Zenyatta Mondatta

Well, it got to the eye-watering number 28 in the charts.

The Police, When The World Is Running Down, it was on the Zenyatta Mondatta album in 1981.

Yeah, you've got those four tracks together.

Oh, yeah.

That's how long ago that was.

Is that Zenyatta Mondatta?

Yeah.

I forget which one that's on.

Then 12 we have Zen Monde from India.

I wonder if that's a reference to Zenyatta Mondatta, which was the localized name for Oingo Boingo back in Part 3, and so maybe they brought that back.

Um, 13th place is Caravan Sarai from Mexico.

I believe we already noted them as a music reference.

[laughs] Yeah

In 1980, The Police released Zenyatta Mondatta.

This is another four-quadrant album.

All four of us thought it was worthy of note.

75 today, isn't that crazy? I mean, police were out, police broke out in the late 70s.

Outlandos d'Amour, Zenyatta Mondatta, love those police album titles.

They broke up like 84, and then Sting ventures off into the solo career.

This is Fields of Gold, one of my favorite solo Sting tracks.

The trio of Gordon Sumner, Andy Summers and Stuart Copeland moved further into the 1980s decade on the back of this success, despite the rising and falling tides of those genres that they appeared to dip their toes in.

Coming off three remarkably successful albums in a short space of time, the trio that made up The Police had certainly made themselves known in the music world by the time they came to writing and recording the follow-up to Zenyatta Mondatta.

As noted here, their first three albums had come at a time when the face of popular music, especially in the UK, was changing.

First had come the punk influences of the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks, as well as the reggae-flavoured punk style of The Clash and Stiff Little Fingers, and the new wave bands coming through such as Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet.

And that's true.

It's Zenyatta Mandata was the album that was on.

I

thought it was on, what was it? I actually had to look it up.

But I mean, I guess it's the way he was brought up, you know, and,

And you had mentioned the Synchronicity album and how it had a really sort of different take to Zenyatta Mondatta, which was their third record.

And I find it interesting now to go back to listen to Synchronicity because there's a lot less... drumming on that record than I remember.

I remember the character of it and the intensity of it, and I would play along with that record so much.