This was another title that was part of the 2019 buy. As stated before I was anxious to make a profit and didn't take the time to properly absorb the album. The only other time I bought a pile of X-Wave albums was back in 1993, and this was part of that as well. So I was familiar with the contents going in. I enjoyed a +2 listen last night as this is one strange album. It's quirky as heck, with all sorts of odd touches one doesn't associate 80s music with. Of course the band themselves were already veteran proggers with an uncanny knack of predicting music's future. Somewhat like Rush in that way, and it's no surprise that the latter band ultimately ended up sounding like The Police. No doubt Zenyatta Mondatta is more commercially oriented than Rush, but there are parallels here. As a bonus, Andy Summers gets in some mean guitar licks. I can do without track B1, one of their more annoying hits (why does the radio always seem to play the worst songs?) but everything else is very enjoyable here.
Ownership: LP: 1980 A&M. Single sleeve with picture inner bag. Another good pickup at the Denver Record show (2022). Though like INXS' The Swing, this album remains easily available and inexpensive. Even more so than some of The Police's other albums.
12/25/19; 10/25/22 (new entry)
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