Mike + The Mechanics Silent Running

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Hauntingly prophetic. A gorgeous song.

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by Anonymousreply 17December 11, 2018 2:46 AM

Their first album is so good. All I Need is a Miracle and Taken In were great singles.

I love Paul Carrack's voice.

by Anonymousreply 1December 10, 2018 5:51 AM

This came out during that time I had a friend in high school.

by Anonymousreply 2December 10, 2018 5:53 AM

They really should have been bigger in the US - so many powerhouse songs and great voices.

by Anonymousreply 4December 10, 2018 6:39 AM

Loved this band, but I was really young when they started and the line up confused the hell out of me. I could tell from the videos that there was some connection between this band and Genesis (Mike Rutherford) but he wasn't the singer so I couldn't understand why his name was in the band title. And then there were 2 lead singers--Paul Carrack, whose voice I recognized from Squeeze's "Tempted" but who looked and sounded vaguely enough like Phil Collins to make me wonder, and Paul Young but NOT the "Every Time You Go Away" Paul Young.

And then came The Power Station and I was even more confused.

by Anonymousreply 5December 10, 2018 6:49 AM

What’s the meaning of that song Silent Running?

by Anonymousreply 6December 10, 2018 7:17 AM

Silent Running and Genesis’s Land of Confusion were so prophetic in terms of what is currently happening in the world. In terms of its meaning, per Mike Rutherford:

“(It) is about a guy who's traveled light-years away, out in space somewhere, and he's ahead in time. Therefore he knows what's going to happen to his wife and kids back home, on Earth. And he's trying to get the message to them to say what's going to happen, the kind of anarchy, the breakdown of society, to tell them to be prepared.”

The song was used in the ‘80s movie On Dangerous Ground.

by Anonymousreply 8December 10, 2018 11:44 AM

I’ve been replaying “Taken In” all day today. It is such a good song.

by Anonymousreply 9December 11, 2018 12:47 AM

Thanks for posting this, OP. I vaguely remembered it but really enjoyed listening to it now.

by Anonymousreply 10December 11, 2018 1:28 AM

The Living Years was the song that really made them big but I prefer their first album. The Living Years is a great song but it was so overplayed.

by Anonymousreply 11December 11, 2018 1:38 AM

The Living Years makes me bawl like a baby.

by Anonymousreply 12December 11, 2018 2:05 AM

[quote]The Living Years was the song that really made them big but I prefer their first album. The Living Years is a great song but it was so overplayed.

The Living Years is the worst song to come out of that era.

[quote]I think I caught his spirit Later that same year I'm sure I heard his echo In my baby's new born tears

That's lame enough to be something some fat frau fuck wrote as a psychotherapy exercise back in the 90s.

by Anonymousreply 13December 11, 2018 2:16 AM

Taken In is a fucking sublime tune. Heartbreaking, really.

"Someone saw me coming, a fool without a friend"

by Anonymousreply 14December 11, 2018 2:24 AM

Who is this heartless turd at R13?

by Anonymousreply 15December 11, 2018 2:30 AM

There’s a comment under the Taken In video on YouTube (the one where the screen depicts a sunset) that breaks my heart. The guy talks about how the melancholy feel of the song coupled with the lyrics reminds him of the time when the song first came out, when he’d lost everything and would take long drives at night to clear his mind.

by Anonymousreply 16December 11, 2018 2:32 AM

I used to sing..."all I need is a miracle, all I need is a 8-ball of meth". then I blow my str8 dealer Skip, and his buddy Rossi. I miss the 80's. Good times!

by Anonymousreply 17December 11, 2018 2:46 AM

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