Every Breath You Take: The Classics
Editorial Reviews
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Love 'em or hate 'em, there was no denying that Sting and the boys released some great singles. The title track practically distills the essence of perfect pop, while "Roxanne," "Don't Stand So Close to Me," "De do do do, de da da da," and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" helped define a generation. --Chris Nickson --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Album Description
This Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) recording offers high-resolution sound and is playable on both standard CD players and SACD-compatible devices. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Average customer rating:
- Why do labels do this with greatest hits CDs?...
- Reuniting And It Feels (and sounds) So Good
- Every Breath You Take - The Police
- Nostalgia
- My LP records and they're all scratched
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ASIN: B0006VXMDU
Release Date: 2005-01-11 |
Tracks:
- Roxanne
- Can't Stand Losing You
- Message In A Bottle
- Walking On The Moon
- Don't Stand So Close To Me
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Invisible Sun
- Spirits In The Material World
- Every Breath You Take
- King Of Pain
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
- Message In A Bottle
Customer Reviews:
Why do labels do this with greatest hits CDs?..........2007-07-15
Always we get a CD with a couple of hits not included, just so they can slap a couple of crappy remixes of songs that are already included on the album. Two important songs are missing here: "Bring on the Night" and "Synchronicity II", all because of the last two songs. It's a bit of a rip-off to some of us.
Reuniting And It Feels (and sounds) So Good.......2007-05-19
The police are nothing short of AWESOME!! This cd contains many of our most loved Police hits and is a must have for any collection. Happy listening.
Every Breath You Take - The Police.......2007-05-09
Love this album, it is so full of those wonderful songs I grew up with.
Nostalgia.......2007-05-07
I have always loved this music. It took me back to a time when I was
younger and healthier and looked forward to listening to Sting (before he
was Sting) and I was out dancing. It was good music to dance to.
My LP records and they're all scratched.......2007-02-12
This really is a five star singles collection. Only one minor hit is missing ("Synchronicity II") and the gawdawful Puffy mix of "Roxanne" is - one can only hope - been wiped from the face of the Earth. But having seen the band reunite on the 2007 Grammys, and how "Roxanne" still sounds amazing for a 30 year old song, "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" is a prefect reminder of just how much The Police commercialized "Punk rock" and made brilliant pop at the same time.
I remember buying "Outlandos D'amour" in the fall of 1978, right before starting college. I was just beginning to get into punk/new wave and "Roxanne" was such a giddy single that I had to have the album. I was enthused but also surprised. While the band played with punky brashness, there was stuff here that was way too sophisticated for punk. The tricky drumming of Stewart Copeland was a dead giveaway...The Police were more than those peroxided heads on the album cover.
When "Regatta DeBlanc" arrived, the aggressive "Message In A Bottle" served notice. Sting was a charismatic singer that could rock with the best of them, and Andy Summers' playing was really beginning to show that he was limitlessly inventive. The spacey reggae of "Walking On The Moon" pushed their experimentation to a new peak. While "Message" should have been the breakthrough single The Police deserved after "Roxanne," radio resistance to this new kind of new wave music forced the band to wait until the third album.
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" changed that. Irresistibly catchy, it spotlighted Sting's ability to write crafty pop songs. Then the enigmatic and literate "Don't Stand So Close To Me" went top ten, forcing even the staunchest critics to accept "Zenyatta Mondatta" and The Police. After all, not every rock band could quote Nabokov and top the charts with it. By now, the band had also become MTV darlings and Sting a heart-throb, an image he had no problem riding to success but still took issue with on the creative level. He wanted to make sure that The Police were regarded more as musical artists than video vixens with goofy song clips.
Success emboldened Sting and The Police experimented heavily on "Ghost In The Machine." Gone were the pretty boy cover pictures and pseudo-Eurospeak titles. The stuttering time-signature of the title track and the Pink Floyd meets the Beach Boys of "Invisible Sun" were unlike anything The Police had recorded before. Still, it was the classic pop sounding "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" that was, well, magic. The mix of progressive and pop set the stage for The Police's finest hour.
If "Every Little Thing..." sounded like classic pop, "Every Breath You Take" sounded timeless. As everyone knows, the deceptively paranoid single cross-circuited and insta-catchy melody with lyrics that sounded like a pledge of devotion only to be undermined by the totally obsessive nature of the protagonist. The nature of the album "Synchronicity" was to allow each member to add his part as he saw fit (even though Sting was obviously the de facto leader by now). it led to the stripped down sound of "King Of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger."
But that was as far as the band could travel together. Sting's ambitions (or ego, depending on your point of view) had moved past Copeland and Stewart's. The worldwide success of "Synchronicity" and the tour put the band on a hiatus that they never really called off. That leaves the sole new items here the pointless electronic remake of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (from the "The Singles" collection) and a remix of "Message In A Bottle" that is all but indistinguishable from the original. "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" does allow for both versions of "Don't Stand So Close To Me," which makes that earlier collection obsolete.
However, the recently reissued Police library has at least two classic albums in it (in my opinion, "Synchronicity" and "Zenyatta Mondatta"), that rate picking up a few of the individual albums for their key tracks. (For instance, it is again my opinion, but both of the "new" tracks here could have easily been dumped for the likes of "So Lonely," "Driven To Tears" or "Synchronicity II.") Still, as a collection of memorable radio and groundbreaking music, the evolution of The Police from punky white reggae to musical sophisticates makes this CD a must have if you don't want to go beyond the hits.
Average customer rating:
- Stop, it's the Police!
- My LP records and they're all scratched
- The CD layer is good.
- A Very Good Selection of the Police's Pop
- If you're a Police "rock" fan, get Message In A Box instead!
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Every Breath You Take: The Classics
The Police
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
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ASIN: B000088NSZ
Release Date: 2003-03-04 |
Tracks:
- Roxanne
- Can't Stand Losing You
- Message In A Bottle
- Walking On The Moon
- Don't Stand So Close To Me
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Invisible Sun
- Spirits In The Material World
- Every Breath You Take
- King Of Pain
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
- Message In A Bottle
Amazon.com
Love 'em or hate 'em, there was no denying that Sting and the boys released some great singles. The title track practically distills the essence of perfect pop, while "Roxanne," "Don't Stand So Close to Me," "De do do do, de da da da," and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" helped define a generation. --Chris Nickson
Album Description
This Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) recording offers high-resolution sound and is playable on both standard CD players and SACD-compatible devices.
Customer Reviews:
Stop, it's the Police!.......2007-07-20
This Police collection is a great disc of early 80s rock, a whole bunch of hits I remember from the radio as a kid. The album kicks off with Roxanne, which I actually find kind of annoying. There's a whole string of good songs after that though, with songs mixing with even better songs. There are two versions of Dont Stand so Close to Me and Message in a Bottle. In each case, I like the older versions better. Excellent Brit pop/rock.
My LP records and they're all scratched.......2007-02-12
This really is a five star singles collection. Only one minor hit is missing ("Synchronicity II") and the gawdawful Puffy mix of "Roxanne" is - one can only hope - been wiped from the face of the Earth. But having seen the band reunite on the 2007 Grammys, and how "Roxanne" still sounds amazing for a 30 year old song, "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" is a prefect reminder of just how much The Police commercialized "Punk rock" and made brilliant pop at the same time.
I remember buying "Outlandos D'amour" in the fall of 1978, right before starting college. I was just beginning to get into punk/new wave and "Roxanne" was such a giddy single that I had to have the album. I was enthused but also surprised. While the band played with punky brashness, there was stuff here that was way too sophisticated for punk. The tricky drumming of Stewart Copeland was a dead giveaway...The Police were more than those peroxided heads on the album cover.
When "Regatta DeBlanc" arrived, the aggressive "Message In A Bottle" served notice. Sting was a charismatic singer that could rock with the best of them, and Andy Summers' playing was really beginning to show that he was limitlessly inventive. The spacey reggae of "Walking On The Moon" pushed their experimentation to a new peak. While "Message" should have been the breakthrough single The Police deserved after "Roxanne," radio resistance to this new kind of new wave music forced the band to wait until the third album.
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" changed that. Irresistibly catchy, it spotlighted Sting's ability to write crafty pop songs. Then the enigmatic and literate "Don't Stand So Close To Me" went top ten, forcing even the staunchest critics to accept "Zenyatta Mondatta" and The Police. After all, not every rock band could quote Nabokov and top the charts with it. By now, the band had also become MTV darlings and Sting a heart-throb, an image he had no problem riding to success but still took issue with on the creative level. He wanted to make sure that The Police were regarded more as musical artists than video vixens with goofy song clips.
Success emboldened Sting and The Police experimented heavily on "Ghost In The Machine." Gone were the pretty boy cover pictures and pseudo-Eurospeak titles. The stuttering time-signature of the title track and the Pink Floyd meets the Beach Boys of "Invisible Sun" were unlike anything The Police had recorded before. Still, it was the classic pop sounding "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" that was, well, magic. The mix of progressive and pop set the stage for The Police's finest hour.
If "Every Little Thing..." sounded like classic pop, "Every Breath You Take" sounded timeless. As everyone knows, the deceptively paranoid single cross-circuited and insta-catchy melody with lyrics that sounded like a pledge of devotion only to be undermined by the totally obsessive nature of the protagonist. The nature of the album "Synchronicity" was to allow each member to add his part as he saw fit (even though Sting was obviously the de facto leader by now). it led to the stripped down sound of "King Of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger."
But that was as far as the band could travel together. Sting's ambitions (or ego, depending on your point of view) had moved past Copeland and Stewart's. The worldwide success of "Synchronicity" and the tour put the band on a hiatus that they never really called off. That leaves the sole new items here the pointless electronic remake of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (from the "The Singles" collection) and a remix of "Message In A Bottle" that is all but indistinguishable from the original. "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" does allow for both versions of "Don't Stand So Close To Me," which makes that earlier collection obsolete.
However, the recently reissued Police library has at least two classic albums in it (in my opinion, "Synchronicity" and "Zenyatta Mondatta"), that rate picking up a few of the individual albums for their key tracks. (For instance, it is again my opinion, but both of the "new" tracks here could have easily been dumped for the likes of "So Lonely," "Driven To Tears" or "Synchronicity II.") Still, as a collection of memorable radio and groundbreaking music, the evolution of The Police from punky white reggae to musical sophisticates makes this CD a must have if you don't want to go beyond the hits.
The CD layer is good........2006-07-16
It's nice to see Sony came out with a format that competes with cassette tapes.
A Very Good Selection of the Police's Pop.......2005-09-23
You may argue, as many people tend to do with "best of" and "greatest hits" albums, that the album missed this song, that song, or an entire group of songs. However, this CD seems to represent to majority of the Police's more popular songs. There are some singles missing, particularly from "Ghost in the Machine" and "Zenyatta Mondatta." However, as with all collections, choices need to be made. The only surprise is that this CD still has 20 minutes available for music and rather than filling the space with other good music, someone may have made a marketing decision.
The first two songs are from "Outlandos d'Amour." "Roxanne" seems to be a fan favorite; perhaps because "Roxanne" was the song that seems to have launched the Police's musical success. The third and fourth songs are from "Regatta de Blanc." There is a strong reggae sound to "Walking on the Moon." Reggae was a strong influence in the Police's early music, though the influence was much less perceptible by the time the Police released "Synchronicity."
The album "Zenyatta Mondatta" provides the songs "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "De do do do, De da da da." I enjoy both songs, but the eerie and creepy subject of the former song is but one of the numerous social challenges that the Police covered in their music.
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "Invisible Sun," and "Spirits in the Material World," were all from the album "Ghosts in the Machine." The first song was the most successful, reaching #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #3 on the pop singles chart, but I prefer the eerie and slightly progressive song "Invisible Sun" and the reggae influence pop song "Spirits in the Material World." I think the latter two songs are more interesting and challenging than the mellower and more pop oriented first song.
The next three songs all come from "Synchronicity." I was surprised that "Synchronicity I," which charted well, is not represented on this collection, particularly given the space remaining on the CD. However, the creepy "Every Breath You Take" and the poetic song "King of Pain" both charted well and are good representatives of this influential and popular album. The song "Wrapped around Your Finger" is another good song, but I prefer the other two songs to this one.
There are two additional tracks. The first is a 1986 recording of the song "Don't Stand so Close to Me." I prefer the original to this over-produced and more electronic version. There is also a different mix of "Message in a Bottle." I am prejudiced by my tastes, but I also think the original of this song was better.
The Police burned brightly in the five albums they recorded from 1978 to 1983. Even now songs such as "King of Pain" and "Every Breath You Take" sound fresh. Sting's experiences and knowledge attained as a secondary school English teacher frequently enhanced the power of the lyrics. The skill and creativity of the three members of the group also led to conflicts that led to the group's permanent dissolution after the release of "Synchronicity." Perhaps there is a bittersweet pleasure is listening to this music time and again, but at least a legacy of their creativity and musical influence remains. The Police is yet another group whose music is better represented by their albums rather than any selection of songs from the albums. However, if you are interested only in the more popular songs of this multiple Grammy Award group, this CD is currently one of your best choices. Enjoy!
If you're a Police "rock" fan, get Message In A Box instead!.......2005-07-28
All of the Police compilations go heavy on the POP, with not enough ROCK.
If A&M came out with a 2CD Police ROCK compilation, they should definitely include the following:
(Notice that I purposefully omit Every Breath You Take! Ugh!)
1. It's Alright For You (contains the best Police guitar "hook"!)
2. Message in a Bottle
3. Visions Of The Night (Hard Rockin' Police!)
4. Roxanne
5. Peanuts (..sang his song for much too long..brain is gone...)
6. Too Much Information
7. Next To You (Sting's first great song!)
8. A Sermon (written by Stewart, sung by Sting, very perceptive!)
9. Reggatta De Blanc (great instrumental!)
10.Synchronicity I
11.Truth Hits Everybody
12.When The World Is Running Down (James Brown and T.A.M.I. show)
13.Omegaman
14.Masoko Tanga (Whatever Sting is saying, I like this song!)
15.Invisible Sun
16.Flexible Strategies (another great instrumental!)
17.De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
18.Deathwish
19.Rehumanize Yourself
20.On Any Other Day (Stewart Copeland sings!)
21.Demolition Man
22.Synchronicity II
23.Don't Stand So Close To Me
Look at all those great Police songs that you'll be missing!
Until A&M comes out with a better Police compilation, get Message In A Box!
Average customer rating:
- Stop, it's the Police!
- My LP records and they're all scratched
- The CD layer is good.
- A Very Good Selection of the Police's Pop
- If you're a Police "rock" fan, get Message In A Box instead!
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Every Breath You Take: The Classics
The Police
Manufacturer: A&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
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| British Isles
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| Classic Rock
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- Synchronicity [Digipak]
- Brothers in Arms
- The Stranger
- Thriller
- Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994
ASIN: B000002G3U
Release Date: 1995-09-12 |
Tracks:
- Roxanne
- Can't Stand Losing You
- Message In A Bottle
- Walking On The Moon
- Don't Stand So Close To Me
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Invisible Sun
- Spirits In The Material World
- Every Breath You Take
- King Of Pain
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Don't Stand So Close To Me '86
- Message In A Bottle (New Classic Rock Mix)
Amazon.com
Love 'em or hate 'em, there was no denying that Sting and the boys released some great singles. The title track practically distills the essence of perfect pop, while "Roxanne," "Don't Stand So Close to Me," "De do do do, de da da da," and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" helped define a generation. --Chris Nickson
Album Description
This Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD) recording offers high-resolution sound and is playable on both standard CD players and SACD-compatible devices.
Customer Reviews:
Stop, it's the Police!.......2007-07-20
This Police collection is a great disc of early 80s rock, a whole bunch of hits I remember from the radio as a kid. The album kicks off with Roxanne, which I actually find kind of annoying. There's a whole string of good songs after that though, with songs mixing with even better songs. There are two versions of Dont Stand so Close to Me and Message in a Bottle. In each case, I like the older versions better. Excellent Brit pop/rock.
My LP records and they're all scratched.......2007-02-12
This really is a five star singles collection. Only one minor hit is missing ("Synchronicity II") and the gawdawful Puffy mix of "Roxanne" is - one can only hope - been wiped from the face of the Earth. But having seen the band reunite on the 2007 Grammys, and how "Roxanne" still sounds amazing for a 30 year old song, "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" is a prefect reminder of just how much The Police commercialized "Punk rock" and made brilliant pop at the same time.
I remember buying "Outlandos D'amour" in the fall of 1978, right before starting college. I was just beginning to get into punk/new wave and "Roxanne" was such a giddy single that I had to have the album. I was enthused but also surprised. While the band played with punky brashness, there was stuff here that was way too sophisticated for punk. The tricky drumming of Stewart Copeland was a dead giveaway...The Police were more than those peroxided heads on the album cover.
When "Regatta DeBlanc" arrived, the aggressive "Message In A Bottle" served notice. Sting was a charismatic singer that could rock with the best of them, and Andy Summers' playing was really beginning to show that he was limitlessly inventive. The spacey reggae of "Walking On The Moon" pushed their experimentation to a new peak. While "Message" should have been the breakthrough single The Police deserved after "Roxanne," radio resistance to this new kind of new wave music forced the band to wait until the third album.
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" changed that. Irresistibly catchy, it spotlighted Sting's ability to write crafty pop songs. Then the enigmatic and literate "Don't Stand So Close To Me" went top ten, forcing even the staunchest critics to accept "Zenyatta Mondatta" and The Police. After all, not every rock band could quote Nabokov and top the charts with it. By now, the band had also become MTV darlings and Sting a heart-throb, an image he had no problem riding to success but still took issue with on the creative level. He wanted to make sure that The Police were regarded more as musical artists than video vixens with goofy song clips.
Success emboldened Sting and The Police experimented heavily on "Ghost In The Machine." Gone were the pretty boy cover pictures and pseudo-Eurospeak titles. The stuttering time-signature of the title track and the Pink Floyd meets the Beach Boys of "Invisible Sun" were unlike anything The Police had recorded before. Still, it was the classic pop sounding "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" that was, well, magic. The mix of progressive and pop set the stage for The Police's finest hour.
If "Every Little Thing..." sounded like classic pop, "Every Breath You Take" sounded timeless. As everyone knows, the deceptively paranoid single cross-circuited and insta-catchy melody with lyrics that sounded like a pledge of devotion only to be undermined by the totally obsessive nature of the protagonist. The nature of the album "Synchronicity" was to allow each member to add his part as he saw fit (even though Sting was obviously the de facto leader by now). it led to the stripped down sound of "King Of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger."
But that was as far as the band could travel together. Sting's ambitions (or ego, depending on your point of view) had moved past Copeland and Stewart's. The worldwide success of "Synchronicity" and the tour put the band on a hiatus that they never really called off. That leaves the sole new items here the pointless electronic remake of "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (from the "The Singles" collection) and a remix of "Message In A Bottle" that is all but indistinguishable from the original. "Every Breath You Take: The Classics" does allow for both versions of "Don't Stand So Close To Me," which makes that earlier collection obsolete.
However, the recently reissued Police library has at least two classic albums in it (in my opinion, "Synchronicity" and "Zenyatta Mondatta"), that rate picking up a few of the individual albums for their key tracks. (For instance, it is again my opinion, but both of the "new" tracks here could have easily been dumped for the likes of "So Lonely," "Driven To Tears" or "Synchronicity II.") Still, as a collection of memorable radio and groundbreaking music, the evolution of The Police from punky white reggae to musical sophisticates makes this CD a must have if you don't want to go beyond the hits.
The CD layer is good........2006-07-16
It's nice to see Sony came out with a format that competes with cassette tapes.
A Very Good Selection of the Police's Pop.......2005-09-23
You may argue, as many people tend to do with "best of" and "greatest hits" albums, that the album missed this song, that song, or an entire group of songs. However, this CD seems to represent to majority of the Police's more popular songs. There are some singles missing, particularly from "Ghost in the Machine" and "Zenyatta Mondatta." However, as with all collections, choices need to be made. The only surprise is that this CD still has 20 minutes available for music and rather than filling the space with other good music, someone may have made a marketing decision.
The first two songs are from "Outlandos d'Amour." "Roxanne" seems to be a fan favorite; perhaps because "Roxanne" was the song that seems to have launched the Police's musical success. The third and fourth songs are from "Regatta de Blanc." There is a strong reggae sound to "Walking on the Moon." Reggae was a strong influence in the Police's early music, though the influence was much less perceptible by the time the Police released "Synchronicity."
The album "Zenyatta Mondatta" provides the songs "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "De do do do, De da da da." I enjoy both songs, but the eerie and creepy subject of the former song is but one of the numerous social challenges that the Police covered in their music.
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "Invisible Sun," and "Spirits in the Material World," were all from the album "Ghosts in the Machine." The first song was the most successful, reaching #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #3 on the pop singles chart, but I prefer the eerie and slightly progressive song "Invisible Sun" and the reggae influence pop song "Spirits in the Material World." I think the latter two songs are more interesting and challenging than the mellower and more pop oriented first song.
The next three songs all come from "Synchronicity." I was surprised that "Synchronicity I," which charted well, is not represented on this collection, particularly given the space remaining on the CD. However, the creepy "Every Breath You Take" and the poetic song "King of Pain" both charted well and are good representatives of this influential and popular album. The song "Wrapped around Your Finger" is another good song, but I prefer the other two songs to this one.
There are two additional tracks. The first is a 1986 recording of the song "Don't Stand so Close to Me." I prefer the original to this over-produced and more electronic version. There is also a different mix of "Message in a Bottle." I am prejudiced by my tastes, but I also think the original of this song was better.
The Police burned brightly in the five albums they recorded from 1978 to 1983. Even now songs such as "King of Pain" and "Every Breath You Take" sound fresh. Sting's experiences and knowledge attained as a secondary school English teacher frequently enhanced the power of the lyrics. The skill and creativity of the three members of the group also led to conflicts that led to the group's permanent dissolution after the release of "Synchronicity." Perhaps there is a bittersweet pleasure is listening to this music time and again, but at least a legacy of their creativity and musical influence remains. The Police is yet another group whose music is better represented by their albums rather than any selection of songs from the albums. However, if you are interested only in the more popular songs of this multiple Grammy Award group, this CD is currently one of your best choices. Enjoy!
If you're a Police "rock" fan, get Message In A Box instead!.......2005-07-28
All of the Police compilations go heavy on the POP, with not enough ROCK.
If A&M came out with a 2CD Police ROCK compilation, they should definitely include the following:
(Notice that I purposefully omit Every Breath You Take! Ugh!)
1. It's Alright For You (contains the best Police guitar "hook"!)
2. Message in a Bottle
3. Visions Of The Night (Hard Rockin' Police!)
4. Roxanne
5. Peanuts (..sang his song for much too long..brain is gone...)
6. Too Much Information
7. Next To You (Sting's first great song!)
8. A Sermon (written by Stewart, sung by Sting, very perceptive!)
9. Reggatta De Blanc (great instrumental!)
10.Synchronicity I
11.Truth Hits Everybody
12.When The World Is Running Down (James Brown and T.A.M.I. show)
13.Omegaman
14.Masoko Tanga (Whatever Sting is saying, I like this song!)
15.Invisible Sun
16.Flexible Strategies (another great instrumental!)
17.De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
18.Deathwish
19.Rehumanize Yourself
20.On Any Other Day (Stewart Copeland sings!)
21.Demolition Man
22.Synchronicity II
23.Don't Stand So Close To Me
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Every Breath You Take: The Classics
The Police
Manufacturer: A&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
New Wave
| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Britain
| British Isles
| Europe
| International
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B000008QO4
Release Date: 1996-03-05 |
Tracks:
- Roxanne
- Can't Stand Losing You
- Message in a Bottle
- Walking on the Moon
- Don't Stand So Close to Me
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Invisible Sun
- Spirits in the Material World
- Every Breath You Take
- King of Pain
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Don't Stand Too Close to Me '86
- Message in a Bottle [New Classic Rock Mix]
Music:
- Evil Empire [Explicit Lyrics]
- Family, Faith & Freedom
- From Euphoria To Paranoia [Import]
- Gish
- Greatest Hits
- Guero [Import]
- Here's Where the Strings Come In
- Huevos
- I Don't Want to Grow Up
- In the Running
Music
music
Music
Slow Dazzle [Import]
Secret of a Voice
Sviatoslav Richter Concert Performances And Broadcasts, 1958-1976
Upon the Outlaw Trail [Import]
All the Way From Stockholm to Philadelphia 1971-72
The Journey Continues
The Sound of Music [Soundtrack] [Original recording remastered]
Romantic Moments, Vol. 9: Beethoven
This Tyrant Is Free
Schubert: Symphonies 8 & 9 / Krips
Taste of [Import]
Skinny Swings
Si Dios Me Lleva Con El
Hymns of Yesteryear
Kick