What Makes This Song Great? "Walking on the Moon" The Police
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23 күн бұрынIn this episode I break down The Police's timeless hit song "Walking on the Moon" from the 1979 album 'Reggatta De Blanc'.
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@stevenbyrd2188 20 күн бұрын
A good example of what Rick has always reminded viewers: "Before there were pro tools, there were pros." The Police were pros.
@bobbywilson1132 16 күн бұрын
I hadn't heard this before. I love it. I'm gonna use this.
@mattygee5000 15 күн бұрын
And before there was autotune, there were people IN tune..just sayin'..
@blackdog2006 15 күн бұрын
Best quote ever
@IndigoJo 14 күн бұрын
Pro Tools makes amateurs think they're pros, and think their bedroom is Abbey Road. Some great artists can't produce to save their lives, but their results are actually released.
@monitor4208 12 күн бұрын
As an amateur, I can tell, that it’s hard work, to get my ideas into something like a song or track. Struggling with my lack of ability to master my instruments, and to master the software. But it’s fun anyway.
@secularZoo 21 күн бұрын
It's great that Rick has interviewed all the Police, and not the other way around. 🤣
@wesleyalan9179 21 күн бұрын
😂
@vincentbull 21 күн бұрын
Bravo 😂
@Musicarbs 21 күн бұрын
The police would completely beato rick
@PraiseIommi 21 күн бұрын
Ba dum tss
@Boethius411 21 күн бұрын
@@Musicarbshey, that’s my story😂😂😂. Rick can’t have it. 😇
@TheBassOnTheBass 20 күн бұрын
Rick, The Police are the biggest music influence of my life. I decided to become a musician at 16 because of them and the Beatles. Twenty years on, I pay my morgage and my bills by singing opera, far away from home, where I started in my bedroom, listening to The Police and dreaming someday of jumping on the stage with my bass. God bless them, they motivated me all the way through my ups and downs. When I was listening to their music I could feel the energy of a rock band choesion, of art through adversity, of an immortal force that will live on, to quote Andy Summers, "long after the three Police members are all long gone". Sting came to one of my performances last year at the Salzburg Festival where I was singing right in front of him ... and Stewart liked and said "bravo" to my Acustic rendition of Walking on the Moon on Instagram. Not bad, for me, the little Italian who couldn't hold a note for dear life. Life is great, and music lasts a lifetime. Ciao from Austria!
@TheHelicapt 10 күн бұрын
Sting and the police are the reason I learned how to play bass guitar. Huge influence on me growing up. Amazing music.
@brettocheltree7437 18 күн бұрын
I don’t believe in perfection, but the Police’s music is perfect.
@nunancreative8932 21 күн бұрын
Modern songwriters could learn a lot by just studying what ISN'T in this track. The use of space is so refreshing in contrast to today's mixes.
@melrupinski88 21 күн бұрын
Spot on, as a band, they had an uncanny knack for making the spaces between notes sound great too.
@tinusplotseling3130 21 күн бұрын
@@melrupinski88 Yes! Thats exactly what i was thinking recently. What’s really great about the new wave sound, is the space that exists in between the notes. Makes it feel dark, deep and blue-ish. Wonderful
@buney 21 күн бұрын
Yeah!
@spindriftdrinker 21 күн бұрын
Space is so important in pop, and underutilized. Like the second of silence in "Good Vibrations", before the final chorus.
@cvn6555 20 күн бұрын
Whole sections where all you really hear are the hats? Never happen today.
@speedypete07gnarly 21 күн бұрын
That whole record is pure gold.
@FecklessCowboy 21 күн бұрын
Actually it was Vinyl… 🥴
@Luftmysza. 21 күн бұрын
Yea honestly it blew me away in a way which not many albums do
@nathanr5825 21 күн бұрын
Every song they made is pure gold. Fixed it for you
@IggyB-Music 21 күн бұрын
Heck yea one of favorites to this day
@dabu73 21 күн бұрын
maybe not “On any other day” lol but the other songs are amazing
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb2330 18 күн бұрын
I'm a guitar player, but when I listen to these guys I can't keep my ears off the drums. The drumming is mesmerising.
@ronaldlogan7983 16 күн бұрын
Stewart is amazing
@mrfuzz6744 16 күн бұрын
Agreed and same - guitar player myself but the drums (and bass for that matter) grab me with the Police. I guess the only other similar band like that would be Rush, also a three-piece :)
@ericgood8960 15 күн бұрын
Copeland's drums define the Police's primary sound, followed closely by Sting's bass. Summers guitar rounds it out, but it's nowhere near as important to capturing the Police sound as he would like you to think.
@ggghhhbbnjjjbb2330 15 күн бұрын
He's like a gracefully drunk gymnast/ballet dancer on meth. All over the place but he never falls over and somehow it all hangs together beautifully. Completely bamboozles my brain listening to it.
@jimyoung9262 15 күн бұрын
Dude...same...amazing drumming
@Forceprincess 12 күн бұрын
After all of these years, the music of the police still sound like magic
@shiv2033 21 күн бұрын
Yeah, we need this series to never end.
@flinx649 21 күн бұрын
Rick is a great interviewer... but I like the song is great series the best.
@btimec5290 21 күн бұрын
One a week please!!
@mstephencrowell 14 күн бұрын
@@flinx649 I like how he incorporated his interviews into the mix of this, made it even that much better!
@IggyB-Music 21 күн бұрын
He finally brought back the series with one of the best bands ever Respect 🙏🙏
@robertmasteller6509 21 күн бұрын
...keep it up...
@johndodson4527 21 күн бұрын
Reggie jazola
@Compassiron1 21 күн бұрын
Amen!
@IggyB-Music 21 күн бұрын
@@robertmasteller6509 eeyo yo yo yo yoooo…
@justinsayin3979 21 күн бұрын
How about a new episode with a singer or band he hasn't already overexposed? Springsteen? Heart? The Starland Vocal Band?
@drew19799 20 күн бұрын
Rick teaches me how to listen to songs I’ve heard hundreds of times before.
@aaronsmith2611 12 күн бұрын
Agreed. I've been playing music for nearly 40 years. I started off by playing covers that I had to learn from cassette tapes. That meant a lot of focusing on parts, play, rewind, play, and repeat. And because of that I've developed my ear to pick up a lot of things most listeners don't hear. It's actually a very different way to listen to music and often makes it difficult to listen to songs as a whole. That said, with this series that Rick does, I notice how much I still miss.
@vedsomaiya7110 10 күн бұрын
The stark difference between "listening" and "hearing"
@pharmerdavid1432 18 сағат бұрын
Rick teaches me that he and his fans idolize crap pop 'music' just like Orwell predicted would happen. Tavistock is real.
@drew19799 18 сағат бұрын
@@pharmerdavid1432 weird take but ok.
@geoffmarr7526 19 күн бұрын
In 1978/79 we saw the Police live at Bruce Stadium in Canberra. It was a warm spring evening, we were 'enhanced' and had superb sight and sound. Easilly 10,000+ in audience. They kicked off with Walking On The Moon. The whole place went deadset frikkin nuts. Two hours of bliss. One of the most joyous concerts I ever attended.
@user-mj3ey7nf4d 21 күн бұрын
What makes this "what makes this song great" video even greater than others, is the fact that Rick has interviewed the three members of the band and has exclusive insights into the creation, recording and production. No one else can do this!
@wildbeanz 21 күн бұрын
My thoughts exactly.
@alexmartell2432 20 күн бұрын
I can't believe "what makes this song great" is back! So awesome! Rick has an awesome ear, and he gives you the confidence to attempt to emulate him. Wow that Guitar tone!
@Mar-up7db 21 күн бұрын
The atmosphere in this song is still unmatched.
@japhyryder66 21 күн бұрын
Yes! I feel the same way about “Tea In The Sahara”.
@martinnelson8382 21 күн бұрын
Atmosphere? I thought the song was called walking on the moon.
@ando-ryu 21 күн бұрын
That guitar riff at the start is like a Time Machine. Straight back.
@darthlaurel 21 күн бұрын
And when I think about all the hot trash making it in the radio today.....smdh.
@LowEarthOrbitPilot 21 күн бұрын
The closest I could think of was ‘Dream Weaver’ (Gary Wright)
@rolandlickert2904 19 күн бұрын
I'm 75 years old and it's one of my favourite songs. Have all police CDs.
@michaelpoe8332 17 күн бұрын
I like it when he says " did you hear that?" , then he singles out the track and I say " now I do" . then that part stands out more than anything else
@travkatz 21 күн бұрын
Rick Beato belongs in the hall of Fame
@matthewperry2767 21 күн бұрын
No
@purplebondsaiyan2987 21 күн бұрын
He's in the Rochester Music Hall of Fame just got Inducted This Year
@matthewperry2767 21 күн бұрын
@@purplebondsaiyan2987 Ra-Cha-Cha
@markmcarthy596 21 күн бұрын
Hall of Fame is No longer worthy of the Best. Was-but not anymore
@DeanCameron 21 күн бұрын
There should be a Beato Award.
@kurtdejgaard 21 күн бұрын
Living in rural Denmark without music stores in the nearest village and Danish State Radio as the only source (on rare occasions) to listen to new music, at 14 years of age I spent some of the first money I earned working at a local car repair shop to buy a transistor radio. And when everyone else on the farm was sleeping, I'd lie i bed, tuning in to Radio Luxembourg. "Walking on the Moon" was one of the first things I heard. It was a revelation. Never heard anything like it. This wasn't your typical 3 or 4-chord pop or rock song. This was... Sophisticated!... Mysterious!... Same for Randy Crawford and the Crusaders playing "Street Life". All these new sounds I had never imagined. "Don't stop til you get enough" by Michael Jackson, "Cars" by Gary Numan, "Is she really going out with him?" by Joe Jackson and the for RL somewhat prophetic "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Buggles. All within the first few weeks of owning that Blaupunkt transistor radio. I've never smoked anything stronger than tobacco. But those few weeks to months, I was high as a kite!
@dancarter482 21 күн бұрын
Damn DUDE; I teared-up reading that! I was a snot-nosed latchkey kid in London at the time. Gary Newman and The Police changed my life, yeah and I LOVE Randy Crawford.
@nikodraganic 21 күн бұрын
Radio Luxembourg brought forward entire generations of alternative and rock subcultures in former Yugoslavia in the time when western music couldn't be found on the radio or in record stores. Even though those generations were denied many of the freedoms we now take for granted, somehow they still had that joy of discovering music and connecting through music, which, for the most part today, is lost. Except for this channel, and this man right here, Rick.❤
@lauriesuzanne8848 21 күн бұрын
Ohhh what GREAT memories! Randy Crawford is totally mag!
@obbadda 21 күн бұрын
Meeee tooo! *_Thank you so much_* for sharing that powerful experience of discovery and awe. @@dancarter482
@user-po3ir2tx5z 21 күн бұрын
Ah... memories of RTL. "Sends magic through the air!"
@pitchforker3304 18 күн бұрын
The Police were ahead of their time. So grateful each member sat with Rick Beato to talk music and song writing. Other bands would be wise to follow The Police, again.
@danfromnorcal Күн бұрын
Rick is like his own industry. As you say, every band that wants to remain relevant should contact Rick.
@NickKoziupa 17 күн бұрын
I remember standing in front of a stereo at Sears as an eight year old in 1979 listening to this for the first time and being totally confused and mesmerized.
@tchristianphoto 21 күн бұрын
Stewart Copeland's minimalist and highly, highly variable drumming is a masterclass on how to say more with less.
@matthewperry2767 21 күн бұрын
Less is definitely relative when you’re Talking about him cuz he was very busy in certain aspects
@mattraino3274 21 күн бұрын
Uh what? Just the fact the man has a gong says Stuart is NOT a minimalist…..you’re thinking Ringo.
@sundaynightdrunk 21 күн бұрын
If you watch his Rick Beato interview, he had no idea what Sting and Andy were doing half the time, so he mostly did his own thing and they tended to like it.
@automachinehead 21 күн бұрын
i think him and jeff porcaro are the rawest drummers in the business
@feloniousmonk3049 21 күн бұрын
@@sundaynightdrunk /\ Facts! But seriously, Copeland, in terms of style, is really up there, with Bonham, The Professor, Neale Peart, Jeff Porcaro and Bernard Purdy. At least, in my lifetime, those are the top rated that come to me as really standing out.
@phildarwell655 21 күн бұрын
I remember Sting one saying "it's not just about the notes you play, but the gaps in between". Perfectly demonstrated here. Wonderful band.
@backslash68 19 күн бұрын
perfectly demonstrated on track bed's too big without you, I mean the gap left by the bass there is one whole measure!
@boriss.861 17 күн бұрын
Sting could have been made aware or heard someone like Vladimir Horovitz who was a Master in music being made by the space in-between the notes and can be perfectly seen in black and white by the compositions of Frederick Chopin who's compositions only come to life if space is made between the notes. Glenn Gould ( Bach Goldberg Variations).. Nigel Kennedy ( Vivaldi Seasons) these broke the mould.
@templarpunk9332 14 күн бұрын
Moving to bass in my current group after over 30 years playing guitar has taught me a lot about the value of space, especially in the low end. Nothing muddies up a song like the bass player carrying on like a coked-up Jaco Pastorius.
@micv5149 19 күн бұрын
Thank the maker you have brought this series back, my god the internet has been a wasteland without this series.
@Notelvispresleymyself 17 күн бұрын
as a 2011, 13 year old, this music is a lot better than whatever pop music is being produced right now.
@jonashormann5700 21 күн бұрын
Glad to hear 'What makes this song great' is making a return :)
@rohandoe8361 21 күн бұрын
I have said for 40 years that the drumming in this song is as good as it gets. But I never knew WHY it was so good, or HOW they did it … until today. Thank you Rick for educating me, and a bigger thank you to Stewart Copeland for creating such magic.
@dawudabdullaah6977 20 күн бұрын
Man, that song is one of my favorite jams. Once I was riding in my car blasting "Walking On The Moon", and after it ended my little cousin, who is seven, said "I like that song."
@P-L-J_ 18 күн бұрын
This is some of the best quality content online. Please more of this, Rick.
@sobrien112 21 күн бұрын
Still fresh, 45 years down the road. Amazing.
@JulienMARY 21 күн бұрын
That's the genius of Sting. His production doesn't age.
@jwallacephoto 21 күн бұрын
Love how every instrument has their own space, nobody is interfering with anyone else!
@Yellowtruck55 21 күн бұрын
That's a good point, especially on such a sparse, uncluttered piece of music.
@andercoyote4170 21 күн бұрын
This song is all about space…
@earthangel7620 21 күн бұрын
@@andercoyote4170😂
@TjByers369 21 күн бұрын
@@andercoyote4170 😏
@domo3552 21 күн бұрын
Exactly.. That's the genius and discipline of musicians who put the arrangement and the song first, the musicians themselves are humble enough to see themselves as mere conduits to the song, as 'enablers' and 'facilitators' to the song, without ego getting in the way.
@paulcoffland8673 8 күн бұрын
These elder musicians who didn't fry their brains back in the day are so smart and technical- it's a master class whenever they speak and Rick is able to make it relatable.
@EYO117 10 күн бұрын
One of many legendary songs that are best listened to alone, at night, behind the wheel.
@verified.my2cents 21 күн бұрын
Sting has said he was drunk in a hotel room when the riff came into his head. He started singing 'Walking round the room, ya, ya, walking round the room" - had to share, once you hear that - you never forget it.
@eatmoremusic3650 21 күн бұрын
Walking round, walking round the rooom
@mightyV444 21 күн бұрын
In Munich, apparently 😊
@cbeserra 21 күн бұрын
It’s an odd song. Unique to my ears.
@jalphabet5 21 күн бұрын
I've been drunk lots of times and never devised anything this brilliant!
@Nyquest 20 күн бұрын
The ‘Walking back from your house’ lyric was in reference to a thought about Stings previous girlfriend in Newcastle. He said in 2003 Deborah Anderson was my first real girlfriend...walking back from Deborah's house in those early days would eventually become a song, for being in love is to be relieved of gravity.
@sarajamus 21 күн бұрын
The speed at which I clicked on the notification….! My all time fave Police song!!
@IThinkYouLookLarvely 21 күн бұрын
Same here, I clicked on it and the video had zero comments, then tons of them within seconds!
@Yakaru1 21 күн бұрын
Same here.
@jmeakin4 21 күн бұрын
Same!
@YOURTECHFRIEND 21 күн бұрын
Agree, one of my absolute favorites if not THE favorite track. There's just something about it! 🎸😎
@330thcube 21 күн бұрын
Mine too! It's so chill and has a little bit of a nostalgic feel to it
@alxra 20 күн бұрын
The music from the Police is literally timeless.
@Enigma8750 14 күн бұрын
Me and my daughter would sing together to this song when we were driving home from her gymnastics practice. I get tears in my eyes when I listen to this song because we had so much fun singing together with it.
@adlovett9831 21 күн бұрын
I'm obsessed with the Police and never noticed the synthesiser or piano before. Thank you for enlightening me Mr. beato.
@brianhackett-jl3hc 21 күн бұрын
My thought too! I've been listening to this song for 45 years, learned how to play it for a band I was in, and never noticed the synth!
@RCAvhstape 21 күн бұрын
I noticed the pad but never thought much of it, never noticed those sci fi noises before.
@jackblah5842 21 күн бұрын
18:15 how could we have never noticed that warble! Incredible
@thebelgian1959 19 күн бұрын
Same here never knew
@indigofruit8710 21 күн бұрын
What makes Rick great is his ability to discuss music in an interesting way
@ramonrojasalmuzara290 16 күн бұрын
I cherish the memories of the day I saw The Police live. Not only that one but the ones that went from getting the tickets until the very evening of the concert, the anticipation. It was october 1983 and also Sting's birthday, there was a cake Andy pulled on stage and all the audience sang happy birthday to our idol. Memorable night
@glennmartin4232 17 күн бұрын
As time moves on their music is becoming more and more special. One of the great bands.
@CaptainReedo40 21 күн бұрын
High school marching band trip through Italy in 1986, listened to this song maybe 100,000 times, on a yellow “Sports” Walkman. Good times.
@jmazoso 21 күн бұрын
Still have my Sports Walkman, i was cool when i got it for Christmas.
@CorbCorbin 21 күн бұрын
Was it the one they advertised to hang from the shower head? 😆
@AngelHadzi 21 күн бұрын
I had the same Sports Walkman back in Argentina in the same year! really good times!
@aboczsr 21 күн бұрын
Great time to be alive. Remember what it was like to go to a record store when a new album from a fav band came out? Pure joy!
@WichhartAcres 21 күн бұрын
Core memory
@gregb91401 21 күн бұрын
That 1st chord Andy Summer plays is very similar to the opening chord for Hard Days Night
@markbayer1665 21 күн бұрын
Was just thinking exact same thing
@zippitydoodah5693 21 күн бұрын
That hit me as well
@mrminor9418 21 күн бұрын
Got on here to say the same
@mikenicholson7465 21 күн бұрын
Singing: Giant steps are what you take and I've been working like a dog.
@markbayer1665 21 күн бұрын
@@mikenicholson7465 bwahaha. That interview got me digging thru my old vinyl. Required a trip to the basement to retrieve this one
@antimoricciardi7508 18 күн бұрын
I well remember when I was dancing to it (actually, I let its energy flow through me) in the 80s. And just a year ago, I was at a Sting concert with my 2 teenage children who were going wild just like me 40 years later. The joy, the power, the beauty of their music knows no barriers. No band has managed to cross generations as if time meant nothing. Then as now, The Police are simply a "stand alone band". 13:43
@gib59er56 16 күн бұрын
Stu is the glue that holds them together. Amazing drummer.
@martycusack270 21 күн бұрын
When I first heard this song I was 22 yrs. old. Of course I was at a party in 79, I looked around the group of people I was with and nobody reacted to this great song! I told myself I have to find some new friends. Thank You.
@colinjames2469 18 күн бұрын
good call.
@brucecall1595 21 күн бұрын
Regatta de blanc is a masterpiece. Every song.
@chriscampbell9191 21 күн бұрын
Exactly.
@idonthavealoginname 16 күн бұрын
What a track, still sounds fresh in 2024 !
@charlesabboud1613 15 күн бұрын
I’ve been listening to this song for 45 years, but what an education, thank you Rick!!
@murphyphillipsmusic 21 күн бұрын
The drums on this song are so cool.
@isabel1983 21 күн бұрын
The bass on Walking on the Moon is just sublime, the drumming as well. Incredibly composed to say the least.
@robertp457 21 күн бұрын
It was the second song I learned on bass and it's one of my favorites.
@demian900 21 күн бұрын
And the great Sting with his great and unique voice
@isabel1983 21 күн бұрын
@@demian900 of course! 😉🙌🏼
@harrywatson5783 21 күн бұрын
This was the song that made me a lifelong, die-hard Police fan. It also made me want to become a musician, and was the first bass line I ever learned as a kid. Every part is perfect. I still play or listen to this song regularly. Thank you Rick-and The Police!
@boardbraker1 13 күн бұрын
Bring it back! Don't ever stop making these!!!
@psh6654 21 күн бұрын
I would bicycle through the tunnel of the Rijsmuseum in Amsterdam yelling out Police chants "E-Oh E-Oh Yo Yo" in 1980. Great reverb tunnel.
@achenarmyst2156 20 күн бұрын
E-Oh E-Oh E-Yo-Yo……. 😊
@achenarmyst2156 20 күн бұрын
Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo YEAAAAAAAH 🎉🎉🎉
@callingchristiano 18 күн бұрын
Steinberger stick bass ?
@johnhoran9840 21 күн бұрын
For me, it's the best drumming of Stewart's career. He does so much with so little.
@terrybartholomew7311 17 күн бұрын
so little? - he's playing 32nds.....(well the echo makes it sound like that...)
@joreal4 21 күн бұрын
This song always sounds incredible. I’ve heard it hundreds of times and it still amazes me. Only the Police could pull this creative experiment off so brilliantly.
@OZRIC1985 20 күн бұрын
I was hooked on this song from the first time I heard it on the radio back then. I was already a huge Police fan by then, and I bought all 5 studio albums each time they were released. What an incredibly talented and innovative band they were.
@AlerieHightower 21 күн бұрын
So glad to see this series back! Hearing Stewart Copeland isolated makes my entire week. 🥁
@betamax-vhs-super8978 21 күн бұрын
I dreamed of videos like this when I was a 15 year old listening to this on headphones, trying to figure out what The Police were doing to create this magic. Thank you, Rick!
@doug1e1 20 күн бұрын
1st record ever purchased...never get bored of listening to it....40years later ❤
@jdecamp100 20 күн бұрын
This wonderfully plaintive, haunting, otherworldly reggae tune is my favorite song of theirs. I could listen to it 100 times in a row and it would be fresh and exquisite every time!
@user-fj7df3ng7z 19 күн бұрын
Until Rick explained why in this episode, it had never once occurred to me that this song was influenced by reggae.
@JamesWilliams-en3os 21 күн бұрын
“What’s amazing is that there is so much space in the arrangement.” Yes. I’m so glad to see this series come back, and this is a great song to kick-start it with. Thanks, Rick.
@BassByTheBay 21 күн бұрын
The most reggae song they did was "The Bed's Too Big Without You" from the same album. I'll never forget the first time I heard "Walking". I had convinced my mom to give me some money to buy Regatta de Blanc, and I was excitedly listening to it on the turntable. Before the first measure of Walking even finished, I was transfixed. It's so deeply mysterious, melodic, and rhythmic, I was just instantly hooked.
@jimmoore8951 20 күн бұрын
White reggae at its best
@JohnSmith-zl8rz 19 күн бұрын
I never forget the first that I listen this song!!! at my grandmother home after the school, I miss my grandmother.
@TrueEarth2112 19 күн бұрын
Another example of you breaking down a song, and it instantly becomes one of my favorites of all time.
@jasonremy1627 21 күн бұрын
Please keep bringing this series back! I miss it so much!
@marcogme 21 күн бұрын
Wow, all these years hearing this song and never noticed that synth. Beato, you are the best.
@miaris 20 күн бұрын
This song really is a golden nugget in the history of music. Gotta love it ♥
@brettocheltree7437 18 күн бұрын
I love the Police. I have this song as my wake up alarm on my phone. This song among many of their songs brings me joy.
@voskresene 21 күн бұрын
One of my favorite Police songs of all time.
@Ozymandi_as 21 күн бұрын
It sounds as fresh, and as original, as it did in 1979, with each band member making his own distinctive contribution. Although relatively simple in its arrangement and production, it could only The Police. Rick's interviews were fascinating, often hilarious and very revealing of how on band struggled to contain so much talent.
@philipmarsh3522 20 күн бұрын
Those guys made some great music together. I think the percussion on this song is one of the best performances I’ve ever heard.
@wisemoon40 20 күн бұрын
Man, every song on every album The Police made…amazing. And to end their run at the high point with Synchronicity? Perfect. One of my favorite bands.
@alainsuero65 21 күн бұрын
That album is a masterpiece, and that song elevates simplicity to an artform.
@alexkatsanos8475 21 күн бұрын
One of the best lines from an 80's song "walking home from your house....walking on the moon" I see him coming back from her house and you really like her and she really likes you and it's so early in your relationship...there is so much hesitation in the song that creates that sustained tension...he met Trudy walking down the street...and lived literally right next to her in 77...
@RobDircks 20 күн бұрын
probably my favorite lyric ever. It brings me back to my youth every time, captures that moment of young love like no other lyric
@benlarcombe4591 19 күн бұрын
This album has the quality of time transportation. I remember where I was, what I was doing, who I was doing it with and just being pleased that I could dance with a big smile on my face, lost in the song …… Thank you Police.😊
@user-wn4zp2dv6u 15 күн бұрын
For the love of God KZfaq, stop interrupting videos about music with ads! Put the ads up front, 60-180 seconds long, I’ll live through it. Please, no more in the middle!!!
@teronipee 13 күн бұрын
Adblock works like a charm and only takes a few seconds to download, bye bye ads!
@blueberryrazz8637 21 күн бұрын
When a band influences Rush, you know they're something special :)
@AngelHadzi 21 күн бұрын
They influenced everyone! from U2 to Soda Stereo
@TheCheffer76 21 күн бұрын
But blueberry is saying they influenced the greatest LIVE band ever. And before you say U2, tell me, has U2 ever roasted 100’s of chickens as their backdrop and then gave the chickens to homeless shelters in every city they played?
@Antonivs 21 күн бұрын
@@AngelHadzi and Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Pearl Jam, even Van Halen (dirty water dog, Eddie himself told it)
@RCAvhstape 21 күн бұрын
Rush was a few years old as a band when the Police came around, but Alex Lifeson always pays attention to newer bands, and he was a huge Police fan.
@melrupinski88 21 күн бұрын
@@RCAvhstapeI don’t know if you could truly say anyone influenced Neil Peart at that point, but I know he definitely took an interest in Stewart’s approach to drumming. It’s so amazingly cool that those two became such close friends later in life. The videos of them jamming at Stewart’s home studio are pure gold.
@lordstanley34 21 күн бұрын
Think about all the times you listened to this song back in the day, grinning ear to ear, singing (or playing) along, enjoying every minute of it. And then fast-forward to today where Rick explains why you were so happy. Greatest Tuesday ever...
@juanvelez7186 21 сағат бұрын
Duality. The echo. It’s the centerpiece of all the great masterpieces.
@wattage2007 10 күн бұрын
To my 9 year old ears at the time, it was the strange distant sound of the voice and the unusual rim side-stick sound which totally turned me onto this song, and to a career in music. Thanks guys!
@yonitznkc 21 күн бұрын
One of my fav’ jam tunes by The Police: “Voices Inside My Head.” Soloing over it is fun, practicing sneaking in modalities. But I’ll even dance to it, over-and-over. I’ll even pass cars on the highway to it. It’s infectious!
@hux2000 21 күн бұрын
Same with "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around", right after it. Zenyatta Mondatta is a great jamming album and "Voices..." is for sure one of the best tracks on it!
@achenarmyst2156 20 күн бұрын
Tschak……
@jeffreywolfe1 21 күн бұрын
45 years after Regatta came out -- it's still absolutely perfect. Everything about it. Stuart's drumming on Walking On The Moon -- Foundational, generational......I run out of adjectives. My 16 year old self remains speechless and grateful beyond words. Thank you, Mr. Beato, for interviewing all three.
@timmytuneuptooker3543 8 күн бұрын
It's my favorite POLICE song! And I'm so glad that you highlighted it! It's perfect absolutely freaking perfect. And nobody writes songs like this anymore which is a sad sad sad but you know when the police hit the stage I saw them at the tower theater. I've never seen anything like that in my life. They were a bright flame and that burns fast. I mean the Taurus pedals the echo all that stuff man it was bananas. And I was listening to return to forever and weather report and Billy Cobham and Stanley Clarke and all that stuff prior to the police hitting the stage. In high school we played Spain by Chick Corea so it took a lot to really shake me up. But that was the song for me. Thank you so much Rick Beato
@freefallin6871 9 күн бұрын
The creativity of that band was off the charts to the extent that they were really their own genre in that it was a fusion of so many. In 50 years time, their music will still hold up.
@kadiummusic 21 күн бұрын
75 -85... the greatest decade in pop music. 😎
@mirrorblue100 21 күн бұрын
Yes!
@rubicon-oh9km 19 күн бұрын
Nah. 67-77.
@neilfitzsimmons1800 15 күн бұрын
Totally agree. So many genres.
@renatosantosneto 21 күн бұрын
It's one of my favorite albums of all time. Message In A Bottle, Regatta de Blanc, Bring On The Night, Walking On The Moon and The Bed's Too Big Without You
@MagicRoosterBlues 16 күн бұрын
The Police - One my top 5 bands ever. I could watch Rick analyze every album , song by song ... then move onto Sting's solo albums. Fantastic channel!
@MGTS24 17 күн бұрын
I love this track-the space, the bass, and that syncopation in the drumming. Amazing.
@robber_h 21 күн бұрын
This is the song that got me 'into' The Police. I remember hearing it on the radio one night in 1979 and thinking, "Man, that's great!". Since then, The Police have been one of my favourite bands. Brilliant.
@Lexy-O 21 күн бұрын
"When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" from Zenyatta Mondatta has brilliant production too.
@dancarter482 21 күн бұрын
_CHOON!_ For my money that was their last great LP. All went a bit sideways after that.
@Lexy-O 21 күн бұрын
I like Ghosts in the Machine but not Synchronicity
@jamesmccusker1433 10 сағат бұрын
The best bands ever growing up. Boston, the Police and Tears for fears. 61 still listening to all of them.
@paulattwell6157 14 сағат бұрын
One my favourite songs by the Police. Great dissection, shedding light on all the great elements of the song. Sting's singing is so good.
@ThanksChris 21 күн бұрын
Hands up 🙌🏼 who can’t get enough of Police KZfaq content! RB knows this 😅😂
@darkneal 21 күн бұрын
I fell in love with the Police after Rick did ‘every little thing she does is magic’ all the way back at the beginning of his Channel. Haven’t stopped listening to them since…so glad this is back
@jimgorycki4013 21 күн бұрын
How I loved the Police was when I picked up "Ghost in the Machine" album, then saw them in concert that year. Blown away. I started listening to all of the albums of the three playing before Sting went solo. Reggatta de Blanc is one of my favorite albums.
@edzappia2892 9 күн бұрын
Love the “What Makes This Song Great” episodes. Fascinating to hear the tracks solo’d out.
@stevengill1736 8 күн бұрын
Gosh, 1979....I still lived on Ashbury street in SF back then! But where doesn't matter - in your 20s everything's epic! And those tunes are written in our DNA.... Thank you kindly for teaching us even greater appreciation Rick...cheers.
@maryvallas772 21 күн бұрын
And there was 7 year old me in 1979, just thinking... "This song is cool!" Not having any idea how revolutionary it was or that I would still love it and The Police so much, 45 years later!
@dwh8310 21 күн бұрын
...and there was 18 year old me wondering if your legs could actually break walking on the moon, and also thinking what the heck is that guy doing on his drum set?
@TheGunnarRoxen 21 күн бұрын
The brilliance of leaving space in the recording and drumming for a song called "Walking on the Moon" is so perfect 😀
@AikiBudo22 Күн бұрын
Regatta de Blanc is my favorite Police album. So well-crafted, yet has a raw, garage band feel as well.
@WorldRockumentaryChannel 17 күн бұрын
Excellent, The Police are one of the best. An Incredible recording from 1979. Great songs like this have been written and produced since the mid 1940s. A song called DOWN AND OUT BLUES (1946) by Lucky White and His Dude Ranch Playboys comes to mind. 🎸🎶
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