Artist: The Police
Title: Synchronicity (Super Deluxe Edition)
Year Of Release: 1983
Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
Genre: Rock, Pop, New Wave
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 05:57:01
Total Size:  2.26 GB


Tracklist:

CD 1 (Original Album Remastered)
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
11. Murder By Numbers

CD 2 (B-Sides / Bonus Tracks)
1. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix)
2. Man In A Suitcase (Live At The Variety Theatre, Los Angeles, USA / 16th January 1981)
3. Someone To Talk To
4. Message In A Bottle (Live At The Gusman Cultural Center, Miami, USA / 26th October 1979)
5. I Burn For You
6. Once Upon A Daydream
7. Tea In The Sahara (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
8. Every Breathe You Take (Backing Track)
9. Roxanne (Backing Track)
10. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
11. Every Bomb You Make
12. Walking On The Moon (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
13. Hole In My Life (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
14. One World (Not Three) (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
15. Invisible Sun (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
16. Murder By Numbers (Live At The Omni, Atlanta, USA / 3rd November 1983)
17. Walking In Your Footsteps (Derangement)
18. Tea In The Sahara (Derangement)

CD 3 (Unreleased - Part 1)
1. Synchronicity I (Demo)
2. Synchronicity I (Alternate Mix)
3. Synchronicity I (Instrumental)
4. Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Version)
5. Walking In Your Footsteps (Alternate Mix)
6. O My God (Demo)
7. O My God (Out-Take)
8. O My God (OBX Version)
9. O My God (Alternate Mix)
10. Mother (Alternate Version)
11. Mother (Instrumental)
12. Miss Gradenko (Alternate Mix)
13. Synchronicity II (Demo)
14. Synchronicity II (Out-Take)
15. Synchronicity II (Extended Version)
16. Synchronicity II (Alternate Mix)
17. Synchronicity II (Instrumental)

CD 4 (Unreleased - Part 2)
1. Every Breathe You Take (Demo)
2. Every Breathe You Take (Out-Take)
3. Every Breathe You Take (Alternate Mix)
4. King Of Pain (Demo)
5. King Of Pain (Alternate Version)
6. King Of Pain (Alternate Mix)
7. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Demo)
8. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Alternate Mix)
9. Wrapped Around Your Finger (Instrumental)
10. Tea In The Sahara (Demo)
11. Tea In The Sahara (Alternate Mix)
12. Murder By Numbers (Demo)
13. I'm Blind (Demo)
14. Loch
15. Ragged Man
16. Goodbye Tomorrow
17. Truth Hits Everybody (Remix / Out-Take)
18. Three Steps To Heaven
19. Rock And Roll Music

CD 5 (Live Pt. 1 - Unreleased)
1. Synchronicity I (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
2. Synchronicity II (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
3. Walking In Your Footsteps (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
4. Message In A Bottle (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
5. Walking On The Moon (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
6. O My God (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)

CD 6 (Live Pt. 2 - Unreleased)
1. Hole In My Life (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
2. Invisible Sun (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
3. One World (Not Three) (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
4. King Of Pain (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
5. Don't Stand So Close To Me (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
6. Murder By Numbers (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
7. Every Breathe You Take (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
8. Roxanne (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)
9. Can't Stand Losing You (Live At The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, California, USA / 10th September 1983)

The members of The Police were famously at odds when they convened to record their fifth album, Synchronicity. However, the trio channeled any interpersonal tension into their music and songwriting, resulting in one of the best albums of the 1980s. Working once again with producer-engineer Hugh Padgham, The Police synthesized their inspirations into incisive commentary about modern life: the stifling monotony of the suburbs (the driving rocker “Synchronicity II”), dealing with dark nights of the soul (the incisive “King of Pain”), and challenging power dynamics (the sinewy “Wrapped Around Your Finger”). Most successful of all was “Every Breath You Take,” a song about obsession, driven by Andy Summers’ melancholic guitar line, a steely rhythmic foundation, and Sting’s yearning vocals.

Prior to making Synchronicity, each member of The Police had explored different creative endeavors. Sting acted in the 1982 film Brimstone and Treacle, while Summers recorded an album with Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked, and Stewart Copeland composed the score for the movie Rumble Fish. These different experiences naturally influenced Synchronicity, with Summers contributing the avant-garde, saxophone-driven “Mother” and Copeland penning the quirky “Miss Gradenko.”

Sting especially felt energized by emerging musical technology on Synchronicity. Having started composing using synthesizers on The Police’s previous album, 1981’s Ghost in the Machine, he added sequencers into his creative arsenal. This led to songs like the evocative “Walking In Your Footsteps,” which boasts a pulsing drum sequencer and cautionary lyrics about learning from dinosaurs. “Synchronicity I” boasts tension-filled rhythms and synths that percolate like hot coffee, while glacial keyboards provide a steady foundation for the proggy “O My God.”