The Police - Every Breath You Take: The Classics (Digitally Remastered, 1995)

Product Description:

By deleting the 1986 hits collection Every Breath You Take: The Singles and replacing it nearly ten years later with Every Breath You Take: The Classics, A&M improved the original set — but only slightly. Instead of finally adding the missing hits that were mysteriously absent the first time around ("Synchronicity II," "Demolition Man," "So Lonely," etc.), there are only two additional tracks — the original version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and a "New Classic Rock Mix" of "Message in a Bottle." Again, the included hits speak for themselves — "Roxanne," "Walking on the Moon," "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "Wrapped Around Your Finger," — but ultimately, The Classics misses the mark. Why would a Police fan who already owns The Singles want to replace it with a modestly different repackaging? A&M should have added some of the missing classics instead of just rehashing what many fans already own. Review by Greg Prato, allmusic.com.


Album Details:

Artist: The Police
Album: Every Breath You Take: The Classics
Label: A&M Records
Catalogue #: 31454 0380 2
UPC: 7 31454-0380-2 7
Type: Album
Format: CD, Compilation, Best of, Digitally Remastered From Original Source Tapes
Country: USA
Release Date: Sep 12, 1995
Number of Discs: 1
Language: English
Time: 59:13
Rating: 4.5 stars (allmusic.com)
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Pop/Rock, Album Rock, New Wave


Tracklist:

01. Roxanne 3:11
02. Can't Stand Losing You 2:59
03. Message In A Bottle 4:50
04. Walking On The Moon 4:59
05. Don't Stand Too Close To Me 4:02
06. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 4:07
07. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 4:21
08. Invisible Sun 3:44
09. Spirits In The Material World 2:59
10. Every Breath You Take 4:14
11. King Of Pain 4:59
12. Wrapped Around Your Finger 5:14
13. Don't Stand Too Close To Me '86 4:51
14. Message In A Bottle (New Classic Rock Mix) 4:51


Credits:

Arranged By - Police, The (tracks: 1 to 4)
Engineer - Hugh Padgham (tracks: 10 to 12) , Nigel Gray (tracks: 1 to 6)
Mastered By [Consultant] - Mark Mazzetti
Mastered By [Digital Remaster] - Dave Collins
Producer - Hugh Padgham (tracks: 7 to 12) , Police, The (tracks: 1 to 13)
Written-By - Sting


Notes:

Tracks 1 & 2: Recorded at Surrey Sound Studios. Taken from the album "Outlandos d'Amour".
Tracks 3 & 4: Recorded at Surrey Sound Studios. Taken from the album "Regatta de Blanc".
Tracks 5 & 6: Recorded at Wisselord Studios, Hilversum, Netherlands. Taken from the album "Zenyatta Mondatta".
Track 7: Recorded at Le Studio, Quebec. Taken from the album "Ghost In The Machne".
Tracks 8 & 9: Recorded at AIR Studios, Montserrat. Taken from the album "Ghost In The Machne".
Track 10 to 12: Recorded at AIR Studios, Montserrat & Le Studio, Quebec. Taken from the album "Synchronicity".
Track 14: Mixed at Studio 4, Conshocoken, Philadelphia - April '95. Digital Editing at Mastervoice. Special thanks to Mark Mazzetti & The Police. Source tapes compiled at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine, using Sony Super Bit Mapping (SBM).

This album has been digitally remastered from the original source tapes for superior sound quality. Mastered at A & M Mastering Studios, Hollywood, California. Remastered using A & M's proprietary 20 bit analog to digital conversion process, dithered to 16 bit using dB technologies' model 3000 dithering processor.


Lineage:

SilverCD -> EAC (Test & Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet > Uncompressed / Secure Mode / Offset Corrected / WAV 1411 Kbit/s / 44100 Hz / 16 Bits / 2 Channels) -> FLAC frontend -> FLAC (compression level 6) -> AvaxHome


Extra info:

- Cuesheets files included (WAV + FLAC).
- EAC Extraction LOG file included.
- Codec used for lossless compression: libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
- Samplerate: 44100 Hz Stereo / Bitrate: 16 bits
- MD5 checksum included
- HQ artwork in jpg format (compression: 1%)