Release Date: Oct 1981. Label: A&M. Genres: Album Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. For their fourth album, 1981's Ghost in the Machine, the Police had streamlined their sound to focus more on their pop side and less on their trademark reggae-rock.

POSTED: 01/05/2007 - 08:46 am

Release Date: Sep 28, 1993. Label: A&M. Genres: Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Album Rock, New Wave. Number Of Tracks: 78. For the 1993 four-CD box set Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings, every single song the Police ever recorded is included.

POSTED: 04/26/2006 - 03:53 am

Release Date: Nov 1978. Label: A&M. Genres: Album Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 10. The Police's 1978 debut, Outlandos d'Amour is by far their most direct and straightforward release.

POSTED: 01/31/2006 - 02:38 am

Release Date: Oct 1979. Label: A&M. Genres: Album Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. With Reggatta de Blanc, many picked Sting and Co. to be the superstar band of the '80s, and the Police would prove them correct on the band's next release.

POSTED: 01/30/2006 - 07:30 am

Release Date: Jun 1983. Label: A&M. Genres: Album Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. Like all Police recordings, Synchronicity contains some obvious "filler" but for the most part, it's exceptional.

POSTED: 03/14/2006 - 01:51 am

Release Date: Jun 5, 2007. Label: A&M. Genres: New Wave, Pop/Rock, Album Rock. Number Of Tracks: 28. To coincide with their 30th anniversary reunion tour in 2007 the Police released the anthology The Police, the first two-CD retrospective ever assembled on the group.

POSTED: 07/30/2007 - 09:20 am

Release Date: Oct 1, 2002. Label: UTV/A & M. Genres: Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, New Wave, Album Rock, Adult Contemporary, College Rock. Number Of Tracks: 17. There's plenty of good music on Sting's solo records, but the selection here emphasizes his MOR side instead of some of his more ambitious material.

POSTED: 01/09/2006 - 02:38 am

Release Date: Oct 1980. Label: A&M. Genres: Album Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock. Number Of Tracks: 11. While Sting would later criticize the album as not all it could have been, Zenyatta Mondatta remains one of the finest rock albums of all time.

POSTED: 04/15/2006 - 03:41 am