Sting fans: mark October 18th on your 2011 calendar. That’s when Cherrytree/A&M Records/Universal Music Group will release Sting: The Best of 25 Years featuring 12 remastered tracks (including newly unearthed live recordings). According to Universal, the upcoming Best of CD will include previously unreleased live versions of “Message In A Bottle,” “Demolition Man” and “Heavy Cloud No Rain.”
In addition, a box set – Sting: 25 Years – will be hitting stores on September 27th. That set will feature 3 CDs “personally curated by Sting, as well as a DVD, Rough, Raw & Unreleased: Live at Irving Plaza, featuring previously unreleased live concert footage filmed at New York City’s Irving Plaza. The discs are housed in a beautiful, hardcover book containing rare photos, complete lyrics, and newly written commentary by Sting.”
Sting: The Best of 25 Years was produced by Rob Mathes and executive produced by Sting’s manager, Kathryn Schenker.
Sting: The Best of 25 Years (Single Disc – US Version)
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. We’ll Be Together
3. Fragile
4. All This Time
5. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
6. Fields Of Gold
7. Desert Rose
8. Whenever I Say Your Name
9. Never Coming Home
10. Message In A Bottle (Live)
11. Demolition Man (Live)
12. Heavy Cloud No Rain (Live)
Single Disc – International Version
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Englishman In New York
3. We’ll Be Together
4. Fragile
5. All This Time
6. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
7. Fields Of Gold
8. Desert Rose
9. Whenever I Say Your Name
10. Never Coming Home
11. Message In A Bottle (Live)
12. Demolition Man (Live)
13. Heavy Cloud No Rain (Live)
Double Disc – International Version
Disc One:
1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love Is The Seventh Wave
3. Moon Over Bourbon Street
4. Fortress Around Your Heart
5. Englishman In New York
6. They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)
7. Fragile
8. We’ll Be Together
9. All This Time
10. Mad About You
11. Why Should I Cry For You?
12. The Soul Cages
13. If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
14. Fields Of Gold
15. Seven Days
16. Shape Of My Heart
Disc Two:
1. When We Dance
2. I Was Brought To My Senses
3. You Still Touch Me
4. I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying
5. Desert Rose
6. Brand New Day
7. Send Your Love (Dave Aude Remix)
8. Whenever I Say Your Name
9. Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)
10. End Of The Game
11. Never Coming Home
12. Russians (Live)
13. Message In A Bottle (Live)
14. Demolition Man (Live)
15. Heavy Cloud No Rain (Live)
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