Limes with Orange

There's a commercial from the UK for the new 30th anniversary Police CD posted on You Tube. It's a brief little medley of "Roxanne", "Don't Stand So Close to Me", "Message in a Bottle", "Walking on the Moon", "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" and "Every Breath You Take"... just enough to make me nostalgic and wonder why I haven't bought that CD set yet, since all of my Police albums are still on vinyl.


It's strange… I've been so busy discovering new music that it hasn't bothered me until recently that I don't have easy access to the music of my youth, the music that shaped my musical tastes. And, quite frankly, I credit The Police with the fact that I think my current musical tastes are pretty cool. Granted, we all probably think our musical tastes are cool, but before The Police I was listening to Rick Springfield and Olivia Newton John. So I think you'll admit that I'm light years beyond that kind of music now.

Part of me still wishes that I'd been able to make it to their recent concert in Edmonton (I don't know about the rest of the band, but Sting is ageing REALLY well). But I am definitely glad I didn't end up working that concert; I ain't 19 anymore and a concert teardown is not my idea of fun… but I've already covered that (see my previous Police post).

Oh, and did I mention that this CD set comes with a cool vintage poster of the Police? I think it will go quite nicely with the other movie and music memorabilia that lines my home office walls. (Or maybe I should act like a teenager again and put it on the ceiling in my bedroom. )

So excuse me while I use up that HMV gift certificate I got for Christmas and go buy this thing. (As to why that gift certificate is still kicking around, the answer is pretty simple… I usually buy everything online. But I don't feel like waiting on the mail for this one!)

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