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Reggatta de Blanc (a pseudo-French translation of white reggae) is the second album by The Police, released on 2 October, 1979. It features the bands first two UK #1 hits: Message in a Bottle and Walking on the Moon. Incidentally, this was their second album to bear a foreign language title; after the bands 1978 debut album Outlandos dAmour. They would continue this trend with the Zenyatta Mondatta LP released 366 days later. Whats amazing about the Gordon Sumner-led British new wave band is that long before the one-two punch Magnum Opus that is 1981s Ghost in the Machine and their final outing as a band, 1983s Synchronicity (these albums feature the singles Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, Invisible Sun, Spirits in the Material World, Every Breath You Take, King of Pain, and Wrapped Around Your Finger), the band had already released Dont Stand So Close to Me, De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da, Message in a Bottle, Roxanne, Cant Stand Losing You, and So Lonely. Reggatta de Blanche took only 4 weeks to record and cost less than 10K to produce. Walking on the Moon has to be one of my favorite Police tracks - its obviously a love song, one that Sumner wrote for his first girlfriend. I can assume that it owes its title to love being a feeling similar to a temporary loss of gravity. As a bonus, the bullshit hipster zeitgeist that has somehow invaded cerebral jukeboxes across American with its bad taste, leather satchels, and art deco asshole sweater-vests has yet to plant a flag with this trio, although Im sure its inevitable. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:26:51 +0000

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