Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

~ Release by The Police (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Rating Length
1 Fallout
2 2:03
2 Nothing Achieving
2 1:56
3 Dead End Job
4 3:35
4 Next to You
4.5 2:52
5 So Lonely
4.25 4:52
6 Roxanne
4.2 3:15
7 Hole in My Life
3 4:54
8 Peanuts
3.35 4:02
9 Can't Stand Losing You
3.4 3:01
10 Truth Hits Everybody
3 2:54
11 Born in the 50's
3.5 3:44
12 Be My Girl-Sally
3 3:23
13 Masoko Tanga
4 5:44
14 Landlord (live)
2 2:37
15 Next to You (live)
3 3:11
16 Landlord
3 3:10
17 Message in a Bottle
4.3 4:51
18 Reggatta de Blanc
4.5 3:06
19 It's Alright for You
3 3:13
20 Bring on the Night
5 4:16
21 Deathwish
3 4:12
▼ CD 2
# Title Rating Length
1 Walking on the Moon
3.7 5:02
2 On Any Other Day
4 2:58
3 The Bed's Too Big Without You
3 4:26
4 Contact
4 2:38
5 Does Everyone Stare
4.5 3:46
6 No Time This Time
3 3:20
7 Visions of the Night
4 3:05
8 The Bed's Too Big Without You (mono)
4 3:30
9 Truth Hits Everybody (live)
3 2:27
10 Friends
2 3:37
11 Don't Stand So Close to Me
3.8 4:03
12 Driven to Tears
3 3:20
13 When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around
3 3:37
14 Canary in a Coalmine
3 2:27
15 Voices Inside My Head
3 3:53
16 Bombs Away
3 3:06
17 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
3.45 4:09
18 Behind My Camel
2 2:54
19 Man in a Suitcase
3 2:19
20 Shadows in the Rain
3 5:02
21 The Other Way of Stopping
2 3:23
▼ CD 3
# Title Rating Length
1 A Sermon
3 2:33
2 Driven to Tears (live)
3 3:29
3 Shambelle
4 5:01
4 Spirits in the Material World
3.25 2:59
5 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
4.6 4:21
6 Invisible Sun
3.6 3:44
7 Hungry for You (j'aurais toujours faim de toi)
3 2:53
8 Demolition Man
3 5:58
9 Too Much Information
3 3:43
10 Rehumanize Yourself
4 3:10
11 One World (Not Three)
4.5 4:47
12 Omegaman
3 2:48
13 Secret Journey
2 3:34
14 Darkness
3 3:15
15 Flexible Strategies
3.5 3:44
16 Low Life
3 3:45
17 How Stupid Mr. Bates
2 2:42
18 A Kind of Loving
1 2:03
▼ CD 4
# Title Rating Length
1 Synchronicity I
3.75 3:23
2 Walking in Your Footsteps
3.5 3:37
3 O My God
3.5 4:02
4 Mother
3 3:06
5 Miss Gradenko
3.5 2:00
6 Synchronicity II
3.35 5:03
7 Every Breath You Take
4.1 4:14
8 King of Pain
3.8 4:59
9 Wrapped Around Your Finger
3.7 5:14
10 Tea in the Sahara
2.65 4:14
11 Murder by Numbers
2.5 4:37
12 Man in a Suitcase (live)
3 2:17
13 Someone to Talk To
2 3:08
14 Message in a Bottle (live)
3 4:52
15 I Burn for You
3 4:50
16 Once Upon a Daydream
2.5 3:31
17 Tea in the Sahara (live)
3 5:06
18 Don't Stand So Close to Me '86
2.5 4:51

Credits

CD 1

electric bass guitar:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 6, 17)
drums:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 4–13, 17)
guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 4–5, 7–13)
harmonica:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (track 5)
bass:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–5, 7–13)
electric guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 6, 17)
piano:
Joe Sinclair (tracks 7, 13)
Andy Summers (track 12)
arranger:
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 4–13, 17–21)
composer:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 1–2, 8)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–13, 15, 17, 20)
Andy Summers (track 12)
engineer:
Nigel Gray (tracks 4–13, 17–21)
Chris Gray (UK Engineer) (tracks 4–13)
Chris Gray (Chicago techno producer) (track 9)
lyricist:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 1–2, 8)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–13, 15, 17, 20)
Andy Summers (track 12)
Ian Copeland (track 2)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (tracks 6, 9, 17)
producer:
Nigel Gray (tracks 17–21)
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 4–13, 17–21)
spoken vocals:
Andy Summers (track 12)
vocals:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–13, 17)
writer:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 18–19, 21)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 18–19, 21)
Andy Summers (tracks 18, 21)
phonographic copyright by:
A&M Records (1978 –) (track 6)
A&M Records (1979 –) (track 17)
publisher:
Island Music (Island Music Ltd.) (track 8)
Police Songs (Publishing company for UK band The Police) (tracks 18–19, 21)
Rondor Music (London) Ltd. (track 12)
Virgin Music (publisher only, do not use as a label) (tracks 4–13, 15)
Virgin Music, Inc. (The American arm of Virgin's publishing company) (tracks 17–21)
recorded at:
Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom (tracks 4–13, 17–21)
mash-ups:
I Can't Stand Along the Watchtower by ToToM (track 9)
remixes:
Can't Stand Losing You (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 9)
sampled by:
Adaptation by The Weeknd (track 20)
What Means the World to You by Cam’ron (track 6)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 388) (track 6)
later parody versions:
Message in the Bible (track 17)
later translated versions:
Allanig (track 5)
El mensaje en la botella (track 17)
Tráeme la noche (track 20)
live recording of:
Landlord (track 14)
Next to You (track 15)
medley of:
Be My Girl (track 12)
Sally (track 12)
recording of:
Be My Girl / Sally (track 12)
Born in the 50's (track 11)
Bring On the Night (track 20)
Can’t Stand Losing You (track 9)
Dead End Job (track 3)
Deathwish (track 21)
Fall Out (track 1)
Hole in My Life (track 7)
It's Alright for You (track 19)
Landlord (track 16)
Masoko Tanga (track 13)
Message in a Bottle (The Police song) (track 17)
Next to You (track 4)
Nothing Achieving (track 2)
Peanuts (track 8)
Reggatta de Blanc (track 18)
Roxanne (track 6)
So Lonely (track 5)
Truth Hits Everybody (track 10)

CD 2

electric bass guitar:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1, 17)
bass guitar:
Andy Summers (track 18)
drums:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 1, 17)
electric guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 1, 17)
arranger:
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 1–6)
composer:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 2, 4–5, 16, 21)
Andy Summers (track 18)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1, 3, 6–9, 11–15, 17, 19–20)
engineer:
Nigel Gray (tracks 1–6, 11–21)
lyricist:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 2, 4–5, 16)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1, 3, 6–9, 11–15, 17, 19–20)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (tracks 1, 17)
producer:
Nigel Gray (tracks 1–6, 11–21)
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 1–6, 11–21)
vocals:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1, 17)
phonographic copyright by:
A&M Records (1979 –) (track 1)
A&M Records (1980 –) (track 17)
publisher:
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (track 17)
Police Songs (Publishing company for UK band The Police) (tracks 2, 4–5)
Roxanne Music Overseas, Ltd. (Stewart Copeland/Andy Summers) (tracks 16, 18, 21)
Virgin Music (publisher only, do not use as a label) (tracks 7, 9, 11–15, 17, 19–20)
Virgin Music, Inc. (The American arm of Virgin's publishing company) (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8)
recorded at:
Surrey Sound Studios in Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom (tracks 1–6)
Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (tracks 11–21)
remixes:
Don't Stand So Close to Me (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 11)
When the World Is Running Down (You Can't Go Wrong) (original bootleg mix) by Different Gear vs. The Police (track 13)
sampled by:
Pirate Radio (Migs & Jelly's Risky Ride) by Miguel Migs (track 13)
Steelo by 702 (track 15)
Voices (original Funky Junction mix) by KC Flightt vs. Funky Junction (track 15)
Voices Inside My Head (vocal) by Common Sense (track 15)
later parody versions:
Walking Through Moulescomb (track 1)
later translated versions:
Do Do Da Da (Cantonese) (track 17)
La casa es muy grande sin ti (tracks 3, 8)
Rolando por la luna (track 1)
live recording of:
Truth Hits Everybody (track 9)
recording of:
Behind My Camel (track 18)
Bombs Away (track 16)
Canary in a Coalmine (track 14)
Contact (track 4)
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (track 17)
Does Everyone Stare (track 5)
Don’t Stand So Close to Me (track 11)
Driven to Tears (track 12)
Friends (track 10)
Man in a Suitcase (track 19)
No Time This Time (track 6)
On Any Other Day (track 2)
Shadows in the Rain (track 20)
The Bed’s Too Big Without You (tracks 3, 8)
The Other Way of Stopping (track 21)
Visions of the Night (track 7)
Voices Inside My Head (track 15)
Walking on the Moon (track 1)
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around (track 13)

CD 3

electric bass guitar:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–6)
drums:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 4–6)
electric guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 4–6)
piano:
Jean Roussel (track 5)
co-producer:
Hugh Padgham (tracks 4–6)
composer:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 10, 14)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 2, 4–9, 11, 13)
Andy Summers (tracks 3, 12)
engineer:
Hugh Padgham (tracks 4–6)
lyricist:
Stewart Copeland (track 14)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 2, 4–11, 13)
Andy Summers (track 12)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (track 5)
producer:
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 4–6)
vocals:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 4–6)
phonographic copyright by:
A&M Records (1981 –) (tracks 4–6)
publisher:
Virgin Music (publisher only, do not use as a label) (track 2)
later parody versions:
Laikus pērciet pasterizēto pienu (track 5)
later translated versions:
Alma en el mundo material (track 4)
Oscuridad (track 14)
Sol invisible (track 6)
Todo lo que él hace (track 5)
live recording of:
Driven to Tears (track 2)
recording of:
A Kind of Loving (track 18)
A Sermon (track 1)
Darkness (track 14)
Demolition Man (track 8)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (song by The Police) (track 5)
Flexible Strategies (track 15)
How Stupid Mr. Bates (track 17)
Hungry for You (track 7)
Invisible Sun (track 6)
Low Life (track 16)
Omegaman (track 12)
One World (Not Three) (track 11)
Rehumanize Yourself (track 10)
Secret Journey (track 13)
Shambelle (track 3)
Spirits in the Material World (track 4)
Too Much Information (track 9)

CD 4

electric bass guitar:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 7–9, 18)
drums:
Stewart Copeland (tracks 7–9, 18)
electric guitar:
Andy Summers (tracks 7–9, 18)
composer:
Stewart Copeland (track 5)
Andy Summers (tracks 4, 11, 13, 16)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1–3, 6–10, 12, 14–15, 17–18)
lead vocals:
Andy Summers (track 4)
lyricist:
Stewart Copeland (track 5)
Andy Summers (tracks 4, 13)
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 1–3, 6–12, 14–18)
mastering:
Dave Collins (US mastering engineer) (track 7)
producer:
Laurie Latham (track 18)
Hugh Padgham (tracks 7–9)
The Police (British rock band) (tracks 7–9, 18)
vocals:
Sting (singer, songwriter & member of The Police) (tracks 7–9, 18)
phonographic copyright by:
A&M Records (1983) (tracks 7–9)
A&M Records (1986 –) (track 18)
A&M Records (2016) (tracks 1–9, 11)
publisher:
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (track 7)
Virgin Music (publisher only, do not use as a label) (tracks 12, 18)
Virgin Music, Inc. (The American arm of Virgin's publishing company) (track 14)
mash-ups:
Stand By Me by ccc (track 7)
Wrapped Detective (Elvis Costello vs. The Police vs. Lionel Richie vs. Peggy Lee vs. Bob Marley vs. The Hollies vs. Led Zeppelin) by Go Home Productions (track 9)
remixes:
Every Breath You Take (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 7)
King of Pain (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 8)
Wrapped Around Your Finger (5.1 mix) by The Police (track 9)
sampled by:
I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy & the Family feat. Faith Evans & 112 (track 7)
part of:
The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 84) (track 7)
later parody versions:
Every Step to Take (track 7)
King of Suede (track 8)
Message in the Bible (track 14)
later translated parody versions:
Humppaleski 45 (track 7)
Sua vartioin (track 7)
later translated versions:
El mensaje en la botella (track 14)
Estaré prendido en tus dedos (track 9)
live recording of:
Man in a Suitcase (track 12)
Message in a Bottle (The Police song) (track 14)
Tea in the Sahara (track 17)
recording of:
Don’t Stand So Close to Me (track 18)
I Burn for You (track 15)
King of Pain (track 8)
Miss Gradenko (track 5)
Mother (track 4)
Murder by Numbers (track 11)
O My God (track 3)
Once Upon a Daydream (track 16)
Someone to Talk To (track 13)
Synchronicity I (track 1)
Synchronicity II (track 6)
Tea in the Sahara (track 10)
Walking in Your Footsteps (track 2)
Wrapped Around Your Finger (track 9)
Every Breath You Take (1983) (track 7)
referred to in medleys:
Polkas on 45 (track 7)