Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
Compilation by The Police
Released 28 September 1993
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Fallout2:032.0 ★
- 2Nothing Achieving1:562.0 ★
- 3Dead End Job3:353.0 ★
- 4Next to You2:524.1 ★
- 5So Lonely4:514.3 ★
- 6Roxanne3:144.3 ★
- 7Hole in My Life4:543.2 ★
- 8Peanuts4:013.2 ★
- 9Can’t Stand Losing You3:013.7 ★
- 10Truth Hits Everybody2:543.4 ★
- 11Born in the 50’s3:443.6 ★
- 12Be My Girl‐Sally3:232.5 ★
- 13Masoko Tanga5:433.5 ★
- 14Landlord (live)2:362.0 ★
- 15Next to You (live)3:113.0 ★
- 16Landlord3:093.0 ★
- 17Message in a Bottle4:503.9 ★
- 18Reggatta de Blanc3:064.2 ★
- 19It’s Alright for You3:134.0 ★
- 20Bring on the Night4:154.2 ★
- 21Deathwish4:113.2 ★
- CD 2
- 1Walking on the Moon5:023.7 ★
- 2On Any Other Day2:574.0 ★
- 3The Bed’s Too Big Without You4:253.2 ★
- 4Contact2:384.0 ★
- 5Does Everyone Stare3:464.0 ★
- 6No Time This Time3:203.0 ★
- 7Visions of the Night3:054.0 ★
- 8The Bed’s Too Big Without You (mono)3:294.0 ★
- 9Truth Hits Everybody (live)2:263.0 ★
- 10Friends3:362.0 ★
- 11Don’t Stand So Close to Me4:033.9 ★
- 12Driven to Tears3:204.0 ★
- 13When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around3:363.8 ★
- 14Canary in a Coalmine2:263.6 ★
- 15Voices Inside My Head3:523.2 ★
- 16Bombs Away3:063.4 ★
- 17De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da4:093.5 ★
- 18Behind My Camel2:543.2 ★
- 19Man in a Suitcase2:193.5 ★
- 20Shadows in the Rain5:023.2 ★
- 21The Other Way of Stopping3:233.4 ★
- CD 3
- 1A Sermon2:323.0 ★
- 2Driven to Tears (live)3:293.0 ★
- 3Shambelle5:004.0 ★
- 4Spirits in the Material World2:593.7 ★
- 5Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic4:203.9 ★
- 6Invisible Sun3:433.5 ★
- 7Hungry for You (j’aurais toujours faim de toi)2:523.5 ★
- 8Demolition Man5:573.0 ★
- 9Too Much Information3:422.5 ★
- 10Rehumanize Yourself3:103.6 ★
- 11One World (Not Three)4:464.4 ★
- 12Omegaman2:472.6 ★
- 13Secret Journey3:332.6 ★
- 14Darkness3:143.0 ★
- 15Flexible Strategies3:433.5 ★
- 16Low Life3:453.0 ★
- 17How Stupid Mr. Bates2:412.0 ★
- 18A Kind of Loving2:031.0 ★
- CD 4
- 1Synchronicity I3:223.6 ★
- 2Walking in Your Footsteps3:364.0 ★
- 3O My God4:023.4 ★
- 4Mother3:052.6 ★
- 5Miss Gradenko2:003.0 ★
- 6Synchronicity II5:033.2 ★
- 7Every Breath You Take4:144.1 ★
- 8King of Pain4:593.9 ★
- 9Wrapped Around Your Finger5:133.8 ★
- 10Tea in the Sahara4:132.8 ★
- 11Murder by Numbers4:363.2 ★
- 12Man in a Suitcase (live)2:173.0 ★
- 13Someone to Talk To3:082.0 ★
- 14Message in a Bottle (live)4:513.0 ★
- 15I Burn for You4:493.0 ★
- 16Once Upon a Daydream3:312.5 ★
- 17Tea in the Sahara (live)5:063.0 ★
- 18Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’864:513.4 ★
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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]
Issues
M28 September 1993
M1993- M1993
M1993- M1993
- M1993
M2006





