The Police - 'Synchronicity': "Someone to Talk To" in place of "Mother"?

I voted for "both" .

Interesting that in one he's "standing by the phone" and in the other "the telephone is ringing...."
Andy wants someone to talk to ..... just not his mother !

 

I would not want to change a thing about Synchronicity (tape/cd version as I understand the original LP did not have Murder By Numbers). I find that Mother fits just fine for me on this album IMHO.

 

I'm rather annoyed by this song. The rest of the album is really strong. Maybe remove the track?

 

"I Burn For You" is the great orphan track from this period. Not sure it wouldn't kill the momentum, but it's surely better than "Mother".

 

I think that was the point.

 

Anything but Mother.

 

No, the point was that Andy Summer was annoyed with his mama.

 

Both. Mother was a great freak out for all the newbies who got sucked into the band via MTV.

 

I'd rather have "Once upon a daydream" instead.

 

I voted "With some other song or combination of songs or whatever" as any song would have been better than Mother. It's easily the worst song on any album I ever owned! It's a bad as any song with Yoko screaming on it !

I was a fan of The Police from the beginning. Definitely didn't need a "great freak out" song on Synchronicity.

 

“Mother” is awful but it is what it is.

 

Do you have a quote on that? From what I remember, he said that he wrote the song for fun, but when is mother heard it she was upset. She had to assure her it wasn't about her.

 

You make a good point, but one can only assume he, as the singer/songwriter, is expressing his own beliefs (as his own mother did). If he's simply making fun of people who have those beliefs about their mother, it's all the more reason this song doesn't deserve to be put on the record.

 

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I enjoy it as it is too Sting-lite.

 

"Mother" is awful, also hilarious, makes me grin, since I've seen a lot of people holding their phone at an arm's lenght while "listening" to mother...

 

I love "Someone To Talk To"...

...but not as much as I love "Mother".

 

No Mother and no Miss Gradenko.

 

But what if "Friends" had made its way onto Zenyatta?

 

It should have been all Sting songs. Stingchronicity.

 

"Mother", IMHO not only one of the worst Police songs, but one of the worst songs ever. BUT, at the same time I wouldn´t mess with a classic album. Would I like more than I do the album if "Someone to talk to" was included in the original album instead of Mother? Don´t know, most probably I would feel the same. I voted with "someone to talk to " instead.

 

I voted for Mother, because it sounds more Police (or Sting) to me than the other track. Gosh, would I ever know I would put in a vote like this.

 

I guess we're talking about the CD version so "Murder by Numbers" is safe.

 

The Police deserve major kudos for punking their young fanbase with Mother. I love it, as much for what it represents as for the song itself.

 

Mother scared the crap out of me when Synchronicity came out; I'd always fast forward.

Now, I see the album as very thematic, borderline conceptual, about dark obsession and unrequited desire. Every piece is needed.
Mother, of course, is like the Norman Bates version.