01. Don't Stand So Close To Me
02. Walking On The Moon
03. Deathwish
04. Fall Out							play
05. Man In A Suitcase
06. Bring On The Night
07. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
08. Truth Hits Everybody				play
09. When the World Is Running Down...
10. Bed's Too Big Without You
11. Driven To Tears
12. Message In A Bottle
13. Roxanne
14. Can't Stand Losing You
15. So Lonely

Live at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - February 02, 1981.
Zenyatta Mondatta Tour

Personnel: Sting :: Andy Summers :: Stewart Copeland.

Here's a great-sounding Police recording that's been off the tracker for a little while. Clear, tight, balanced sound and a cracking performance. (Info from the original torrent follows)

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting (lead vocals, bass), Andy Summers (guitars) and Stewart Copeland (drums). The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. Their 1983 album, Synchronicity, was number one on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200, and sold over 8,000,000 copies in the US. The group finally disbanded in 1986, but reunited in early 2007 for a one-off world tour lasting until August 2008. The Police have sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and were the world's highest-earning musicians in 2008, thanks to their reunion tour.

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01. Next To You – 2:50
02. So Lonely – 4:48
03. Roxanne – 3:10
04. Hole In My Life – 4:48
05. Peanuts (Sting, Stewart Copeland) – 3:53
06. Can't Stand Losing You – 2:57
07. Truth Hits Everybody – 2:53
08. Born In The 50's – 3:40
09. Be My Girl - Sally (Andy Summers, Sting) – 3:22
10. Masoko Tanga – 5:39

Personnel:
- Sting – bass, lead vocals
- Andy Summers – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals and piano on "Sally",
 vocals on "Dead End Job"
- Stewart Copeland – drums, percusson, backing vocals
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- Joe Sinclair – piano on "Hole in My Life" and "Masoko Tanga"

While their subsequent chart-topping albums would contain far more ambitious songwriting and musicianship, the Police's 1978 debut, Outlandos d'Amour (translation: Outlaws of Love) is by far their most direct and straightforward release. Although Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland were all superb instrumentalists with jazz backgrounds, it was much easier to get a record contract in late-'70s England if you were a punk/new wave artist, so the band decided to mask their instrumental prowess with a set of strong, adrenaline-charged rock, albeit with a reggae tinge. Some of it may have been simplistic ("Be My Girl-Sally," "Born in the '50s"), but Sting was already an ace songwriter, as evidenced by all-time classics like the good-girl-gone-bad tale of "Roxanne," and a pair of brokenhearted reggae-rock ditties, "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely." But like all other Police albums, the lesser-known album cuts are often highlights themselves -- the frenzied rockers "Next to You," "Peanuts," and "Truth Hits Everybody," as well as more exotic fare like the groovy album closer "Masoko Tanga" and the lonesome "Hole in My Life." Outlandos d'Amour is unquestionably one of the finest debuts to come out of the '70s punk/new wave movement. ---Greg Prato, AllMusic Review

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01. Don't Stand So Close To Me – 4:01
02. Driven To Tears – 3:20
03. When The World Is Running Down, You Make 
The Best Of What's Still Around – 3:35
04. Canary In A Coalmine – 2:24
05. Voices Inside My Head – 3:50
06. Bombs Away (Stewart Copeland) – 3:06
07. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da – 4:05
08. Behind My Camel (Andy Summers) – 2:51
09. Man In A Suitcase – 2:16
10. Shadows In The Rain – 5:02
11. The Other Way Of Stopping (Stewart Copeland) – 3:20

Personnel:
- Sting - bass, lead vocals, synthesizers, backing vocals.
- Stewart Copeland - drums, backing vocals, synthesizers
- Andy Summers - guitar, guitar-synths, bass on "Behind My Camel", backing vocals

The stage was set for the Police to become one of the biggest acts of the '80s, and the band delivered with the 1980 classic Zenyatta Mondatta. The album proved to be the trio's second straight number one album in the U.K., while peaking at number three in the U.S. Arguably the best Police album, Zenyatta contains perhaps the quintessential new wave anthem, the haunting "Don't Stand So Close to Me," the story of an older teacher lusting after one of his students. While other tracks follow in the same spooky path (their second Grammy-winning instrumental "Behind My Camel" and "Shadows in the Rain"), most of the material is upbeat, such as the carefree U.S./U.K. Top Ten "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da," "Canary in a Coalmine," and "Man in a Suitcase." Sting includes his first set of politically charged lyrics in "Driven to Tears," "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around," and "Bombs Away," which all observe the declining state of the world. While Sting would later criticize the album as not all it could have been (the band was rushed to complete the album in order to begin another tour), Zenyatta Mondatta remains one of the finest rock albums of all time. ---Greg Prato

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01. Spirits in the material world [2:56]		play
02. Every little thing she does is magic [4:16]
03. Invisible sun [3:39]
04. Hungry for you (J'aurais toujours faim de toi) [2:49]	play
05. Demolition man [5:53]
06. Too much information [3:39]
07. Rehumanize yourself [3:06]
08. One world (not three) [4:43]
09. Omegaman [2:43]
10. Secret journey [3:29]
11. Darkness [3:10]

Musicians:
    Sting - bass, keyboards, saxophone, lead vocals, backing vocals
    Stewart Copeland - drums, miscellaneous percussion, keyboards
    Andy Summers - guitar, keyboards, guitar synth
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    Jean Roussel - piano on "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic"
    Olaf Kubler - saxophone on "Low Life"

Dark, somber, and thematically unified as no previous album by the Police, Ghost in the Machine deals almost exclusively with the negative effects of modern political and technological culture. The only departure from this focus is "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," a perfect pop song and radio hit. Elsewhere, the album treats such issues as the hope underlying resistance to oppression, the dismissal of most of the nonindustrialized world, the daily bombardment of words and images that overload the senses, and the frequent recourse to violence for personal or political expression. The songs are presented in what are, for the Police, unusually dense, layered arrangements. Andy Summers's guitar lines are even more ethereal than usual, with Sting's bass parts bobbing in a mix seasoned with keyboards and sax and propelled by Stewart Copeland's unmistakable, idiosyncratic drumming. While Synchronicity gave the Police their greatest success with hits and videos, Ghost in the Machine is the band's best recording. ---Albert Massa, Editorial Reviews

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01. Message In A Bottle
02. Can't Stand Losing You
03. Englishman In New York
04. Every Breath You Take
05. Seven Days
06. Walking On The Moon
07. Fields Of Gold
08. Fragile
09. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
11. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
12. Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot
13. Russians
14. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
15. When We Dance - Edit
16. Don't Stand So Close To Me
17. Roxanne
18. Roxanne '97 - Puff Daddy Remix

Personnel includes: 
Sting (vocals, guitar, bass); Cheb Mami (vocals);
Andy Summers (guitar); Branford Marsalis (saxophone); Kenny Kirkland,
David Sancious (keyboards); Darryl Jones (bass); 
Stewart Copeland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Omar Hakim (drums); Mino Cinelu (percussion).

In June 1979, Sting assured the cultural Gestapo, "We never called ourselves punks." The Police's calculated rock-reggae alloy was, after months of Transit van torment, hit material. Indeed, despite the trademark banana hair - bleached for an American gum commercial - Sting, lanky drummer Stewart Copeland and wizened Curved Air guitarist (sic) Andy Summers (already 35) could never have been called punks.

When Sting went solo, six years and 40 million album sales later, he stopped being not punk, and not reggae, and went not jazz and not soul. Not a South American Kayapo Indian, sterner critics say he's not an actor. He's been a lot of things, yet Sting occupies a unique chair at music's top table: eminently likeable among today's over-40 rock aristocracy (surely the fittest), with £97 million, with enough Ivor Novellos to start a rifle range, and yet willing to cameo in 'The Smell Of Reeves & Mortimer'. This career compilation, a fine rich sauce stands testament to Gordon Matthew Sumner's victory over inauthenticity.

Nine solo singles to eight Police tracks seems, at first, unjust - whither 'So Lonely', 'Invisible Sun' - but Sting was in the band for eight years and has been Himself for fifteen. What separates the distinct halves (they come ready-shuffled, non-chronology fans), is the predominantly mellow nature of the Sting work: one could imagine the Police going on to record 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You' or the sublime 'Englishman In New York', but Copeland would've legged it before mid-life mooners like 'When We Dance' or 'Fragile' (covered, tellingly, by Julio Iglesias in 1995). The Police were more than the sum of their prog-jazz-pub roots, and their new wave (especially 'Can't Stand Losing You') material is hot through with enough finesse to forever distinguish it from The Jags and 1983's 'Every Breath You Take' still remains Sting's most beautiful (and creepy) composition.

There's only one real minus to this songwriting masterclass-cum-Newcastle City Council self-help seminar: the uninvited yet obligatory 'Roxanne '97', which despite Puff Daddy's remixing efforts, merely proves that Sting is not rap either. ---Andrew Collins, Q Magazine

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Cd 1

1 Message In A Bottle
2 Synchronicity II
3 Walking On The Moon
4 Voices Inside My Head/When The World Is Running Down
5 Don’t Stand So Close To Me
6 Driven To Tears
7 Hole In My Life
8 Truth Hits
9 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10 Wrapped Around Your Finger

Cd 2

1 De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
2 Invisible Sun
3 Walking In Your Footsteps
4 Can’t Stand Losing You/Reggatta De Blanc
5 Roxanne
6 King Of Pain
7 So Lonely
8 Every Breath You Take
9 Next To You

Line Up:
Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting

Thirty years after they first stormed the music scene, legendary rock band The Police, bassist/vocalist Sting, drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers, embarked on a reunion tour on May 28, 2007. This highly successful world tour visited five continents, played to nearly 3.7 million fans and garnered numerous accolades from Billboard, Pollstar, as well as The People's Choice award for Favorite Reunion Tour. It also went down in history as the third highest grossing tour of all-time. Now, following their much heralded 14-month reunion tour, The Police commemorate the culmination of the tour with a special release.

On November 11, The Police will release a 4-disc set (2 CD's and 2 DVD's) entitled "The Police: Certifiable," which contains the band's entire concert from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the US, this special piece - along with Blu-Ray version and three-LP, premium 180-gram vinyl set with MP3 file key - will be released exclusively through Best Buy where pre-orders are already available. In the rest of the world, the album and DVD will be released via all retail outlets internationally on November 10. The United Kingdom release date for the DVD and Blu-Ray formats is November 24.

A massive European media launch of the Blu-Ray format, in association with Sony, Dolby and the Blu-Ray Association, will take place prior to the European release and will be attended by Stewart Copeland of The Police.

"The Police: Certifiable" is produced and directed by the award-winning Graying & Balding, Inc. team of Ann Kim and Jim Gable, whose film credits include the Rolling Stones, Sting, Keith Urban and Chris Botti. ---thepolice.com

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1. The Police - Synchronicity I (3:23)          play
2. The Police - Walking In Your Footsteps (3:36)
3. The Police - O My God (4:02)
4. The Police - Mother (3:05)                   play
5. The Police - Miss Gradenko (2:00)
6. The Police - Synchronicity II (5:02)
7. The Police - Every Breath You Take (4:13)
8. The Police - King Of Pain (4:59)
9. The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (5:13)
10. The Police - Tea In The Sahara (4:19)
11. The Police - Murder By Numbers (4:36)

Personnel
* Sting – bass, keyboards, lead vocals
* Andy Summers – electric guitar, backing vocals, keyboards, lead vocals on "Mother"
 and "Someone To Talk To"
* Stewart Copeland – drums, backing vocals

Simultaneously more pop-oriented and experimental than either Ghost in the Machine or Zenyatta Mondatta, Synchronicity made the Police superstars, generating no less than five hit singles. With the exception of "Synchronicity II," which sounds disarmingly like a crappy Billy Idol song, every one of those singles is a classic. "Every Breath You Take" has a seductive, rolling beat masking its maliciousness, "King of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" are devilishly infectious new wave singles, and "Tea in the Sahara" is hypnotic in its measured, melancholy choruses. But, like so many other Police albums, these songs are surrounded by utterly inconsequential filler. This time, the group relies heavily on jazzy textures for Sting's songs, which only work on the jumping, marimba-driven "Synchronicity I." Then, as if to prove that the Police were still a band, there's one song apiece from Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, both of which are awful, as if they're trying to sabotage the album. Since they arrive on the first side, which is devoid of singles, they do, making the album sound like two EPs: one filled with first-rate pop, and one an exercise in self-indulgence. While the hits are among Sting's best, they also illustrate that he was ready to leave the Police behind for a solo career, which is exactly what he did. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

W marcu 1983 roku Sting, mieszkający przez kilka miesięcy na Jamajce w domu Iana Fleminga (tego od Bonda), komponuje „Every Breath You Take”, najpopularniejszy przebój The Police. Podobno lider Policjantów miał wtedy tak silną wenę twórczą, że nie dopuszczał do siebie myśli, by utwór ten nie mógł stać się hitem. Oczywiście hit powstał, do dziś pozostaje jednym z najczęściej przerabianych utworów. Przebojem w skali światowej okazała się również płyta „Synchronicity”, najbardziej różnorodna w dyskografii The Police, stworzona z dużym rozmachem aranżacyjnym, w niektórych momentach na wskroś popowa. Album powstał w szczególnym czasie - dni zespołu były już policzone, idea wspólnego grania dogorywała, konflikty wewnątrz grupy stanowiły plan pierwszy. Sam tytuł to odwołanie do teorii psychiatry Carla Gustava Junga, którą interesował się Sting. Zgodnie z nią, zbieżne w czasie wydarzenia, niemające bezpośredniego związku ze sobą, mają istotny sens symboliczny. Sens ten przytacza lider w obu częściach tytułowego utworu, podobnie jak uderza przewrotną metaforą w „Walking In Your Footsteps”, gdzie bomba atomowa skonstruowana przez człowieka ma rekompensować jego słabość. Osobisty, depresyjny odcień przynoszą kolejne hity: „King Of Pain” i „Tea In The Sahara”, których melodyka i klimat noszą już w sobie znamiona solowego Stinga. Po nagraniu płyty i odbyciu trasy promującej album The Police zawieszają działalność na cały 1984 rok. 28 marca 1985 The Mirror podaje oficjalną informację o zakończeniu działalności formacji. (tł), screenagers.pl

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Disc 1

1. Fallout
2. Can't Stand Losing You
3. Next To You
4. Roxanne
5. Truth Hits Everybody
6. Hole In My Life
7. So Lonely
8. Message In a Bottle
9. Reggatta De Blanc
10. Bring On the Night
11. Walking On the Moon
12. Don't Stand So Close To Me
13. Driven To Tears
14. Canary In a Coalmine


Disc 2

1. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
2. Voices Inside My Head
3. Invisible Sun
4. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
5. Spirits In the Material World
6. Demolition Man
7. Every Breath You Take
8. Synchronicity I
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Walking In Your Footsteps
11. Synchronicity II
12. King Of Pain
13. Murder By Numbers
14. Tea In the Sahara

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. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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