(Progressive, Adult Contemporary rock) Mike and The Mechanics - Living Years (1998), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

With The Living Years, Mike + the Mechanics firmly established themselves in the adult contemporary genre after the mid-'80s pop of their debut. Slickly produced with rich vocals from Paul Carrack and Paul Young, The Living Years moves smoothly between anthemic ballads such as the title track and more up-beat numbers such as "Seeing Is Believing." The band even shows a trace of Mike Rutherford's prog rock roots with Genesis on the epic-like, "Why Me?" When the group try their hands at funk, as on "Don't," or harder rock, as on "Black and Blue," they sound quite out of their element. But on mid-tempo tracks with Rutherford's trademark bubbly bass such as "Nobody's Perfect" and "Beautiful Day" and on the infectious "Poor Boy Down" the group display a soulfulness that many in the genre lack even while there is a distinct lack of individuality present in their musicianship.

REM GENRE Rock
REM DATE 1988
REM DISCID 800B100A
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b2"
CATALOG 0075678192326
PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
TITLE "Living Years"
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  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Nobody's Perfect"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    PREGAP 00:00:33
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Living Years"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 50:37:28
FILE "02 - The Living Years.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Seeing is Believing"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 61:22:01
FILE "03 - Seeing is Believing.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Nobody Knows"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 58:00:68
FILE "04 - Nobody Knows.wav" WAVE
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  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Poor Boy Down"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 02:15:15
FILE "05 - Poor Boy Down.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Blame"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 50:24:53
FILE "06 - Blame.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Don't"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 93:17:00
FILE "07 - Don't.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "Black & Blue"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 61:34:38
FILE "08 - Black & Blue.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    TITLE "Beautiful Day"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 59:18:15
FILE "09 - Beautiful Day.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    TITLE "Why Me?"
    PERFORMER "Mike and The Mechanics"
    INDEX 00 59:29:03
FILE "10 - Why Me.wav" WAVE
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

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EAC extraction logfile from 19. November 2012, 11:14
Mike and The Mechanics / Living Years
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3706076182 58623644 02 - The Living Years.wav
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2043278945 46475564 04 - Nobody Knows.wav
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