The Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings
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Free Music Review: GREAT!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Now if only all box sets were this good! A MUST HAVE for Police fans! Not only does it have their best material but you can hear the evolution of Sting's incredible songwriting and Stewart's unbelievable drumming skills. They basically started off as punkish band ripping off reggae but the band slowly evolved into their own sound! It's a shame when they found their sound they broke up. But as you can tell by Sting's incredible songwriting on Disc 4, it was time for him to leave.
It was time for him to see the Blue Turtles! Just to have the haunting tunes "Burn For You" and "Once Upon A Daydream" is worth the price of the box set alone
Free Music Review: Excellent Box Set!
Hit: 5 Stars
Buying this box set should be automatic for anyone who grew up in the 70's or 80's. There's very few songs on this album that would get a 2 star rating or lower. Few as in I can count on 1 hand.
The Police have so many huge hits, such as Roxanne, Walking On The Moon, Message In A Bottle, etc. Also, many of the other tracks are classics, such as The Bed's Too Big Without You, Bring On The Night, Invisible Sun, etc. You cannot do without having this set. 4 CD's and you have EVERYTHING The Police did. Including b-sides and songs from other sources (such as I Burn For You from the Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack)
Bottom line is this. If you like any of The Police big songs, it's very likely that you will also like all of their other songs. Why not get them all in one bang instead of getting the 4 individual albums and having to deal with trying to find all of the other B-Sides? It's totally worth it.
Free Music Review: Perfect
Hit: 5 Stars
I grew up listening to the Police in the 80's and had most of thier albums on viynl. I finally purchased a couple of the cds and occasionally listened to them. I bought this on sale one day and was blown away at how good they really were. This box set has just about anything you could want from the Police from the early raw sound to the later stuff. Well worth the money.Free Music Review: A necessity
Hit: 5 Stars
Resell those individual Police cds and just get this box! (Unless you're an obsessive who needs the original lp art.) This boxed set does it right by including all official album tracks and single b-sides, in chronological order, making every Police fan's life simple! Also included is a brief yet solid booklet about the band and its history, plus comments on the individual tracks by the band members that provide some interesting insights.
Now, die-hard collectors might bemoan the exclusion of a few nitpicky tracks (the Don't Stand So Close to Me '86 DANCE remix, De Do Do Do De Da Da Da '86), but nothing of great importance is missing. Admittedly it might be nice someday to have a release showcasing outtakes, demos, and some more live performances, but that wasn't really the mission of this set.
If your knowledge of the Police does not stem beyond "Every Breath You Take" and the fact that they were "Sting's old band", you definitely deserve to give this music a listen to. When this band was together, truly "every little thing" they did was magic. They had a sound that was entirely their own, and musicianship that is rare to find in this day and age. Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, and Sting deserve their place in rock history as one of the best and most influential bands of the new wave/post-punk era, and this boxed set certainly illustrates this fact for all to hear and enjoy.
Free Music Review: Regatta all this !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I think that you absolutly have to own this box if you like me grew up in the eighties. If you don't and you are a true music lover you'll love this music anyway because it is fantastic and immensly creative music, but if you are not deep into music probably you would find it dated due to some choices in the arrangement department (something that this music ain't, no matter what). This music was everywhere in the eighties and it's incredibly powerful and visionary twenty years after its release. I said powerful because it's fantastic how Police succeded in emboding an entire era of music, the eighties in their strong songs and musical ideas. The eighties was not that bad in the end for what matters to music comparing them with actual years, the Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera years where music is less exposed and important than their (quite nice by the way) bottoms! Even pop music was better in those years, there was much more melody and talents even sometimes under tons of cheap (and sometimes cheesy I admit) keyboards arrangements. Anyway this was not the case of Police music which was incredibly visionary at the time and still it is. It's something completly different ... it's very deep music with a fantastic sense of musical time and musical space, curious winner ideas. There's fantastic musicianship going on but not for the sake of, but used to reach musical goals. There are tons of creativity and charisma in the musicians and their music. By the way they were only three playing, incredible. Summer's guitar playing was so orchestrated e Sting bass lines was so right, and his voice so new and sharp ... and Copelad was truly a rhythmic master. There are visions in the Police charts, musical visions, no band in the eighties created something so different and with such musical values. Can you imagine that this music was considered pop music in the eighties and now pop music is all about nice bottoms??? Oh, what a decline !! At one point the Police was the favourite Miles Davis band and even Rush (Peart/Lee/Lifeson) favourite band. I think this thing says a lot. Musicians so prepared and different from each other loved this band to death. Me too obviously and I don't know a serious musician who don't like the Police or at least that don't find them innovative, curious, intelligent and creative. I still listen to the four magical albums contained here today, even if I'm an expert Jazz musician nowadays and I know almost everything has been recorded. Everytime I come back to these records I feel the same excitement, the same emotions, the same sense of enjoing an immense art discovery. Thinking this of the Police's music I can't do nothing but buying the full thing, with all the bonus added. I think you should do the same. This music is eternal music. I think no band in music history did so much, so good formusic health with only four albums. Four masterpieces I must say.