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Mike and The Mechanics (1999 album)

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Released
  
31 May 1999

Length
  
54:11

Producer
  
Mike Rutherford

Genre
  
Pop rock

Label
  
Virgin

Recorded
  
Fisher Lane Farm Studios, Surrey 1998–99

Mike & The Mechanics is the fifth studio album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1999. As the name is easily confused with the 1985 album, Mike + The Mechanics, it is also referred to as M6 (i.e., the sixth album by the group, including the Hits compilation). It includes the top 40 hit "Now That You've Gone".

Contents

This was the last studio album with Paul Young, who died the year after its release; the group did not release another album until Rewired in 2004.

The album was not officially released in North America and is only available as an import there. However, the band's former US label Atlantic Records is still thanked in the liner notes.

Track listing

  1. "Whenever I Stop" (Mike Rutherford, Paul Carrack) – 3:38
  2. "Now That You've Gone" (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:47
  3. "Ordinary Girl" (Rutherford, Carrack, Paul Young) – 3:50
  4. "All The Light I Need" (Rutherford, B.A. Robertson) – 4:36
  5. "What Will You Do" (Rutherford, Robertson) – 3:15
  6. "My Little Island" (Rutherford, Robertson) – 4:05
  7. "Open Up" (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:04
  8. "When I Get Over You" (Rutherford, Christopher Neil) – 4:10
  9. "If Only" (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:42
  10. "Asking (For The Last Time)" (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:16
  11. "Always Listen To Your Heart" (Rutherford, Carrack, Young) – 4:16
  12. "Did You See Me Coming" (Rutherford, Carrack) – 4:04
  13. "Look Across at Dreamland" (Rutherford, Robertson) – 4:14

Personnel

  • Mike Rutherford – guitar, bass guitar
  • Paul Carrack – vocals (lead: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12), keyboards, guitar, drums
  • Paul Young – vocals (lead: 3, 6, 8, 11, 13), percussion
    • Additional personnel
  • Gary Wallis – drums, programming
  • Sharon Woolf – backing vocals
  • Simon Hale – conductor, string arrangements
  • Nick Davis – engineer, mixing
  • Steve Pigott – programming
  • Matthew Vaughan – programming

    • References

    Mike & The Mechanics (1999 album) Wikipedia
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