The Police

Jun 05, 2007
Track List And Lyrics
    DISC NO: 1
  1. Fall Out lyrics
  2. Can't Stand Losing You lyrics
  3. Next To You lyrics
  4. Roxanne lyrics
  5. Truth Hits Everybody lyrics
  6. Hole In My Life lyrics
  7. So Lonely lyrics
  8. Message In A Bottle lyrics
  9. Reggatta de Blanc lyrics
  10. Bring On The Night lyrics
  11. Walking On The Moon lyrics
  12. The Bed's Too Big Without You lyrics
  13. Don't Stand So Close To Me lyrics
  14. Driven To Tears lyrics
  15. Canary In A Coalmine lyrics
  16. DISC NO: 2
  1. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da lyrics
  2. Voices Inside My Head lyrics
  3. Invisible Sun lyrics
  4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic lyrics
  5. Spirits In The Material World lyrics
  6. Demolition Man lyrics
  7. Rehumanize Yourself lyrics
  8. Every Breath You Take lyrics
  9. Synchronicity I lyrics
  10. Wrapped Around Your Finger lyrics
  11. Walking In Your Footsteps lyrics
  12. Synchronicity II lyrics
  13. King Of Pain lyrics
  14. Murder By Numbers lyrics
  15. Tea In The Sahara lyrics
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Label
A&M
Recorded At
UNITED KINGDOM

Soundbites

The Police, a double-disc CD released by A&M Records on June 11th, 2007. The 30 track greatest hits, marks 30 years since The Police released their first single Fall Out in 1977. The Police spans the bands prolific career, with five studio albums released over six years.The band's first double disc Greatest Hits, The Police is a collection of hits and fan favourites, including their first single Fall Out and songs from their five studio albums. The UK version includes 2 extra tracks - The Bed's Too Big Without You and Rehumanize Yourself.

 


 

Backgrounder

Review from All Music Guide by Stephen Thomas Erlewine


To coincide with their 30th anniversary reunion tour in 2007 the Police released the anthology The Police, the first two-CD retrospective ever assembled on the group. They may not have had a double compilation to their credit, but they had single discs and box sets, which may raise the question of whether they need a set like this -- and the answer is yes, but this set falls just a bit short of being the definitive Police double disc. At only 28 tracks, this feels a little too slim. It may be twice as long as 1995's Every Breath You Take: The Classics (and, in a way, that was only 12 tracks, since that contained the 1986 remake of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and a classic rock mix of "Message in a Bottle," which were little more than padding), but there are a handful of Police staples that are missing, including "Born in the '50s," "The Bed's Too Big Without You," "Shadows in the Rain," and "Rehumanize Yourself," and the heavy emphasis on Synchronicity (all but three songs from the LP are present; yes, Andy Summers' bizarro "Mother" is one of the tunes missing in action) threatens to overwhelm the second disc. That said, Synchronicity does deserve such a heavy exposure, given that it's the band's biggest album, and it's hard to argue with the rest of the selections here since it covers all the familiar hits and most, but not all, of the second-tier classics including "Truth Hits Everybody," "Bring on the Night," "Canary in a Coalmine," "Driven to Tears," and their first single, "Fallout." It may not seem like much, but if those aforementioned four tunes were here, The Police would have all the core songs from the trio and this would be truly definitive, but as it stands this collection stands as simply an excellent overview.