Outlandos D'Amour (Remastered 2003)

Going by their backgrounds, The Police were one of the most unorthodox bands associated with the nascent punk era. Vocalist-bassist Sting worked as a school teacher by day and a jazz musician at night, while drummer Stewart Copeland was a tour manager and drummer for the prog band Curved Air. And guitarist Andy Summers had been kicking around the British music scene since the 1960s, with stints playing with (among others) Soft Machine and The Animals. When the musicians came together as The Police, they filtered these disparate influences into a lively debut album, Outlandos d’Amour. Fittingly, the trio made <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/The+Police/Outlandos+D%27Amour+(Remastered+2003)">Read more on Last.fm</a>.