Zenyatta Mondatta

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Christgau, Robert (1990). "The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. pp.319–320. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 10 November 2015. It was all very dodgy, and it didn’t really work. We weren’t real punks, as it were, we were kind of fake. We could play fast and furious, but, yeah, we were suspect. We were sort of too good to be included in the scene. Zenyatta Mondatta (liner notes). The Police. A&M Records. 1980. SP-4831. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

New Zealand album certifications – The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 18 November 2020. Formed in 1976 as a budding punk band, the Police members experimented with elements of reggae and jazz. Copeland’s brother and record executive Miles Copeland III agreed to finance The Police’s first album, Outlandos d’Amour in 1978, which was driven by the international hit “Roxanne”, and brought the group to the US for the first time. In October 1979, the group released their second album, Reggatta de Blanc, which topped the UK albums chart and spawned more hit singles.The whole thing is kind of miraculous, because we never thought: “How can we make a hit?” All we had to do was be The Police. When Sting showed you and Stewart his songs for Zenyatta, and you two added your own parts, did he ever say something like: “Hey, that wasn’t how I envisioned this song. Why are you messing with it?” No, no. He would get it immediately. He’d say: “Now it’s sounding like something.” I think Sting demonstrated that one to Stewart and I on acoustic guitar. Very simple stuff. When I got hold of it, I played things such as a G11 and an Am11 [chords] through chorus and echo. Then Stewart added his stuff and the song went to a whole other place. It’s also a classic example of a trio with three distinct parts working together to create a whole. Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers. Produced by The Police and Nigel Gray; engineered by Nigel Gray. The Pictures Classifiche". Musica e dischi (in Italian) . Retrieved 4 June 2022. Select "Album" in the "Tipo" field, type "Zenyatta Mondatta" in the "Titolo" field and press "cerca". There’s some truth to it, sure. I can only speak for myself, but I think Zenyatta Mondatta might be remembered more for how everything was so crazy at the time we recorded it. We were becoming the hottest band in the world, and with all the resulting demands and expectations. The studio time being shortened by the festival gigs and having to worry about leaving for a tour certainly didn’t help.

The rest are instrumentals, or mostly instrumental, as is the case with "Voices in My Head" and "Shadows in the Rain". The first has standout Copeland drumming while the second is driven by another great Sting bassline. "Behind My Camel" and the closing "The Other Way of Stopping" are completely instrumental however. "Behind My Camel" has a hypnotic feel to it, the sound of the Arabic influenced guitar just drills into your brain. "The Other Way of Stopping" has another great Copeland performance, and the ending with the interesting guitar effects finishes the album on a high note.a b Sutcliffe, Phil; Fielder, Hugh (1981). L'Historia Bandido. Proteus Books. p.77. ISBN 0-906071-66-6. Caroli, Daniele (13 June 1981). "CBS-Dischi Distrib Center Bows; Wants Diversity Into New Lines And Midprice Disks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol.93, no.23. p.66 . Retrieved 11 December 2019– via World Radio History.

Zenyatta Mondatta debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and stayed atop the chart for four weeks. [12] The album also charted at number one in Australia. [13] In the United States, it spent almost three years on the Billboard 200 chart and peaked at number five. [14] The album produced two singles, " Don't Stand So Close to Me" and " De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". On the UK Singles Chart, the former became the band's third number one, while the latter reached number five. [12] The two singles also became the band's first top ten hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, with both peaking at number ten on the chart. [15] [16]

We were like: “They want hits. What are they talking about? Almost everything we do is a hit” [laughs]. Once we started recording, the sessions were going well, but in the third week – in the heat of making the album – we were taken out of the studio for a week to do these stupid festivals. Austriancharts.at – The Police – Zenyatta Mondatta" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 November 2020. He was fine with providing the bones and letting Stewart and I help put some flesh on it and build it into a body. It’s like taking a sketch and bringing all the colour and brushwork to it. You add all these other elements, and the song becomes larger-than-life. Which is what we were always looking for. The pop-culture mythology about Zenyatta Mondatta is that you, Sting and Stewart didn’t really love the album, even though it finally broke The Police big in America and gave you two Top 10 singles: Don’t Stand So Close To Me and De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da . Is this alleged dislike myth, or truth?

Ahmad, Suzail (23 February 2022). "JoJo: Why Are Stand Names Changed in the Localization?". Game Rant . Retrieved 13 November 2022. a b Welch, Chris (October 1980). "There's nobody between us and the Beatles now!". Musicians Only. Archived from the original on 15 February 2003 . Retrieved 18 November 2020. Firstly, Summers, Sting and Copeland had to get out of town. The comfort of recording once again at Surrey Sound, their home base for Outlandos d’Amour and Reggatta de Blanc, was denied because they could not work at a studio in England for tax reasons. Instead they became tax exiles at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands. Macias, Chris; Barton, David (30 July 2000). "On the Sting beat: The Police and beyond". The Sacramento Bee.The band’s first album, 1978’s Outlandos d’Amour, basically had a recording budget of near zero, which forced the band to grab cheap time at Surrey Sound whenever it was convenient for the studio. That was a big rhythm part. I remember it was sort of difficult to get down. I don’t actually listen to this stuff ever, by the way. Just so you know. I think people assume you sit around and listen to your old records all day long. I said: “How about doing this, then?” And Sting said: “I’m not playing on that!” I actually believe he did bury the tape in the garden [laughs]. Stewart was actually up for working on it, so I just played the bass. In summary, I’m as sceptical as the next man when it comes to SHM, ‘platinum’, blu-spec CD2 etc., but I know a well mastered album when I hear it. Whichever variant of this new 2014 reissue of Zenyatta Mondatta you plump for I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.