Stewart Copeland Albums Ranked
Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer. He rose to prominence as the drummer of the English rock band the Police. He has also produced film and video game soundtracks and written various pieces of music for ballet, opera, and orchestra. His composing work includes the films Wall Street, Good Burger, and We Are Your Friends; the TV series The Equalizer, Dead Like Me, and The Amanda Show; and the video games Alone in the Dark 4 and the Spyro series. Copeland was ranked the 10th best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2016. According to MusicRadar, his “distinctive drum sound and uniqueness of style has made him one of the most popular drummers to ever get behind a drumset”. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003, the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2005, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Here are all of Stewart Copeland’s albums ranked.
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2. Rumble Fish (1983)
“Stewart Copeland is amazing! One of the best one man show musical accomplishments in cinema soundtrack history! This soundtrack is the perfect companion to the Francis Ford Coppola film noir conversion of the S.E. Hinton novel, Rumble Fish. I have been looking for this soundtrack on CD for decades. I had it on cassette, but wanted to upgrade for obvious reasons. It has been out of print forever and everything on the bay was grossly overpriced. Thank you Amazon for making this available. Also, if you like Wall of Voodoo, then you’ll love the only single on the disc that features Stan Ridgway.”
1. The Rhythmatist (1985)
“Following on the brilliance of his “Rumble Fish” score, this record finds Copeland exploring traditional African music with the same kind of experimental spirit that made his previous film score so unique. While not quite as abstract as “Rumble Fish”, this album fuses tribal chants, traditional African vocal arrangements and lyricism, traditional African musical arrangement, natural (animal) noises, experimental/improvisational percussion and drumming, and a variety of other clever tricks into a cohesive whole that takes the listener on a journey through the villages and plains of Africa.”