The Police – Every Move You Make - The Studio Recordings (6LP, Coffret, Half-speed Mastering)
RARITY - SEALED
COMPILATION
The Police [click here to see more vinyl featuring The Police]:
- Sting – vocals, bass guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Sting]
- Andy Summers – guitar, keyboards, vocals, guitar synthesiser
- Stewart Copeland – drums, vocals, rhythm guitar and bass
Arranged by The Police
6 LPs, Box set, 24-page photo-book including rare photos from the band's own archives
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Optimal Media GmbH
Label : A&M Records
Original Label : A&M Records
Engineered by Chris Gray (A1 to B5), Hugh Padgham (G1 to J4), Nigel Gray (A1 to F5)
Produced by The Police, Hugh Padgham (G1 to H6) Hugh Padgham (I1 to J4), Nigel Gray (C1 to F5)
Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios using "half-speed´"mastering process.
Originally released in 2018
Reissued in August 2019
Tracks:
Outlandos d'Amour (1978)
Side A
- Next To You
- So Lonely
- Roxanne
- Hole In My Life
- Peanuts
Side B
- Can't Stand Losing You
- Truth Hits Everybody
- Born In The 50's
- Be My Girl - Sally
- Masoko Tanga
Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
Side C
- Message In A Bottle
- Reggatta De Blanc
- It's Alright For You
- Bring On The Night
- Deathwish
Side D
- Walking On The Moon
- On Any Other Day
- The Bed's Too Big Without You
- Contact
- Does Everyone Stare
- No Time This Time
Zenyattà Mondatta (1980)
Side E
- Don't Stand So Close To Me
- Driven To Tears
- When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
- Canary In A Coalmine
- Voices Inside My Head
- Bombs Away
Side F
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Behind My Camel
- Man In A Suitcase
- Shadows In The Rain
- The Other Way Of Stopping
Ghost In The Machine (1981)
Side G
- Spirits In The Material World
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Invisible Sun
- Hungry For You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi)
- Demolition Man
Side H
- Too Much Information
- Rehumanize Yourself
- One World (Not Three)
- Ωmegaman
- Secret Journey
- Darkness
Synchronicity (1983)
Side I
- Synchronicity I
- Walking In Your Footsteps
- O My God
- Mother
- Miss Gradenko
- Synchronicity II
Side J
- Every Breath You Take
- King Of Pain
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- Tea In The Sahara
Flexible Strategies
Side K
- Dead End Job (1978)
- Landlord (1979)
- Visions Of The Night (1979)
- Friends (1980)
- A Sermon (1980)
- Shambelle (1981)
Side L
- Flexible Strategies (1981)
- Low Life (1981)
- Murder By Numbers (1983)
- Truth Hits Everybody (Remix) (1983)
- Someone To Talk To (1983)
- Once Upon A Daydream (1983)
Reviews:
"The draw for these new editions is their hugely improved sound. Re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios using a half-speed process, the five LPs that The Police produced during their brief run together positively sparkle, with sharp high-end that emphasizes drummer Stewart Copeland's intricate playing and the tang of Andy Summers' guitar work. Things get even better when the band started introducing synthesizers and other technology into the mix on their final two albums Ghost In The Machine and the massively successful Synchronicity. The set is rounded out by a sixth LP, featuring b-sides and unused album cuts including the late period classics 'Murder By Number' and 'Someone To Talk To,' the latter of which featured a rare vocal turn by Summers. These are fantastic upgrades for long standing fans of the group and a way for newbies to snap up the discography in one fell swoop. Everybody wins." - Paste Magazine
“Only an accident of birth made The Police a New Wave band. Sting was a sharp, slick songwriter; Andy Summers had hung with Hendrix and strummed with Soft Machine and The Animals; Stewart Copeland had drummed in Curved Air. They were true musos: in another era, they’d have made Steely Dan-like sophisto-pop.
Yet they formed at the height of punk in 1977 and so here they were, spiky-haired, peroxide and attitudinal, surfing the New Wave to Top Of The Pops. They also became one of the very best, slickest pop groups to emerge from the post-punk era.
This definitive box set collects their five studio albums on half-speed remastered vinyl and chucks in a disc of bonus material. The 1978 debut Outlandos D’Amour is a reminder of just how The Police arrived fully formed: So Lonely and Roxanne were immaculate pop-reggae gems.
Every album they released thereafter went to No.1. 1979’s Reggatta De Blanc was an embarrassment of riches, with Message In A Bottle and Walking On The Moon having melodies to burn and hooks as sharp as Sting’s cheekbones.
The Police made pop look easy. By 1980’s Zenyatta Mondatta, they were at their peak, able to unfurl both the tensile, ska-fuelled power-pop of Driven To Tears and the genuinely moving psychological drama of Don’t Stand So Close To Me. Yet they also had an edge: the video for 1981 single Invisible Sun from the Ghost In The Machine album reused news footage from the Irish Troubles and was banned by the BBC for being too political.
Sting, Summers and Copeland shared pop smarts, ferocious ambition and a work ethic that meant they never let standards slip. They went out at the top: spawning yearning stalkers’ anthem Every Breath You Take, 1983’s Synchronicity topped the chart in the US. The Flexible Strategies bonus disc has selected B-sides from 1978’s Dead End Job to 1983’s Once Upon A Daydream. It was easy to take The Police for granted: Every Move You Make is a salutary reminder of what master craftsmen they were.” Classic Pop Review by Ian Gittins
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.79 / 5