Akyho

Men at Work do use a reggae beat in the song "It's a Mistake." yet they do dilute with it with a synth reggae beat, which is a pretty New Wave thing to do. The police JUST do a reggae beat.


Men at works- Catch a Star is bare bones track which is largely the reggae beat.


However the vast majority of their songs are not at all reggae in any fashion with those two being well...flat out reggae one with an synth twist and one that is just reggae.

The Police, Message in a Bottle, Roxanne, Dont Stand So close to me, Can't Stand Losing you, The Beds Too Big with You and the most reggae track is Walking on the Moon Sting is mother fing Skanking away in all of the music videos as-well.

I could go on, while the Police did not always do Reggae.....they did ALOT of flat out 100% reggae tracks. None of this "Stole the sound" when you "steal the sound." you take it and call it something else and say its yours, which is often the argument with Elvis Presley.

I am still strongly calling The Police Reggae Rock or at least had a strong long Reggae Rock period as the only way to define those songs is Ska...that aint Ska despite Ska being a cousin of Reggae with the same base beat and more so 2 tone Ska which is mainly UK Whites and other races mixing to make it.

Oh also I can flat out tell you wrong.