Talk:Synchronicity (The Police album)

message: Añoranza 07:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synchronicity: Could someone tell me which [[Metre (music)|metre]] that song is in?  

message: I remember buying this album being disappointed that Murder By Numbers was only on the  Audio Cassette release. At the time I felt personally affronted by this! Any self-respecting collector would not buy audio cassettes because they could easily get "eaten", particularly by the notorious car cassette players of the time. So I would buy only LP's and make my own cassette copies of them. I'm sure it was included on the first CD edition too, but when did that come out? Did Murder By Numbers appear on later LP releases? Or have I got it all wrong, and it was on the original LP release?
-Tzf 22:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder By Numbers wasn't on the original LP, right?

message: Why is it not noted that there are about 100 diferent versions of the album cover? or the fact that most of the records are purple when held up to the light?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vadahata2 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  cover? 

message: Does anybody have confirmation of the original release date for this album? In the UK it entered the album chart w/e 25 June, which would suggest a UK release date of 10 June. It should be easy enough to confirm this just as soon as I have access to the archives of UK music magazines from 1983. However, that does not preclude the possibility that Synchronicity was released in the US first – as the June 1983 issues of Billboard are not available online, does anybody have access to magazines of the time that state the US release date? Richard3120 (talk) 03:05, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: Right, I have worked out that the album's first week on the US album chart was the week ending 2 July 1983, so it definitely wasn't released on 1 June. I know that the standard day for record releases in the US at the time was a Tuesday, so it looks like Synchronicity was released in the UK on 10 June 1983, and in the US on 21 June 1983. If anybody can confirm these dates, that would be helpful. Richard3120 (talk) 04:47, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've found the album was released on 17 June in the UK, so I will change the date in the article to reflect that. Richard3120 (talk) 21:55, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date 

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replies: text: Richard3120 (talk) 00:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've added an "original research" tag to this section because it's entirely unreferenced and seems to feature one editor's views of the songs' structures and their meanings. I've got an interview from the time of the album's release where the band members explain what "Synchronicity", "Miss Gradenko", "Every Breath You Take" and "Murder by Numbers" are about, so this could form the basis of a section regarding song composition. Richard3120 (talk) 00:51, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Songs" section 

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replies: text: Richard3120 (talk) 19:24, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Have removed the twaddle from Melody Maker's Adam Sweeting about how, "devotees of this extremely sussed trio will find plenty to amuse them"; but, however, he, "could never fall in love with a group which plans its moves so carefully and which would never do anything just for the hell of it". How does he know? And that's 99% of successful groups. Shall we all slag these for their smart management of their careers? And do we need to only rate high groups that Adam Sweeting falls in love with? Dumb-ass comment from a dumb ass rock writer.--Jelsova (talk) 09:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've reverted your removal, because our personal opinion of the review should not take priority over the fact that the source is reliable – Melody Maker was the second biggest-selling music magazine in the UK at the time, so Sweeting's review would have been widely read. And Sweeting went on to write for several other respected publications. It's actually quite instructive to see contemporary reviews and see how critical opinion of a record has changed over time, so there is a lot of value in including negative reviews. Richard3120 (talk) 14:01, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed some dumb-ass rock critic drivel