Artist	Song
Talking Heads	Once In a Lifetime
from The Best of Talking Heads (2004)
Blondie	Hanging On the Telephone
from Blondie: Greatest Hits (2002)
Pretenders	Message of Love
from The Singles (2004)
Men At Work	Down Under
from The Best of Men at Work: Contraband (1996)
Joe Jackson	Is She Really Going Out With Him?
from Joe Jackson: Greatest Hits (1996)
The Go-Go's	Our Lips Are Sealed
from Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's (1994)
The Cure	Let's Go to Bed (Live)
from The Cure: Greatest Hits (2007)
The Cars	Let's Go
from Complete Greatest Hits (2003)
Squeeze	Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
from Squeeze: Greatest Hits (1994)
Split Enz	I Got You
from True Colours (1989)
Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
from Devo: Greatest Hits (1990)
INXS	The One Thing
from INXS: The Greatest Hits (2005)

Comment:

Like Orwell predicted in [i]1984[/i], there was no escaping the Police, and many of their charting contemporaries seemed to run along parallel lines. Blondie followed Police procedure career-wise, from their bleach-scoured punk roots (in “Hanging on the Telephone”) to their [i]soca[/i] (for [i]so[/i]ul-[i]ca[/i]lypso) cover of the Paragons’ “The Tide Is High.” And when head Talking Head David Byrne went mental in “Once in a Lifetime,” Sting’s brain reeled in sympathy on [i]Ghost In the Machine[/i]’s “Too Much Information.” Much like the Police, XTC displayed a genius gift for hook-intensive pop, and their “Generals and Majors” recalls the drum-majorette precision of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me.” Perhaps the least expected member of this club is Split Enz, whose musical arc only briefly intersected the Police’s at “I Got You,” staking out the eerie, back alley stalker terrain inhabited by “Every Breath You Take.”

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