Every Breath You Take: The Classics

Released in 1995, Every Breath You Take: The Classics is a redo of the Police’s earlier greatest hits album, Every Breath You Take: The Singles, from nearly a decade prior. Supplanting its 1986 counterpart, the compilation features an almost-identical tracklist to the LP release of The Singles (consequently excluding “So Lonely”, which had been included on the 1986 album’s CD and cassette release in the UK & Europe), but adds in two tracks that were absent from its predecessor: a remix of “Message in a Bottle” and the original 1980 version of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”. The 1986 compilation had previously featured a new re-recording of the latter song in place of the original, which was met with criticism from fans; the 1995 album places the 1980 version of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” in the slot that was previously given to the re-recording on The Singles, while the 1986 version is relocated to the penultimate slot on the tracklist.