Track Listing
1. Nothing Achieving
2. Fallout
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 50s
12. Be My Girl Sally
13. Masoko Tanga
14. Landlord
15. Message In A Bottle
16. Regatta De Blanc
17. It's Alright For You
18. Bring On The Night
19. Deathwish
20. Walking On The Moon
21. On Any Other Day
22. Bed's Too Big Without You
23. Contact
24. Does Everyone Stare
25. No Time This Time
26. Visions Of The Night
27. Friends
28. Don't Stand So Close To Me
29. Driven To Tears
30. When The World Is Running Down ((you make the best of what's still around))
31. Canary In A Coalmine
32. Voices Inside My Head
33. Bombs Away
34. De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
35. Behind My Camel
36. Man In A Suitcase
37. Shadows In The Rain
38. Other Way Of Stopping
39. Sermon
40. Shamelle
41. Spirits In The Material World
42. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
43. Invisible Sun
44. Hungry For You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)
45. Demolition Man
46. Too Much Information
47. Rehumanise Yourself
48. One World (not three)
49. Omega Man
50. Secret Journey
51. Darkness
52. Flexible Strategies
53. Low Life
54. How Stupid Mr Bates
55. Kind Of Loving
56. Synchronicity
57. Walking In Your Footsteps
58. O My God
59. Mother
60. Miss Gradenko
61. Synchronicity II
62. Every Breath You Take
63. King Of Pain
64. Wrapped Around Your Finger
65. Tea In The Sahara
66. Murder By Numbers
67. Someone To Talk To
68. Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
69. Once Upon A Daydream
70. I Burn For You
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 4 | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
MESSAGE IN A BOX contains tracks from the group's five studio albums, rare B-sides, and live tracks. It also includes a 64-page booklet with extensive liner notes, a discography, the band's commentary on the b-sides and other obscure tracks, rare photographs and a Police time-line.The Police: Sting (vocals, saxophone, keyboards, acoustic & electric bass); Andy Summers (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Stewart Copeland (keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals).Producers include: The Police, Stewart Copeland, Nigel Gray, Tim Summerhayes, Hugh Padgham.Compilation producer: Stewart Whitmore.Engineers: The Police, Tim Summerhayes.Includes liner notes by Phil Sutcliffe.Digitally remastered by David Collins (A&M Mastering Studios).Although the Police lasted for less than a decade, they recorded enough material to fill out the four CDs that make up MESSAGE IN A BOX. In addition to everything on their five studio albums, this box set contains soundtrack material, singles and demos featuring the contributions of guitarist Andy Summers' predecessor Henri Padovani (on the band's first single "Fallout" b/w "Nothing Achieving"). The Police's most consistent quality was their anomalousness. Their path started in the punk environs of mid-'70s London despite the fact that all three were older and had considerably better chops (due to varying jazz backgrounds) than their rebellious contemporaries. Despite these differences, the Police combined biting lyrical imagery with a musical fusion of reggae, punk and pop that resulted in material as mainstream as "Don't Stand So Close To Me" and "King Of Pain" and as wonderfully quirky as "Be My Girl-Sally" and "On Any Other Day." Along the way, the Police released songs about generational differences ("Born in the '50s"), Irish politics ("Invisible Sun") and the ultimate ode to manipulation and their only number one hit ("Every Breath You Take").
Editorial Reviews
...hearing the growth between OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR and ZENYATTA MONDATTA only underscores how innovative [The Police's] best work was...
Rolling Stone (11/11/1993)
...MESSAGE IN A BOX appeals directly to the completist...a rapturous chronicle...
Musician (01/01/1994)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th CenturyRolling Stone (11/11/93, p.77) - ...hearing the growth between OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR and ZENYATTA MONDATTA only underscores how innovative [The Police's] best work was...Musician (1/94, p.94) - ...MESSAGE IN A BOX appeals directly to the completist...a rapturous chronicle...
Vibe (12/01/1999)
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