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

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

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

Believe and you can achieve!

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

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

"Oi!"

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

Tom Sizemore?

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

Name people whose career arcs resemble that of Paul Carrack

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

"Don't Shed A Tear" is nice.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

... 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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

I have heard of this 'depth'

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

That's actually a clever line.

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

Because...?

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

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

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

Error. Does not compute.

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

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

Defended!

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

eight years pass...

utterly necessary

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

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 (ten years ago) link

Townsend and the girl on the right side obv the best looking

― Euler, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link

I always get it mixed up with Back in the High Life Again which is an awesome song

― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link

Yes! Those Steve Winwood songs have aged remarkably well. Another good one is "Still In The Game" which MTV used to play at least once an hour in its first year of existence.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link

The Living Years was like a breath of fresh air after the dystopian nightmare of Silent Running.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link

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say it louuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 February 2024 17:36 (one month ago) link

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