Now that's a great album - still play this album . This is their second album and still had an edge. Reggatta de Blanc - translates from French to "White Reggae" . On the opening of this track, you will notice a classical voice slightly wash over . Andy Summer was listening to the radio when writing this track , then this classical voice came over the radio waves and then he knew he had to include it.

one of my fave albums, wore it out, banger after banger, Copelands drumming , coolest of cool

Well done guys - it's not easy putting this material together day in day out etc. With all the research and emails and including your ' day jobs' etc. 🙂

Chris, *my* Mum also couldn't stand the repetition in some of The Police's songs! 😄 Especially 'Message In A Bottle' with its seemingly infinite "I'm sending Out An S.O.S." ending, and despite Andy Summers actually playing a guitar solo there 😅 I'd first heard 'Reggatta De Blanc' (faux French for 'White Reggae' 😉) on a cassette tape belonging to my Big Bro when I was 11, in '81, and when *this* song's intro came on, I'd first thought The Police's album had ended and this was a different band! 😄 Mostly because of the piano, which I hadn't heard before in any of their other songs I'd known up to that point. There aren't any guitars in it either! So I'm not sure what Andy Summers' contribution may have been, but I'd always assumed he was the one playing the piano during the rest of the song. He may just have gone to the pub, though 😄 This is a Stewart Copeland song, and the "clunky" start is actually his original demo recording, with him speak-singing and playing the piano and the bass, too; He'd composed this for music class at skewl already during his teens, if I remember correctly. I doubt this is that actual recording, though. There's also a bit of 'O Sole Mio' playing in the background of that intro, and I've always loved that lil' boo-boo of the piano at 2:30 , and of course the rest of the song 😊 ... *and* how differently you two reacted to the intro 😁

Great album , not a bum track on it , it's flawless 👍🏻

"The awkwardness goes with the story though" spot on Cynthia

For another in the pantheon of "quirky" love songs, I would suggest XTC's "Statue of Liberty". Is there anything wrong with me that I dig oddball songs like these, and that I know they sang 'sending out an S.O.S.' 24 times in "Message in a bottle"?

My absolute favourite Police song (and I love The Police). Written by Stewart Copeland, rather than Sting. Just brilliant!

From my favourite Police 🚔 album Regatta De Blanc .. No sophomore slump for Sting , Andy & Stewart. Bring On The Night 🌙

it;s very Stewart Copeland.....great that he got Sting to do the vocals.

8:40 - I admit I was rather underwhelmed when I heard The Police play live for the first time, which also had been before I learnt about the way recording studios work, especially in regards to overdubs: They were on fire musically and in terms of Sting's lead vocals, but the vocal harmonies didn't sound anywhere near as great as they had on the studio albums! It was my Big Bro who then enlightened me and told me that Sting had also sung those. And while you're right Chris that Sting did sing lead on most of The Police's songs, there also are several exceptions! Like 'On Any Other Day' from the same album, with Stewart singing lead and Sting providing harmonies (Great song too, by the way!), and Andy Summers' best lead vocal is on the non-album track 'Someone To Talk To' , while he also speaks more than sings on 'Be My Girl (Sally)' , 'Friends' and 'Mother' . He'd also composed the very cool 'Omegaman' and the B-side 'Shambelle' 🙂

If you want to have fun 😁 ..listen to the other Copeland track On Any Other Day. No Sting singing..

This is very unexpected, not a great song but very interesting.

Stewart Copeland wrote this song. One of his better compositions.