I know no one on tumblr gives a shit about the 80s new wave band The Police but I was just listening to Synchronicity, certainly their most critically and commercially successful album again the other day and I realized I'd been missing a massive joke built into the structure of the record all these years. OK, so it's a theme album about Synchronicity, a Jungian concept and there is this really obnoxious, discordant song called MOTHER in the middle of the record, in which it's clear that the person singing it is attracted to their mother and also that they feel all the women in their life have turned into their mother...and it is written by Andy Summers, when all the other tracks (apart from Miss Gradenko, which is pretty off theme as well and is written by Stewart Copeland) are written by Sting.
I can't believe Sting was like JUNG, JUNG, JUNG, JUNG and then Andy was like: FREUD and I fucking missed it. For forty fucking years I have slandered this song and said Synchronicity is a "near perfect" album... I missed a psychiatry joke in the middle of the psychiatry record. I really don't deserve my lauded position as a gadfly and fan of the 80s new wave/pop band The Police.
Sting onstage during The Soul Cages Tour, Mexico City, 1991, photographed by Fernando Aceves.
During the press conference in Mexico City, someone asked him about the jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis (whom he had worked with on The Dream of the Blue Turtles), to which he simply replied: "He stayed at home."