Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings

Compilation by The Police

Released 28 September 1993

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Fallout
    2:03
    2.0 ★
  • 2
    Nothing Achieving
    1:56
    2.0 ★
  • 3
    Dead End Job
    3:35
    3.0 ★
  • 4
    Next to You
    2:52
    4.1 ★
  • 5
    So Lonely
    4:51
    4.3 ★
  • 6
    Roxanne
    3:14
    4.3 ★
  • 7
    Hole in My Life
    4:54
    3.2 ★
  • 8
    Peanuts
    4:01
    3.2 ★
  • 9
    Can’t Stand Losing You
    3:01
    3.7 ★
  • 10
    Truth Hits Everybody
    2:54
    3.4 ★
  • 11
    Born in the 50’s
    3:44
    3.6 ★
  • 12
    Be My Girl‐Sally
    3:23
    2.5 ★
  • 13
    Masoko Tanga
    5:43
    3.5 ★
  • 14
    Landlord (live)
    2:36
    2.0 ★
  • 15
    Next to You (live)
    3:11
    3.0 ★
  • 16
    Landlord
    3:09
    3.0 ★
  • 17
    Message in a Bottle
    4:50
    3.9 ★
  • 18
    Reggatta de Blanc
    3:06
    4.2 ★
  • 19
    It’s Alright for You
    3:13
    4.0 ★
  • 20
    Bring on the Night
    4:15
    4.2 ★
  • 21
    Deathwish
    4:11
    3.2 ★
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Walking on the Moon
    5:02
    3.7 ★
  • 2
    On Any Other Day
    2:57
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    The Bed’s Too Big Without You
    4:25
    3.2 ★
  • 4
    Contact
    2:38
    4.0 ★
  • 5
    Does Everyone Stare
    3:46
    4.0 ★
  • 6
    No Time This Time
    3:20
    3.0 ★
  • 7
    Visions of the Night
    3:05
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    The Bed’s Too Big Without You (mono)
    3:29
    4.0 ★
  • 9
    Truth Hits Everybody (live)
    2:26
    3.0 ★
  • 10
    Friends
    3:36
    2.0 ★
  • 11
    Don’t Stand So Close to Me
    4:03
    3.9 ★
  • 12
    Driven to Tears
    3:20
    4.0 ★
  • 13
    When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
    3:36
    3.8 ★
  • 14
    Canary in a Coalmine
    2:26
    3.6 ★
  • 15
    Voices Inside My Head
    3:52
    3.2 ★
  • 16
    Bombs Away
    3:06
    3.4 ★
  • 17
    De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
    4:09
    3.5 ★
  • 18
    Behind My Camel
    2:54
    3.2 ★
  • 19
    Man in a Suitcase
    2:19
    3.5 ★
  • 20
    Shadows in the Rain
    5:02
    3.2 ★
  • 21
    The Other Way of Stopping
    3:23
    3.4 ★
  • CD 3
  • 1
    A Sermon
    2:32
    3.0 ★
  • 2
    Driven to Tears (live)
    3:29
    3.0 ★
  • 3
    Shambelle
    5:00
    4.0 ★
  • 4
    Spirits in the Material World
    2:59
    3.7 ★
  • 5
    Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
    4:20
    3.9 ★
  • 6
    Invisible Sun
    3:43
    3.5 ★
  • 7
    Hungry for You (j’aurais toujours faim de toi)
    2:52
    3.5 ★
  • 8
    Demolition Man
    5:57
    3.0 ★
  • 9
    Too Much Information
    3:42
    2.5 ★
  • 10
    Rehumanize Yourself
    3:10
    3.6 ★
  • 11
    One World (Not Three)
    4:46
    4.4 ★
  • 12
    Omegaman
    2:47
    2.6 ★
  • 13
    Secret Journey
    3:33
    2.6 ★
  • 14
    Darkness
    3:14
    3.0 ★
  • 15
    Flexible Strategies
    3:43
    3.5 ★
  • 16
    Low Life
    3:45
    3.0 ★
  • 17
    How Stupid Mr. Bates
    2:41
    2.0 ★
  • 18
    A Kind of Loving
    2:03
    1.0 ★
  • CD 4
  • 1
    Synchronicity I
    3:22
    3.6 ★
  • 2
    Walking in Your Footsteps
    3:36
    4.0 ★
  • 3
    O My God
    4:02
    3.4 ★
  • 4
    Mother
    3:05
    2.6 ★
  • 5
    Miss Gradenko
    2:00
    3.0 ★
  • 6
    Synchronicity II
    5:03
    3.2 ★
  • 7
    Every Breath You Take
    4:14
    4.1 ★
  • 8
    King of Pain
    4:59
    3.9 ★
  • 9
    Wrapped Around Your Finger
    5:13
    3.8 ★
  • 10
    Tea in the Sahara
    4:13
    2.8 ★
  • 11
    Murder by Numbers
    4:36
    3.2 ★
  • 12
    Man in a Suitcase (live)
    2:17
    3.0 ★
  • 13
    Someone to Talk To
    3:08
    2.0 ★
  • 14
    Message in a Bottle (live)
    4:51
    3.0 ★
  • 15
    I Burn for You
    4:49
    3.0 ★
  • 16
    Once Upon a Daydream
    3:31
    2.5 ★
  • 17
    Tea in the Sahara (live)
    5:06
    3.0 ★
  • 18
    Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86
    4:51
    3.4 ★

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Release credits

  • background vocals [11-17, 19-20], electric bass guitar [18], electric guitar [4.1-11, 4.18, 2.1, 2.11-21, 3.4-6, 1.5-6, 1.17], guitar [1.3-5, 1.7-13, 2.10, 3.1-3, 3.15-16, 4.12-14, 4.16-17], lead vocals [2.10, 4.4, 4.13], piano [1.12, 2.14], spoken vocals [12], synthesizer [18]
  • producer [1-2]
  • engineer [4-13]
  • mastering
  • engineer [17]
  • guitar [1-2]
  • co [3-8, 10-14], engineer [4.1-11, 3.3-14], producer [3.4-5, 4.1-11, 4.13, 4.16]
  • piano [5]
  • piano [7, 13]
  • producer [18]
  • engineer [1.4-13, 1.17-21, 2.1-6, 2.11-21], producer [4.14, 1.16-21, 3.16, 2.1-6, 2.10-21]
  • background vocals [11-17, 19-20], drum machine [18], drums (drum set) [1.1-13, 1.17, 2.1, 2.10-21, 3.1-6, 3.15-16, 4.1-14, 4.16-17], guitar [3.1, 1.1-2], producer [1-2]
  • background vocals [10-17, 19-20], bass [1.1-5, 1.7-13, 2.10, 3.1-3, 3.15-16, 4.12-14, 4.17], drum machine [1], electric bass guitar [1.5-6, 1.17, 4.1-11, 4.18, 2.1, 2.11-17, 2.19-21, 3.4-6], fretless bass [16], harmonica [5], lead vocals [3.1-2, 3.16, 1.1-3, 4.7, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16-17, 2.11-17, 2.19-20], saxophone [3], synthesizer [11-17, 19-21], vocal [2.1, 3.4-6, 1.4-13, 1.17, 4.1-6, 4.8-11, 4.18]
  • arranger [1.4-13, 1.17-21, 2.1-6], co [9], mix [4.17, 3.2], producer [4.1-16, 4.18, 2.1-21, 3.1-16, 1.3-21]
  • engineer [2], mix [4.17, 3.2], producer [2]

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