Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a box-set by The Police, encompassing all of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles and B-sides.

Disc 1 opens the band's first single, "Fallout"/"Nothing Achieving", featuring Henry Padovani on guitar and another track previously unavaliable 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", and the studio version of the non-album track "Landlord". The first half of the album Regatta de Blanc follows.

Disc 2 starts with the rest of Regatta 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 live version of "Truth Hits Everybody" and another B-side, "Friends", sung by Andy Summers. Completing the disc, the contents of The Police's third album, Zenyatta Mondatta.

Disc 3 opens with the unreleased track "A Sermon", a live version of "Driven to Tears" and the non-album instrumental track "Shambelle". Then, it moves to the band's fourth album, Ghost in the Machine, and then 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 box-set concludes with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", originally released as a bonus track for the compilation Every Breath You Take: The Singles.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc 1 1.2 Disc 2 1.3 Disc 3 1.4 Disc 4

[edit] Track listing

• Tracks previously unreleased on CD are marked with "*".
• All songs written by Sting except where noted.

[edit] Disc 1

1. "Fallout" (Stewart Copeland)* – 2:04
2. "Nothing Achieving" (Copeland)* – 1:56
   • Tracks 1-2 originally released as a single in 1977.
3. "Dead End Job" (Sting, Copeland, Andy Summers)* – 3:35
   • B-side of the single "Can't Stand Losing You".
4. "Next to You" – 2:50
5. "So Lonely" – 4:49
6. "Roxanne" – 3:12
7. "Hole in My Life" – 4:52
8. "Peanuts" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:58
9. "Can't Stand Losing You" – 2:58
10. "Truth Hits Everybody" – 2:53
11. "Born in the 50's" – 3:40
12. "Be My Girl - Sally" (Sting, Summers) – 3:22
13. "Masoko Tanga" – 5:40
    • Tracks 4-13 originally released on the album Outlandos d'Amour.
14. "Landlord" (Live) (Sting, Copeland)* – 2:36
15. "Next to You" (Live)* – 3:11
    • Tracks 14-15 originally released on the compilation Propaganda in 1980, recorded live on April 4, 1979.
16. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland)* – 3:09
    • B-side of the single "Message in a Bottle".
17. "Message in a Bottle" – 4:51
18. "Reggatta de Blanc" (Copeland, Sting, Summers) – 3:06
19. "It's Alright for You" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:13
20. "Bring on the Night" – 4:16
21. "Deathwish" (Copeland, Sting, Summers) – 4:13
    • Tracks 17-21 originally released on the album Reggatta de Blanc.

[edit] Disc 2

1. "Walking on the Moon" – 5:02
2. "On Any Other Day" (Copeland) – 2:57
3. "The Bed's too Big Without You" – 4:26
4. "Contact" (Copeland) – 2:38
5. "Does Everyone Stare" (Copeland) – 3:52
6. "No Time This Time" – 3:17
   • Tracks 1-6 originally released on the album Regatta de Blanc.
7. "Visions of the Night" * – 3:05
   • B-side of the single "Walking on the Moon".
8. "The Bed's too Big Without You" (Mono) * – 3:29
9. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Live) * – 2:26
   • Tracks 8-9 originally released as a single in 1980. Track 9 recorded live on November 27, 1979.
10. "Friends" (Summers)* – 3:36
    • B-side of the single "Don't Stand So Close to Me".
11. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" – 4:04
12. "Driven to Tears" – 3:20
13. "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" – 3:38
14. "Canary in a Coalmine" – 2:26
15. "Voices Inside My Head" – 3:53
16. "Bombs Away" (Copeland) – 3:09
17. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" – 4:09
18. "Behind My Camel" (Summers) – 2:54
19. "Man in a Suitcase" – 2:19
20. "Shadows in the Rain" – 5:02
21. "The Other Way of Stopping" (Copeland) – 3:22
    • Tracks 11-21 originally released on the album Zenyatta Mondatta.

[edit] Disc 3

1. "A Sermon" (Copeland) * – 2:33
   • B-side of the single "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da".
2. "Driven to Tears" (Live) * – 3:29
   • Originally released on Urgh! A Music War in 1982. Recorded live on August 28, 1980.
3. "Shambelle" (Summers) * – 5:00
   • B-side of the single "Invisible Sun".
4. "Spirits in the Material World" – 2:59
5. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" – 4:22
6. "Invisible Sun" – 3:44
7. "Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" – 2:53
8. "Demolition Man" – 5:57
9. "Too Much Information" – 3:43
10. "Rehumanize Yourself" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:10
11. "One World (Not Three)" – 4:47
12. "Ωmegaman" (Summers) – 2:48
13. "Secret Journey" – 3:34
14. "Darkness" (Copeland) – 3:14
    • Tracks 4-14 originally released on the album Ghost in the Machine.
15. "Flexible Strategies" (Sting, Summers, Copeland)* – 3:43
    • B-side of the single "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic".
16. "Low Life" * – 3:45
    • B-side of the single "Spirits in the Material World".
17. "How Stupid Mr. Bates" (The Police) * – 2:41
18. "A Kind of Loving" (The Police) * – 2:03
    • Tracks 17-18 originally released on the soundtrack album Brimstone & Treacle in 1982.

[edit] Disc 4

1. "Synchronicity I" – 3:23
2. "Walking in Your Footsteps" – 3:36
3. "O My God" – 4:02
4. "Mother" (Summers) – 3:05
5. "Miss Gradenko" (Copeland) – 1:59
6. "Synchronicity II" – 5:02
7. "Every Breath You Take" – 4:13
8. "King of Pain" – 4:59
9. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" – 5:13
10. "Tea in the Sahara" – 4:19
11. "Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Summers) – 4:36
    • Tracks 1-11 originally released on the album Synchronicity.
12. "Man in a Suitcase" (Live) * – 2:17
    • B-side of the double single "Every Breath You Take".
13. "Someone to Talk To" (Summers) * – 3:08
14. "Message in a Bottle" (Live) * – 4:51
15. "I Burn for You" * – 4:49
    • Tracks 13-15 originally released on the maxi-single "Wrapped Around Your Finger". Track 14 recorded live in 1980.
16. "Once Upon a Daydream" (Sting, Summers) * – 3:31
    • B-side of the single "Synchronicity II".
17. "Tea in the Sahara" (Live) * – 5:06
    • B-side of the single "King of Pain". Recorded live on November 3, 1983
18. "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86"* – 6:24
    • Originally released on the compilation Every Breath You Take: The Singles. German edition includes dance mix.

The Police
Sting – Andy Summers – Stewart Copeland
Henry Padovani
Discography
Studio Albums: Outlandos d'Amour (1978) - Reggatta de Blanc (1979) - Zenyatta Mondatta (1980) - Ghost in the Machine (1981) - Synchronicity (1983)
Live Albums: Live! (1995)
Compilation Albums: Every Breath You Take: The Singles (1986) - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993) - Every Breath You Take: The Classics (1995) - The Very Best of Sting & The Police (1997, 2002)
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