Details: Format: CD; Label: A&M; Catalog: 540150; Rel. Date: 09/28/1993; UPC: 731454015028

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings [Box]

Artist: The Police
Format: CD
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DISC: 1

1. Fallout

2. Nothing Achieving

3. Dead End Job

4. Next to You

5. So Lonely

6. Roxanne

7. Hole in My Life

8. Peanuts

9. Can't Stand Losing You

10. Truth Hits Everybody

11. Born in the 50's

12. Be My Girl - Sally

13. Masoko Tanga

14. Landlord

15. Next to You

16. Landlord

17. Message in a Bottle

18. Reggatta de Blanc

19. It's Alright for You

20. Bring on the Night

21. Deathwish

DISC: 2

1. Walking on the Moon

2. On Any Other Day

3. Bed's Too Big Without You, The

4. Contact

5. Does Everyone Stare

6. No Time This Time

7. Visions of the Night

8. Bed's Too Big Without You, The - (mono)

9. Truth Hits Everybody

10. Friends

11. Don't Stand So Close to Me

12. Driven to Tears

13. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Stil

14. Canary in a Coalmine

15. Voices Inside My Head

16. Bombs Away

17. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

18. Behind My Camel

19. Man in a Suitcase

20. Shadows in the Rain

21. Other Way of Stopping, The

DISC: 3

1. Sermon, A

2. Driven to Tears

3. Shambelle

4. Spirits in the Material World

5. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

6. Invisible Sun

7. Hungry for You (J'Aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)

8. Demolition Man

9. Too Much Information

10. Rehumanize Yourself

11. One World (Not Three)

12. Omega Man

13. Secret Journey

14. Darkness

15. Flexible Strategies

16. Low Life

17. How Stupid Mr. Bates

18. Kind of Loving, A

DISC: 4

1. Synchronicity I

2. Walking in Your Footsteps

3. O My God

4. Mother

5. Miss Gradenko

6. Synchronicity II

7. Every Breath You Take

8. King of Pain

9. Wrapped Around Your Finger

10. Tea in the Sahara

11. Murder by Numbers

12. Man in a Suitcase

13. Someone to Talk To

14. Message in a Bottle

15. I Burn for You

16. Once upon a Daydream

17. Tea in the Sahara

18. Don't Stand So Close to Me '86

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Boxed Set

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''Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings'' is a four-CD boxed set by The Police, containing all of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles, B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the ''Brimstone and Treacle'' soundtrack.

Disc 1 opens with the band's first single, "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving", featuring Henry Padovani on guitar and another track previously unavailable on CD, "Dead End Job". It proceeds with the contents of their first album, ''Outlandos d'Amour'', followed by live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You" (recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York), and the studio version of "Landlord". The first half of the group's second album ''Reggatta de Blanc'' concludes the disc.

Disc 2 starts with the rest of ''Reggatta de Blanc''. It is followed by the B-side "Visions of the Night", a mono mix of "The Bed's Too Big Without You", a mono live version of "Truth Hits Everybody," and another B-side, "Friends". Completing the disc are the contents of The Police's third album, ''Zenyattà Mondatta''.

Disc 3 opens with the B-side, "A Sermon", a live version of "Driven to Tears" (recorded live at at Les Arenes, Frejus, France, 28 August 1980 and featured in ''Urgh! A Music War'', and the non-album instrumental track "Shambelle". Then it moves to the band's fourth album, ''Ghost in the Machine'' and then concludes with four more bonus tracks: the instrumental "Flexible Strategies", "Low Life", and two songs from the soundtrack of the 1982 movie ''Brimstone and Treacle'', "How Stupid Mr. Bates", and "A Kind of Loving".

Disc 4 contains the band's last album, ''Synchronicity'', plus many bonus tracks: "Someone to Talk To", sung by Andy Summers, a live recording of "Message in a Bottle", "I Burn for You" (also from ''Brimstone and Treacle''), "Once Upon a Daydream", and a live version of "Tea in the Sahara". The boxed set concludes with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", originally released on the compilation ''Every Breath You Take: The Singles''.

Contrary to its title, these are ''not'' the complete recordings to 1986. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" was released in 1980 as a double A-side 7" with Japanese-sung lyrics on one side, Spanish on the other (AM-25000). Also released was a 12" single for "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" which featured both an additional remix and live version of the song. Neither was included on the boxed set. - Wikipedia