The Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1978-1986)

CANCIONES
Disc 1
"Fall Out" (Stewart Copeland)* – 2:04
"Nothing Achieving" (Copeland)* – 1:56
Tracks 1-2 originally released as a single (UK only) in 1977.
"Dead End Job" (Sting, Copeland, Andy Summers)* – 3:35
B-side of the singles "Can't Stand Losing You" (UK), and "Roxanne" (U.S.).
"Next to You" (Sting) – 2:50
"So Lonely" (Sting) – 4:49
"Roxanne" (Sting) – 3:12
"Hole in My Life" (Sting) – 4:52
"Peanuts" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:58
"Can't Stand Losing You" (Sting) – 2:58
"Truth Hits Everybody" (Sting) – 2:53
"Born in the 50's" (Sting) – 3:40
"Be My Girl - Sally" (Sting, Summers) – 3:22
"Masoko Tanga" (Sting) – 5:40
Tracks 4-13 originally released on the album Outlandos d'Amour.
"Landlord" (Live) (Sting, Copeland) * – 2:36
"Next to You" (Live) (Sting)* – 3:11
Tracks 14-15 originally released on the A&M compilation album Propaganda - No Wave II in 1980 (AMLE 64786).
"Landlord" (Sting, Copeland) * – 3:09
B-side of the single "Message in a Bottle".
"Message in a Bottle" (Sting) – 4:51
"Reggatta de Blanc" (Copeland, Sting, Summers) – 3:06
"It's Alright for You" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:13
"Bring on the Night" (Sting) – 4:16
"Deathwish" (Copeland, Sting, Summers) – 4:13
Tracks 17-21 originally released on the album Reggatta de Blanc.

Disc 2
"Walking on the Moon" (Sting) – 5:02
"On Any Other Day" (Copeland) – 2:57
"The Bed's Too Big Without You" (Sting) – 4:26
"Contact" (Copeland) – 2:38
"Does Everyone Stare" (Copeland) – 3:52
"No Time This Time" (Sting) – 3:17
Tracks 1-6 originally released on the album Reggatta de Blanc.
"Visions of the Night" (Sting)* – 3:05
B-side of the singles "Walking on the Moon" (UK), and "Bring on the Night" (U.S.).
"The Bed's too Big Without You" (Mono) (Sting) * – 3:29
"Truth Hits Everybody" (Live) (Sting) * – 2:26
Tracks 8-9 originally released on Six Pack (UK only) in 1980.
"Friends" (Summers)* – 3:36
B-side of the singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (UK), and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (U.S.).
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" (Sting) – 4:04
"Driven to Tears" (Sting) – 3:20
"When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around" (Sting) – 3:38
"Canary in a Coalmine" (Sting) – 2:26
"Voices Inside My Head" (Sting) – 3:53
"Bombs Away" (Copeland) – 3:09
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (Sting) – 4:09
"Behind My Camel" (Summers) – 2:54
"Man in a Suitcase" (Sting) – 2:19
"Shadows in the Rain" (Sting) – 5:02
"The Other Way of Stopping" (Copeland) – 3:22
Tracks 11-21 originally released on the album Zenyatta Mondatta.

Disc 3
"A Sermon" (Copeland) * – 2:33
B-side of the singles "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (UK), and "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (U.S.).
"Driven to Tears" (Live)(Sting) * – 3:29
Originally released on the compilation album Urgh! A Music War in 1981.
"Shambelle" (Summers) * – 5:00
B-side of the singles "Invisible Sun" (UK), and "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (U.S.).
"Spirits in the Material World" (Sting) – 2:59
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (Sting) – 4:22
"Invisible Sun" (Sting) – 3:44
"Hungry for You (J'aurais toujours faim de toi)" (Sting) – 2:53
"Demolition Man" (Sting) – 5:57
"Too Much Information" (Sting) – 3:43
"Rehumanize Yourself" (Copeland, Sting) – 3:10
"One World (Not Three)" (Sting) – 4:47
"Omegaman" (Summers) – 2:48
"Secret Journey" (Sting) – 3:34
"Darkness" (Copeland) – 3:14
Tracks 4-14 originally released on the album Ghost in the Machine.
"Flexible Strategies" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 3:43
B-side of the singles "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (UK), and "Spirits in the Material World" (U.S.).
"Low Life" * (Sting) – 3:45
B-side of the UK single "Spirits in the Material World".
"How Stupid Mr. Bates" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 2:41
"A Kind of Loving" (Sting, Summers, Copeland) * – 2:03
Tracks 17-18 originally released on the soundtrack album Brimstone & Treacle in 1982.

Disc 4
"Synchronicity I" (Sting) – 3:23
"Walking in Your Footsteps" (Sting) – 3:36
"O My God" (Sting) – 4:02
"Mother" (Summers) – 3:05
"Miss Gradenko" (Copeland) – 1:59
"Synchronicity II" (Sting) – 5:02
"Every Breath You Take" (Sting) – 4:13
"King of Pain" (Sting) – 4:59
"Wrapped Around Your Finger" (Sting) – 5:13
"Tea in the Sahara" (Sting) – 4:19
Tracks 1-10 originally released on the album Synchronicity.
"Murder by Numbers" (Sting, Summers) – 4:36
Not included on original LP release of the album Synchronicity, but was included on CD release.
B-side of the single "Every Breath You Take".
"Man in a Suitcase" (Live) (Sting) * – 2:17
originally released on the maxi-single "Every Breath You Take" (UK only).
"Someone to Talk To" (Summers) * – 3:08
B-side of the singles "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (UK), and "King of Pain" (U.S.).
"Message in a Bottle" (Live) (Sting) * – 4:51
Originally released on the maxi-single "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (UK only).
"I Burn for You" (Sting) * – 4:49
Originally released on the soundtrack album Brimstone & Treacle in 1982.
Also included on the maxi-single "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (UK only) which contributes to its ordering in this collection.
"Once Upon a Daydream" (Sting, Summers) * – 3:31
B-side of the single "Synchronicity II".
"Tea in the Sahara" (live) (Sting)* – 5:06
B-side of the singles "King of Pain" (UK), and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (U.S.).
"Don't Stand So Close to Me '86" (Sting)* – 4:51
Originally released on the album Every Breath You Take: The Singles.

Tracks previously unreleased on CD are marked with "*".

MUSICOS
Sting - bass guitar, keyboards, saxophone, oboe, lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "So Lonely", drum machine on "Synchronicity I"
Andy Summers - guitar, keyboards, bass guitar on "Behind My Camel", backing vocals, piano on "Does Everyone Stare" and "Be My Girl - Sally", spoken word on "Friends", "Dead End Job" and "Be My Girl - Sally", lead vocals on "Mother" and "Someone to Talk To"
Stewart Copeland - drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals, guitar on "Fall Out", "Nothing Achieving", "It's Alright for You" and "A Sermon", lead vocal on "On Any Other Day", spoken word on "Does Everyone Stare"

MUSICOS INVITADOS
Henri Padovani - guitar on "Fall Out" and "Nothing Achieving"
John Sinclair - piano on "Hole in My Life" and "Masoko Tanga"
Jean Russell - piano on "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"
Olaf Kubler - saxophone on "Low Life"
Suzanna Hamilton - screaming on "A Kind of Loving"

PUNTUACION
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