record also manages to sound enough like pop music that it may outsell the film it was intended to support. As you'd expect, Copeland is not bashful about connecting this music to his work with the Police, and major sections of "Tulsa Tango" and "Party at Someone Else's Place" sound like Police songs. The most infectious number on the album isn't a Police cop but the quirkily endearing "Don't Box Me In," which puts the tart twang of former Wall of Voodoo vocalist Stan Ridgway on top of Copeland's sophisticated skank and ends up sounding like ... well, like nothing you're ever likely to hear again, unless a cuckoo cowboy reggae band should someday crawl out of the wilds of southwestern Arizona. Charming, evocative and slightly crazed, Rumble Fish is one album that should not be allowed to sneak away. (RS 414)

J.D. CONSIDINE