- 01Zenyatta Mondattathe PoliceIt was Zenyatta Mondatta , the one with “Voices Inside My Head.”from the chapter
- 02“Voices Inside My Head”the PoliceIt was Zenyatta Mondatta , the one with “Voices Inside My Head.”from the chapter
- 03Reggatta de Blancthe PoliceAnd then I could, thanks to Reggatta de Blanc , the group’s second album.from the chapter
- 04ArgybargySqueeze(Now, through the magic of gentrification, that neighborhood has been rechristened “Northern Liberties,” but back then it was just regular Northeast Philly.) The driver had two cassettes in his car, Squeeze’s Argybargy and the Police’s Reggatta de Blanc .from the chapter
- 05“Walking on the Moon”the PoliceIt starts with a Sting-written hit (“Walking on the Moon”) and then moves to “On Any Other Day,” a snotty Stewart Copeland–written tale of despair complete with self-critical studio chatter that could be on the Time’s “Grace” (“The other ones are complete bullshit.from the chapter
- 06“On Any Other Day”the PoliceIt starts with a Sting-written hit (“Walking on the Moon”) and then moves to “On Any Other Day,” a snotty Stewart Copeland–written tale of despair complete with self-critical studio chatter that could be on the Time’s “Grace” (“The other ones are complete bullshit.from the chapter
- 07“Grace”the TimeIt starts with a Sting-written hit (“Walking on the Moon”) and then moves to “On Any Other Day,” a snotty Stewart Copeland–written tale of despair complete with self-critical studio chatter that could be on the Time’s “Grace” (“The other ones are complete bullshit.from the chapter
- 08“The Bed’s Too Big Without You”the PoliceThen there’s another Sting composition, “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” and then another Copeland, “Contact.”from the chapter
- 09“Contact”the PoliceThen there’s another Sting composition, “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” and then another Copeland, “Contact.”from the chapter
- 10“No Time This Time”the PoliceThen, before Sting ends the record with the punky “No Time This Time,” we get Copeland’s “Does Everyone Stare.” The first few million times I heard it, in the car on the way to the set, I liked the song for the strange harmonies and structure, the way it starts off as a demo and …from the chapter
- 11“Does Everyone Stare”the PoliceLater, when I (re)joined Columbia House—or maybe I should just say some record or tape club where I may or may not have fulfilled the membership requirements—and bought all the Police records, I really dug into the lyrics, and found .from the chapter
- 12What Happened, Miss Simone?Nina SimoneThat episode, and every one like it, made me think of an old interview with Nina Simone that I saw in the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? , where she talked about how Black people in America were, in one important respect, deprived of something that Africans had, and that was …from the chapter
- 13“Ain’t Got No”Nina SimoneThat episode, and every one like it, made me think of an old interview with Nina Simone that I saw in the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?from the chapter