The Police- The Bed's Too Big Without You REACTION & REVIEW

[@a.k.1740]

One of their best songs, swaying, flowing, relaxing but also lyrically intense and dramatic. Great reggae track!

[@jonnno243]

Have always loved the Regatta De Blanc album. This song from it, and Bring On The Night, are my favourites .

[@samstevenson5328]

Another deep cut I’ve always loved from this album is “Bring on the Night”

[@johnramsell8518]

One of my favorite Police songs, from maybe my favorite Police album?? It changes all the time. Copeland is definitely one of the greatest and most original drummers of all time, but Sting is such an underrated bass player

[@MTB-Idle]

This has long been a favourite since I bought the vinyl back in '79. In fact every track on the first two albums is worth a listen.

[@JustMusicPlaylistsForAll]

Love this tune!

[@-davidolivares]

I’m more of a this whole album person requester. Glad to come back to this memory buster. Doing a mural with my college girlfriend, she wasn’t at the time, came later. Using the yet to be opened restaurant sound system to listen to this brand new 8track. Over and over, afternoon to evening. So tasty.

[@bengazeley9730]

My favourite Police track.

[@thomassharmer7127]

They redefined the rock trio. Each member brought highly original parts, textures and feel to the songs. Minimalism to maximum effect.

[@bigjapi1]

Very good track, "Walking On The Moon" and "Voices Inside My Head" are my favorites from the pre Synchronicity album period

[@sphericalharmony1603]

This was a breakthrough album for the group, which propelled them to superstar status. The track Bring on the Night has similar vibes to this one, and is also very good.

[@Caligulita]

I’m absolutely obsessed with this song. It’s so beautiful

[@Escapee5931]

Ranking Roger was one of the singers in 80s 2-tone band, The Beat (also known as The English Beat by some foreigners).

[@frugalseverin2282]

Justin listened to 'Save It for Later' after I requested it, he was unimpressed, wanted to hear something more by them but hasn't followed up.

[@josiepkat]

@@frugalseverin2282for real?? I LOVE that song! It’s essential 80s. I knew I’d heard of Ranking Roger but couldn’t remember which band - so many during that time had members that flitted in and out of groups and or were in multiple groups. Thanks.

[@ijustneedmyself]

Wonderful track that I'm always happy to hear! If this doesn't make you want to move nothing will.

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

It owes a huge debt to dub reggae.

[@eboethrasher]

Cure fan?

[@mightyV444]

In a live video I had seen already many moons ago (Rockpalast 1980), Stewart Copeland plays all this snare drum stuff pretty much with only his right hand, while his left does the Splash and Crash cymbal hits 🤯😄 And this is one of the band's songs in which they usually did one of their long, improvised jams when playing it live 😊

[@josiepkat]

🤯 away indeed. Everything they do musically is deceptively complex.. you gotta be next level to play this stuff.

[@mightyV444]

@@josiepkat - ...and also to actually _come up_ with stuff like that! 😅 I'm only able to _copy_ some of the things they played on drums, bass and guitar 🙂

[@Michael-Philip]

the three bass drum hits is what funks up the whole song.

[@jaybird4093]

Great track. I like the mono version from the box set even more. How about Walking on the Moon from this album next?

[@bennettwolf3821]

This and Canary In A Coal Mine are my Police faves.

[@michaelfrank2266]

Own this album. Several good tracks. Like their drummer. To me, 'Walking On The Moon' is the best cut.

[@kevtruth]

Yeah, bet he'd dig Walking On The Moon too

[@michaelfrank2266]

@@kevtruth Justin may have already reviewed the song. I intended to do a search for it and ran out of time.

[@blankgen78]

I don’t love much from the Police but I dig this one a lot . Musically kinda makes me think the Clash covering Marquee Moon

[@ono1dij]

One of my very favourites from Police, amazing drums, bass, guitar, voice, lylics, all the best

[@MrParksies]

Cool song.

[@throwabrick]

now THAT is a pocket!

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Great song from my favorite police album love you

[@jamesadkisson7510]

The Summers, Fripp albums are pretty good interesting listens. I Advance Masked and Bewitched. The first seems like Robert is more dominant and on the second one it seems like Andy is more dominant. But both share very creative guitar sound scapes.

[@timoloef]

Great band! From this album I always loved Bring on the night best

[@TZ61]

Great track from probably my favorite album of theirs.

[@spartacusforlife1508]

First two albums I bought. Boz scaggs , down two then left, and Billy Joel's the stranger. I'm surprised J.P. hasn't played boz scaggs. There's a huge number of tracks in his catalogue and they're so musically eclectic

[@ImpartiallySpeaking]

This wasn’t originally a police song. It’s actually a police cover version of an old Last Exit song from years earlier performed throughout the north of England. As with So Lonely. Truth Hits Everybody, Burn 4u, Oh My God from Synchronicity and even Synchronicity II. All cover versions from an earlier band.

[@kendudley3553]

Justin, welcome back. This Police song came up randomly today in the car, and here you are reacting to it tonight! Yer the Best! Just want to add to your comment about Sting's vocal changes. Try listening to Rock Steady from his solo album Nothing Like the Sun. His voice tells a great bible story. Ken

[@lancewolf2451]

You should react to live police..1980 france lejus ..driven to tears.

[@GRAHAMESIMPSON]

Don't forget to revisit Ian Dury - 'Hit me with your Rhythm Stick' It was the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 - It has a complex 16-notes-to-the-bar bassline played by Norman Watt-Roy that is often ranked among the world's best bass line and it has a sax solo that is fairly unique

[@johnsrensen3366]

Brilliant track police was best before every breath you take

[@rudolfkater9618]

Reggatta De Blanc was the album that won me over. Outlandos D'Amour was a bit too punky for my taste. Singing (sometimes yelling) lovesongs, looking like Johnny Rotten didn't convince me. RDB and all albums after that were more serious, more stylish and musically much better, in my opinion. Thnx for this reaction! I like the technical insight about songs that you bring. Keep it up!

[@fuckamericanidiot]

Peanuts is horrible 😅

[@rudolfkater9618]

@@fuckamericanidiot yeah, they were just playing around, but not for me 😅

[@willbo-nf7li]

this one, So Lonely, and Cant Stand Losing You🏆🏆🏆

[@MrDiddyDee]

I also always thought that Sting must have heard Joni Mitchell's 1971 song 'My old man', which has the lines "..but when he's gone, me and those lonesome blues collide, the bed's too big, the frying pan's too wide'. The inspiration for Sting's song was his first girlfriend, who committed suicide after he broke up with her.

[@rogercageot-prod]

A song then covered by Reggae Kings Sly & Robie (+female singer)! The best tribute ever for an english white band.

[@daveg6497]

For reference - Rankin’ Roger as part of The (English) Beat. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfRZZZtia6Lr6Msi=xzeYD-HocplIO1UU

[@nicholaspowell3294]

Great track, off a absolutely brilliant 2nd album.

[@ericanderson8886]

Reggae singer Sheila Hylton did a great cover of this one. Thought it was her original at first because of the rhythm.

[@jimhardiman3836]

Great album!

[@lancewolf2451]

One of these police songs is going to get rediscovered like Kate Bush's running up that hill song did recently.

[@jamesmanon3000]

Great song.Listen to Tomorrow People by Ziggy Marley /Melody Makers.Thank you.

[@warrenbutson349]

This is album version a bit more raw. I like the single a tiny bit more but either way a classic song and I love the bass line simple but memorable

[@johncarr2806]

Ranking Roger. RIP.

[@tomoconnell2727]

i think this is their best album, all things came together on this one, before they became a little too full of themselves...

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

Top notch Dub reggae!

[@onsesejoo2605]

The mono version is more refined than this, also bit faster in tempo and the overall production is better.

[@Lwize]

No Mellotron?

[@SpaceCattttt]

The bed's too big.....without poo!!

[@lilaelsi5766]

Am I the only one who perceived that song as a filler among another masterpieces of “Regatta de Blanc”? 🤔

[@a.k.1740]

I think you're probably the only one who thinks that! On the contrary, "The Bed's Too Big Without You" is honestly one of the highlights from Reggatta De Blanc. For me, the fillers would be "Contact" and "No Time This Time".

[@onsesejoo2605]

The mono version is better than this.

[@ramblerandy2397]

The Police just weren't for me. I was a Prog Rock fan looking for something else. I bought Outlandos d'Amour and Regatta de Blanc as soon as they were released. Police songs are very catchy, but empty, as far as I'm concerned. It was made worse by the posturing Gordon Sumner. I really appreciated Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers' musicianship and style, but I just couldn't get past Sting. Unbelievably, I even bought The Dream of Blue Turtles album and could never accommodate it. I eventually gave all of them away with no regrets.