S$# 003 Police | Dead End Job
The punk influence in the Police was quite evident in Dead End Job, an early non-album b-side. (It was the flip of Can't Stand Losing You, released in September 1978.)
Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers produced an amazing body of work during their short time together as the Police. So you may be asking: why did I choose this obscure number for the song spotlight?
Dead End Job has a gleaming roughness about the song, like an uncut diamond that has sharp edges on it. Sting observed in the liner notes of the Message In A Box collection that the track, a Sting-Copeland- Summers collaboration, "was the best song we had back then. I loved that riff, it was quite a release."
The song is a rant against the tribulations of unchallenging employment, and it contains some scat vocals that lend to the atmosphere of the song, melding with that punk-style riff.
Check it out on the Message In A Box 4-CD set.
Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers produced an amazing body of work during their short time together as the Police. So you may be asking: why did I choose this obscure number for the song spotlight?
Dead End Job has a gleaming roughness about the song, like an uncut diamond that has sharp edges on it. Sting observed in the liner notes of the Message In A Box collection that the track, a Sting-Copeland- Summers collaboration, "was the best song we had back then. I loved that riff, it was quite a release."
The song is a rant against the tribulations of unchallenging employment, and it contains some scat vocals that lend to the atmosphere of the song, melding with that punk-style riff.
Check it out on the Message In A Box 4-CD set.
posted by droppingpin at 9:03 PM
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