From Sting.com:

STING: 25 YEARS The Definitive Box Set Collection

Three CDs Featuring 45 Remastered Tracks Spanning Sting’s Solo Career Plus a DVD Containing Previously Unreleased Live Concert Footage

Accompanied by a Comprehensive Book Featuring Intimate Photos, Complete Lyrics and a Written Introduction by Sting

To Be Released September 27, 2011

Cherrytree/A&M Records/Universal Music Group is pleased to announce 'Sting: 25 Years', the definitive box set collection slated for release on September 27, 2011. Featuring three CDs comprised of 45 remastered tracks personally curated by Sting, a previously unreleased live concert DVD and a comprehensive hardcover book, this retrospective captures for the first time both the highlights and rarities of Sting’s enduring solo career.

This consummate collection contains selections spanning his entire solo catalog, from his 1985 debut album, 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles', to his latest release, Live in Berlin. Highlights include all of Sting’s top 40 hits as well as Grammy® winners 'Brand New Day', 'The Soul Cages', 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You', and 'Whenever I Say Your Name' featuring Mary J. Blige (full track listing included below).

Sting: 25 Years was produced by Rob Mathes and Executive Produced by Sting’s longtime manager, Kathryn Schenker. The box set also contains nine songs remixed by Robert Orton and Steve Fitzmaurice exclusively for this collection.

Rough, Raw & Unreleased: Live At Irving Plaza, the previously unreleased live concert DVD, features 10 tracks culled from newly unearthed raw performance footage filmed in New York City on the final night of Sting’s U.S. 'Broken Music' tour in 2005.

The discs are housed in a beautiful, lavish hardcover book containing intimate and rare photos from world renowned photographers, complete lyrics, personal commentary and a newly written introduction by Sting.

Richly diverse in musical content and visually captivating, 'Sting: 25 Years' is a compelling tribute to the restless spirit of an artist who continues to evolve and explore new musical territory.

Don't know how to feel about this, but I guess it's time for him to have a collection!

What's the maze (or whatever it is) on the cover supposed to mean?

silverchild said:

From Sting.com:

STING: 25 YEARS The Definitive Box Set Collection

Three CDs Featuring 45 Remastered Tracks Spanning Sting’s Solo Career Plus a DVD Containing Previously Unreleased Live Concert Footage

Accompanied by a Comprehensive Book Featuring Intimate Photos, Complete Lyrics and a Written Introduction by Sting

To Be Released September 27, 2011

Cherrytree/A&M Records/Universal Music Group is pleased to announce 'Sting: 25 Years', the definitive box set collection slated for release on September 27, 2011. Featuring three CDs comprised of 45 remastered tracks personally curated by Sting, a previously unreleased live concert DVD and a comprehensive hardcover book, this retrospective captures for the first time both the highlights and rarities of Sting’s enduring solo career.

This consummate collection contains selections spanning his entire solo catalog, from his 1985 debut album, 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles', to his latest release, Live in Berlin. Highlights include all of Sting’s top 40 hits as well as Grammy® winners 'Brand New Day', 'The Soul Cages', 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You', and 'Whenever I Say Your Name' featuring Mary J. Blige (full track listing included below).

Sting: 25 Years was produced by Rob Mathes and Executive Produced by Sting’s longtime manager, Kathryn Schenker. The box set also contains nine songs remixed by Robert Orton and Steve Fitzmaurice exclusively for this collection.

Rough, Raw & Unreleased: Live At Irving Plaza, the previously unreleased live concert DVD, features 10 tracks culled from newly unearthed raw performance footage filmed in New York City on the final night of Sting’s U.S. 'Broken Music' tour in 2005.

The discs are housed in a beautiful, lavish hardcover book containing intimate and rare photos from world renowned photographers, complete lyrics, personal commentary and a newly written introduction by Sting.

Richly diverse in musical content and visually captivating, 'Sting: 25 Years' is a compelling tribute to the restless spirit of an artist who continues to evolve and explore new musical territory.

Don't know how to feel about this, but I guess it's time for him to have a collection!

What's your beef with it?

purplethunder3121 said:

silverchild said:

Don't know how to feel about this, but I guess it's time for him to have a collection!

What's your beef with it?

I don't really have beef with it purplethunder! An anthology is way more suitable, but I can definitely tolerate a career-spanning box set full of Sting. Heck, remastered versions of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, ...Nothing Like The Sun, Ten Summoners Tales and The Soul Cages would be the business.

Here's the tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
2. Love is the Seventh Wave
3. Consider Me Gone
4. Moon Over Bourbon Street
5. Fortress Around Your Heart
6. Bring on the Night (Live)
7. Driven to Tears (Live)
8. I Burn for You (Live)
9. Be Still My Beating Heart
10. They Dance Alone
11. Englishman in New York
12. Fragile
13. We’ll Be Together
14. Sister Moon
15. The Secret Marriage

Disc 2

1. All This Time
2. Mad About You
3. Why Should I Cry for You?
4. The Soul Cages
5. When the Angels Fall
6. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
7. Fields of Gold
8. Seven Days
9. It’s Probably Me
10. Shape of My Heart
11. When We Dance
12. I Hung My Head
13. I Was Brought to My Senses
14. You Still Touch Me
15. I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying

Disc 3

1. A Thousand Years
2. Desert Rose
3. Ghost Story
4. Brand New Day
5. Send Your Love
6. Whenever I Say Your Name
7. Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing)
8. Soul Cake
9. The Hounds of Winter
10. Next to You
11. We Work the Black Seam
12. The Pirate’s Bride
13. Never Coming Home
14. Russians (Live)
15. The End of the Game (Live)

Disc 4: Rough, Raw & Unreleased – Live at Irving Plaza, New York City – 5/14/2005

1. Message in a Bottle
2. Demolition Man
3. Synchronicity II
4. Driven to Tears
5. Heavy Cloud, No Rain
6. A Day in the Life
7. Voices Inside My Head/When the World is Running Down
8. Roxanne
9. Next to You
10. Lithium Sunset

Sounds good to me! But if it is too pricey I'll wait for an anthology since I already have a lot of Sting CDs.

I all ready have most of this, so I'll pass.

i too have enough Sting/Police..at least the ones i want. but yeah. he definitely should have a set like this by now. seems cool enough, especially for more enthusiastic fans. why not?

Looks very nice, and his back catalog is definitely due for refurbishing.

But - - no b-sides or rarities? These are all singles and album tracks, apart from the live disc.

Hopefully this is just a precursor for a complete reissue collection of all his CDs, with bonus tracks, b-sides, etc.

I have just about all of this so i'll pass... but it look's like a great set!

The absence of rare and previously unreleased material makes it a non-starter for me.