THE POLICE 1986 FM Promo Length: 47 Min Source: FM Quality: 9.5 Notes: Origin: ** > DIME Thu 08th Mar, 2007 03:45 GMT OK, Police dimers, the call for more Police has gone out, so I respond. This was a promotional FM program for the first greatest hits package in 1986, Every Breath You Take: The Singles, the one with the awful revision of Don’t Stand So Close To Me. Separate interviews of the guys are interspersed with live cuts and studio versions of some tunes (studio versions edited out, of course). Quality, being FM, is excellent. MP3 sample is below, although it’s greatly compressed. This version of Roxanne has always been my favorite of all the ones I own, just because of the jam in the middle. But that’s just my opinion; your mileage may vary. No identification of where or when any of these live cuts are from. You only know Message In A Bottle is from Melbourne because Sting yells out the city during the tune. I’ve compared these versions to other officially-released versions of the tunes and to my knowledge none have ever been released. Perhaps they were originally meant for the live album they were supposedly working on in 1984?? This was probably one of the last promotional activities the band did before breaking up without telling anyone. Anyway, enjoy! Lineage: FM (WMMR or WYSP in Philadelphia)> cassette> JVC tapedeck> Audacity> WAV > FLAC 1) Andy speaks/ Don’t Stand So Close To Me 2) Sting, Stewart & Andy speak 3) Stewart and Andy speak/ Message In A Bottle (Melbourne) 4) Sting, Stewart and Andy speak/ Roxanne 5) Stewart, Andy and Sting speak/ Can’t Stand Losing You-Regatta De Blanc-Be My Girl 6) Stewart and Andy speak/De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 7) Truth Hits Everybody 8) Sting and Stewart speak 9) Stewart speaks 10) Andy speaks/ Walking On The Moon 11) Stewart speaks 12) Andy, Stewart and Sting speak - ** Thu 08th Mar, 2007 03:45 GMT - DAD -- The live tracks are all from Melbourne 22 Feb 1981. This probably have been a network event of any kind, like Westwood one shows. It sounds to me like there are some vinyl noise. I will check against I have, sometimes! This had SBEs on all tracks. I have corrected them w/ shnool fix and reFLAC'd (level 8 w/ Verify). And, the transfer is definitely too hot! - Carlo. length expanded size cdr WAVE probs filename 3:29.52 36989948 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr01-fixed.flac 1:15.39 13321772 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr02-fixed.flac 4:36.61 48829916 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr03-fixed.flac 8:45.57 92744108 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr04-fixed.flac 9:08.66 96822476 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr05-fixed.flac 7:35.59 80400812 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr06-fixed.flac 2:27.32 26006108 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr07-fixed.flac 1:05.48 11578940 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr08-fixed.flac 0:30.74 5466092 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr09-fixed.flac 5:30.40 58306124 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr10-fixed.flac 0:43.01 7587596 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr11-fixed.flac 1:14.44 13157132 --- -- -xx Police1986_tr12-fixed.flac 46:24.48 491211024 B (totals for 12 files, 0.7248 overall compression ratio)