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Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (Box Set) (CD)

By: The Police (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Police (Artist)
1   Fallout
2   Nothing Achieved
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 - (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
 
DISC 2 for Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Police (Artist)
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 - (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 Of What's Still Around
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 for Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Police (Artist)
1   Sermon, A
2   Driven To Tears - (live)
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   Omegaman
13   Secret Journey
14   Darkness
15   Flexible Strategies
16   Low Life
17   How Stupid Mr Bates
18   Kind Of Loving, A
 
DISC 4 for Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Police (Artist)
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 - (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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Review

Rolling 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..."
Vibe (12/99, p.160) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Musician (1/94, p.94) - "...MESSAGE IN A BOX appeals directly to the completist...a rapturous chronicle..."

Title Note

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").

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