Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings

Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings
Compilation album by The Police
Released:	1993-09-27 (UK) 1993-09-28 (USA) 1993-10-01 (Japan)
Recorded:	RECORDING TIME PERIOD
Length:	ALBUM LENGTH
Label(s):	A&M
Producer(s):	PRODUCER NAME(S)
Studio(s):	RECORDING STUDIO(S)

Introduction

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Personnel

• Stewart Copeland
• Sting
• Andy Summers

• Henry Padovani – guitar on Fall Out, Nothing Achieving and Visions Of The Night
• Jean Roussel – piano on Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
• Olaf Kübler – saxophone on Low Life
• Suzanna Hamilton – screaming on A Kind of Loving

Track listing

Disc 1:

• Fall Out
• Nothing Achieving
• Dead End Job
• Next To You
• So Lonely
• Roxanne
• Hole In My Life
• Peanuts
• Can't Stand Losing You
• Truth Hits Everybody
• Born In The 50's
• Be My Girl, Sally
• Masoko Tanga
• Landlord (live - from Propaganda LP)
• Next To You (live - from Propaganda LP)
• Landlord
• Message In A Bottle
• Reggatta de Blanc
• It's Alright For You
• Bring On The Night
• Deathwish

Disc 2:

• Walking On The Moon
• On Any Other Day
• The Bed's Too Big Without You
• Contact
• Does Everyone Stare
• No Time This Time
• Visions Of The Night
• The Bed's Too Big Without You (mono version - from Six Pack)
• Truth Hits Everybody (live - from Six Pack)
• Friends
• Don't Stand So Close To Me
• Driven To Tears
• When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
• Canary In A Coalmine
• Voices Inside My Head
• Bombs Away
• De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
• Behind My Camel
• Man In A Suitcase
• Shadows In The Rain
• The Other Way Of Stopping

Disc 3:

• A Sermon
• Driven To Tears (live - from URGH! A Music War)
• Shambelle
• Spirits In The Material World
• Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
• Invisible Sun
• Hungry For You
• Demolition Man
• Too Much Information
• Rehumanize Yourself
• One World (Not Three)
• Omegaman
• Secret Journey
• Darkness
• Flexible Strategies
• Low Life
• How Stupid Mr. Bates (from Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack)
• A Kind Of Loving (from Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack)

Disc 4:

• Synchronicity I
• Walking In Your Footsteps
• Oh My God
• Mother
• Miss Gradenko
• Synchronicity II
• Every Breath You Take
• King Of Pain
• Wrapped Around Your Finger
• Tea In The Sahara
• Murder By Numbers
• Man In A Suitcase (live)
• Someone To Talk To
• Message In A Bottle (live)
• I Burn For You (from Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack)
• Once Upon A Daydream
• Tea In The Sahara (live)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me '86

Missing official tracks

Here are the tracks that had appeared on official releases BEFORE this box release - not listing edited single versions:

• De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Spanish version)
• De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Japanese version)
• Truth Hits Everybody (remix)
• Roxanne (backing track)
• Every Breath You Take (backing track)
• Can't Stand Losing You (live) (from the double LP 21 Years of Alternative Radio 1)
• Wrapped Around Your Finger (live)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me (live)
• Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 - different versions of this song appear in different boxsets, but one is always omitted

• Invisible Sun's video featured a much longer version of the song
• Spirits In The Material World's video mix was very different to the vinyl version
• Light Changes (well, it's not REALLY a The Police song, but is listed as such on Around The World)

Other missing tracks

Songs that were released AFTER the release of this box set:

• De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da '86
• Voices Inside My Head (various mixes)
• The Police Live! (incl. single mixes)
• Fall Out (live - from WBCN Naked Disc compilation)
• Driven To Tears (live - from Live Earth CD)

Further unreleased songs that are known to exist:

• Visions Of The Night (2 vocal takes from 1977)
• Dead End Job (1977 version)
• Truth Hits Everybody (1977 Matrix Studios version)
• Wanna Know
• Roxanne (alt. version)
• So Lonely (alt. version)
• Can't Stand Losing You (alt. version)
• Born In The 50's (alt. version)
• Poem
• Bring On The Night (alt. version)
• It's Alright For You (slightly different mix)
• Zenyatta Mondatta demos
• De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (Japanese / Spanish language mix)
• Truth Hits Everybody (various slow studio takes from May 1981 / Jim Ebdon mix)
• Ghost In The Machine demos
• various instrumentals
• Ghost In The Machine / Synchronicity songs (different versions or mixes from AIR Studios / Le Studio)

Stuff that was recorded and might still exist somewhere:

• January 1977 The Police rehearsals
• Next To You (1977 Matrix Studios version)

Related stuff:

• Strontium 90: Police Academy songs
• Eberhard Schoener songs
• Welcome Home

Remixes:

• Walking On The Moon
• Voices Inside My Head
• When The World Is Running Down

Singles released

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Variants, special editions and re-releases

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Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Country	Position
YYYY	CHART	COUNTRY	POSITION REACHED

Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Country	Position
YYYY	SONG	CHART	COUNTRY	POSITION REACHED

Awards, nominations, and certifications

Awards

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Year	Winner	Award	Category
YYYY	WINNER (album, song, producer, etc.)	AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.)	CATEGORY

Nominations

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Year	Nominee	Award	Category
YYYY	NOMINEE (album, song, producer, etc.)	AWARD (Grammy, People's Choice, etc.)	CATEGORY

Certifications

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Country	Certifier	Classification	Certification
COUNTRY	CERTIFIER (RIAA, IFPI...)	CLASSIFICATION (Album, singles, foreign artist...)	CERTIFICATION (Gold, Platinum, Diamond...)

Quotations and trivia

UK ad:

Japanese flyer:

Japanese ad:

Dutch ad:

Spanish ad:

German ad:

See also

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External links and reviews

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References

sources: A&M news sheet for the UK release date, Japanese flyer (release date), A&M publicity sheet for the US release date