Ghost In The Machine

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-29 rating:
I Face The Day With My Head Caved In

Ghost In The Machine is easily The Police's best album, and here's for why:

The lyrics are depressing but at the same time, pure stand-up comedy. Do a search for the lyrics to "Demolition Man" and "Rehumanize Yourself": it's all there, from Mr Bean pratfalls to mood-lowering scenarios where 'Violence Is the Social Norm'. That Bongo guy never had this kind of trenchant humour. He kept tripping over the flag.

A major plus point on GITM is that the Summers/Copeland contributions aren't their standard spanner-in-the-works queasy mentalist buffoonery.

In fact, Copeland's "Darkness" is probably the best track on GITM. Even Summers' "Omegaman" is a dark and weary classic. Yarp, if Summers and Copeland had always written stuff as good as this, they could have emptied Sting and carried on by themselves, not unlike Foxton and Buckler when they formed Sharp! (their exclamation mark, not mine), except with decent tunes, unlike the ex-Jam duo's sorry effort.

CLASSIC:
Spirits In The Material World
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Invisible Sun
Demolition Man
Rehumanize Yourself
Omegaman
Darkness

BOF
J'aurais toujours faim de franglais
Too Much Information (Model 500s 'Infoworld' it ain't)
Secret Journey (sounds like Bon Jovi)

One day the trendies will latch on to this record and claim it as their own, like, but they'll be too late.

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review by: astrocharm date: 2008-07-12 rating:
It's the end of the world!!!
This is my favourite Police album as unlike their other albums I like every song on it. What I like about this album is that there are lots of diferent themes that come together as whole to form 'the end of the world' scenarios, like a concept album and it works really well. Esecially "Invisable Sun" and "Omega Man" (if you haven't seen the film starring Charlton Heston it is worth seeing). To top things off there is the video of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" included on this disc. Buy it before the end of the world really comes!

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review by: andy date: 2008-02-28 rating:
fantastic
This is, without doubt the definitive Police album, which is slightly strange as it is less representative of their earlier 'white reggae' sound, featuring as it does, only a couple of songs with a reggae feel, One World, and the opener, Spirits in The Material World.
The famous Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, is a rare thing, a Police single that is simply a happy love song, and the dark Invisible Sun, mean the three singles from the album are listened to first, allowing the rest of the album to be enjoyed for themselves.
There is a heavier rock feel to the material, offset by the riffing horns and keyboards, whch elevate this above previous offerings.
There isn't a duff track here, and notable standouts include J'Auirais Toujour fam De Toi, sung in French, Demolition Man with its itchy Andy Summers guitar work, Too Much Information with its brilliant funky feel and Rehumanise yourself with its interesting lyrics!!
Moving on, One World makes its meaning clear against a backdrop of well done reggae, and Omegaman, notable for its excellent guitar solo.
The last two tracks are belters. Secret Journey, released as a single in the USA but not here, features some a really atmospheric opening leading into a bit of the old walking on the moon style Police guitar twang, and this is a very fine song.
The last one, the Stewart Copeland penned Darkness is excellent; a very evocative sound, with restrained percussion work, and a lyric that makes you think closes the album in a very thoughtful way that leaves you wanting more, and demostrates the extra dimension that Copeland and Summers could bring to the songwritng duties, that were quite often overshadowed by the Sting writing machine.
Songs like darkness make you wish that the other two members would have been allowed to contribute more to the tracks on Police albums.
With the Police back together and touring, lets hope some new stuff will one day appear. Until then , this is close to perfection.

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review by: Tilly date: 2007-10-08 rating:
Another great album from the mighty Police
This is such a great album. Like a polished diamond, very sleek, very together. Musically brilliant, The Police step up to a new level with great songs as 'Sprits...', 'Invisible Sun', Every Little Thing She Does...' and 'Secret Journey' which are the ones that stand out for me. But the other track are so good too such as 'One World', 'Omegaman' and 'Darkness'. Another album everybody should have in their collection, I still remember when this album came out and I was given it as a Christmas present, I was so excited and it did not disappoint, a real masterpiece.
Regatta De Blanc is still my favourite Police album probably because of the rough edges, Ghost In The Machine is more the finished article, superb.


review by: sonofdavros date: 2005-08-18 rating:
Back With A Vengeance!
The two-year gap between this album and the previous Zenyatta Mondatta, allowed the band to craft some really excellent songs, and change musical direction once again. The fast pop / reggae crossover of previous albums briefly appears with Rehumanise Yourself, but the rest of the album (with the obvious exception of Every Little Thing...!) is musically a lot more substantial. There is extensive use of synthesiser and saxaphone, which Sting learned to play in a few months, prompting Copeland to (only half) jokingly label him as a "crummy little creep"! The relational cracks between those two, which ultimately broke up the band, were obviously well-known by this stage, but they seemed to have spurred them on to greater things in this album. Sprits In The Material World is a great opener, followed by the brilliant Invisible Sun (ridiculously banned, because a certain broadcaster viewed it as pro-IRA!). Whilst Sting could obviously still write great pop songs (Every Little Thing...), this was altogether more serious stuff. Other great songs include Omegaman, Secret Journey and Darkness, but the rest of the album doesn't quite hit the spot, hence only 4 stars.

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