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  Synchronicity (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Synchronicity is the fifth album by The Police, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music).
The album's title was inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence, which mentions Carl Jung's theory of Synchronicity.
The album's original cover artwork was available in 36 variations, with different arrangements of the color stripes and showing different photographs of the band members, which they took themselves.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Synchronicity_(album)   (658 words)

  
 Synchronicity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Synchronicity is a word coined by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung spoke of synchronicity as an "acausal connecting principle" (i.e.
Since the theory of synchronicity is not testable according to the classical scientific method, it is not widely regarded as scientific at all, but rather as pseudoscientific or an example of magical thinking.
Synchronicity has been proposed as a corollary phenomenon of the many-worlds or parallel universes theory of quantum physics, in that the subject might somehow be 'navigating' to those particular alternate worlds that are correlated to their past history, avoiding the myriad possible other worlds that are not as strongly "correlated" to their past history
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 The Daily Vault Album Reviews : Synchronicity
Last time I checked, this album was in the top 20 sellers of all time, with semi-hit single "Every Breath You Take" in the top 20 singles of all time.
That honor belongs to "Synchronicity II," another dark story of the mendacity of daily life and one man's desire to break free from the monotony.
Synchronicity is a very sophisticated album, missing the fun of Regatta De Blanc and Zenyatta Mondatta.
www.dailyvault.com /2004_10_28-bmr.html   (465 words)

  
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Synchronicity was a blockbuster 1983 (see 1983 in music) album by The Police.
The album's title, as well as the two eponymous songs on the disc, are references to Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity.
Synchronicity topped both the Billboard Pop Albums and Billboard 200 charts.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/sy/synchronicity__album_.html   (76 words)

  
 The Police - More Album Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The first of The Police's albums, Outlandos D'Amour was released in November 1978 after Roxanne, the third song on the album, had failed to chart, and Can't Stand Losing You, sixth on the album, had reached only number 42 in the UK charts.
The album was helped by a new influence on Sting - the world and what he had seen during the group's world tours.
The biggest hit from this album is perhaps the group's third most famous song, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic, which reached number one in the UK and number 3 in the US.
www.angelfire.com /realm/secretjourney81/Police/Albums/MoreAlbumInf.htm   (1302 words)

  
 Sting.com discography.albums
The album closes with the ethereal 'Tea in the Sahara', another stab at apocalyptic irony whose melodic brightness does a good job of covering its lack of direction (it was inspired by John Bowles' novel 'The Sheltering Sky').
'Synchronicity' isn't the first album since 'Sgt. Pepper' to re-create this balance, to have its finger so firmly on the pulse of the times that it manages to be genuinely avant-garde and genuinely commercial at the same time.
Now, on 'Synchronicity', the Police have expanded their style in a multitude of directions, using as much of what they have learned as can sensibly be fitted on one record.
www.sting.com /discog/index.php?view=album&id=33   (6618 words)

  
 Live! (The Police album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Live was an album by The Police, released in 1995.
Disc one was recorded on November 27 in 1979 at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.
Disc two contains excerpts from two concerts in November 1983 in the wake of the Synchronicity album.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Live!_(The_Police_album)   (165 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Synchronicity: Music: The Police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Synchronicity is the last full-length studio recording from the Police, the final evolution of their sound, and the album that yielded their greatest success.
Synchronicity is a collection that creates and sustains a mood in the sensitive listener, a feeling that remains after the last note has died away.
With the release of 1983's Synchronicity, their fifth and final studio album, the Police were briefly the biggest rock band in the world.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002GF8?v=glance   (1779 words)

  
 The Police's "Synchronicity Concert" DVD Ready | RockAndMetal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Originally directed and edited by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, this energetic and power-packed live concert brilliantly captures The Police at the height of their success, when "Synchronicity" ruled the radio airwaves and the trio were one of the biggest bands in the world.
Although "Synchronicity" would be The Police's most commercially successful album, and lead to a sold-out tour (including a stop at New York's Shea Stadium), it would turn out to be the trio's fifth and final studio album and world tour.
The Police supported the album with a record-breaking world tour from 1983 to 1984, which set a precedent for tours for the remainder of the '80s.
www.rockandmetal.com /thepolice.html   (1642 words)

  
 Synchronicity II by The Police Songfacts
Synchronicity is the theory that seemingly coincidental events are connected through their meaning.
The Synchronicity in this song is the connection between the picket lines protesting environmental contamination and the resulting mutant-monster rising from the polluted lake.
The album opens with "Synchronicity I," which is a completely different song which they also used as the first song on their tour.
www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1685   (1567 words)

  
 OLIVIA - synchronicity
This would make an album with "I.L.Y.", "re-ACT", and "Dear Angel" plus most of their coupling-with songs (which were good songs that are not included on "synchronicity").
So "synchronicity" would still exist, it would just be her second album instead of her first.
It's almost like the album officially ended with "liquid skies" and the new mixes of her old singles is just a bonus added on to the ending.
www.j-fan.com /jpop/jpop.cgi?action=viewrev&artist=OLIVIA&album=a-synchronicity-a   (1800 words)

  
 In The 80s - Album Reviews of the 80s, Index
By the time "Synchronicity" was made, the band had moved beyond the sometimes repetitive and unfinished sound of their earliest work, and Sting's songs had not yet slid fully into the heavily jazzy and occasionally overproduced sound of his solo efforts.
Unlike many 80's albums, "Synchronicity" maintains its continuity from beginning to end; when listening to it, you get the sense that you are enjoying an entire work rather than simply a collection of ten or twelve songs.
One indication of "Synchronicity"'s effectiveness as an album is that it's difficult to choose which song(s) are the best.
www.inthe80s.com /reviews/thepolicesynchronicity.shtml   (584 words)

  
 Synchronicity Times - What is Synchronicity?
Synchronicity was a term originally created by Carl Jung to describe the meaningful coincidences that occur in one's life.
The term has been popularized in the mass media by the Police's album Synchronicity, and more recently by The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.
When you are open to synchronous events, they can help you make choices in your life, because they are a form of guidance from the Universe.
www.ropi.net /st/what_is_synchronicity.htm   (305 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Synchronicity: Remastered: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Each of the intervening albums have something specialbut the power of tracks such as 'Synchronicity II', and thehaunting quality of 'Every Breath You Take' (you really believe Sting when he says, 'I'll be watching you') give this record the edge.
Synchronicity has all of the ingredients I love in Sting's music: great tunes, insightful lyrics, great harmonies and infectious rhythms.
The Police's last studio album contained one of their best known hit singles in "Every Breath You Take" but the track is rather an oddity on the album as the band's sound became more expansive on this album (progressive?) than ever before barely resembling the rock/reggae crossover they so well exploited on early albums.
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 Deeper Stuff
While some of the most popular and profound video/audio synchronicities can perhaps be fitted under the broader rubric of Jungian synchronicity, most are probably purely of chance origin, their internal matchings illustrating, for example, the well known concept of color ball clustering in gum machines.
Alluding to this same problem in his Synchronicity Arkive, webmaster Mike Johnston summarizes by saying, "the term seems to describe the emotional state evoked better than anything else." And it must be admitted this magical feeling, the evocation of wonder and awe, is, after all, the heart of the matter, the fun of it all.
As Jung said about traditional synchronicities, although the oddity of the juxtapositions is the most immediately noticeable thing about them, their long terms value hinges upon implied meanings or interpretations, since this is what ties them into his core concept of the individuation process (the psychic growth of the individual over an entire lifetime).
breton.home.boone.net /deeperstuff.html   (1849 words)

  
 - the PSUNAMI.COM album review.
I remember reading an article once that speculated that the success of a number of 1983 recordings, including Synchronicity from the band the Police, was largely due to the fact that people were already in the record stores to buy Michael Jackson's Thriller album and decided to pick up something else while they were there.
Their rich yet understated playing adds much to the album, without ever stealing the focus from the songs themselves.
Synchronicity is a great record that has aged extremely well thanks to songwriting and production values that refused to follow trends.
members.tripod.com /~psunami/policesynch.htm   (338 words)

  
 My MP3.TV - News
In 1983, the British pop band, The Police, engaged in a tour celebrating their iconic album, “Synchronicity”.
The DVD will be the first attempt to relive the tour aside from the first visual document of the tour called, “Synchronicity Concert”, which was taped in Atlanta back in 1983.
“Synchronicity” was their last album together, and is considered a notable classic.
www.mp3.tv /articles/article_popup_with_history.php?id=1257   (331 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Synchronicity: Music: The Police   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
While Synchronicity may not be The Police's most musically technical album, it is their best.
As previously stated, there's real jems here that weren't singles, such as "Synchronicity I and II," "Murder by Numbers," and "O My God." The technical production on the album is also fantastic, with a clear, punchy sound, a stark contrast to the bloated deep rumble of late 70's rock and disco.
This album is essential for any fan of The Police and/or 80's music, and should be required listening for anyone trying to start their own power trio.
www.amazon.ca /Synchronicity-Police/dp/B000002GF8   (1240 words)

  
 Police CD albums which can be ordered through the internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Released in 1997, this greatest hits album is slightly different because it features hits by both The Police, and Sting solo.
In 1997 this album of previously unreleased early Police live material was finally made available.
The third Police album, released in 1980, still shows many signs of the earlier punk roots as well as reggae influences in songs such as Canary in a Coalmine and Bombs Away.
stingetc.com /giftguide/copalbums.shtml   (809 words)

  
 Hydrogenaudio Forums > Synchronicity Remaster
This is 1:00-1:15 of Synchronicity I. About 2.5 seconds into the sample is the peak where it's most evident that they used some hard limiting.
As I mentioned earlier, one of the reasons I signed on was because this was the one messageboard that actually had statistical evidence that the 2003 remaster of Dark Side of the Moon was made louder (something like 3 to 4dB louder).
Their 1994 album was Monster, and THAT album definitely is a clipressed one.
www.hydrogenaudio.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t28722.html   (2797 words)

  
 Detailed Reviews [Patrick Forgas - 2002 - "Synchronicity"] - ProgressoR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The contents of this album show that Patrick Forgas is the representative of Ambient Section of Solo Pilots where there also are Vangelis, Klaus Schultz, etc. However, the music that is presented on the "Synchronicity" album isn't spacey.
Animus (1) is the only composition on the album that contain the parts of the programmed drums, all of which, though, sound powerful and effective.
Patrick Forgas's "Synchronicity" is one of the most interesting and coherent 'ambient' albums that I've heard.
www.progressor.net /review/patrick_forgas_2002.html   (500 words)

  
 Synchronicity - The Police
I think Sting has written the best lyrics he has ever written for this album.
Sting: "So the new album is about having a personal voice, in a sense.
Andy, for instance, did his best work ever for The Police on this album.
www.cybercomm.nl /~gugten/album05.htm   (296 words)

  
 Dark Side of the Rainbow | Synchronicity Arkive
The album should end with Dorothy putting her ear to the Tin Man's chest, to the tune of the ending heartbeat on the album.
This synchronicity has been a favorite of the Pink Floyd newsgroup, alt.music.pink-floyd, at least for as long as I've been reading it.
This idea of synchronicity holds that connection, the resonance, between the two is beyond the linear concept of intent, and lies within the basic intelligent potential of the universe.
www.synchronicityarkive.com /dsotr.php   (3050 words)

  
 Cole Reviews: the Police
On this, their final album, the Police dropped their artistic pretentions (for the most part) and just made a bunch of enjoyable, catchy songs.
And yes, he's singing on this album, but his vocals are usually doubled with female singers.
The only really low points to this album are a few songs that just try to get by on atmosphere alone -- the title track ("new age" instrumental pap) and "The Change" are the most guilty of this.
colereviews.tripod.com /police.html   (2005 words)

  
 Sting in Relationships: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Their last album, Synchronicity was released in 1983.
His 1991 album The Soul Cages was dedicated to his recently deceased father and included the top 10 song "All this Time" and the Grammy winning "Soul Cages".
His live album, All This Time, recorded on a moonlit night in Tuscany, was released in November but did not gather healthy sales figures.
www.topsynergy.com /famous-biographies/Sting.asp   (1292 words)

  
 Carl Jung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Songs such as "Forty Six and 2" and "Ænema" (the title of this song and the title of the album both being derived from Jung's anima) are particularly fraught with references.
Also, the central goal of the psychedelic movement, opening the doors of perception, is repeatedly associated with Jungian concepts throughout the book.
Robert E. iz, C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (1990), currently in its 10th printing, is a refereed publication of The State University of New York Press.
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 T-Shirt Fiend: The Police new wave tshirt
Material in the later album Ghost In The Machine was inspired by the writings of Arthur Koestler, and material in Synchronicity was prominently inspired by the writings of Carl Jung.
It was however the last album in which the group collectively cooperated, or as Sting would later put it, the last album they worked on "as a band".
They released their last album, Synchronicity, in 1983; it is widely regarded as a classic.
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 Synchronicity Arkive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Simply start the movie and the album at the same exact time.
In case you hadn't heard, Syd Barrett, co-founder of Pink Floyd, died at the age of 60.
Start the album 9 seconds before Miles Dyson (the fl guy who has been shot earlier) drops the trigger and blows up the Cyberdyne Systems building.
www.synchronicityarkive.com   (1147 words)

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