No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


smonster - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:38 am PDT #9066 of 10003
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I loved Soul Cages, which was probably the first Sting I bought (and that tour was my first Sting concert) but my favorite Sting song ever is Fragile.

My Police Heresy: I really don't much care for "Roxanne."

I like the Moulin Rouge version and the Fall Out Boy cover. We used to play a drinking game to Roxanne that involved splitting into two teams; half drank on "Roxanne" and half on "Red light."


megan walker - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:55 am PDT #9067 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Definitely Outlandos d'Amour. With a nod to Ghost in the Machine for the supremely bad French of "Hungry for You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)".


Scrappy - Aug 08, 2008 9:50:55 am PDT #9068 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I saw the Go Gos open for the Police

Me too! Boston Garden.


DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 9:53:54 am PDT #9069 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm a little partial to Ghost in the Machine because that's the tour I saw them on. But the first album is so awesome, and Zenyatta has "Canary in a Coalmine" and "When the World is Running Down."


DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 9:55:09 am PDT #9070 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Me too! Boston Garden.

Cleveland!


Barb - Aug 08, 2008 10:36:29 am PDT #9071 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

My Police Heresy: I really don't much care for "Roxanne."

I didn't like the original iteration. It wasn't until the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour and I heard his stripped down, utterly elegant, beautifully jazzed version of it, that I truly fell in love.

And then the Moulin Rouge version sent me completely over the edge. It was, in fact, the inspiration for a key scene in the Carmen book. (In one of my rare < mememe> moments, that scene is easily one of the best things I think I've ever written.)

As far as album, I love all of them, but I'm a Ghost in the Machine girl, but Regatta has "Message in a Bottle".


Theodosia - Aug 08, 2008 11:22:23 am PDT #9072 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I never thought Roxanne was a particularly good song, but the version in Moulin Rouge gave me literal goosebumps.


juliana - Aug 08, 2008 11:33:52 am PDT #9073 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

the version in Moulin Rouge gave me literal goosebumps.

The full dance sequence to that song (not the edited one in the movie) is the reason I picked up the Deluxe version of MR. It's amazing.


Amy - Aug 08, 2008 12:34:38 pm PDT #9074 of 10003
Because books.

Aw! I saw the Police when I was 14, so that was ... 1981? Wow.

We used to sing "Jooooo-anne" to a girl in my grade whenever "Roxanne" came on. I can't help hearing it in my head that way now, and picturing her rolling her eyes at us.


megan walker - Aug 08, 2008 12:44:38 pm PDT #9075 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Aw! I saw the Police when I was 14, so that was ... 1981? Wow.

Yes, they toured the summer after my freshman year of high school. I remember because I got asked to go and I was too stupid back then to realize I should have gone even if I didn't really like the guy.