Comments for Police, The, Ghost In The Machine

Spirit In The Material World and Every Little Thing are both dynamic Police trademark tracks. Spirit is Andy Summers at his best. The keyboard work on Every Little Thing is outstanding ! Too Much Information is another hit. Get it. The cover design is another creative part.

I really, really dislike the production values on this album, but the songs are great.

I have a love/hate relationship with this album. I have always admired the Police's use of silence as a musical medium. This seems to be lacking on this release. On the other hand, the songs (although moody) are hypnotically riveting! Also, check out Sting----on sax! There are horn lines all over the album.

This is probably the most "unique" Police album, highlighted by the unquestionably gorgeous "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." "Omegaman" is Andy Summers' best writing effort. "Invisible Sun" and "Hungry For You" are also among the Police's best. The only real "skippable" track is "One World."

It's practically all been said about Sting, but on this album the great Stewart Copeland gives us "Rehumanize Yourself," "Invisible Sun" and "Darkness." These last two songs are near-classics of their type. Copeland's importance to the band is often underrated. Andy Summer's "Omega Man" is trademark Police material, although he doesn't sing it. Sting's material is already pulling away in the jazzy, big sound direction of his solo career, although the album overall has a claustrophobic, compressed quality, Ian Thomas.

I found "Ghost in the Machine" to be their most "progressive" sounding album. The sounds and instrumentation seemed to incorporate a lot of what would be associated with the elements of the 80's techno rock as well as the more "classic prog" sounds of Asia, Genesis, Marillion, etc. That's how it sounded to me. If anybody has any comments to share on this please do so. Thanks. nfa

Ghost In The Machine was the Police's fourth studio album, and as many fans call it, the least enjoyed. For this 1981 release, the Police got rid of all that reggae stuff that "middle America just couldn't handle," as drummer Stewart Copeland would put it. The first two tracks, Spirits In The Material World and Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic were instant hits but the rest of the material was heads or tails. Much of it was political, like One World (Not Three), Rehumanize Yourself, and the aforementioned Spirits, but Police fans simply could not resist. Another interesting addition is a lot of saxaphone playing and other horns, as Sting had been learning how to play them for months before the recording. Stewart Copeland's Darkness and Andy Summers' Omegaman show the two other Policemen at their creative bests, though Sting sings them both.