THE POLICE: "Nothing achieving", 1977

Cara B del sencillo "Fall out"
Publicado el 1 de Mayo, 1977
Grabado el 12 de Febrero,1977 en Pathway Studios
Sting - bajo, voz
Henry Padovani - guitarra solista
Stewart Copeland - batería, guitarra rítmica, productor.

[@missyjones4269]

I wish the police embraced more of this nice punk rock sound!!

[@StorckOnBass]

Nothing achieving, Dead End Job, Land Lord, Fall out, Clowns Revenge (Never released, only performed live a few times and there are only four recordings of it.) and Next to you. There's also Truth Hits Everybody and Visions Of The Night, but those are a bit more soft.

[@Moniinthemorning]

Totally agree

[@Pilcha.]

​@@StorckOnBass A sermon could also enter on that list.

[@StorckOnBass]

@@Pilcha. You're right, forgot to mention that one!

[@natanborszcz1219]

also It's Alright for You from Regatta De Blanc

[@glebelands11]

wow .. I thought i'd dreamed this fuckin song .. first 45 single i bought in Dundee wee my own money ... thanks for reminding me ..my memory is fucked dude .. :-)

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

"My Daddy's boots don't fit me... 'cause I'm bigger than him!"

[@guillermosahuquillo4499]

For those who would like to know, Henri is only playing the solo, Stewart is playing the rest of the guitars. Ian and Stewart Copeland wrote the song. Most of the punk “gods” of the era could not play shit in any instrument; The Police shared tour buses with other bands, like XTC or The Clash, and it was well known that Sting, during those trips, used tippex to mark the positions of the fingers on the frets of the basses of other “musicians” like Paul Simonon…

[@AZAZELLO__]

What book can I read about early days of the police?

[@powerpopaholic876]

I say this rocks, as does the flip side (in it's own way). Fairly intense, definitely energizing. Love it!

[@rustykuntz94]

Even Henry admitted he was out of his league in this band. He was a quintessential punk guitarist but the Police's sound evolved very quickly into much more complicated material and Andy was the perfect fit. They did do 1 show or maybe 2 as a 4 piece with both Henry & Andy playing guitar.

[@aussieb1416]

cheers for the tale

[@StorckOnBass]

Haha yes, but Henry stood in the back while Andy took the show. Deserved though. Andy is much better and I'm happy he replaced Henry

[@bups9403]

At the Mont de Marsan festival, south west France : they were 4

[@paulbadoo9326]

Absolutely, there's nothing Henry could have do to nail "Message in a bottle", probably (among many others). Perhaps he could have played on "Truth hits everybody", or more punk oriente stuff,

[@amancu1963]

Padovani sounds like a good guitarist, the real issue for him was that Andy Summers was from a different league. Very few players could compete with him and none could make Police as we know them

[@Grommet_]

damn... sting sings really high in this song

[@duducheization]

Robert Plant :) !

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

@@duducheization Or, perhaps, Jon Anderson.

[@clivewillis2733]

wow thanx for putting this on here

[@queenswarthamaniharrington992]

I've only just heard these first two Police singles now (bought the first album as soon as it came out). That Italian guitarist is really good. Solid punk rhythm. Perfectly placed fills and full-on, rhythmically perfect, mini solos.

[@backslash68]

to be precise he's technically French - from Corsica, it passed from Italy to France some 200 years ago

[@nicktamer4969]

@@backslash68 To be realy precise, he's French - from Corsica, wich passed from Republic of Genoa to France 256 years ago in 1768, one year before Napoleon's birth and 93 years before Italy's birth (as a state).

[@lore-lv2yo]

To be really precise he only plays the solo. And Stewart Copeland plays the rest.

[@cron205]

Early police sounds like iron maiden and Rush mixed with hardcore punk and pop music

[@therespectedlex9794]

Yeah, to Hell with the Bob Marley.

[@right-hand1388]

Nice mix !

[@Me-gt7oy]

Awesome!

[@Michael-oj2ve]

Young angst is a beautiful thing !

[@luciobloch2404]

Estos si hacían el mejor Punk!!!!!!!

[@anaalvarez9388]

Tremendamente buena

[@nicolasmorales1746]

Nunca escuche esta canción wooouu

[@webertmacedo5247]

essa epoca elis eram mais punk rock

[@terencerosenthal6693]

I wish Padavani and copekand did something together after the police

[@jonblazeinc]

I do think what if police kept this punk sound instead of evolving into the punk reggae pop sound which exploded them. Well they would have never sold millions .

[@georginaelizondo]

Cool

[@martinleicht5911]

✌

[@MateoNievaD]

De 10

[@safeashouses211]

Standing on the runway waiting for take off...

[@mmyt68]

Henry...incredible person...really extraordinary...even though he had been replaced by wonderful Andy Summers...he’d been main reason for police’s success

[@bulldogdave]

Uhm...no.

[@BeefheartLynch]

Uhh, yeah...no. he was nothing more than the first guitarist for the fledgling Police. Sting and Stewart were already so far ahead musically, the change to Summers had to be made.

[@DameTremonti]

don't be ridiculous

[@killingheros3554]

Nah man, this guitar player is fabulous as well.

[@ec1628]

Almost all of the guitar playing on this song is Stewart.

[@bent2]

Some parts reminds of the Hawkwind song Brainstorm.

[@e.tezani3877]

Yeah that song with a classic rock singer

[@travisrlel2]

Hot Rails to Hell--Blue Oyster Cult

[@quarkwrok]

The guitar riff is totally Brainstorm.

[@canesvenatici4259]

​@@e.tezani3877Classic rock can vary quite a lot at times. It's a radio format not a music genre.

[@terencerosenthal6693]

Padovani almost sounds like summers, but there is something missing, I wush

[@ZFlyingVLover]

More special effects. Padovani was more raw guitar

[@paulbadoo9326]

Brunette= punk, blonde=New wave

[@karnazz8203]

Prljavci - Moj otav bio u ratu, PUNKS NOT DEAD

[@Nietha-jh6wh]

you've just been punked

[@therespectedlex9794]

Surely Stewart Copeland didn't play drums and rhythm guitar at the same time.

[@bettyswunghole3310]

Sting dismissed this song as "energetic but unsophisticated". I think it shows a high degree of sophistication for a punk track...

[@MonotoneCreeper]

Haha the definition of punk is probably ‘energetic but unsophisticated’

[@myplan8166]

​@@MonotoneCreepernot "but", it's "and"

[@abbddssallamm7178]

but who's his dad 🤔

[@Master-vv4gn]

This sounds more like Dead Moon than the police lol

[@Pilcha.]

I get a “Warsaw” vibe from pre Joy Divison!

[@user-lx9cp2ne7f]

P U N K

[@MrSparklespring]

Indeed without Andy they achieved nothing, lol!😅

[@Soundeagle3456]

What the hell happened to these young snots? They turned into yuppies within two years.

[@cron205]

This is the real police the 80s police is crap

[@Nigel-Webb]

Shut up!

[@mattcooper9026]

Sounds like they "borrowed" the riff from Brainstorm, by Hawkwind, to me..

[@DaveAnchovies]

i wish theyd made an lp with him. cant deal with them past the 2nd lp

[@abbddssallamm7178]

don't think so

[@petercrowley41]

Actually, they were pretending to be punk in '77.

[@jesuschristdestroysmarxism3916]

Early YES """ I mean The Police""" lmao