So true!

Bahahaha 🤣

I had heard Kellogg's took offense to their product being used in such a negative manner that they threatened to sue The Police if they didn't issue a formal apology.....Ok, April Fools! But I wouldn't doubt that happening it in today's world...

John Lennon sang "Sitting on a Cornflake" just as convincingly. He was as good a vocalist as Sting to. But I love them both.

"Over the din of our Rice Krispies"... it hits hard... this imagery of a child eating breakfast with no control over anything he is singing about. It's both funny and distrubing as a gen-x that had a father trying to do his best during strikes and inflation.

Hahahaha...

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fitted in with the apocalyptic theme of the video. Plus this video was done about the time he was in the movie Dune

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I was leaning more toward DJ Qualls

@@tendraftsdeep Same here! Definitely a "desert island disc! 🏜️ 🏝️ 💿 And a Happy New Year to U 2! 😂

No it sounds firmly 80s

Thats a catchy powerful tune

Amazing song with the worst video ever.

It won't *ever* get old!

Stewart is a fucking genius, in my opinion the best drummer ever

He's probably trying to put out the fire that broke out onset...

He is seriously the GOAT.

@@alanledesma4945 If it's just your opinion he's the best drummer, then just say he's your favorite and he's great... so we Rush fans don't have to keep saying that Neil Peart is the best. PS: I've been playing drums along with both drummers since the 80s. Maybe U gotta be a drummer to see it.

Great comment! He’s such a dynamic, creative musician.

Same bro

Same, I currently have 18 years but The Police were a strong part of my childhood thanks to my father

Terrifyingly hilarious

You can thank Sting's fascination to Carl Jung and his thoughts about Synchronicity for that.

@@scottr.7117 That too...

Sting baby!!! A damn opera!

Straight out of early 70s prog rock bands. Some similar lines in Genesis songs. Great stuff.

Kind of like the time inn synchronicity I. I don't know how these performances were possible

@@psuengineer84 It's like Prog pop. Three minute prog.

@@psuengineer84 Took the words right out of my mouth

Except that it steals a bit from Dr Jimmy by The Who.

Fantastic album, this is my favourite song on it, although that other one took all the glory.

That's THE ONLY Police album I have ...

Stings amazing bass!!! Never underestimate Stings bass lines . Genius!

When stings bass kicks in.... And the subtle synth strings in the back.....

He's about to break!

Totally agree. Fantastic line!

@@SpikeMichaels Hence the name of the song and a reference to the earlier song, "Synchronicity." Two separate events, both inevitably leading to an act of violence, seeming to happen at roughly the same time.

loch. not lake.

@@kenmurray1600 The word "loch" is used once, but "lake" is used other times.

amen 4 our fathers

I'm 60 myself, and back in college (early 80s) I listened to my vinyl albums of the Police (and perhaps those of others, in adjacent dorm rooms) many, many times--as you say, good (rockin') stuff! 😝

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Go dad! I am also in 60s and have managed to inflict my music taste onto my 3! 🤣🤣

They were great in concert.

Agree completely 👍

Awesome 😂🎵

Only the police can play like that

If you havent heard it yet, check out Journey's cover of this tune, its actually better than the original imho. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nJOfpKt_cKJ3kok.html

Copeland, the scientific drummer, Andy, the perfect harmonist, Sting, revolution-in-a-pocket, a great bassist, a great singer.

Someone else, another commentator said the same thing. Yes--I'm in Southern California, and the Los Angeles and San Diego freeways are full of lemmings packed into shiny metal boxes.

Time for a change then

I was a senior in high school when this awesome album came out. We always changed it to "packed like lemmings into shiny YELLOW boxes." As if that was original back then, LOL! Those were the best times.....

Lemmings are small rodents that, as far as I know, have ever been packed into metal boxes. Wonder if sardines wouldn't work better here.

@@chamangus The lemming reference is related to the apocryphal belief that lemmings will sometimes blindly follow each other on a "march to the sea" where they will rush headlong into the waves and drown themselves en masse.

They all are

average

@Gibberish no u

@Delike el Ducce Love 2 hear your top hit songs.

@@cruelty-freediet1720 lol

Talent beats numbers.

YES THEY WERE, back in the day!

Overdubbing

Try looking at a live concert with Rush...

Well, well, well, Rush, anyone??!!😎😀

It went over my head too. All I knew is the song felt deeply unsettling and intriguing as a child. I just came back to it now because the music got stuck in my head after decades of not hearing it. I'm completely blown away.

If I recall correctly the LP/cassette didn't print the lyrics in the sleeve. So, I never learned them.

Yep... extremely deep lyrics. It could be argued that there is more than a fleeting allusion to the dark practices of Aleister Crowley... in particular, the closing lyrics...... whether Sting intended that is subjective... 🤔one thing for sure, he was evidently familiar with the works of Carl Jung !

I'd argue that creating a monster myth at Loch Ness is human instinct reaching back to primordial fears to counterbalance the disconnect of the industrial age.

Quantum entanglement

Brother that is the truth

Pure genius guitarist!

talented and obsessed. Just listen "Don't stand so close to me 86' " how he adorns with indescribable chords Really a gifted guitar player !!!

They are brilliantly arranged and no mean feat to play either.

he plays some very difficult chords, it may sound simple but there not. you are correct, he gets not enough respect for his playing ability's.

Still going thru it

I think that one cannot truly appreciate this song's lyrics until one has had some life experience. It is my favorite song by The Police.

I've never read anything to support this, but I've always thought it was pretty clear the father was going to snap and kill his family. The references to Loch Ness are like the ideation of violent thoughts (something crawls from the slime at the bottom), and eventually they become more prevalent (something crawls to the surface), and then at the end as he comes home (family is looming in the headlights), the shadow of the monster is on the door of the cottage. There's also a reference to a pain in his head, which could be simply stress or could be a reference to how many killers have experienced physical symptoms, pains in their head, sometimes from physical brain conditions, etc.

@@Alan_Page That's an interpretation akin to a Stephen King-type novel, a la "The Shining", focusing at an individual level on the particulars of family dynamics (which might have been what the lyric writer intended), but to me, based on the lyrics and the song structure, its seems more of a universal commentary on existentialism as humans move into an increasingly uncertain 20/21st century. If you notice the song doesn't really have a repeated chorus, just three verses broken up by what seem to musically read as three quasi-bridges (all starting with: "many miles away...), opening in a very futuristic dystopian minor key which sets the whole tone for what you can expect throughout. Suddenly though, it morphs into the major key as the verse begins and paints what seems to a Penny Lane-like picture with suburban family mornings and Rice Krispy breakfasts, yet as the song shifts into a chromatic modulation the lyrics begin to suggest cracks in the facade. Then in that quasi-bridge ( seeming more to me like a musical aside ), an F natural (outside of the normal F sharps of the keys of A, G and D in which most of the song operates) figures strongly, mirrored in the lyrics with the unrelated topic of something lurking in a Scottish Lake, yet loosely tangential to the topic in the verses by the phrase "many miles away" (from that particular family) - a sort of re-imagining of the comic book technique "meanwhile, on the other side of town...". There is an obvious tension between the verses ( descriptions of the mundane putting on a stiff upper lip and muddling through an increasingly difficult world to live in) and the seemingly unrelated quasi-bridges ( describing the approach of an ever-closer foreboding), and when I first heard the song, I realized that the clever and gradual elevating of this tension - between the seemingly unrelated subject matter of the verses and this ominous "thing" of the quasi-bridges - was intentionally left to my own imagination to make a connection, really for the very same reason that the ominous "thing" from the bottom of the Scottish lake is not named or described. While the lyrics of the verses are meant in a haphazard way to approximate our own workaday experiences (confronting boredom, pollution, workplace dynamics, rush hour traffic, ad infinitum - or what might be called "la nausee" according to the mid-twentieth century French philosopher Sartre), the unnamed foreboding mentioned in the quasi-bridges represent an inevitable confrontation with existential threats arising from the consciousness that attempts to unite these seemingly meaningless trivialities and sufferings with ultimate purpose and meaning. This inevitable confrontation and its resolution are again cleverly omitted as the lyric writer knows that every hearer of the song will eventually in their own way have to respond to the knock on that cottage door (on the shore of a dark Scottish lake), and confront whatever is on the other side; a cliff hanger of sorts as the song ends with a "to be continued..." coda. As an addendum, notice that in the second quasi-bridge before the instrumental interlude, he sings "a dark Scottish loch", pronounced with fairly good amount of emphasis - perhaps to foreshadow that cottage door (LOCK? - or unlocked?). Yet, again another bit of cleverness.

They dont know how to write lyrics today, that era will never be the same again, great time to grow up

Nobody writes lyrics like these any more because the youth of today are largely brought up to a lower level of intelligence as us. Therefore they don't need them. All they need is Swift and Sheeran, saying the same old meaningless crap over and over again. And they think that the lyrics are brilliant because, luckily for them, there will be some pathetic influencer who will tell them that they are good.

I've played for 25 years and more. Andy has a lot of credibility in the guitarist world, maybe not so much the shredders but the good song writers all love him. He can right some bad ass stuff. I'd love to get his Fender Monochrome but 12K, ouch.

Another person with the “underrated” comment. Next thing you’ll post is John Entwistle was an underrated bass player.

Paul Dykstra unquestionable

I wish that he and Robert Fripp would give Apple Music the music that Summers and Fripp made together...I have both on vinyl stored away with all sorts of other treasures...

Agreed right behind Elliot Easton of The Cars.

yes ...it is hard to believe that the time flows so fast. Iwas in high school behind the iron curtain when i bought the cassette ...

Dance while you can.

37 o 38 dude.

Sure is. We used to go to the local park after work, do illicit (but fun) things and throw the Frisbee around.

OMG thats scary!

Don’t compliment Sting. It might give him a big ego.

some here ...these guys always be my heroes

Looks like Mr. Sumner came straight from his turn as a Harkonnen in David Lynch's "Dune".

I hated cops back then...but loved the Police

Great!

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A true 'power trio', the sound those 3 could put out, amazing. Look at Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Rush, when you have every member with that level of talent and skill, you can often do without a fourth. So rare for that many people with that level of talent to find each other at the right time and click together.

Them coming back is not going to happen, as they don't get along. They barely made it through the reunion tour. Hell, they could barely make it through the impromptu gig at Sting's wedding.

totally agree.. i miss them. MY cds are almost worn out

Andy does come up with good guitar riffs

Back from where?

Jealous!

I was in your dream..I synchronistically was skipping rocks on the shore and said I would message you in 40 years

@@coletanner5193 😆

This is one of my favorite 80's songs, especially when comparing song lyrics, and it was an earworm for much of my (brief) visit to Scotland in '98. The countryside blew my mind- as an American, I'd never been anywhere so GREEN- but the overcast skies and the chill made it easy to imagine some unknown beast emerging from a dark lake.

Ok I’m jealous! That’s so Cool 😎 ✌️

Me too!

Daddy issues? Need a good choking?

I'm getting vibes of Kafka mixed with Jung. A little existential dread considered with total futility. The music accompanies it perfectly.

A horrifying love song to the working class.

Litterature

I’m I’m getting a mix of Kung mixed with a little Fu and some Judge Dread and a lot of fertility of the soil with a lime in the coconut. It’s like Wow Man!

More amazing that they were barely on speaking terms when they recorded this album. They were in separate rooms the whole time.

A true shame they couldn't get along. Most of the blame rests on Sting. And he was never as good solo as he was with Stuart Copeland and Andy Summers. And while Sting may have been the majority of the creative force, together they had Synchronicity. The whole was definitely better than the sum of the parts.

@@wayneparke554 Indeed, but we got 5 great albums out of it. Listening to Synchronicity again, Sting was already moving in that jazzy direction regardless and change was inevitable, though we don't know what it would have looked like with them together.

My all-time favourite too. The Police were phenomenal.

Sting is an intelectual by rock star standards.

Yes, you just can't beat a really good trio.

Try Soda Stereo

@@rolandobacamartinez5391 Amen there!

Yep, sure is! The likes we'll never see or hear again.

Copeland is as steady as a metronome on this one. Amazing performance.

You said it's brillant but said you haven't heard for years... Lol you really like your music... Ha ha ha.

@@titidiz6343 I'm more into heavy rock/metal generally, that's why! I was a kid when this came out, and I randomly heard it again recently, had just forgotten how bloody good it was!!😀😀

He's back!

Think of the synchronicity of the two events...

At the time we thought he was referring to the Loch Ness monster, but we realise now it was Nicola Sturgeon.

@@rozzgrey801 lol

He was referring to a fish?@@rozzgrey801

chris tian the message in the song is awesome Check out a flash flood of colour, talks about similar topics

no

You HAD music like this. Enjoy it!

It's still on earth and you've never had better access to it. Be grateful for that.

It's out there, it's just not popular

Sting really cared about what he was singing about

Omg I love talking heads and the police too we probably have the exact music taste. Do you like donald fagen?

I think it is an unfair comparison, David Byrne is far superior. Sting played the rock and roll star, David never. The quality of their work after the split proves it. Sting needed more of Andy and Stewart, than David of the rest of Talking Heads.

Sting and Byrne have something else in common. They pull their lyrics from the same place.

@@princeofcupspoc9073 ok, what do yo mean?

And their search to get tree fiddy

Outstanding

Dune was a great movie, classic sci fi!

I was thinking the same thing FEYD

Well Feyd was mad as a fox so...

he was only acting like a filthy Harkonnenn

Forget the video & listen !

Know what you mean, but I'm not sure Sting copied anyone EVER

Can you imagine these guys doing White Wedding?

@@marclawrence66 Billy may've copied Sting's look (if you look at the years) but I'm glad he did. He made it his own and was delicious.

underrated? you mean in the most popular band in America at one time? put the bong down.

When the album was released most people were raving about Every Breath You Take, completely not getting it of course, probably because that was where the band put the money for the cool video on MTV. By comparison this video is a lame joke, but who cares because the song is the thing. It's not just the lyrics themselves which are pure genius. It's the lyrical phrasing as well. The way Gordon sings "And every single meeting with his so-called-superiors is a humiliating kick in the crotch" for example. That's not a poetic line, really, but he turns it into a song line with his presentation. That is genius.

One wishes Western politicians might as well start from here to try to fix our decadent civilization.

cncs2 They sure are. My favorite form of Poetry - Songwriting

...yep and following the concepts of Syncronicity by Carl Jung makes it all the more magical...a coincidence ...I think not...

Sting among the greatest lyricists ever with J Lennon and J Morrison.

I seen them in concert during the 1st tour !

This is an amazing song

Mind if l hitch a ride when you go?

much love

My experience of the 80s was pretty shit, so I wouldn't want to relive it but it would be cool to have a time machine to visit some concerts now and then.

Certainly its between this song and Invisible son

Andy doesn't get enough credit. Stewart & Sting get all the accolades.

Andy was great.. But i think Stewarts drumming was awesome

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/a3R7rHyHh5ibw4U.html doesnt this sound like this song

Juss, Jurrr.. we'll probably never see this magic again.. Genius... ty..

i love watching him hop around in wrapped around my finger

Bigtime overlooked and under rated

@@kenijonesESQblending notes with other tones is an amazing skill in my opinion as a guitarist.

@@michaelbarnes9699 sure is

Try it in a Bass Boat

This song and other numerous 80s tracks had this effect on me also, especially Ministry's Stigmata, I would turn into a Speed Demon, lol.

@@CHINGAZOS to be honest with you I have never heard of Ministry or that tune and after listening to it on UKposts I can safely say if I heard that song while driving after a few beers I might be inclined to drive straight into a brick wall…lol

This, and Deathwish ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sJiCnGaGaZqLqmw.html

Mmmh.... 🤔 Too dangerous...

for some reason i remembered the video taking place on the time bandits ship.

I relate, right this minute this is probably the 25th straight reproduction just tonight

He looks like he's killing the drums in murderous rage!

@@2degucitas Exactly! Stewart's punishing those drums like they owe him money.

They compete in my heart with Genesis, the Beatles, and J. S. Bach.

@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq right! first time i heard minuet and badinerie, it was almost a religious experience for me. wonderful.

Especially when you know what it's about...

Bring tears to my eyes.

Great song Great band You need to get out more often there's a far bigger world out there There really is

DING DING DING. WE HAVE A WINNER

Copeland was one of the main reasons Sting left. Sting said he couldnt stand Copelands messy meter.

In fact they are three geniuses.

Yes yes and yes

@@jeffreycase285 him and reni from the stone roses. the 2 best ... ever!

It's a tragedy that out of the 3 of them it was sting that was massively successful post breakup

nailed.

I concur

That's the threat of annihilation.

Well it is about a normal guy like us who gets pushed too much and loses and kills his whole family, and it relates to how the Lochness Monster kills out of anger. They are linked through Synchronicity.

@@jimzafiriou7808 thanks, that how I interpretted it as well.

Sting got the idea from Carl G. Jung's Theory of Synchronicity, a theory of the a-causal reason for extraordinary phenomena.

@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq Yep, and in this case the Synchronicity is between the Lochness Monster who kills indiscriminately, and the guy in the song who is going to kill his family because nothing is happening for him.

Yeah, i remember buying it new (LP)and playing it till my stylus wore out. Just kept turning it over all night while getting drunk & stoned. ....Bloody kids today just don't know the.......oh jeez, STOP... :)

GOD IS JILL RUDOLF LOVE CALL 911 KEVIN RUDOLF NOT HAPPY HE MAD GO AWAY PINK SH SH

you aren't alone there bud was 6 when this was released

You're not "getting old", you're ancient! "Getting old" is for the thirtysomethings.

@@ixglocTV come on man dont make it worse

That is all

He always seemed, not very prominent for some reason in their sound almost like atmosphere effects or basic rhythm, at least here you can hear him playing guitar.

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Here!!..from Chile ....Dec .2020!!.

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Me

Many miles away. Scotish lake

DAMN RIGHT. FUCKING AMAZING

Anyone reaching for the tom toms would have ruined this. Copeland had that shallow sound that essentially defined 80's music for me.

MONSTER!

Cheers! 2024

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Called youth lol

@The Elder err, it's called cocaine.

+Romulo Quezada exactly! :D, btw, remember dune?

Michael Aramis Uh yeah...Feyd Rautha Harkonnen ...

+Romulo Quezada "All I can see is an Atraides I want to kill ! "

+Blue Whovian mas que a billy idol es a ivan drago de rocky iv

+Romulo Quezada Don't forget billy idol's dancing with myself video...sting even tries the curl lip somewhere at :45-:50!!!! ...god damn, 80's was it.

Me too fellow Police fan....

Also... Sting was and is a brilliant song writer!!! I loved his writing since I was 16 ... I remember I had these thoughts... Things happening at the same time in different places... I just didn't know what to call it until Sting came along in my life... I can truly say he has enriched my life thru all of his music... Love him

2019 plus 4 months from your comment. I AM the future. Slink away 4-months-ago man.

You and me both.

I always thought the later stuff was better shame they broke up

kawasaki whip two Great escape lyrics

Yea..creepy right? I love this line ;)

Bolskine house.

@@dougdevine5294 you know

Loch Ness heading towards Urquhart Castle. Beautiful during the day. Looks creepy at night.

Sting was born in '51, so therefore kind of a baby boomer. I have/had relatives like this, and they were born of people that experienced genuine war hardship and fear. They were fresh, young and capable, and they believed in their ability. Let's hope (or help) the younger folk to have a bit of work ethic and self belief.

💰 💰 💰

Made me enjoy the cereal more after I bought the album LOL @sterlingholobyte.

It's the only Police I love 👍😄

These 3 guys snap crackle and pop.

Big shaq did

@@empereurjustinien2082 you beat me to it by 6 hours T_T

Yeah, because of course it did, it's supposed to, spot on

The rising tide of insanity in this song is masterly. You know something terrible is going to happen when he gets home. You don't want to know what happens when the monster reaches the cottage ...

Cottage on the shore used to be owned by Jimmy Page and was the home is Alister Crowley😁

Bolskine 🏠.

Indeed very haunting just a great song so full of imagery ! Why can't music today be like this!

Invoking the spirits

It's the interesting rhythm that Copeland uses, that suggests momentum and a lighter form of Pop music, together with the use of feedback and rock guitar. The song sits, ironically between more commercial Pop styles and rock music without relenting from this unusual tension, at the time it was written. Sting's uncharacteristically powerful and aggressive vocals compound the sense of displacement from the more usual, lighter songs that The Police usually wrote. The lyrics are thought provoking and add another layer of uncertainty that leaves the listener surprised, enthused and intrigued at the creativity and musicianship of this band that, formerly were often considered lightweight and commercial. The most notable musicians in this song are Summers and Copeland who give an 80's-style lesson in how to create engaging Pop music. Musicians and the cognoscenti must have fallen off their chairs with delight. I remember doing the same myself!

Kris Scanlon It was originally recorded as a demo by sting in the summer of 1976 at pathway studios in London. I have the original quarter inch studio tape and the handwritten note lists the song as The Grand Hotel. (Morphosis Act 1!)

@@johngray9434 That's interesting!

@@johngray9434 Great comment. Can I ask whether the lyrics were the same on that original version? I suspect not, but I'm intrigued to know.

Damn, that takes me back! So many of my allowances were spent the same way😂 Except we didn't have MTV, but the 60 minutes of "Video Hits" on Friday night. This, with Wild Boys and Love Is A Battlefield.

Cheers!