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 Message In A Box: The Complete RecordingsRelease Date: 1993-09-28 Label: A&M Duration: 286:22 |
''Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings'' is a four-CD boxed 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, "Fall Out"/"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" (recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York), and the studio version of "Landlord". The first half of the group's second album ''Reggatta de Blanc'' concludes the disc.
Disc 2 starts with the rest of ''Reggatta 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 are the contents of The Police's third album, ''Zenyattà Mondatta''.
Disc 3 opens with the B-side, "A Sermon", a live version of "Driven to Tears" (recorded live at at Les Arenes, Frejus, France, 28 August 1980 and featured in ''Urgh! A Music War'', 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 boxed set concludes with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", originally released on the compilation ''Every Breath You Take: The Singles''.
Contrary to its title, these are ''not'' the complete recordings to 1986. "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" was released in 1980 as a double A-side 7" with Japanese-sung lyrics on one side, Spanish on the other (AM-25000). Also released was a 12" single for "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" which featured both an additional remix and live version of the song. Neither was included on the boxed set.
| Song Title | Time | |
| 1 | Walking On The Moon | 4:59 |
| 1 | Synchronicity I | 3:23 |
| 1 | Fall Out | 02:04 |
| 1 | A Sermon | 02:33 |
| 2 | On Any Other Day | 2:56 |
| 2 | Walking In Your Footsteps | 03:36 |
| 2 | Nothing Achieving | 01:56 |
| 2 | Driven To Tears (Live) | 03:29 |
| 3 | The Bed's Too Big Without You | 4:24 |
| 3 | O My God | 4:00 |
| 3 | Dead End Job | 03:35 |
| 3 | Shambelle | 05:00 |
| 4 | Next To You | 2:50 |
| 4 | Contact | 2:39 |
| 4 | Spirits In The Material World | 2:59 |
| 4 | Mother | 3:03 |
| 5 | So Lonely | 4:49 |
| 5 | Does Everyone Stare | 3:49 |
| 5 | Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | 4:21 |
| 5 | Miss Gradenko | 2:00 |
| 6 | Roxanne | 3:12 |
| 6 | No Time This Time | 3:18 |
| 6 | Invisible Sun | 3:44 |
| 6 | Synchronicity II | 5:04 |
| 7 | Hole In My Life | 4:52 |
| 7 | Hungry For You (J'Aurais Toujours Faim De Toi) | 2:53 |
| 7 | Every Breath You Take | 4:13 |
| 7 | Visions Of The Night | 03:05 |
| 8 | Peanuts | 3:58 |
| 8 | Demolition Man | 5:55 |
| 8 | King Of Pain | 4:59 |
| 8 | The Bed's Too Big Without You (Mono Version) | 03:29 |
| 9 | Can't Stand Losing You | 2:58 |
| 9 | Truth Hits Everybody (Live) | 02:26 |
| 9 | Too Much Information | 3:43 |
| 9 | Wrapped Around Your Finger | 5:12 |
| 10 | Truth Hits Everybody | 2:53 |
| 10 | Re-Humanise Yourself | 3:10 |
| 10 | Tea In The Sahara | 4:11 |
| 10 | Friends | 03:36 |
| 11 | Born In The 50's | 3:40 |
| 11 | Don't Stand So Close To Me | 4:03 |
| 11 | One World (Not Three) | 4:47 |
| 11 | Murder By Numbers | 4:31 |
| 12 | Be My Girl Sally | 3:22 |
| 12 | Driven To Tears | 3:21 |
| 12 | Omegaman | 2:47 |
| 12 | Man In A Suitcase (Live) | 02:17 |
| 13 | Masoko Tanga | 5:41 |
| 13 | When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around | 3:33 |
| 13 | Secret Journey | 3:34 |
| 13 | Someone To Talk To | 03:08 |
| 14 | Landlord (Live) | 02:36 |
| 14 | Canary In A Coalmine | 2:24 |
| 14 | Darkness | 3:11 |
| 14 | Message In A Bottle (Live) | 4:51 |
| 15 | Voices Inside My Head | 3:51 |
| 15 | Next To You (Live) | 3:11 |
| 15 | I Burn For You | 04:49 |
| 15 | Flexible Strategies | 03:43 |
| 16 | Bombs Away | 3:07 |
| 16 | Once Upon A Daydream | 03:31 |
| 16 | Landlord | 03:09 |
| 16 | Low Life | 03:45 |
| 17 | Message In A Bottle | 4:49 |
| 17 | De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da | 4:09 |
| 17 | Tea In The Sahara (Live) | 05:06 |
| 17 | How Stupid Mr. Bates | 02:41 |
| 18 | Behind My Camel | 2:53 |
| 18 | Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 | 04:51 |
| 18 | Reggatta De Blanc | 03:06 |
| 18 | A Kind Of Loving | 02:03 |
| 19 | It's Alright For You | 03:13 |
| 19 | Man In A Suitcase | 02:19 |
| 20 | Bring On The Night | 4:16 |
| 20 | Shadows In The Rain | 05:02 |
| 21 | Deathwish | 4:13 |
| 21 | The Other Way Of Stopping | 3:21 |
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