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The 1986 rework of 'Don't Stand So Close To Me' is such an interesting example of a distinctive and timeless composition being made very, very of it's time. It sounds like Jan Hammer. A weird time capsule of the post-Police Sting dipshittery. I still like it, for all that.
https://youtu.be/8RlUMoWP-Mg
@sullybiker "post-Police Sting dipshittery." 😂 😂 💀
@sullybiker And it totally sounds like Jan Hammer.
@aburtch I love the story of how he still could not do the programming, and in the end Stewart Copeland programmed the drum track. Needed the drummer after all!
I first heard this version at uni in the 90s, and thought I imagined it. A kid in the next door room had it on vinyl and I remember thinking "what the hell is this?" Then I didn't hear it again for 20 years.