Over the course of just five albums released between 1978 and 1983, The Police synthesized
pop, rock, New Wave, and world music sounds including, most notably,
reggae into a style all their own. Incorporating influences of punk and
jazz into the mix, their sound still reverberates today.
Vocalist-bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart
Copeland called it a day before 1986 was out, reuniting in 2007-2008 for
a phenomenally successful tour before going their separate ways yet
again. Their small but significant catalogue has been remastered a
couple of times previously – once in 1995, and again in 2003.
…Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings features remastered editions of Outlandos d’Amour (1978), Reggatta de Blanc (1979), Zenyatta Mondatta (1980), Ghost in the Machine (1981) and Synchronicity (1983). The sixth and final CD, Flexible Strategies, offers twelve selections, all of which were originally released as single B-sides to such favorite songs as “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,” and “Every Breath You Take.”
Note that this set doesn’t claim to be complete, and isn’t; it lacks a number of the tracks included on the 1993 CD set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings such as the band’s debut single “Fallout” b/w “Nothing Achieving,” the re-recorded “Don’t Stand So Close to Me ’86,” and the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack material.
Outlandos d’Amour
1. Next to You
2. So Lonely
3. Roxanne
4. Hole in My Life
5. Peanuts
6. Can’t Stand Losing You
7. Truth Hits Everybody
8. Born in the ’50s
9. Be My Girl
10. Masoko Tanga
Reggatta de Blanc
1. Message in a Bottle
2. Reggatta de Blanc
3. It’s Alright for You
4. Bring on the Night
5. Deathwish
6. Walking on the Moon
7. On Any Other Day
8. The Bed’s Too Big Without You
9. Contact
10. Does Everyone Stare
11. No Time This Time
Zenyatta Mondatta
1. Don’t Stand So Close to Me
2. Driven to Tears
3. When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
4. Canary in a Coalmine
5. Voices Inside My Head
6. Bombs Away
7. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
8. Behind My Camel
9. Man in a Suitcase
10. Shadows in the Rain
11. The Other Way of Stopping
Ghost in the Machine
1. Spirits in the Material World
2. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
3. Invisible Sun
4. Hungry for You (J’aurais toujours faim de toi)
5. Demolition Man
6. Too Much Information
7. Rehumanize Yourself
8. One World (Not Three)
9. Ωmegaman
10. Secret Journey
11. Darkness
Synchronicity
1. Synchronicity I
2. Walking in Your Footsteps
3. O My God
4. Mother
5. Miss Gradenko
6. Synchronicity II
7. Every Breath You Take
8. King of Pain
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger
10. Tea in the Sahara
Flexible Strategies
1. Dead End Job (1978)
2. Landlord (1979)
3. Visions of the Night (1979)
4. Friends (1980)
5. A Sermon (1980)
6. Shambelle (1981)
7. Flexible Strategies (1981)
8. Low Life (1981)
9. Murder By Numbers (1983)
10. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (1983)
11. Someone to Talk To (1983)
12. Once Upon a Daydream (1983)
