Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Fallout
2. Nothing Achieved
3. Dead End Job
4. Next to You
5. So Lonely
6. Roxanne
7. Hole in My Life
8. Peanuts
9. Can't Stand Losing You
10. Truth Hits Everybody
11. Born in the 50's
12. Be My Girl-Sally
13. Masoko Tanga
14. Landlord
15. Next to You
16. Landlord
17. Message in a Bottle
18. Reggatta de Blanc
19. It's Alright For You
20. Bring on the Night
21. Deathwish

DISC 2:
1. Walking on the Moon
2. On Any Other Day
3. Bed's Too Big Without You, The
4. Contact
5. Does Everyone Stare
6. No Time This Time
7. Visions of the Night
8. Bed's Too Big Without You, The - (mono)
9. Truth Hits Everybody
10. Friends
11. Don't Stand So Close to Me
12. Driven to Tears
13. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around
14. Canary in a Coalmine
15. Voices Inside My Head
16. Bombs Away
17. De Do Do Do, De da da Da
18. Behind My Camel
19. Man in a Suitcase
20. Shadows in the Rain
21. Other Way of Stopping, The

DISC 3:
1. Sermon, A
2. Driven to Tears
3. Shambelle
4. Spirits in the Material World
5. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
6. Invisible Sun
7. Hungry For You (J'Aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)
8. Demolition Man
9. Too Much Information
10. Rehumanize Yourself
11. One World (Not Three)
12. Omegaman
13. Secret Journey
14. Darkness
15. Flexible Strategies
16. Low Life
17. How Stupid Mr Bates
18. Kind of Loving, A

DISC 4:
1. Synchronicity I
2. Walking in Your Footsteps
3. O My God
4. Mother
5. Miss Gradenko
6. Synchronicity II
7. Every Breath You Take
8. King of Pain
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Tea in the Sahara
11. Murder by Numbers
12. Man in a Suitcase
13. Someone to Talk To
14. Message in a Bottle
15. I Burn For You
16. Once Upon a Daydream
17. Tea in the Sahara
18. Don't Stand So Close to Me '86

Details
Playing Time:	285 min.
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Mixed
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
MESSAGE IN A BOX contains tracks from the group's five studio albums, rare B-sides, and live tracks. It also includes a 64-page booklet with extensive liner notes, a discography, the band's commentary on the b-sides and other obscure tracks, rare photographs and a Police time-line.
The Police: Sting (vocals, saxophone, keyboards, acoustic & electric bass); Andy Summers (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Stewart Copeland (keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals).
Producers include: The Police, Stewart Copeland, Nigel Gray, Tim Summerhayes, Hugh Padgham.
Compilation producer: Stewart Whitmore.
Engineers: The Police, Tim Summerhayes.
Includes liner notes by Phil Sutcliffe.
Digitally remastered by David Collins (A&M Mastering Studios).
Although the Police lasted for less than a decade, they recorded enough material to fill out the four CDs that make up MESSAGE IN A BOX. In addition to everything on their five studio albums, this box set contains soundtrack material, singles and demos featuring the contributions of guitarist Andy Summers' predecessor Henri Padovani (on the band's first single "Fallout" b/w "Nothing Achieving"). The Police's most consistent quality was their anomalousness.
Their path started in the punk environs of mid-'70s London despite the fact that all three were older and had considerably better chops (due to varying jazz backgrounds) than their rebellious contemporaries. Despite these differences, the Police combined biting lyrical imagery with a musical fusion of reggae, punk and pop that resulted in material as mainstream as "Don't Stand So Close To Me" and "King Of Pain" and as wonderfully quirky as "Be My Girl-Sally" and "On Any Other Day." Along the way, the Police released songs about generational differences ("Born in the '50s"), Irish politics ("Invisible Sun") and the ultimate ode to manipulation and their only number one hit ("Every Breath You Take").

Editorial Reviews
...hearing the growth between OUTLANDOS D'AMOUR and ZENYATTA MONDATTA only underscores how innovative [The Police's] best work was...
Rolling Stone Magazine (11/11/1993)

...MESSAGE IN A BOX appeals directly to the completist...a rapturous chronicle...
Musician (01/01/1994)

Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Vibe (12/01/1999)