All Songs, Best to Worst: The Police

It's time to bring back the series that I started this past August: ranking an artist's every recorded song from best to worst. This time we're taking a look at The Police. What can I say about The Police that hasn't already been said? They're one of the greatest and most commercially successful rock bands ever. Everybody loves them. The debate about which of their five albums was best still rages on. You can barely go through one day without hearing at least one of their songs, even though they split up back in the mid-1980's. They came of age during the punk era, but added reggae to their style and presented it in a tight, easily digestible pop-rock package. The Police released five albums between 1978 and 1983. They're all great albums and they're pretty easy to find. For this list list I'm including every song from those five albums, nothing more, nothing less. Also, this is just my personal take on things; feel free to disagree. So join me as we count down all of The Police's 53 songs, from best to worst.

1. “Walking on the Moon”, Regatta de Blanc (1979)

2. “Don't Stand So Close to Me”, Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)

3. “Message in a Bottle”, RdB

4. “Every Breath You Take”, Synchronicity (1983)

5. “Next to You”, Outlandos d'Amour (1978)

6. “Roxanne”, OdA

7. “Every Little Thing She Does is Magic”, Ghost in the Machine (1981)

8. “Can't Stand Losing You”, OdA

9. “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”, ZM

10. “Synchronicity II”, Sy

11. “Wrapped Around Your Finger”, Sy

12. “Invisible Sun”, GitM

13. “So Lonely”, OdA

14. “Hole in My Life”, OdA

15. “Driven To Tears”, ZM

16. “It's Alright for You”, RdB

17. “When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around”, ZM

18. “Bring On the Night”, RdB

19. “Synchronicity I”, Sy

20. “Bombs Away”, ZM

21. “Truth Hits Everybody”, OdA

22. “The Bed's Too Big Without You”, RdB

23. “One World (Not Three)”, GitM

24. “Spirits in the Material World”, GitM

25. “Omegaman”, GitM

26. “Secret Journey”, GitM

27. “The Other Way of Stopping”, ZM

28. “Walking in Your Footsteps”, Sy

29. “Hungry for You”, GitM

30. “Murder by Numbers”, Sy

31. “Peanuts”, OdA

32. “Regatta de Blanc”, RdB

33. “Does Everyone Stare?”, TdB

34. “Shadows in the Rain”, ZM

35. “Darkness”, GitM

36. “Oh My God”, Sy

37. “Miss Gradenko”, Sy

38. “King of Pain”, Sy

39. “No Time This Time”, RdB

40. “Contact”, RdB

41. “Tea in the Sahara”, Sy

42. “Canary in a Coalmine”, ZM

43. “On Any Other Day”, RdB

44. “Demolition Man”, GitM

45. “Man in a Suitcase”, ZM

46. “Rehumanize Yourself”, GitM

47. “Born in the '50's”, OdA

48. “Masoko Tanga”, OdA

49. “Voices Inside My Head”, ZM

50. “Deathwish”, RdB

51. “Be My Girl – Sally”, OdA

52. “Behind My Camel”, ZM

53. “Mother”, Sy