Genres: New Wave, Pop/Rock, Album Rock Active: 70's, 80's Formed: 1977 in London, England
U2, Squeeze, Big Country, Dada, A House, XTC, Talking Heads, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, The Outfield, The Motels, Men at Work, Madness, Joe Jackson, The Fixx, The English Beat, The Cars, Blondie, The Go-Go's Men at Work, Live, Dada, Geggy Tah, The Outfield, GoodBooks, Santiago Ojeda, The Warm Jets, Thursday, Chain Gang, Jumbo, Tory Cassis, Matt Easton, The Static Age, Action Action, Maxeen, Skank, Moneda Dura, Hombres G |  |
Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky, but it wasn't necessarily punk. All three members were considerably more technically proficient than the average punk or new wave band. Andy Summers had a precise guitar attack that created dense, interlocking waves of sounds and effects. Stewart Copeland could play polyrhythms effortlessly. And Sting, with his high, keening voice, was capable of constructing infectiously catchy pop songs. While they weren't punk, the Police certainly demonstrated that the punk spirit could have a future in pop music. As their career progressed, the Police grew considerably more adventurous, experimenting with jazz and various world musics.
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Release: June 5, 2007
Label: A&M, Polydor, Universal Japan
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Release: April 9, 2007
Label: Disk Union
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