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20 Killer B-Sides: No. 18
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--Police (1983)
This noir-ish non-album B-side was smuggled into quite a few homes on the back of a little ditty called 'Every Breath You Take.' The diabolical Sting imagines reaching "the top of your profession" -- as a killer. Deservedly appended to the tail end of cassette (and later CD) editions of 'Synchronicity.'
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Shawn
good version of MBN on Frank Zappa's album Broadway The Hardway and Andy Summers did write this tune but on Frank's album Sting say's he wrote the song...humm
August 21 2007 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
GoolGaul
This has always been one of my favorite Police songs.
Maybe you idiots need to put your politics away, and just enjoy a song poking fun at serial killing? What's wrong with a little levity?
John C.
Umm, wouldn't it be the "diabolical Andy Summers", since technically he wrote the song? Just curious.....
July 01 2007 at 5:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
MPH
@PoesyMyers
What's "typical" is your lack of reading comprehension. Who is "shutting down the song"? This list is PRAISING these oft-overlooked gems. Get off your high horse and just enjoy the music.
PoesyMyers
Thank you for the insight, HeartWaves: you're absolutely dead-on with the quote about absolute power. If the aol people rating these songs had actually LISTENED to "Murder by Numbers," it IS, indeed, about WAR, and the fact that the "top of the profession," IRONICALLY, is about being, oh, say, President of the United States--and having the power to kill thousands of people with the swipe of a pen. Sheesh...the music dilettantes shut down the song without grasping its meaning. Typical.
June 18 2007 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Nash
Stings amazing..Probably the most underated song writer of our times..And the word 'diabolical' is right..Practically every song of his has a dark tone to it,from the stalker insinuation of Every breath you take to the ominous death knell of 'Russians'-his commentary on nuclear weapons and the Cold War
June 18 2007 at 11:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Spirit in material world
Please don't take this song the wrong way.Sting is not a killer.I'm pretty sure he's being ironic with this song. It's saying powerful people get away with more than powerless people. More like the quote "Absolute power corrupts absolutely".
June 18 2007 at 11:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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