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Outlandos D'Amour |  | Artist: The Police
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Category: Music
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 4484
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 41 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 606949365226
EAN: 0606949365226
ASIN: B00009U5IG
Release Date: June 16, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Next To You | | • | So Lonely | | • | Roxanne | | • | Hole In My Life | | • | Peanuts | | • | Can't Stand Losing You | | • | Truth Hits Everybody | | • | Born In The 50's | | • | Be My Girl - Sally | | • | Masoko Tanga | | • | Roxanne |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 Perfect March 14, 2006
J. Munro (UK)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Every album The Police released gets five stars. But Outlandos D#x27;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. pThere 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. pIf The Police reformed for just one gig, I would sell my house and a kidney to be there.
A Great Beginning August 18, 2005
Mr. A. J. KNEALE
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Great album! April 16, 2008
FAMOUS NAME (UNITED KINGDOM)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
br /This was one of the Police's best albums.
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br /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...
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br /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.
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br /Ten great tracks here, and any early Police fan would not be disappointed.
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Superb! January 30, 2009
Toby Stewart (Liverpool, UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The best Police album and the first! I've had this for 30 years and never want to be without it!
magic ! beats david blaine in a box October 8, 2003
2 out of 60 found this review helpful
The Police, or as they are now known, Sting, Released this, their debut, in 1978.pCould there ever be a better way to come into the popworld then with a hit like roxanne ?brthis song is about a hooker in the redlight district , PURE GENIUS ! I LOVE THEM EVEN MY DADS GOT A RECORDpOh yeah, this album has got some other songs on it as well. Don't know what they are like, never bothered to listen to thempSTILL! Roxanne is wonderful. i also rate mushroomhead who sound similar in many ways. THATS THE BOTTOM LINE BECAUSE ROB AND CHRIS SAID SO !
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