The Police / Synchronicity (US, A&M Records, A&M SP-3735) <June 17, 1983>

The Police / Synchronicity (US, A&M Records, A&M SP-3735) <June 17, 1983>

【日本語Wiki】
本作のジャケットは、イギリス盤と日本盤は1種類であるが、オリジナルのアメリカ盤ではメンバーのモノクロ写真の配列パターンと、青、赤、黄の順番が異なったもの、青、赤、黄の代わりに金、銀、銅が印刷されているもの、色が印刷されていないものなど多岐にわたり、ゴールドマイン誌によると93種類が確認されたという。

【英語Wiki】
Artwork
The album's original cover artwork, conceived by Jeff Ayeroff and Norman Moore, consisted of a series of photographs overlaid with transparent horizontal stripes of blue, red and yellow. The album was available in 36 variations, with different arrangements of the colour stripes and showing different photographs of the band members, taken by Duane Michals. In the most common version Sting is reading a copy of Jung's Synchronicity on the front cover along with a superimposed negative image of the actual text of the synchronicity hypothesis. A photo on the back cover also shows a close-up, but mirrored and upside-down, image of Jung's book.The original vinyl release was pressed on audiophile vinyl which appears black like most records, but is actually purple when held up to the light.

ジャケが結局のところ何種類あるのか知りませんが、この「金・銀・銅」が一番珍しいとされているようです。このレコは15年ほど前にシールドで2万円程度で購入しました。もちろん、恐れ多くて開封できていません。レコなんて聴いてナンボ、飾りじゃないんだから、・・・とは言われていますが。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svWINSRhQU0

[Verse 1]
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charibdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger

I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see the destiny you sold
Turn into a shining band of gold

[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

[Verse 2]
Mephistopheles is not your name
But I know what you're up to just the same
I will listen hard to your tuition
And you will see it come to its fruition

[Chorus]
I'll be wrapped around your finger
I'll be wrapped around your finger

[Verse 3]
Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you'll never find me
I will turn your flesh to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master

[Outro]
And you'll be wrapped around my finger

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