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Track List
01) Fallout
02) Nothing Achieving
03) Dead End Job
04) Next to You
05) So Lonely
06) Roxanne
07) Hole in My Life
08) Peanuts
09) 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 (live)
15) Next to You (live)
16) Landlord
17) Message in a Bottle
18) Reggatta de Blanc
19) It's Alright for You
20) Bring On the Night
21) Deathwish
Cd 2
01) Walking on the Moon
02) On Any Other Day
03) The Bed's Too Big Without You
04) Contact
05) Does Everyone Stare
06) No Time This Time
07) Visions of the Night
08) The Bed's Too Big Without You (mono)
09) Truth Hits Everybody (live)
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
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) The Other Way of Stopping
Cd 3
01) A Sermon
02) Driven to Tears (live)
03) Shambelle
04) Spirits in the Material World
05) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
06) Invisible Sun
07) Hungry for You (j'aurais toujours faim de toi)
08) Demolition Man
09) Too Much Information
10) Rehumanize Yourself
11) One World (Not Three)
12) Omegaman
13) Secret Journey
14) Darkness
15) Flexible Strategies
16) Low Life
17) How Stupid Mr. Bates
18) A Kind of Loving
Cd 4
01) Synchronicity I
02) Walking in Your Footsteps
03) O My God
04) Mother
05) Miss Gradenko
06) Synchronicity II
07) Every Breath You Take
08) King of Pain
09) Wrapped Around Your Finger
10) Tea in the Sahara
11) Murder by Numbers
12) Man in a Suitcase (live)
13) Someone to Talk To
14) Message in a Bottle (live)
15) I Burn for You
16) Once Upon a Daydream
17) Tea in the Sahara (live)
18) Don't Stand So Close to Me '86
01) Fallout
02) Nothing Achieving
03) Dead End Job
04) Next to You
05) So Lonely
06) Roxanne
07) Hole in My Life
08) Peanuts
09) 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 (live)
15) Next to You (live)
16) Landlord
17) Message in a Bottle
18) Reggatta de Blanc
19) It's Alright for You
20) Bring On the Night
21) Deathwish
Cd 2
01) Walking on the Moon
02) On Any Other Day
03) The Bed's Too Big Without You
04) Contact
05) Does Everyone Stare
06) No Time This Time
07) Visions of the Night
08) The Bed's Too Big Without You (mono)
09) Truth Hits Everybody (live)
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
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) The Other Way of Stopping
Cd 3
01) A Sermon
02) Driven to Tears (live)
03) Shambelle
04) Spirits in the Material World
05) Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
06) Invisible Sun
07) Hungry for You (j'aurais toujours faim de toi)
08) Demolition Man
09) Too Much Information
10) Rehumanize Yourself
11) One World (Not Three)
12) Omegaman
13) Secret Journey
14) Darkness
15) Flexible Strategies
16) Low Life
17) How Stupid Mr. Bates
18) A Kind of Loving
Cd 4
01) Synchronicity I
02) Walking in Your Footsteps
03) O My God
04) Mother
05) Miss Gradenko
06) Synchronicity II
07) Every Breath You Take
08) King of Pain
09) Wrapped Around Your Finger
10) Tea in the Sahara
11) Murder by Numbers
12) Man in a Suitcase (live)
13) Someone to Talk To
14) Message in a Bottle (live)
15) I Burn for You
16) Once Upon a Daydream
17) Tea in the Sahara (live)
18) Don't Stand So Close to Me '86
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First Released
1993
New Wave
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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD box 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 & Treacle soundtrack.
Disc 1 includes live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You," which were recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York.
Disc 3 has a live version of "Driven to Tears" which was recorded live at Les Arenes, Frejus, France, 28 August 1980 and featured in Urgh! A Music War.
Contrary to its title, these are not the complete recordings to 1986. "Truth Hits Everybody '83" appeared on a limited edition gatefold single of "Every Breath You Take." Two new versions of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" were released in 1980 as a double A-side 7", one with Sting singing Japanese lyrics, the other with Spanish lyrics (AM-25000). A third version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" was also re-recorded in 1986. This version of De Do Do Do De Da Da Da is not present on the box set, but is available on the DTS-CD and SACD releases of Every Breath You Take: The Classics. Another official release 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. Live recordings of "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" had also been released but not included on the boxed set. Yet another rarity missing from the box set is the extended video mix for Invisible Sun, which featured an additional verse not present on the LP version.
The b-side "Shambelle" written by Andy Summers was presented incorrectly, missing the hi-hat introduction played by Stewart Copeland on the original 45. This error has never been corrected, and the original 45 is the only place to get the full-length version of "Shambelle."
The U.S. version also features the version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" that was originally released on the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles. This version is shorter than the extended dance mix of Don't Stand So Close to Me '86 included on some international versions of the set and includes a different guitar solo from Andy Summers. There is no edition of the boxed set that includes both versions of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86."
There was also speculation by a number of music fans that "Can't Stand Losing You" was remastered from a needle drop of the original vinyl. "Roxanne" also had pitch issues due to tape drag and possible damage to the master tape used.
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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD box 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 & Treacle soundtrack.
Disc 1 includes live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You," which were recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York.
Disc 3 has a live version of "Driven to Tears" which was recorded live at Les Arenes, Frejus, France, 28 August 1980 and featured in Urgh! A Music War.
Contrary to its title, these are not the complete recordings to 1986. "Truth Hits Everybody '83" appeared on a limited edition gatefold single of "Every Breath You Take." Two new versions of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" were released in 1980 as a double A-side 7", one with Sting singing Japanese lyrics, the other with Spanish lyrics (AM-25000). A third version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" was also re-recorded in 1986. This version of De Do Do Do De Da Da Da is not present on the box set, but is available on the DTS-CD and SACD releases of Every Breath You Take: The Classics. Another official release 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. Live recordings of "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" had also been released but not included on the boxed set. Yet another rarity missing from the box set is the extended video mix for Invisible Sun, which featured an additional verse not present on the LP version.
The b-side "Shambelle" written by Andy Summers was presented incorrectly, missing the hi-hat introduction played by Stewart Copeland on the original 45. This error has never been corrected, and the original 45 is the only place to get the full-length version of "Shambelle."
The U.S. version also features the version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" that was originally released on the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles. This version is shorter than the extended dance mix of Don't Stand So Close to Me '86 included on some international versions of the set and includes a different guitar solo from Andy Summers. There is no edition of the boxed set that includes both versions of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86."
There was also speculation by a number of music fans that "Can't Stand Losing You" was remastered from a needle drop of the original vinyl. "Roxanne" also had pitch issues due to tape drag and possible damage to the master tape used.
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