This is the fifth album form Mike Rutherfords so called side project. Like earlier albums and songs such as the living years this album manages to pull at the heart strings while sending off a laid back vibe. With “Ordinary Girl” the band affirm once again that they are regular ... Read review
Mike Rutherford and cohorts have had their ups and downs commercially, but the quality of ... more
their output has never wavered. Paul Young (the one from Safe Cafe, as must always be pointed out) and Paul Carrack are outstanding vocalists, and the top-drawer musicians click seamlessly as usual. "Looking Back Over My Shoulder" and "Another Cup of Coffee" are fine tracks, but it's too bad the project as a whole is tarnished by the lame Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder covers. --Jeff Bateman
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Advantages: Excellent - Well Crafted Disadvantages: Too Sentimental In Places
...is the fifth album form Mike Rutherfords so called side project. Like earlier albums and songs such as the living years this album manages to pull at the heart strings while sending off a laid back vibe. With “Ordinary Girl” the band affirm once again that they are regular guys just like the restof us. “Open Up” is a sentimental number which is succeeded by the anthem song “When I Get Over You”. The album is rounded ... ...great scheme of things on the haunting track “Dreamland”. The songs all fit together seamlessly on the album and are well crafted. Arrangements are kept to a minimum acoustics mainly being used. This allowed both Paul Carrack and Paul Young on vocals to display their sheer excellence in delivery. ... more
This is the fifth album form Mike Rutherfords so called side project. Like earlier albums and songs such as the living years this album manages to pull at the heart strings while sending off a laid back vibe. With “Ordinary Girl” the band affirm once again that they are regular guys just like the restof us. “Open Up” is a sentimental number which is succeeded by the anthem song “When I Get Over You”. The album is rounded off by musings on the common man’s place in the great scheme of things on the haunting track “Dreamland”. The songs all fit together seamlessly on the album and are well crafted. Arrangements are kept to a minimum acoustics mainly being used. This allowed both Paul Carrack and Paul Young on vocals to display their sheer excellence in delivery.
Advantages: Fantastic music with popular songs Disadvantages: none
Mike & The Mechanics Hits is one of my favourite CD albums.
General information
The compilation CD was released in 1996 and is a collection of the most successful songs recorded by Mike and The Mechanics during the course of their eleven year association.
Mike & The Mechanics, also known as Mike + The Mechanics + Paul Carrack, were a British rock/pop band, which formed in 1985 and ended in 2005 following the death of Paul Young.
Its main former members were Mike Rutherford (Guitar), Paul Carrack(Vocals/keyboards), Paul Young(Vocals), Gary Wallis(Drums), and Adrian Lee(Keyboards).
The life and the soul of the band was Mike Rutherford, who was born in 1950 in Guilford, Surrey, UK.
He is one of the founder members of Genesis. He plays both bass and lead guitar.
Before he founded Mike & The Mechanics he had ...
Mike & The Mechanics - Hits
I am still busy transferring CD's to iTunes and I am getting to the last 100 or so now. This is a CD that my wife originally bought, one I had already purged for 'Living Years' so I have taken the opportunity to listen to it again, though from memory it was not great.
I like the fact that in the inner booklet they state clearly that these 'hits' were hits in various places in the World, not just UK. The 'Hits' span 11 years from 1985 (Silent running) - 1996 (All I need is a Miracle '96).
The band were/are:
Paul Carrack (used to be in Squeeze)
Paul Young (used to be in Sad Café), Paul died of a heart attack in 2000.
Mike Rutherford (used to be in Genesis)
Adrian Lee
Peter Van Hooke
Gary Wallis
So, we have a high class and well connected line up, but what about the 'Hits'?
~~~The Tracks ...
Advantages: Very likeable and playable album Disadvantages: None
MIKE & THE MECHANICS "Hits" - Relatively cheap to purchase these days ... I wouldn't pay anymore than £6.99
I am just listening to it as I write this ... very beneficial!
This album is a collection of the bands hits from 1985 through to 1996 and includes songs that the band have experienced great success with in various regions of the world over an eleven year span.
The album sleeve is fairly basic, with a cartoon design of a mechanic slumped asleep upon a tyre, resting upon his tool box in front of a gas filling pump. The inner sleeve is a 6-page booklet of photographs, along with a list of the tracks and information regarding the year they were produced and whom they were written by.
When Phil Collins opted for a solo career in 1985, Genesis bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford decided to form his own pop/rock band "Mike ...
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