Outlandos D'Amour

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-04-16 rating:
Great album!

This was one of the Police's best albums.

I always found I was more impressed with their earlier hits such as; 'Roxanne', 'So Lonely' and 'Can't Stand Losing You' - all of which are included on this album. Surprisingly, none of these great songs made it to number one - as much of their later material did, indeed 'Roxanne' did not even reach the Top Ten...

In my experience, A & M produced some of the poorest quality vinyl in terms of surface, and often the LP records were extremely thin, and so it was of a slight compensation to find that this album was released in limited blue vinyl at the time, and has since become a Collector's Item.

Ten great tracks here, and any early Police fan would not be disappointed.

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review by: GARY DAVIS date: 2007-11-15 rating:
variety is the spice of life
this was the first album i bought when i was 16 years old, and im as impressed with it now as i was then. roxanne still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up! there is such a variation, from next to you to the incredible masoko tango, the white reggae sound was amazing! this was the beginning of an incredibly successful band, and for me this and regatta de blanc were the stand out albums from there catalogue, this first album is raw and exciting and i would highly recomend it?

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review by: Tilly date: 2007-10-05 rating:
The start of things to come
Just like J. Munro says, 'every Police album gets 5 stars'. The first creation from the very talented threesome. You can tell on a couple of tracks that they are still finding their feet with their creativity, songs like Be My Girl Sally and Born In The 50's. But there are the really great songs such as Roxanne, Can't Stand Losing You and Hole In My Life. The more you listen to The Police, the more you appreciate how extremely talented they are. Great songs, great bass, great drums, great guitar and great vocals. What more could anybody want?

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review by: jock_munro date: 2006-03-14 rating:
Perfect
Every album The Police released gets five stars. But Outlandos D'Amour is where their mainstream fame started, and rightly deserved. Three consumate musicians coming together to produce such a perfectly crafted masterpiece. I was 6 when I first heard Roxanne blaring from the radio when it was first released. Maybe too young to appreciate good music, but it made my ears prick up. Such a beautiful track. Such a shame people have tried to cover it and failed badly.

There are some real classics on here from a bygone musical era. They would blow away the Artic Monkeys of our day. Thanks to Stings fantastic song writing, Stewart Copelands sublime drumming and Andy Summers brilliant guitaring. Three gods of music on CD. Anyone with any appreciation for real musicians and how they interact will love it.

If The Police reformed for just one gig, I would sell my house and a kidney to be there.


review by: sonofdavros date: 2005-08-18 rating:
A Great Beginning
The strange musical journey of The Police starts here - the group being an unusual comibination of a schoolteacher-turned-jazz-bassist, a slighty-ageing blues guitarist and an American AOR drummer. It's difficult to be objective about albums which you grew up with, because they represent part of your life, but I think Outlandos just edges it as my favourite. The recording and production is deliberately minimalistic - often it's just drums, bass and guitar, with imaginatively multi-layered vocals - and this allows the songs to shine through. Roxanne is easily the best and it's a crime the way a certain British broadcaster banned it from their playlist (one of three such bans the band experienced) - it's just a tragic tale, rather than some smutty song. The album is quite diverse, and ranges from the punky energy of Next To You and Peanuts, to the unusual (almost) instrumental Masoko Tango. Along the way they also show their white reggae roots in So Lonely and their sense of humour in the silly Be My Girl - Sally (which we as young teenagers found very daring and amusing - it just seems a bit naff now.) The jangly guitar rock of Truth Hits Everyone and Born In The 50s are also great tracks, even though one could perhaps get the group under the Trades Descriptions Act with the latter number! All in all, one of the best debut albums ever.

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