Every Breath You Take: The Classics

Every Breath You Take: The Classics

“White boy reggae never sounded as good as it did with the Police’s barrage of stellar singles throughout the early 80s. Every Breath You Take: The Classics lives up to that subtitle even if the track listing is missing a few gems (“So Lonely,” “Synchronicity II,” “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” just to name a few) that could have easily taken the place of the two remixes at the end. Still, the twelve songs chosen here really are the best of the best from Sting and the boys.   We begin with the impassioned pleas of “Roxanne,” and we only get better from there. The Police were one of the best bands of their generation, let alone to come out of the New Wave scene, and one of their first great pop songs was a love poem to a prostitute that Sting delivers with a mixture ” read more