History YMMV / ThePolice

* SignatureSong: "Every Breath You Take" and "Roxanne" take the gold. "Message in a Bottle" and "Don't Stand So Close to Me" take the silver.

* UnfortunateImplications: The chorus of "On Any Other Day", in context, is just an extended whine about a really bad day, but it's easy to interpret the line "My fine young son has turned out gay" to mean "I'm disappointed that my son is gay". To be fair, there's nothing in the song to indicate the protagonist has a ''problem'' with his son's gayness - the key line "and it would be OK on any other day" makes clear that the sentiment is something more along the lines of "Son, you have the worst sense of timing ever," since the coda makes it clear the song takes place on the father's birthday (and we've already heard about all the crap he's already experienced).

* UnfortunateImplications: The chorus of "On Any Other Day", in context, is just an extended whine about a really bad day, but it's easy to interpret the line "My fine young son has turned out gay" to mean "I'm disappointed that my son is gay". To be fair, there's nothing in the song to indicate the protagonist has a ''problem'' with his son's gayness - the key line "and it would be OK on any other day" makes clear that the sentiment is something more along the lines of "Son, you have the worst sense of timing ever," since the coda makes it clear the song takes place on the father's birthday.

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsV7iLaBbqk "Ladies and gentlemen, we are The Police and WE'RE BACK!!"]]

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsV7iLaBbqk "Ladies and gentlemen, we are The Police and WE'RE BACK!!"]]

* HoYay: All three of them, [[VitriolicBestBuds when they weren't at each other's throats.]] Sting has remarked on the "sexual tension" between him and Copeland, and Andy Summers' biography details a lot of man-dates.

* HoYay: All three of them, [[VitriolicBestBuds when they weren't at each other's throats.]] Sting has remarked on the "sexual tension" between him and Copeland, and Andy Summers' biography details more than a few of man-dates.

* HoYay: Sting and Stewart Copeland, [[VitriolicBestBuds when they weren't at each other's throats.]]

** In a similar vein, there's Stewart Copeland's other supergroup trio Oysterhead (formed with [[Music/{{Phish}} Trey Anastasio]] and [[Music/{{Primus}} Les Claypool]]), which was only together for one album, a tour, and two one-off concerts. In that case, it was only intended to be an improv act in a jazz festival, but even so...
* UnfortunateImplications: The above-quoted chorus of "On Any Other Day", in context, is just an extended whine about a really bad day, but it's easy to interpret the line "My fine young son has turned out gay" to mean "I'm disappointed that my son is gay". To be fair, there's nothing in the song to indicate the protagonist has a ''problem'' with his son's gayness - the key line "and it would be OK on any other day" makes clear that the sentiment is something more along the lines of "Son, you have the worst sense of timing ever," since the coda makes it clear the song takes place on the father's birthday.

* TheWoobie: The nameless main character in "Synchronicity II".

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: A lot. [[http://au.music.ign.com/articles/797/797316p1.html This IGN article]] counts down the 25 best tracks.
** Album-wise, ''Synchronicity'' would be probably the most frequently cited example.
** Their recent live album ''Certifiable'' shows exactly why their reunion was the third-highest grossing tour of all time.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UL_rhTjsQ8 This video]] (NSFW).
** (at 3:01) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lVcl91hwIo "I'd just like to introduce the band - Andy, this is Stewart..."]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Hints in many songs, but "Synchronicity II" is probably the most nightmarish of their singles.
-->Many miles away
-->There's a shadow on the door
-->Of a cottage on the shore
-->Of a dark
-->[[StockNessMonster Scottish lake...]]
** "Friends", a song about a man who befriends people and then eats them.
*** In a similar manner there's "Murder By Numbers" which is a jazzy tune about a serial killer.
*** There's also "Once Upon A Daydream," with copious amounts of LyricalDissonance. Perhaps not coincidentally, the previous three were all written or co-written by Andy Summers.
** "Masoko Tanga", which is the LastNoteNightmare for their first album.
** "Shadows in the Rain" is pretty much made of FridgeHorror.

*** There's also "Once Upon A Daydream," with copious amounts of LyricalDissonance. Perhaps not coincidentally, the lyrics for the previous three were all written by Andy Summers.

* MisaimedFandom: It's amazing how many people don't realize that "Every Breath You Take" is ''not'' a love song.

* MemeticOutfit: The bleached blonde hair. Among the fandom, Stewart Copeland's short shorts and tube socks qualify.

** In a similar vein, there's Stewart Copeland's other supergroup trio Oysterhead (formed with [[{{Phish}} Trey Anastasio]] and [[{{Primus}} Les Claypool]]), which was only together for one album, a tour, and two one-off concerts. In that case, it was only intended to be an improv act in a jazz festival, but even so...

* UnfortunateImplications: The above-quoted chorus of "On Any Other Day", in context, is just an extended whine about a really bad day, but it's easy to interpret the line "My fine young son has turned out gay" to mean "I'm disappointed that my son is gay". To be fair, there's nothing in the song to indicate the protagonist has a ''problem'' with his son's gayness - the key line "and it would be OK on any other day" makes clear that the sentiment is something more along the lines of "Son, you have the worst sense of timing ever" since the coda makes it clear the song takes place on the father's birthday.

* UnfortunateImplications: The above-quoted chorus of "On Any Other Day", in context, is just an extended whine about a really bad day, but it's easy to interpret the line "My fine young son has turned out gay" to mean "I'm disappointed that my son is gay". To be fair, there's nothing in the song to indicate the protagonist has a ''problem'' with his son's gayness - the key line "and it would be OK on any other day" makes clear that the sentiment is something more along the lines of "Son, you have the worst sense of timing ever."

** In a similar vein, there's Stewart Copeland's other supergroup trio Oysterhead (formed with [[Music/Phish Trey Anastasio]] and [[Music/Primus Les Claypool]]), which was only together for one album, a tour, and two one-off concerts. In that case, it was only intended to be an improv act in a jazz festival, but even so...

* EpicRiff: "Message In A Bottle" is the most famous.

** In a similar manner there's "Murder By Numbers" which is a jazzy tune about a serial killer.

** Roxanne has a certain level of this, as its a man smitten with a woman, who decides that he's going to come in and save her, rather than her liberating herself.

** Roxanne arguably has a certain level of this, as its a man smitten with a woman, who decides that he's going to come in and save her, rather than her liberating herself. However, YourMileageMayVary on this. If you're simply anti-prostitution, it probably isn't too bad, if you're a sex-negative feminist, its extreme patriarchal. If, on the other hand, you're a sex-POSITIVE feminist, the idea that this man has any right to tell this woman what she should or shouldn't do with her own body is outright disgusting.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Executives wanted to release Andy Summers' "Omegaman" as a single for ''Ghost in the Machine'', but [[ExecutiveMeddling Sting]] [[InvertedTrope wouldn't let them]]. It's one of the best songs on the album.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Roxanne", "Message in a Bottle", "Don't Stand So Close To Me", "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic", "Every Breath You Take"... we could be here all day.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Sting's latest appearance at an Italian program, "Che Tempo Che Fa" (deliberately wrong sentence [[{{Woolseyism}} that can roughly be translated in English as]] "What's Like The Weather Like"), is just... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeK0ykvgpyQ epic.]]

** Their recent live album ''Certifiable'', which shows exactly why their reunion tour was the third-highest grossing tour of all time.