. (Can you tell?) I think that I would have to have them play a fav from each period, ie. pre-Outlandos and then from each album.... Maybe something like this:
Pre-Outlandos- I think I would want to hear Dead End Job. Sting's bass playing in that song just knocks my socks off!! I hope
that one day I might be able to play that bass line....
Outlandos- I think Next To You or So Lonely. I think that they always had a lot of fun with those songs when they played them live.
Regatta- I have always loved It's Alright For You. Just a really cool song. No Time is good as is Contact, and the Bed's Too Big.
Zenyatta- Probably Man In A Suitcase, however Driven To Tears would be great, as would When The World Is Running Down.
Ghosts- Have always loved Spirits. Too Much Info is good, and I agree that Stew's drumming on One World is pretty damn cool.
Synchronicity- I think it would have to be the title track, Synchronicity I. Call me crazy, but I really like Miss Grandenko too. For the bass line and Andy's guitar sounds very nice.
And
one more that was a sinlge is A Sermon- Have always loved that one too.
Wherever possible, I tried to stay away from the "standards", like Roxanne, MIAB, EBYT, etc... I guess having heard Sting do them so many times on his tours I would just rather hear something that I've never heard before that only can be done by the Police..... Of course I wouldn't climb up on stage and tell them to stop playing any of those songs, I'm not crazy!!!
Well, that's my 2¢ worth. My choices will probably have changed by this afternoon, but that's the beauty of loving a band with so many damn great songs!!!!!!!!
Steve
David <dripdry@gmail.com> wrote:
Funny, I was thinking the same thing just yesterday!
It's hard for me to decide.... Man in a Suitcase, Tea in the Sahara, or Secret Journey?
And the watch for Police news continues...
Have a great Sunday!
David
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