They’ve re-released a remastered box set of Synchronicity. There is a two disk and a six disk version. Disk 1 is the remastered studio album. Disk 2 is various B-sides and unreleased songs. Disks 3-6 are… something. I bought the 2-disk set.
The album sounds as good as I remember. I’ve not listened to disk 2 yet.
It’s a good buy.
And, yes. I’m almost positive the dad in Synchronicity II is coming home to kill his family.
Gift link (I hope) to a Washington Post oral history of the making of the album.
I read it more as that he’s never going to be able to vent his frustration with the world, so his anger is instead giving life to the thing that crawled out of Loch Ness and is going to kill some innocent instead.
Definitely one of the great albums and worth reading about. Thanks for the link.
Reading the comments is a trip. This band was insanely popular so they can’t possibly be good! Does anything produce individual battles over taste so bitter and stupid as does rock groups?
You ever see the movie The Commitments?
I remember hearing about it, but never actually saw it.
About a band that has a melt down juuuust before making it. Like the night before.
See it. See it now!
Wonderful actors, tight script, great music.
“Say it now and say it loud.
I’m black and I’m proud.”
Everyone who has seen the movie just laughed.
Worked with a guy who’d get his paycheck before lunch, run down to the record store, and come back with a big stack of vinyl… crazy bands we’d never heard of.
Then he’d act all superior hipster: "You’ve really never heard of JizzMarmoset?"
One time I told everyone “Don’t listen to JizzMarmoset! If you liked it, he’d have to start hating them.”
Synchronicity is the first album I bought for myself with my own money.
In my case that was “Regatta De Blanc”. At the time “Synchronicity” came out, I had all their albums (they only ever had five studio albums), and got it for Christmas from my sister. I was a little disappointed because I thought they had lost their punk punch, and it was too poppy for me. It has a few good songs, I like the two versions of “Synchronicity” best. But I can’t stand “Every Breath You Take”, I still think it’s their worst single ever.