THE POLICE - MESSAGE IN A BOX, THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS - EDICION LIMITADA Y NUMERADA AM RECORDS 1993

THE POLICE - MESSAGE IN A BOX (EDICION MADE IN GERMANY)

4 CDS BOX, EDICIÓN LIMITADA Nº 133616, AM USA, 1993 CON LIBRO INTERIOR DE 68 PAGINAS EN INGLES.

Box set 4 CDs de The Police, que contiene todos sus álbumes grabados en estudio en orden cronológico, así como singles, caras B y canciones de varios discos recopilatorios.

El CD 1 incluye en vivo versiones de " Landlord" y "Next to You", que se registraron en el Bottom Line de Nueva York el 4 de abril de 1979 y originalmente transmitida por WNEW-FM, de Nueva York).

El CD 3 contiene una versión en vivo de "Driven to Tears", que fue grabado en vivo en Les Arenes, Frejus, Francia, el 28 de agosto de 1980.

CD 1

1. "Fall Out" (Stewart Copeland) – 2:04

2. "Nothing Achieving" (Copeland) – 1:56 3. "Dead End Job" (Sting, Copeland, Andy Summers) – 3:35

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

14. "Landlord" (Live) (Sting, Copeland) – 2:36

15. "Next to You" (Live) (Sting) – 3:11

16. "Landlord" (Sting, Copeland) – 3:09

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

CD 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

7. "Visions of the Night" (Sting) – 3:05

8. "The Bed's too Big Without You" (Mono) (Sting) – 3:29

9. "Truth Hits Everybody" (Live) (Sting) – 2:26

10. "Friends" (Summers) – 3:36

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

CD 3

1. "A Sermon" (Copeland) – 2:33

2. "Driven to Tears" (Live)(Sting) – 3:29

3. "Shambelle" (Summers) – 5:00

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. "Omegaman" (Summers) – 2:48

13. "Secret Journey" (Sting) – 3:34

14. "Darkness" (Copeland) – 3:14

15. "Flexible Strategies" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) – 3:43

16. "Low Life" (Sting) – 3:45

17. "How Stupid Mr. Bates" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) – 2:41

18. "A Kind of Loving" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) – 2:03

CD 4

1. "Synchronicity I" (Sting) – 3:23

2. "Walking in Your Footsteps" (Sting) – 3:36

3. "O My God" (Sting) – 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

11. "Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Summers) – 4:36

12. "Man in a Suitcase" (Live) (Sting) – 2:17

13 ."Someone to Talk To" (Summers) – 3:08

14. "Message in a Bottle" (Live) (Sting) – 4:51

15. "I Burn for You" (Sting) – 4:49

16. "Once Upon a Daydream" (Sting, Summers) – 3:31

17. "Tea in the Sahara" (Live) (Sting) – 5:06

18. "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" (Sting) – 4:51

Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD box set by The Police, containing all five of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles, B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack (1982). The box set also comes with a 68-page booklet.

Disc one includes live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You", which were recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York.

Disc three has a live version of "Driven to Tears" which was recorded live at Les Arenes, Frejus, France, 28 August 1980 and is featured on the Urgh! A Music War soundtrack album (1982).

While the box set does contain every original song released by the band, contrary to its title, these are not the complete recordings up to 1986. "Truth Hits Everybody '83" appeared on a limited edition gatefold single of "Every Breath You Take". Two versions of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" were released in 1980 as a double A-side 7", one with Sting singing Japanese lyrics, the other with Spanish lyrics (AM-25000). A third version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" was also re-recorded in 1986, entitled "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da '86". This version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" is not present on the box set, but is available on the DTS-CD and SACD releases of Every Breath You Take: The Classics (1995). Other official releases were a 12" single for "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", which featured both an additional remix and live version of the song, and an extended version of "Voices Inside My Head". Live recordings of "Can't Stand Losing You" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" had also been released but not included. Another rarity missing from the box set is the extended video mix of "Invisible Sun", which featured an additional verse not present on the LP version.

"Shambelle", an instrumental written by Andy Summers, that is a B-side both of the singles "Invisible Sun" (UK) and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (US), was presented incorrectly, missing the hi-hat introduction played by Stewart Copeland. This error has never been corrected, and the original 45's is the only place to get the full-length versions.[1] It should also be noted that the versions of "Shambelle" on the "Invisible Sun" and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" singles have different track times, clocking 5:42 on the former and 5:10 on the latter. The version on this box set clocks in just about five minutes.

The U.S. version of the box set also features the version of "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" that was originally released on the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles (1986). This version is shorter than the extended dance mix of "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" included on some international versions of the box set and includes a different guitar solo from Andy Summers. There is no edition of the box set that includes both versions of the song.

There was also speculation by a number of music fans that "Can't Stand Losing You" was remastered from a needle drop of the original vinyl and that "Roxanne" had pitch issues due to tape drag and possible damage to the master tape used.[1]