Product Description

THE POLICE Message In A Box (1993 UK 78-track limited edition 4-CD album box set featuring the complete works with live and revised tracks & an integral 64-page booklet including rare photographs & extensive liner notes in 6" x 10" individually numbered hardback book style pack!)

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fallout
2. Nothing Achieving
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:

1. Walking On The Moon
2. On Any Other Day
3. The Bed's Too Big Without You
4. Contact
5. Does Everyone Stare
6. No Time This Time
7. Visions Of The Night
8. The Bed's Too Big Without You (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...
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

Disc 3:

1. A Sermon
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 (Jaurais 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. A Kind Of Loving

Disc 4:

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 Stant So Close To Me '86

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14018 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-01
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Best of, Box set
• Dimensions: .97 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
"This is it: Everything the Police released", boasts the notes in the 66-page booklet are included with this box set. Obsessive fans have already written to rock magazines indignantly pointing out the omission of this or that obscurity but everyone else will find that these four discs include all the Police they'd ever want to own. The first two discs include all of Outlandos d'Amour, Reggatta de Blanc and Zenyatta Mondatta in their original order, interspersed with live rarities and singles B-sides. Discs three and four are more satisfying, including the band's well-crafted studio high points, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, plus more outtakes and live tunes. The set ends with "Don't Stand So Close to Me 86", a dismal remake of the early favourite. By this point, the musicians' egos were running rampant and they were barely speaking. If anyone wonders why the group called it quits so abruptly, this tune makes it clear that the split was smart and timely. --Jim De Rogatis

Chronique amazon.fr
En 1977, né de la vague punk, un trio britannique, constitué du chanteur et bassiste Sting (qui depuis a connu la carrière que l'on sait), du guitariste Andy Summers et du batteur Stewart Copeland, caracole au sommet des charts avec un singulier mélange de new wave, de dub et de reggae qui en fera un des groupes parmi les plus populaires du moment. Ses quatre premiers albums (dont, surtout, Outlandos d'amour et Regatta de blanc) sont totalement indispensables. Y émerge, entre autres, un tube planétaire, "Roxanne", écrit en hommage à une prostituée parisienne. Plutôt que de s'offrir l'excellente compilation Every Breath You Take-The Classics, on peut se reporter au copieux Message In A Box qui compile l'intégralité de cette période particulièrement créative, complétée des faces B inédites. --Hervé Comte