Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
Album par The Police
Sortie	28 septembre 1993
Genre	New Wave
Label	A&M
Albums de The Police
Greatest Hits (1992)	Every Breath You Take: The Classics 1995

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings est un coffret du groupe The Police. Il contient tous leurs albums studio en ordre chronologique, les singles, les faces B et les pistes des albums compilation et de la bande sonore de Brimstone and Treacle.

Liste des chansons

• Les pistes qui ne sont pas sorties auparavant sur CD sont marquées avec "*".

Disque 1

1. "Fall Out" (Stewart Copeland)* – 2:04
2. "Nothing Achieving" (Copeland)* – 1:56
   • Les pistes 1-2 sont originellement sorties en singles (UK seulement) en 1977.
3. "Dead End Job" (Sting, Copeland, Andy Summers)* – 3:35
   • B-side des singles "Can't Stand Losing You" (UK), et "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
    • Les pistes 4-13 sont originellement sorties sur l'album Outlandos d'Amour.
14. "Landlord" (Live) (Sting, Copeland) * – 2:36
15. "Next to You" (Live) (Sting)* – 3:11
    • Les pistes 14-15 sont originellement sorties sur l'album compilation Propaganda en 1980.
16. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland) * – 3:09
    • B-side du 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
    • Les pistes 17-21 sont originellement sorties sur l'album Reggatta de Blanc.

Disque 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
   • Les pistes 1-6 sont originalment sorties sur l'album Reggatta de Blanc.
7. "Visions of the Night" (Sting)* – 3:05
   • B-side des singles "Walking on the Moon" (U.K) et "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
   • Les pistes 8-9 sont originellement sorties en single (UK seulement) en 1980.
10. "Friends" (Summers)* – 3:36
    • B-side des singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (UK) et "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
    • Les pistes 11-21 sont originellement sorties sur l'album Zenyatta Mondatta.

Disque 3

1. "A Sermon" (Copeland) * – 2:33
   • B-side des singles "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (UK) et "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (U.S.).
2. "Driven to Tears" (Live)(Sting) * – 3:29
   • Originalement sorti sur l'album compilation Urgh! A Music War en 1981.
3. "Shambelle" (Summers) * – 5:00
   • B-side des singles "Invisible Sun" (UK) et "Every Little Thing She's 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
    • Les pistes 4-14 sont originalment sorties sur l'album Ghost in the Machine.
15. "Flexible Strategies" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 3:43
    • B-side des singles "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (UK) et "Spirits in the Material World" (U.S.).
16. "Low Life" * (Sting) – 3:45
    • B-side of the UK 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
    • Les pistes 17-18 sont originellement sorties sur la bande sonore de Brimstone & Treacle en 1982.

Disque 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
    • Les pistes 1-10 sont originellement sorti sur l'album Synchronicity.
11. "Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Summers) – 4:36
    • Non inclus sur le LP original sorti de l'album Synchronicity.
    • B-side du single "Every Breath You Take".
12. "Man in a Suitcase" (Live) (Sting) * – 2:17
    • Originalement sorti sur le maxi-single "Every Breath You Take" (UK seulement).
13. "Someone to Talk To" (Summers) * – 3:08
    • B-side des singles "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (UK) et "King of Pain" (U.S.).
14. "Message in a Bottle" (Live) (Sting) * – 4:51
15. "I Burn for You" (Sting) * – 4:49
    • Les pistes 14-15 sont originellement sorties sur le maxi-single "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (UK seulement).
16. "Once Upon a Daydream" (Sting, Summers) * – 3:31
    • B-side du single "Synchronicity II".
17. "Tea in the Sahara" (Live) (Sting)* – 5:06
    • B-side des singles "King of Pain" (UK) et "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (U.S.).
18. "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" (Sting)* – 4:51
    • Originalement sorti sur l'album Every Breath You Take: The Singles.