Tracklist

Program 1
1-1	Fall Out	2:03
1-2	Nothing Achieving	1:56
1-3	Dead End Job	3:35
1-4	Next To You	2:52
1-5	So Lonely	4:51
1-6	Roxanne	3:14
1-7	Hole In My Life	4:54
1-8	Peanuts	4:01
1-9	Can't Stand Losing You	3:01
1-10	Truth Hits Everybody	2:54
1-11	Born In The 50's	3:44
1-12	Be My Girl-Sally	3:23
1-13	Masako Tanga	5:43
1-14	Landlord (Live)	2:36
1-15	Next To You (Live)	3:11
1-16	Landlord	3:09
1-17	Message In A Bottle	4:50
1-18	Reggatta De Blanc	3:06
1-19	It's Alright For You	3:13
1-20	Bring On The Night	4:15
1-21	Deathwish	4:11
Program 2
2-1	Walking On The Moon	5:02
2-2	On Any Other Day	2:57
2-3	The Bed's Too Big Without You	4:25
2-4	Contact	2:38
2-5	Does Everyone Stare	3:46
2-6	No Time This Time	3:20
2-7	Visions Of The Night	3:05
2-8	The Bed's Too Big Without You (Mono)	3:29
2-9	Truth Hits Everybody (Live)	2:26
2-10	Friends	3:36
2-11	Don't Stand So Close To Me	4:03
2-12	Driven To Tears	3:20
2-13	When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around	3:36
2-14	Canary In A Coalmine	2:26
2-15	Voices Inside My Head	3:52
2-16	Bombs Away	3:06
2-17	De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da	4:09
2-18	Behind My Camel	2:54
2-19	Man In A Suitcase	2:19
2-20	Shadows In The Rain	5:02
2-21	The Other Way Of Stopping	3:23
Program 3
3-1	A Sermon	2:32
3-2	Driven To Tears (Live)	3:29
3-3	Shambelle	5:00
3-4	Spirits In The Material World	2:59
3-5	Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic	4:20
3-6	Invisible Sun	3:43
3-7	Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi)	2:52
3-8	Demolition Man	5:57
3-9	Too Much Information	3:42
3-10	Rehumanize Yourself	3:10
3-11	One World (Not Three)	4:46
3-12	Omegaman	2:47
3-13	Secret Journey	3:33
3-14	Darkness	3:14
3-15	Flexible Strategies	3:43
3-16	Low Life	3:45
3-17	How Stupid Mr Bates	2:41
3-18	A Kind Of Loving	2:03
Program 4
4-1	Synchronicity I	3:22
4-2	Walking In Your Footsteps	3:36
4-3	O My God	4:02
4-4	Mother	3:05
4-5	Miss Gradenko	2:00
4-6	Synchronicity II	5:03
4-7	Every Breath You Take	4:14
4-8	King On Pain	4:59
4-9	Wrapped Around Your Finger	5:13
4-10	Tea In The Sahara	4:13
4-11	Murder By Numbers	4:36
4-12	Man In A Suitcase (Live)	2:17
4-13	Someone To Talk To	3:08
4-14	Message In A Bottle (Live)	4:51
4-15	I Burn For You	4:49
4-16	Once Upon A Daydream	3:31
4-17	Tea In The Sahara (Live)	5:06
4-18	Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 (Dance Mix)	6:24

Companies, etc.

• Made By – Polydor K.K.

Credits

• A&r [A & R Co-ordination] – Julie Selig
• Compiled By – Stewart Whitmore
• Coordinator [Co-ordination] – Barry Korkin, Phil Sutcliffe
• Coordinator [Production Co-ordination] – Richard Boardman
• Coordinator [Visual Co-ordination For A & M] – Jez Pearce*, Jo Bennett
• Design, Art Direction – Stylorouge
• Illustration [Front Cover Illustration Adaptation] – Syd Brak
• Illustration [Front Cover Illustration] – Michael McGinty
• Liner Notes – Phil Sutcliffe
• Liner Notes [Additional Material] – John Bauldie
• Mastered By – David Collins*
• Mastered By [Consultant] – Mark Mazzetti
• Photography – LFI
• Photography By – Adrian Boot, Chris Craske, Danny Quatrochi, Duane Michals, James Wedge, Janette Beckman, Jill Furmanovsky, Lynn Goldsmith, Miles Copeland III*, Peter Baylis, Watal Asanuma
• Photography By [Lfi] – Paul Cox , Simon Fowler
• Producer – Hugh Padgham (tracks: 3-3 to 3-14, 4-1 to 4-13, 4-16, 4-17), Laurie Latham (tracks: 4-18), Nigel Gray (tracks: 1-16 to 2-6, 2-10 to 2-21, 3-16, 4-14), The Police (tracks: 1-3 to 4-18), Stewart Copeland (tracks: 1-1, 1-2), Tim Summerhayes (tracks: 3-2)
• Research [Discography And Additional Research] – Jo Jacobs
• Written-By – A. Summers* (tracks: 1-3, 1-12, 1-18, 1-21, 2-10, 2-18, 3-3, 3-12, 3-15, 3-17, 3-18, 4-4, 4-11, 4-13, 4-16), S. Copeland* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-8, 1-14, 1-16, 1-18, 1-19, 1-21, 2-2, 2-4, 2-5, 2-16, 2-21, 3-1, 3-10, 3-14, 3-15, 3-17, 3-18, 4-05), Sting (tracks: 1-3 to 2-1, 2-3, 2-6 to 2-9, 2-11 to 2-15, 2-17, 2-19, 2-20, 3-2, 3-4 to 3-11, 3-13, 3-15 to 4-3, 4-6, 4-7 to 4-12, 4-14 to 4-18)

Notes

Digitally remastered for compact disc. Mastered at A&M Mastering Studio, August 1993.
Packaging printed and manufactured by CMCS Print & Packaging, London, England. Published 1993 by A&M Records Ltd. Book © 1993 A&M Records Ltd.
Contains a 68-page 5"x10" booklet.

Tracks 1-14 and 1-15 produced in conjunction with WNEW-FM New York.

Tracks 1-1 and 1-2 ℗ 1977 Illegal Records
Tracks 1-3 to 1-13 ℗ 1978 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 1-14 to 2-7 and 2-9 ℗ 1979 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 2-8 and 2-10 to 3-1 ℗ 1980 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 3-2 to 3-16 ℗ 1981 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 3-17 and 3-18 ℗ 1982 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 4-1 to 4-13 ℗ 1983 A&M Records Ltd.
Tracks 4-14 and 4-15 ℗ 1982 A&M Records Ltd.
Track 4-17 ℗ 1984 A&M Records Ltd.
Track 4-18 ℗ 1986 A&M Records Ltd.

This Compilation ℗ 1993 A&M Records Ltd., London.
©1993 A&M Records Ltd., London.

Discs manufactured in Germany by Universal M & L.

Track 4-18: Title simply given as "Don't Stand So Close To Me '86" on release.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Japanese Booklet): 4 988005 129307
• Barcode (Text): 7 31454 01502 8

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
31454 0150 2	The Police	Message In A Box (The Complete Recordings) ‎(Box + 4xCD, Comp, RM)	A&M Records	31454 0150 2	US	1993
540 150-2	The Police	Message In A Box (The Complete Recordings) ‎(4xCD, Comp, RE, RM + Box, Ltd, Num)	A&M Records	540 150-2	Europe	Unknown
540 150-2	The Police	Message In A Box (The Complete Recordings) ‎(4xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Ltd, Num)	A&M Records	540 150-2	Europe	1993
540 150-2	The Police	Message In A Box (The Complete Recordings) ‎(4xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Ltd, Num)	A&M Records	540 150-2	Europe	1993
31454 0150 2	The Police	Message In A Box (The Complete Recordings) ‎(Box + 4xCD, Comp, RM, RP)	A&M Records	31454 0150 2	US	Unknown

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