Defend the Indefensible: Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years"

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I would shoot this song if I could.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Ned, quit mongering hate!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Matt, I am a holy mission.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Rather, I am on a holy mission. But I could be a holy mission too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely love... "At This Moment". Dude can SING that song.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Believe and you can achieve!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.books.i12.com/mission/mission/mission_2.jpg

"Oi!"

― Wayne (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though...Silent Running is an awesome little wierd song....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

also, as bad as this song is, the video is like five times worse.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

I absolutely love... "At This Moment". Dude can SING that song.
Yeah, you're right about that!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Billy Vera I have time for -- good liner note writer for a lot of Rhino comps, had a great three-line role in Buckaroo Banzai. Trouper. Mike and the Mechanics I mock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Defend the Indefensible: Mike and the Mechanics' "The Living Years"
Um...okay...uh...
It's...OH! I got it...It's not as cloyingly sappy as "Cats in the Cradle"
Hows that.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Okay, have we maybe found the one song that everybody hates?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

It's too LAAAAAAAAATE
When we DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
To admit we don't see
EYE TO EYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Hang on a minute. Was someone slagging off Time After Time?

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Miles Davis didn't do a version of "The Living Years," that's for fucking sure

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 27 June 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't hate "The Living Years," but nor can I muster a defense of it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Is Paul Carrack the only guy to have a hit with three different bands?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Squeeze, these assholes and.....who is the third? Didn't he have a solo hit?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Ace, "How Long." He did however have solo hits too -- "Don't Shed a Tear" in particular I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Someone should lock him in the trunk of a car and drive it off a cliff into a perilous chasm filled with agitated snakes and quiksand.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I believe he's dead. And I think you're the chief suspect.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

http://home.att.net/~leahland/nestles.jpg

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I think we're forgetting the key soulful bit:

Say it looooooouud
(say it loud!)
Say is cleeeeear
(oh say it cle-ear!)

This song is NOT better than "Cat's In the Cradle" and while it doesn't save that song, it makes "Leader of the Band" look like a Dylan tune.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Nope, alive and touring, Ned....you big tease.

http://www.carrack-uk.com/Paul-Carrack---intro-Sam-Mo.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

"Look! It's my dignity cowering in the corner!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Tom Sizemore?

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Name people whose career arcs resemble that of Paul Carrack

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Shed A Tear" is nice.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

There's no way in hell that "Time After Time" is worse than "Living Years", unless your ears are made of cheese.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

It's...OH! I got it...It's not as cloyingly sappy as "Cats in the Cradle"

You can at least tap your toe to "Cradle" though now I do wonder what it would've sounded like had Ugly Kid Joe coverd "Living Years" instead.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Paul Young is the Mechanic who is no longer in the Living Years.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

There's no way in hell that "Time After Time" is worse than "Living Years", unless your ears are made of cheese.

So awesome-o.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Paul Young is the Mechanic who is no longer in the Living Years.

Not to be confused with that other Paul Young who took a putrid, runny dump all over "Love Will Tear Us Apart".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

ten bucks says "The living Years" gets remade as a #1 smash by some Groban type in the next five years.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

... the same Paul Young who proposed a whole new system of home-ownership based the laying down of hats.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

AARGH. based "on" the laying down of hats.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Although if the Good Paul Young were in Mike & The Mechanics we'd have the singer with the soul pretensions to give their corporate pop a hint of depth.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

OW. OW. OW. I think I just had an embolism...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I have heard of this 'depth'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Interesting. What is this 'depth' of which you speak?

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

The Bad Paul Young was incapable of a "Come Back & Stay" or "Everytime You Go Away".

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

And for that we are all thankful. But all this talk of cross-breeding Paul Youngs, good AND bad, with Mike & The Mechanics is doing nothing for my embolism.

Is it just me or is the badness of "Living Years" encapsulated by the line 'You can listen as well as you hear'...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

That's actually a clever line.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Because...?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Cuz listening's different from hearing. Ned, all you need is a miracle.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Error. Does not compute.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

It's really really hard to make a song that bad.

Defended!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

utterly necessary

― Euler, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 14:18 (twelve years ago)

handsome devils

http://eil.com/images/main/Mike+%26+The+Mechanics+-+Living+Years+-+PRESS+PACK-453387.jpg

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 14:19 (twelve years ago)

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I would shoot this song if I could.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, June 27, 2005 1:04 PM bookmarkflaglink

SHOOT IT LOUD

― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:44 (five years ago)

Remember first knowingly hearing this in the early 00s as I "faced-up" the paint isle in the mount vernon b&q. Dont understand why that's stuck with me so much, maybe because the combination was so dispiriting

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:55 (five years ago)

Aisle even, cripes.

Honestly dont mind "over my shoulder" mind you

― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Monday, 17 August 2020 23:58 (five years ago)

two years pass...

The BBC dubbed Carrack "The Man with the Golden Voice",[3] while Record Collector remarked: "If vocal talent equalled financial success, Paul Carrack would be a bigger name than legends such as Phil Collins or Elton John."[4]

― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 July 2023 19:00 (two years ago)

seven months pass...

say it louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:36 (two years ago)

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