The Police- Synchronicity II (REACTION & REVIEW)
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Such a great song, with such creative and dark lyrics...this father is about to go home and "snap" on his family, while (miles away) the loch ness monster is about to destroy a "cottage on the shore." So creepy but awesome.
Sting's brutally dark humour in the lyrics are just brilliant
In an irreverently silly discussion with Revolver magazine, the band had a good laugh not answering a question about the synchronicity between the main story of the song and its subplot about the Loch Ness Monster:
Revolver: ‘Synchronicity II’ is easily the best song about the Loch Ness monster to ever appear on a Number One album. Explain.
Sting: It’s about two separate but synchronistic events. One, the Loch Ness monster…
Copeland: …which is synchronous with…
Sting: um… my penis?
Copeland: Yes, yes, yes! A little boasting there, perhaps; a little self-aggrandisation, but what the hell, we’ll let that slide. I remember we argued about the tempo of this one.
Revolver: Wait a minute. Sting, what’s the Loch Ness monster really synchronous with?
Copeland: His penis, he answered that question.
Sting: Yes, my dick! It’s a another monstrous, hidden thing from Northern Britain.
Copeland: That comes out of the slime and that no one has ever seen, or believes in!
Sting: And the Japanese are fascinated by it!
Copeland: And a photograph of which would be worth a lot of money!
Ahh the Nessie guitar solo. The line "packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes" is delivered with a rhythmic mechanicalness as to symbolize those lemmings blindly following each other off the cliff like our own mechanized society. It's all connected. Much more lyrically sophisticated than your average MTV fare of the day. Jung would be proud!
Sadly, the whole thing about lemmings is apocryphal. They don't actually suicide off of cliffs. But can't expect Sting to know that! Great lyric.
Stable genius @@David-iv6je yes we know. We're all very impressed, that I can assure you. It's really unfortunate that you didn't write this song.
@@jimhardiman3836 What kind of guy picks fights in the comments section of channel like this? Chill out dude.
Stable genius @@David-iv6je cool story bro! Says the guy who thinks he's so much smarter than one of the most well read musical artists that he had to correct him on his choice of symbolism in his songwriting. Apocryphal much? 💩
@@jimhardiman3836 Keep spraying the douchiness bro!
"Back from work now, ready to relax" - listens to creepy song about a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown getting home from work ... just as a creature "... casts its shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish Loch ..."
Ah my favorite Police song! I love the structure of it, where Sting gradually increases the intensity of the vocal until he growls out a couple lines, right before the bits about the sea creature. "Many miles away...". What a cool song. Glad you reacted to it and dug it Justin my man. Cheers!
Thanks for this one. I love this song. Probably my favorite from The Police. Often ignored for the bouncier, more popular hits. This is the song that drove me to delve deeper into Sting’s solo work. There’s brilliance there. All three musicians were true artists.
This was The Police at the height of their powers! Sting's powerful, soaring vocals coupled with cool, intelligent lyrics...Stewart Copeland's drumbeat pushing at a break-neck pace and Andy Copeland's insane guitar magic! It doesn't get much better!
The bouncy Synchronicity I and the darker Synchronicity II are probably my favorites from this album. One opens the first side and the other closes it.
Great reaction, JP! Rick Beato has a video called “Why Sting is Uncopyable”. This piece is one of the featured songs. The video gets a little technical but describes what makes Sting’s music so unique. That uniqueness is the reason why I like The Police and solo Sting so much. I like Sting’s lyrics much more when he gets away from love themes. The lyrics for his solo works are allegorical, too, although the theme of love still shows up often; probably a gimmick to sell records.
love… exciting and new…
@@-davidolivares love or infatuation? I’m celebrating my 30th anniversary this year. Maybe not new but always exciting!
@@jaybird4093
Congrats!
This may actually be my favorite Police song, and I'm a big fan of their entire, but too short, catalog. Saw them live for this tour at Shea Stadium, headlining a show with REM as openers and Joan Jett before The Police, in the pouring rain. No shelter and no-one cared about getting drenched. It was a fantastic show
My favorite Police song. Thanks for listening.
Andy Summers kicked out some truly demented (in a GREAT way...) guitar solos !!
Just the kind of sounds that a guitar was NEVER intended for....á la Hendrix, Lifeson, ect. 🚬😎
it was definitely a rocking concert tour. I remember being exhausted after the show. Our group met up with a bunch of folks from our home town and hung out for hours after waiting for traffic to thin... no one said anything specific, but we all knew this would be appreciated as we would all be going on our own ways soon and our paths likely not to cross much again... one of many memories around the end of highschool and start of the next chapter...
I’m not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but your Genesis comparison might be sweetened due to the fact that Hugh Padgham (Genesis, Gabriel, Collins) produced this record as well. I REALLY hear it in the drum sound on this song specifically…the way the drum sound “opens up” in that weird/cool mid-section…total “room sound”, without completely bogarting the Collins “facehugger” sound. I love it!
“This song kind of reminds of…old school Genesis”. says the guy in a Steve Hackett t-shirt! Just saw Mr. Hackett myself. Tremendous show. I do think this song is a bit proggy. Rush’s album Signals is cut from the same cloth in my opinion.
I've seen The Police described as the last great prog band of the 70s, which I kind of agree with.
Up front: Great reaction, Justin!
Synchronicity II is easily one of my top 20 all-time favorite songs, EVER. The lyrics are on point, telling a story that could easily be retold by Genesis or Rush in a different tempo. Sting and the guys does great work here, and musically express the darkness of the words presented.
Thanks for the upload, and here's to years of further enjoyment of this amazing gem.
Definitely on my Top 20 of all songs as well. That tempo! It just drives and drives, relentlessly.
Might be my favourite by them. Something magic although sinister.
(But then I'm a great Genesis fan who The Police were amongst the bands that saved the "post prog" era for...)
Still my favorite Police song. But, you haven't really experienced it until you've seen the official cinematic-quality video, with post-apocalyptic headbands and all...
JP: "I want to relax"
Sting: "OOOOOOOOOOH-OOOOOOOOOOOH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, listen to all this disturbing imagery!"
Glad to see you react to this track . I’ve always loved it. Didn’t care much for the Police until I heard Synchronicity II. I had to go out and buy it and WORE THE VINYL LP OUT MAN! Love your channel and your unique insights. ROCK ON JP!!🤘
Yep. My journey as well.
One of my favorite Police songs. Especially think the lyrics are so clever. Very memorable song--awesome live also..
Love this song. I particularly like Andy Summers' chord structure on this one. The eeriness and subject matter make this a very cool song that I never tire of hearing. Synchronicity: Meaningful coincidence. I seem to experience a lot of this in my life!. "Invisible Sun" is a good song and I don't know if it's on the album, but it's worth checking out. Oh, btw, I kinda get what you meant with the Genesis comparison, that the song is in a story form, a la "Harold The Barrel"? Anyway, a great reaction and analysis. 🦕 Nessie!
This was my favorite from the album. Really nice guitar work.
Thanks for delving into the lyrics of this oft played song, I never bothered to see the synchronized story plot… just dug the music. I know I’m lazy musically sometimes, most times. That’s why I’m here. Now, I’ll be more in tune with the song.
I still hold hope that the boys will do an album before it’s too late.
Peace and m’boosh Music
I can completely hear the touch of Genesis!!! Never noticed it before! Cool!
Great reaction, as usual! Thank you for the entertainment! Still one of my favorite albums!
I saw the Police when they were touring in support of this album. Awesome show. The opening act was a new band called REM. They were awesome too.
I had the pleasure of seeing The Police during this tour, a fantastic show by three very talented musicians. I only wish I had seen them before and after…
One of my favorites from the Police. Check out the live version paired with Synchronicity I from their Live album.
One of my favorite Police tracks. The guitar work is excellent.
In my opinion side 2 of this album is what elevates Synchronicity to masterpiece level. This song is such a strong way to open the second half! Haha I died laughing when you made that Old Greg reference!🤣 Love me some Mighty Boosh lol
There's a fantastic live version of this song on Sting's 'Live In Olso 1993' concert. That whole concert is Sting at his absolute best, and yet it's only been released on VHS. Luckily it's on youtube.
One of my fav Police tracks. Great driving track!!!!
I first heard of the concept of "synchronicity" when reading the works of psychologist Carl Jung. He wrote of it in the early 1900s, describing it as "meaningful coincidences". I don't actually believe in synchronicity, myself, but I find it an interesting concept.
Same. I’ve even used the term to describe it, though I don’t really think it’s actually a thing. I suppose it’s similar to my belief in the supernatural (ghosts, spirits etc).
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 I could get on board with it. I mean everyone and everything generates several diverse radio frequencies. We can communicate with other entities without realizing it. We have to ability to harness this power, but superstition prevents us from fully developing the true potential of the brain.
Great track., and no mistaking their signature sound, even if you were listening underwater. Racy, crackin' riff, and great musicianship. Always a fan, though didn't listen to them so much once they broke up... Legendary live, so much energy. And I only saw them in their pre stadia days. Now here's a first, the drums! I seldom register drums to any great degree, but SC to me seems pretty unique. There's a 'pop', a clean, crisp sound he gets I hear from no one else. Love Police drumming.
His snare sound is famous. Him and Bill Bruford.
@@David-iv6je I've listened to tons of BB, but i can't say I've picked up his 'unique' sound like with SC. Maybe I need to listen harder :)
@@jfergs.3302 Great Fripp quote! Hats off to you! Bruford also has that unique "pop" to his snare. Copeland is much more famous of course, but both have had drums lines based on their signature snare sound and also patches named after them in drum programs. Quite a distinction if you ask me!
@@David-iv6je Aye, re the patches quite the (additional) nod of recognition.
The end of side 1 and all of side 2 is incredible. The Police became the biggest band in the world in 1983, i defintley think Tea In The Sahara is a great song and youll enjoy it
I have a copy that includes Murder By Numbers
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i so agree with all you said. After The Beatles the Police are my favorite band. I love Tea in the Sahara.
One of your most insightful reactions. Great job.
Appreciate that Rod!
Great reaction; I like how deep you go into the lyrics. Drop the word "irregardless" from your vocabulary.
This song ends side one of the album. Each gives a different tone or feeling of dread finishing up with the second Synchronicity track which also has dread. Love the shirt.
8:27 As soon as you said "this song kind of reminds me" I immediately thought of old school Genesis. Not lying. I hear it too.
You should check out some Rush songs from the early 80s - they became heavily influenced by the Police. Vital Signs (on Moving Pictures) is probably the first example of this. Also New World Man, Digital Man, The Enemy Within (and most of Grace Under Pressure). Cheers!
New bands, like The Outfield… so many were influenced.
@@FURDOG1961 Yes
Yes
And yes. Great tracks!
@@-davidolivares do you mean The Night Game (they have a very Police-esque song called “The Outfield”) or were you talking about the 80s band The Outfield? I LOVE The Night Game and definitely hear Sting as a vocal influence.
Yeah, as a huge Copeland fanboy, it’s nice to know my favorite heroes aren’t immune from the sound of stew plinking on those rides. I even played Paiste Rudes cause I loved that sound so much.
@@davidanania5618
Works both ways I guess.
This is one of my fav Police tracks :)
Interesting that you would mention Fripp. Have you heard the collaborations of Andy Summers and Robert Fripp? I've heard two albums; very solid efforts!
My favorite Police song.
A strong track to finish the first side of the album, and it needed it after the previous two (IMO). I think the second side is better, but is very much Sting taking charge of the direction, hence why this was their final album. They went out on a high, though.
PS as others have mentioned, a bonus track on later CD reissues was Murder By Numbers: well worth a listen.
Love you JP!!!! Great song!! Great reaction!
Appreciate it Wendy!
Good reaction! About the line "He walks unhindered through the picket lines today", you're looking at it through today's eyes. But in England in the 80s, the picket lines were probably factory workers on strike for better wages and working conditions and not a protest of the factory itself or against pollution or something like that. "He doesn't think to wonder why" to me doesn't mean he doesn't care but, as you said, he's just preoccupied with other things. At least, that's how these lines have always struck me.
I love this one too. One thing I think that shows up again and again in a lot of music at this time is a fear of nuclear war, loss of humanity to an industrial wasteland, an inability to cope with being forced to live in an environment that possibly humans aren't meant to thrive in (working in assembly lines, breathing in fumes etc) and the incredible stress of that just under the surface. You also hear this in Under Pressure, The Wall, etc and it seems to be a recurring theme in the late 70s to mid-80s. It should probably scare us that we aren't hearing this theme anymore. It may mean we are too comfortable in our cage - and we really don't seem to have the fear of nuclear war that we should have right now. It's this aspect of 80s music that I think would be totally lost on kids living right now.
This was probably my favorite Police song, but we preferred his solo work afterwards even more. As a band, they were no Yes, which sounds weird. As an artist, though, Sting was a star. That alliterates nicely too. B+. The album "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" is chock full of great songs, including the most timely "Russians" and also the sultry "Moon Over Bourbon Street". The album "Nothing Like the Sun" has wispy "Be Still My Beating Heart", the clever and jaunty "Englishman in New York" and the moving and thoughtful "They Dance Alone". Hand-picked for your listening pleasure! Wishing you now time to enjoy them. Happy Sunday!
as you were searching for the word, i hope you could hear me saying "surprise...surprise...you mean surprise..." and you did! lol
i don't interpret it as specifically nessie that sting means but the manifestation of a man's frustration, despair and powerlessness creating SOMETHING, crawling out....from a dark scottish loch...
possibly my favourite Police track. Dysfunctional life and suggestive malice.
Great insight and reaction Justin
nice shirt!
One of the greatest rock songs in history.... period.
"King Of Pain" is another top track from the Synchronicity album
This song was a HIT!! Well the whole album was a HIT. The Police were the biggest band on Earth! You don't already know these songs? Are you Gen Z? I am Gen X and when I was 11-12 ('83, '84) I collected their 5 albums because they were so good.
Litany means like a rant, rather than a prayer
The whole Synchronicity gig from Atlanta is fantastic
A song comparing how the monster in your mind is the same as the monster in your imagination... 💯
Its fucking UNTOUCHABLE!! 😎
The Police is one of my top bands, and Sting as a solo artist. Synchronicity II is a great song and reminds me a bit of Rush. But I like the Police a heck of a lot better. Cmon....just compare Sting vs Geddy's vocals. There IS no comparison.
I've always liked this song - I wish it was longer and had another verse or two
Glad to see you doing more of this album! Just a couple friendly reminders though. Cat Stevens tea for the Tillerman! And Tommy. Love you
My favorite band after of The Beatles. Stings solo work is fucking incredible.
King of Pain and Wrapped around your Finger - Brilliant.
One of the greatest ( and true ) lyrics of all time: "And every single meeting with his so-called superior
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch!"
It was fun when this album was the next big thing on MTV and all the videos started showing up.
When this album came out, a radio station in SF made their own custom edit that combined Synchronicity Parts 1 and 2 together. They worked surprisingly well back to back. A video was also made for this song that I remember liking quite a bit.
In the music video, Sting has the same style as Billy Idol at the time.
"The factory belches filth into the sky"....
A song lyric that still applies throughout the world even today.
In my top 5 if not my favorite Police song if one relegates oneself to such lists. It is very much a story song so one really has to listen to the words to feel the musical dynamic and what it's telling. It's unusual for a song with a mysterious rhythmic drive to also feel haunting and of course Summers wailing guitar moment is both the "something" rising to the surface and the repressed father wanting to wail himself, but can't so the shadow on the door takes over.
Afternoon, Justin. Dave from The Smoke, on a greyish day (Nothing Like The Sun!). Love The Police but I bought the singles rather the albums at the time (bit short of cash then!). This is one of their last, and I think the ambition and complexity shows that they were wanting to move on from the three-piece format. Does anyone else think the opening riff sounds a bit like XTC's Making Plans For Nigel? Worth checking out the video - directed by Godley & Creme ex of 10cc.
P.S. my song ref Nothing Like The Sun is the title of my favourite Sting solo album.
Godley & Creme's video for Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". Yum.
@@musicdroog7666 A slightly embarrassed thumbs up from me, but yes, yum! And there's some sumo in it too, JP.
@@gaiaeternal5131 The extended uncensored video got butchered so badly that the "official" version can't be watched. Shame.
That's a good one, thumbs up.
Your music mirrors your mind
Song suggestion: Hackett to Death
Band: GTR
Album: GTR
Brilliant track one of my favourites
Pair this with the Crazy 8's "Nervous in Suburbia" and you get a real feel of how oppressive the Eighties could feel.
Old Greg!! Haven’t heard about him in forever!
Love the Hackett shirt! I've got one on order.
😄.. I used to listen to this every morning before biking off to college. Awesome memories 🍻👍🏼
Great review. Great song.
This is a great album. Glad you're going through it.
Great reaction 🙂👍 I'm wondering if the thing crawling up from the bottom of the lake is a metaphor of the darkness growing in the father's mind, and the shadow is him standing in front of their house... He is going to unleash his built up anger and frustration upon his family... Just a thought. I love this song btw 👍💕
Good interpretation Zcdat!
I always saw that the Scottish lake is the fathers mind ad mental state and the beast is the dark thoughts and actions that are surfacing.
This is actually my favorite Police song...
I always thought he'd just read 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. A little tangential/incidental, but nonetheless. Or not.
Loved playing guitar on this one. No idea what I did for the solo.
Nice shirt JP. Hackett rules
AH'M OL GREGG!
"You like Bailey’s?"
its a parallelism the man is the monster the monster is the man..
One of my fave Police LPs!!! "Tea in the Sahara" and "King of Pain" are great down tempo tunes from this LP. Cheer JP. PS, Andy Summers drumming is just pure joy.
Stuart Copeland is the drummer, Andy Summers plays guitar
@@parshakamarsh MY BAD...a bit of a Brain fart...no worries. Thanks
The best of the best the police
So close to 23K, Justin...
I didn't even notice!😁
@@JustJP
... and
23K!!!
My favourite Police song. I disagree about there being a lack of musical changes throughout the song. Each verse goes through four or five different themes, all blending into each other. I think it’s an incredible original song about modern urban dystopian isolation.
Nice Mighty Boosh comment!
Nice shirt, bruh!
Ty Chris :)
Sync I is my fav. This one got more popular tho.
Funny there seems to be a sweet spot when a band peaks. I believe all bands peak at some point. For me, Ghost in the Machine was the peak album for The Police, with this album just slightly less brilliant (but still great). Similarly I would rank U2's The Unforgettable Fire as their peak, coming just before The Joshua Tree. And REM's Document as their peak, just before Green. Only The Beatles had the sense, or tension, to break up after their peak album, Abbey Road. Everyone else just hangs around too long and become self parodies.
JP, have you listened to Snarky Puppy? Give them a shot. They are currently opening for Donald Fagen and the Steely Dan band. Saw them last Friday at the Hollywood Bowl.
Yup, they're quite awesome :)
The whole album is fantastic, but get ready. The best songs are on side 2
Another couple of great gloomy songs.
Dirty City by Steve Winwood - ruclips.net/video/4CMftqJJkug/видео.html and
My God by Jethro Tull - ruclips.net/video/XG-r7YvcN9I/видео.html.
The great guitar and organ tones (Winwood/Clapton) and the tones of the guitar, piano, flute and choir (Jethro Tull) completely set the scene and make the songs.
Only granny knew, there is no "Synchronicity" between I & II. Only the familiar refrain, that everyone is a "King of Pain". Now if only Sting hadn't played the part of the Harkonnen named Feyd! I would not have the image of him in a loincloth, burned into my head! Have a great Memorial Day, and play some prog. or jazz instead. Peace from "The Peace Train".
I thought this was the best song on the album so of course I resented that it didn't make it to their Greatest Hits album. I realize they had 4 others from this album on there but why leave out the best one?
"Synchronicity II" is not on their greatest hits of 1990 but on the other hand it does appear on the Greatest Hits released in 1992 which restores its absence on the previous compilation !
Actually like this song