Tracks from Zenyatta keep popping up on the boy's playlist, and then we start talking about what a great record it is. By their own account they were "disappointed" with it, that they made it too fast during a very short break in their touring schedule (four weeks) but maybe that's why it's so great. They didn't over think it.
Listen to their re-recording of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" if you'll see what I mean.
I tell people I was listening to so much Genesis in high school, but seriously, The Police were a very close second. Everything else was third.
Distance: 4.1 miles
Duration: 38:11Pace: 9:11
Route: Forest Hill Loop
Temperature: 77°
Climate: sunny & warm
Mood: good
Stretches: yes
Abdominals:
Water: yes
Weight: 181 lbs. (-1.0)
Goal: 175 lbs.
My God, what a beautiful day. What a beautiful body. I felt good, the entire time.
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police (1980)
Don't Stand So Close To Me
Driven To Tears (161 bpm)
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around
Canary In a Coalmine
Voices Inside My Head
Bombs Away
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Behind My Camel
Man In a Suitcase
Shadows In the Rain (158 bpm)
The Other Way of Stopping (165 bpm)
Spring Break, April 1982. We were visiting relatives in Florida. I was lying on the shag carpeting of a bedroom at my aunt's and uncle's condo in Clearwater. High in the sky, slide doors opened to the gulf a few hundred feet away.
My brother had a Walkman, but he let me use it. He had a 90 minute cassette of Zenyatta Mondatta b/w Ghost In the Machine, dubbed from his vinyl records. While they include the pop of vinyl it was also the first time I had really listened to music on headphones, Walkman headphones. I was transported. I was alive. I was about to turn fourteen. And I needed to break up with my girlfriend.
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