Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
Box set by The Police
Released	September 28, 1993
Genre	New Wave
Label	A&M
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The Police chronology
Every Breath You Take: The Singles (1986)	Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993)	Live! (1995)

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a 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 and Treacle soundtrack.

Disc 1 opens with the band's first single, "Fallout"/"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", and the studio version of "Landlord". The first half of the group's second album Regatta de Blanc concludes the disc.

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 mono live version of "Truth Hits Everybody," and another B-side, "Friends". Completing the disc is the contents of The Police's third album, Zenyatta Mondatta.

Disc 3 opens with the B-side "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 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 box-set concludes with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", originally released on 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 "*".

[edit] Disc 1

1. "Fallout" (Stewart Copeland)* – 2:04
2. "Nothing Achieving" (Copeland)* – 1:56
   • Tracks 1-2 originally released as a single (U.K. only) in 1977.
3. "Dead End Job" (Sting, Copeland, Andy Summers)* – 3:35
   • B-side of the singles "Can't Stand Losing You" (U.K.), and "Roxanne" (U.S.).
4. "Next to You" (Sting) – 2:50
5. "So Lonely" (Sting) – 4:49
6. "Roxanne" (Sting) – 3:12
7. "Hole in My Life" (Sting) – 4:52
8. "Peanuts" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:58
9. "Can't Stand Losing You" (Sting) – 2:58
10. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Sting) – 2:53
11. "Born in the 50's" (Sting) – 3:40
12. "Be My Girl - Sally" (Sting, Summers) – 3:22
13. "Masoko Tanga" (Sting) – 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) (Sting)* – 3:11
    • Tracks 14-15 originally released on the compilation album Propaganda in 1980.
16. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland)* – 3:09
    • B-side of the single "Message in a Bottle".
17. "Message in a Bottle" (Sting) – 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" (Sting) – 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" (Sting) – 5:02
2. "On Any Other Day" (Copeland) – 2:57
3. "The Bed's too Big Without You" (Sting) – 4:26
4. "Contact" (Copeland) – 2:38
5. "Does Everyone Stare" (Copeland) – 3:52
6. "No Time This Time" (Sting) – 3:17
   • Tracks 1-6 originally released on the album Regatta de Blanc.
7. "Visions of the Night" (Sting)* – 3:05
   • B-side of the singles "Walking on the Moon" (U.K), and "Bring on the Night" (U.S.).
8. "The Bed's too Big Without You" (Mono) (Sting) * – 3:29
9. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Live) (Sting) * – 2:26
   • Tracks 8-9 originally released as a single (U.K. only) in 1980.
10. "Friends" (Summers)* – 3:36
    • B-side of the singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (U.K.), and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (U.S.).
11. "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (Sting) – 4:04
12. "Driven to Tears" (Sting) – 3:20
13. "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" (Sting) – 3:38
14. "Canary in a Coalmine" (Sting) – 2:26
15. "Voices Inside My Head" (Sting) – 3:53
16. "Bombs Away" (Copeland) – 3:09
17. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (Sting) – 4:09
18. "Behind My Camel" (Summers) – 2:54
19. "Man in a Suitcase" (Sting) – 2:19
20. "Shadows in the Rain" (Sting) – 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 singles "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (U.K.), and "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (U.S.).
2. "Driven to Tears" (Live)(Sting) * – 3:29
   • Originally released on the compilation album Urgh! A Music War in 1981.
3. "Shambelle" (Summers) * – 5:00
   • B-side of the singles "Invisible Sun" (U.K.), and "Every Little Thing Shes Does Is Magic" (U.S.).
4. "Spirits in the Material World" (Sting) – 2:59
5. "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (Sting) – 4:22
6. "Invisible Sun" (Sting) – 3:44
7. "Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" (Sting) – 2:53
8. "Demolition Man" (Sting) – 5:57
9. "Too Much Information" (Sting) – 3:43
10. "Rehumanize Yourself" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:10
11. "One World (Not Three)" (Sting) – 4:47
12. "Ωmegaman" (Summers) – 2:48
13. "Secret Journey" (Sting) – 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 singles "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", (U.K.), and "Spirits in the Material World" (U.S.).
16. "Low Life" * (Sting) – 3:45
    • B-side of the U.K. single "Spirits in the Material World".
17. "How Stupid Mr. Bates" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 2:41
18. "A Kind of Loving" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 2:03
    • Tracks 17-18 originally released on the soundtrack album Brimstone & Treacle in 1982.

[edit] Disc 4

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

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)
Tours
Early Years (1977-80) | The Police Around the World Tour (Zenyatta Mondatta Tour) (1980-81) | Ghost in the Machine Tour (1981-82) | Synchronicity Tour (1983-84) | A Conspiracy of Hope Tour (1986) | The Police Reunion Tour (2007-08)
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