Complete List Of The Police Songs From A to Z

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The Police built one of rock’s most distinctive catalogs by combining punk energy, reggae rhythms, new wave textures, jazz-informed musicianship, and sharply written pop songs. This complete A-to-Z guide gathers the band’s five studio albums, soundtrack recordings, B-sides, non-album singles, and major releases from its brief but enormously influential career.

Complete List Of The Police Songs From A to Z

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The Police formed in London in 1977 around Sting on bass and lead vocals, Stewart Copeland on drums, and guitarist Henry Padovani. Andy Summers soon replaced Padovani, establishing the trio that would record the band’s complete studio catalog.

Although the group emerged during the British punk era, its music quickly developed into a highly original mixture of rock, reggae, new wave, pop, and jazz-influenced playing. Stewart Copeland’s precise, propulsive drumming, Andy Summers’ spacious guitar work, and Sting’s bass lines, voice, and songwriting gave the band an immediately recognizable sound.

The Police released five studio albums: Outlandos d’Amour, Reggatta de Blanc, Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost in the Machine, and Synchronicity. Those albums produced “Roxanne,” “Can’t Stand Losing You,” “Message in a Bottle,” “Walking on the Moon,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Every Breath You Take,” and “King of Pain.”

Synchronicity became the band’s commercial peak, topping charts around the world and producing several of its most enduring songs. The tensions that accompanied the album and its tour eventually led the members to pursue separate careers, although the trio reunited for a major world tour in 2007 and 2008.

The Police earned six Grammy Awards and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Despite releasing only five studio albums, the band remains one of the defining acts of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Complete List Of The Police Songs From A to Z

A–E

“Be My Girl – Sally” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Behind My Camel” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Bombs Away” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Born in the ’50s” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Bring on the Night” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Can’t Stand Losing You” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Canary in a Coalmine” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Contact” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Darkness” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Dead End Job” – Non-album single, B-side of “Can’t Stand Losing You” (1978)
“Deathwish” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Demolition Man” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Does Everyone Stare” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Driven to Tears” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Every Breath You Take” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“A Kind of Loving” – Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
“A Sermon” – Non-album single, B-side of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” (1980)

F–J

“Fall Out” – Non-album single (1977)
“Flexible Strategies” – Non-album single, B-side of “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (1981)
“Friends” – Non-album single, B-side of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” (1980)
“Hole in My Life” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“How Stupid Mr. Bates” – Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
“Hungry for You (J’aurais toujours faim de toi)” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“I Burn for You” – Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
“Invisible Sun” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“It’s Alright for You” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)

K–O

“King of Pain” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Landlord” – Non-album single, B-side of “Message in a Bottle” (1979)
“Low Life” – Non-album single, B-side of “Spirits in the Material World” (1981)
“Man in a Suitcase” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Masoko Tanga” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Ωmegaman” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Message in a Bottle” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Miss Gradenko” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Mother” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Murder by Numbers” – Non-album single, B-side of “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
“Next to You” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“No Time This Time” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Nothing Achieving” – Non-album single, B-side of “Fall Out” (1977)
“O My God” – Synchronicity (1983)
“On Any Other Day” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Once Upon a Daydream” – Non-album single, B-side of “Synchronicity II” (1983)
“One World (Not Three)” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)

P–T

“The Bed’s Too Big Without You” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“The Other Way of Stopping” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Peanuts” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Reggatta de Blanc” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“Rehumanize Yourself” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Roxanne” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Secret Journey” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Shadows in the Rain” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Shambelle” – Non-album single, B-side of “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” (US) / “Invisible Sun” (UK) (1981)
“So Lonely” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
“Someone to Talk to” – Non-album single, B-side of “Wrapped Around Your Finger” (1983)
“Spirits in the Material World” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Synchronicity I” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Synchronicity II” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Tea in the Sahara” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Too Much Information” – Ghost in the Machine (1981)
“Truth Hits Everybody” – Outlandos d’Amour (1978)

U–Z

“Visions of the Night” – Non-album single, B-side of “Walking on the Moon” (1979)
“Voices Inside My Head” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Walking in Your Footsteps” – Synchronicity (1983)
“Walking on the Moon” – Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
“When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around” – Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
“Wrapped Around Your Finger” – Synchronicity (1983)