SYNCHRONICITY

Love it.

The main big album remains as good as ever.

This CD arrived in good condition & no problems with the sound quality.

very good condition,full satisfaction!!

By the release of SYNCHRONICITY, their fifth album, The Police were the biggest band in the world. It came as quite a shock when the band members went their seperate ways at the peak of the group's popularity. Fortunately, SYNCHRONICITY is as magnificent an epitaph as a band could wish for. Since its release, the album has become nearly legendary. The first half is great - particularly the uptempo "Synchronicity I" - but it's when one reaches the ferocious "Synchronicity II" that the album really takes off. What follows are some of the most impressive and memorable songs to come out of the 1980's, and possibly out of rock music in general. "Every Breath You Take", with its unforgettable guitar riff, needs no introductions; it is not only the band's signature composition, but the most requested song in the history of radio. "King Of Pain", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and the dreamy "Tea In The Sahara" are brilliant; "Murder By Numbers", another excellent song, was tacked on to the end of the album when it was released on CD as incentive for fans to purchase the pricier CD version. Though the other band members contribute some compositions (Stewart Copeland's charming "Miss Gradenko", Andy Summers' bizarre "Mother"), it's clear that Sting was running the show. The immense success of the album convinced Sting to go solo, thus ending the reign of one of the greatest bands of all time. SYNCHRONICITY is pure gold, ranking among the finest albums of all time; it's a fitting end for such a wonderful band.

I'll have to admit that this remastered version sounds just a little better than the original but the sound quality still leaves much to be desired especially when compared to the much better job done on the other albums in the Japanese mini lp replica series. They are just going to have to do a major remastering job and even search for a better master to truly do justice to this album which although became their best selling because of "Every Breath You Take" (come on, be honest, you know that's true)is not their best album by far anyway. Still, the mini lp replica sleeve is very well designed and faithfully replicates the original lp which contains the lyrics to all the tracks in both English and Japanese.Just because an album sells the most, it doesn't make it the best album. Firstly, sound quality wise, this is the worst of all their albums. I've had this album on cassette when it first came out and on a couple of cd reissues and on every one it sounded very poor suggesting a poor mastering job to begin with.Secondly, to be a great album, it's more that just about having a few good tracks interspersed with filler tracks that don't flow and hence give the listener a sense of aural highs and depressing lows. That's why the best Police albums in descending order of greatness are: "Zenyatta Mondatta" (every track is strong with no filler and the album flows very cohesively), "Regatta de Blanc" (ditto), "Ghost in the Machine" (6 brilliant tracks -the first and last 3-and 5 very poor ones in the middle), "Synchronicity" and "Outlandos D'Amour".Putting aside the terrible sound quality and the extremely commercial "Every Breath You Take", the only other tracks that rank among the best that the Police have ever done are:"King of Pain" (the best track on this album), "Tea in the Sahara" (great mood and reminicent of some of their best work on 'Regatta de Blanc'-reminds me a lot of 'Walking on the Moon' in terms of evoking a great mood) and "Wrapped Around Your Finger".We also have some passable tracks that could pass as filler for their earlier albums (or are at least better than the awful fillers on "Ghost in the Machine" such as "Hungry For You" and "Too Much Information") in "Miss Gradenko", "Synchronicity II" and maybe "Oh My God" while the rest are just too poor to mention given what the band have shown themselves capable of on previous albums."Murder By Numbers" was the final bullet that murdered any pretense of cohesiveness or continuity that the album had in what was clearly an afterthought that was thrown in to fill up the space. This track isn't bad in itself but it would clearly have been better placed on Sting's first solo effort "The Dream of the Blue Turtles" where at least it would logically fit in with the mood and character of that album.If you are really looking for The Police's best albums (great tracks that are cohesive and have a great overall flow with no fillers rather than just a collection of very good and very bad disjointed tracks), this is not it: get their second and third ones.

Overall the sound is great, but in term of detail the SACD version is not much better versus the original CD and vinyl album

Classic album. Great sounding Japanese pressing of CD. Thanks for the fast shipping and delivery.

注文後に即発送で即到着。状態が良くて帯もダブルで付いており、DISC UNIONさんの取り扱い品はいつも安心で価格も良心的です。有難うございました。

良かった。スティングのすべてが分かつた。

どうしても、世界を変えた名作ですね、多分ポリス最後だと思ってますが、こんだけ決めりゃあ、もういいですよね。

The Policeが1983年にリリースした5thアルバム。彼らのラストアルバムにて最高傑作との呼び声が高い作品です。実際に全米アルバムチャート17週連続第1位を獲得しました。内容としてはThe Policeの代表曲となった『Every Breath You Take』（全米シングルチャート8週連続第1位：年間チャート第1位）を始め『King Of Pain』『Tea In The Sahara』等秀逸な楽曲が揃っています。本アルバムの核となるのは『SynchronicityI、II』でこの楽曲の疾走感には素晴らしいものがあります。そして後にStingがソロで展開するワールドミュージック（民族音楽）もあり本作品が布石となっています。この頃はバンド内の人間関係が最悪で特にStingとドラマーのStewart Copelandはスタジオ内で殴り合いの喧嘩をしていたとのエピソードも残っています。その様な状況で最高のアルバムを製作出来るとはさすがプロフェッショナルです。彼らにとってはもうこの作品で全ての事をやりつくしたと言った感じでしょうね。そして今回SHM-SACD盤を購入しましたが音質が抜群に良いです。このような素晴らしいグループが7年（アルバム5作品）と言う短い期間で解散してしまったのには非常に残念に思います。