Mysterious "live in Paris" CD needs identifying
Hi guys, Hope this works, since I just changed my subscription details. Anyway, I was looking at last.fm <http://last.fm> and noticed that The Police were in the Top Ten most listened to bands. This gladdened my heart, but also puzzled me, because when I clicked the link <http://www.last.fm/music/The+Police>, I found two albums listed: Greatest Hits, and this one: http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Police/Live%20In%20Paris Last.fm <http://Last.fm> is, as far as I can tell, a site which keeps its finger on the pulse of what people are listening to by analysing their i-Tunes playlists. So I thought that perhaps somebody had just ripped a bootleg album to their hard-drive and uploaded the cover picture. But then I noticed that the album is listed as being on the Polydor label. The Greatest Hits compilation is listed under Polygram International. I'm guessing Polygram owns A&M, or maybe distributes their artists' CDs or something, but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this live CD before if it's an official album. The only official live Police album to my knowledge is the double CD from 1995, featuring one concert from Boston and one from Atlanta - this "new" one is supposed to have been recorded in Paris, and the tracklisting indicates that it was from the Zenyatta tour. Theories? Angeline
Hi from Barcelona, this is the famous bootleg recorded in Beziers (south of France)not Paris!!!.It's a soundboard recording.This is a show from the summer European tour of Zenyatta Mondatta before to make the World Tour. toni from Barcelona,Catalonia ----- Original Message ----- From: Angeline Adams To: police@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:00 PM Subject: [Police] Mysterious "live in Paris" CD needs identifying Hi guys, Hope this works, since I just changed my subscription details. Anyway, I was looking at last.fm and noticed that The Police were in the Top Ten most listened to bands. This gladdened my heart, but also puzzled me, because when I clicked the link, I found two albums listed: Greatest Hits, and this one: http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Police/Live%20In%20Paris Last.fm is, as far as I can tell, a site which keeps its finger on the pulse of what people are listening to by analysing their i-Tunes playlists. So I thought that perhaps somebody had just ripped a bootleg album to their hard-drive and uploaded the cover picture. But then I noticed that the album is listed as being on the Polydor label. The Greatest Hits compilation is listed under Polygram International. I'm guessing Polygram owns A&M, or maybe distributes their artists' CDs or something, but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this live CD before if it's an official album. The only official live Police album to my knowledge is the double CD from 1995, featuring one concert from Boston and one from Atlanta - this "new" one is supposed to have been recorded in Paris, and the tracklisting indicates that it was from the Zenyatta tour. Theories? Angeline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Police mailing list Police@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/police
Thanks! :) Maybe the reason last.fm <http://last.fm> lists it under Polydor is that they already had a listing for the Greatest Hits thing, and so their system assumed that any other Police music must be from the same label. Oh well, it's a reminder that I need to increase my bootleg collection. Angeline On 10/5/05, Toni Carbó <TONICARBO@teleline.es> wrote:
Hi from Barcelona, this is the famous bootleg recorded in Beziers (south of France)not Paris!!!.It's a soundboard recording.This is a show from the summer European tour of Zenyatta Mondatta before to make the World Tour. toni from Barcelona,Catalonia
----- Original Message ----- *From:* Angeline Adams <angeline.adams@gmail.com> *To:* police@mailman.xmission.com *Sent:* Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:00 PM *Subject:* [Police] Mysterious "live in Paris" CD needs identifying
Hi guys,
Hope this works, since I just changed my subscription details. Anyway, I was looking at last.fm <http://last.fm> and noticed that The Police were in the Top Ten most listened to bands. This gladdened my heart, but also puzzled me, because when I clicked the link<http://www.last.fm/music/The+Police>, I found two albums listed: Greatest Hits, and this one:
http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Police/Live%20In%20Paris
Last.fm <http://Last.fm> is, as far as I can tell, a site which keeps its finger on the pulse of what people are listening to by analysing their i-Tunes playlists. So I thought that perhaps somebody had just ripped a bootleg album to their hard-drive and uploaded the cover picture.
But then I noticed that the album is listed as being on the Polydor label. The Greatest Hits compilation is listed under Polygram International. I'm guessing Polygram owns A&M, or maybe distributes their artists' CDs or something, but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this live CD before if it's an official album. The only official live Police album to my knowledge is the double CD from 1995, featuring one concert from Boston and one from Atlanta - this "new" one is supposed to have been recorded in Paris, and the tracklisting indicates that it was from the Zenyatta tour.
Theories?
Angeline
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This is a bootleg CD. The concert (Paris 1981) is widely available on a number of different labels. The most common is either this one (with the police car on the cover - which is taken from on older vinyl bootleg of the same name) or the release on the Swingin Pig label called "Bring on the Night" (TSP CD 065) jOeRg. -- now playing on my pc... http://www.last.fm/user/zenyatta -----Original Message----- From: police-bounces+the-police=t-online.de@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces+the-police=t-online.de@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Angeline Adams Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:00 PM To: police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Police] Mysterious "live in Paris" CD needs identifying Hi guys, Hope this works, since I just changed my subscription details. Anyway, I was looking at last.fm and noticed that The Police were in the Top Ten most listened to bands. This gladdened my heart, but also puzzled me, because when I clicked the link <http://www.last.fm/music/The+Police> , I found two albums listed: Greatest Hits, and this one: http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Police/Live%20In%20Paris Last.fm is, as far as I can tell, a site which keeps its finger on the pulse of what people are listening to by analysing their i-Tunes playlists. So I thought that perhaps somebody had just ripped a bootleg album to their hard-drive and uploaded the cover picture. But then I noticed that the album is listed as being on the Polydor label. The Greatest Hits compilation is listed under Polygram International. I'm guessing Polygram owns A&M, or maybe distributes their artists' CDs or something, but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this live CD before if it's an official album. The only official live Police album to my knowledge is the double CD from 1995, featuring one concert from Boston and one from Atlanta - this "new" one is supposed to have been recorded in Paris, and the tracklisting indicates that it was from the Zenyatta tour. Theories? Angeline
Dear Angeline, It appears that the cover at the link below belongs to the CD version of an old and quite popular bootleg of the police from the Zenyatta tour. It hasn't been recorded in Paris but at Les Arenes, Beziers, France on 08/22/1980. Just have a check at the always helpful "Rogier's The Police Page" at the following link: http://www.cybercomm.nl/~gugten/bootlist-police.html Hope this helps. Yo! Maurizio from Italy P.S.: by the way, just to do a little showing off, I happen to own the very first LP white label version which was my very first bootleg back in 1984. Funny how the time flies. _____ From: police-bounces+mauxs=tele2.it@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:police-bounces+mauxs=tele2.it@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Angeline Adams Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:00 PM To: police@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Police] Mysterious "live in Paris" CD needs identifying Hi guys, Hope this works, since I just changed my subscription details. Anyway, I was looking at last.fm and noticed that The Police were in the Top Ten most listened to bands. This gladdened my heart, but also puzzled me, because when I clicked the link <http://www.last.fm/music/The+Police> , I found two albums listed: Greatest Hits, and this one: http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Police/Live%20In%20Paris Last.fm is, as far as I can tell, a site which keeps its finger on the pulse of what people are listening to by analysing their i-Tunes playlists. So I thought that perhaps somebody had just ripped a bootleg album to their hard-drive and uploaded the cover picture. But then I noticed that the album is listed as being on the Polydor label. The Greatest Hits compilation is listed under Polygram International. I'm guessing Polygram owns A&M, or maybe distributes their artists' CDs or something, but what I don't get is why I haven't heard of this live CD before if it's an official album. The only official live Police album to my knowledge is the double CD from 1995, featuring one concert from Boston and one from Atlanta - this "new" one is supposed to have been recorded in Paris, and the tracklisting indicates that it was from the Zenyatta tour. Theories? Angeline
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Angeline Adams -
Joerg Zimmermann -
Steerpike -
Toni Carbó