Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD boxed set by The Police, containing all of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles, B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack.
Disc 1 opens with the band's first single, "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving", featuring Henry Padovani on guitar and another track previously unavailable on CD, "Dead End Job". It proceeds with the...
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Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a four-CD boxed set by The Police, containing all of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles, B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack.
Disc 1 opens with the band's first single, "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving", featuring Henry Padovani on guitar and another track previously unavailable on CD, "Dead End Job". It proceeds with the contents of their first album, Outlandos d'Amour, followed by live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You" (recorded at the Bottom Line, New York on 4 April 1979 and originally broadcast on WNEW-FM, New York), and the studio version of "Landlord". The first half of the group's second album Reggatta de Blanc concludes the disc.
Disc 2 starts with the rest of Reggatta de Blanc. It is followed by the B-side "Visions of the Night", a mono mix of "The Bed's Too Big Without You", a mono live version of "Truth Hits Everybody," and another B-side,...
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