Album · 1993
Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Fallout
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2:03
2
Nothing Achieving
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1:56
3
Dead End Job
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3:35
4
Next to You
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2:52
5
So Lonely
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4:52
6
Roxanne
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3:15
7
Hole in My Life
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4:54
8
Peanuts
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4:02
9
Can’t Stand Losing You
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3:01
10
Truth Hits Everybody
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2:54
11
Born in the 50’s
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3:44
12
Be My Girl‐Sally
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3:23
13
Masoko Tanga
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5:44
14
Landlord (live)
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2:37
15
Next to You (live)
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3:11
16
Landlord
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3:10
17
Message in a Bottle
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4:51
18
Reggatta de Blanc
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3:06
19
It’s Alright for You
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3:13
20
Bring on the Night
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4:16
21
Deathwish
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4:12
Disc 2
1
Walking on the Moon
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5:02
2
On Any Other Day
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2:58
3
The Bed’s Too Big Without You
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4:26
4
Contact
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2:38
5
Does Everyone Stare
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3:46
6
No Time This Time
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3:20
7
Visions of the Night
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3:05
8
The Bed’s Too Big Without You (mono)
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3:30
9
Truth Hits Everybody (live)
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2:27
10
Friends
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3:37
11
Don’t Stand So Close to Me
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4:03
12
Driven to Tears
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3:20
13
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
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3:37
14
Canary in a Coalmine
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2:27
15
Voices Inside My Head
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3:53
16
Bombs Away
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3:06
17
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
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4:09
18
Behind My Camel
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2:54
19
Man in a Suitcase
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2:19
20
Shadows in the Rain
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5:02
21
The Other Way of Stopping
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3:23
Disc 3
1
A Sermon
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2:33
2
Driven to Tears (live)
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3:29
3
Shambelle
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5:01
4
Spirits in the Material World
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2:59
5
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
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4:21
6
Invisible Sun
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3:44
7
Hungry for You (j’aurais toujours faim de toi)
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2:53
8
Demolition Man
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5:58
9
Too Much Information
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3:43
10
Rehumanize Yourself
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3:10
11
One World (Not Three)
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4:47
12
Omegaman
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2:48
13
Secret Journey
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3:34
14
Darkness
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3:15
15
Flexible Strategies
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3:44
16
Low Life
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3:45
17
How Stupid Mr. Bates
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2:42
18
A Kind of Loving
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2:03
Disc 4
1
Synchronicity I
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3:23
2
Walking in Your Footsteps
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3:37
3
O My God
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4:02
4
Mother
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3:06
5
Miss Gradenko
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2:00
6
Synchronicity II
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5:03
7
Every Breath You Take
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4:14
8
King of Pain
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4:59
9
Wrapped Around Your Finger
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5:14
10
Tea in the Sahara
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4:14
11
Murder by Numbers
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4:37
12
Man in a Suitcase (live)
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2:17
13
Someone to Talk To
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3:08
14
Message in a Bottle (live)
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4:52
15
I Burn for You
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4:50
16
Once Upon a Daydream
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3:31
17
Tea in the Sahara (live)
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5:06
18
Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86
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4:51
In print
First pressed 1993, still pressed 2006 — 18 pressings across 5 countries.
Credits
Stylorouge
Art Direction
Julie Selig
Artists And Repertoire
The Police
Engineer
Tim Summerhayes
Engineer
Michael McGinty
Illustration
Syd Brak
Illustration
Andy Summers
Instrument · guitar, vocals
Henry Padovani
Instrument · guitar
Sting
Instrument · bass, vocals
John Bauldie
Liner Notes
Phil Sutcliffe
Liner Notes
Dave Collins
Mastering
Mark Mazzetti
Mastering
Adrian Boot
Photography
Chris Craske
Photography
Danny Quatrochi
Photography
Duane Michals
Photography
James Wedge
Photography
Janette Beckman
Photography
Jill Furmanovsky
Photography
LFI
Photography
Lynn Goldsmith
Photography
Miles Copeland
Photography
Paul Cox
Photography
Peter Baylis
Photography
Simon Fowler
Photography
Watal Asanuma
Photography
Hugh Padgham
Producer
Laurie Latham
Producer
Nigel Gray
Producer
Stewart Copeland
Producer
Stewart Whitmore
Producer · compiled by
WNEW-FM
Producer
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