The Very Best of... Sting & the Police

Sting, The Police

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000060KB6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,960 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
UK exclusive reissue includes new artwork, 13 of the 15 tracks which appear on the 1997 domestic & five more tracks, 'Seven Days', 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da', 'Brand New Day', 'Desert Rose' & 'So Lonely'. 18 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Lotta Great Music on Odd Compilation, May 9, 2005

By	Paul Allaer (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Music: 4.5 stars; Compilation: 3.5 stars.

Saw Sting in concert a few weeks back (surprisingly strong set with LOTS of Police-nuggets such as Bed's Too Big Without You etc.) and that lead me to revisit this album. This was rushed out in 1997 as a result of P.Diddy's monster hit "Missing You", sampling "Every Breath You Take".

"The Very Best of Sting and the Police" (18 tracks, 78 min.) is "politically correct" in that it brings an equal number of Police hits and Sting solo-hits (9 each). It has a lot of things going for it: first and foremost, much of the music is outstanding. Best of all is the inclusion of "So Lonely", a major hit which somehow was omitted from The Police's "Every Breath You Take: The Classics". This can directly be attributed to using the full extent of a single CD capacity. The sound quality is surprisingly good as well. What is very unfortunate is that all 18 songs are mixed and matched without any apparent rhyme or reason. Thus we go from the Police's "Can't Stand Losing You" directly into Sting's "An Englishman in New York. Say what? Or we go from Sting's "Seven Days" into the Police's "Walking on the Moon"! Why couldn't they simply present the songs in chronological order? That said, there IS a lot of great music on this CD. It's simply up to you to play it in an order that makes more sense and pleases the ear more.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not very best of....., February 2, 2006

By	Paul E. Prince "prince9221970" (oklahoma city) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's a solid collection but not the very best of.The absence of
"Fortress around your heart" by Sting as a solo performer is a shame."King of Pain" and "Wrapped around your finger" are also
missing somehow on this collection.If you want the very best of
both worlds here,you will have to purchase the greatest hits of
both individually,and then you will have the very best of both in my opinion.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid But Still Incomplete, October 14, 2002

By	Chris S. "cscotts" (atlanta, ga United States) - See all my reviews

One of the most popular groups of the eighties, the Police disbanded at the peak of their popularity so that frontman Sting could begin a solo career. This disc updates the collection of the same name from a few years back, adding recent Sting tracks like 'Brand New Day'(excellent) and 'Desert Rose'(overplayed and overrated). Still, like the previous set, this one is of a piece, excluding both 'King Of Pain' and 'Wrapped Around Your Finger', which I consider essential Police singles, and 'All This Time', which is simply one of Sting's best solo records. Thankfully, on the other end of the spectrum, the Puff Daddy remix of 'Roxanne' is gone. Overall, a solid overview, but the addition of the aforementioned tracks would have made it nearly complete.