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Interview: Mike Rutherford
Mike + The Mechanics: “Basically I’m a songwriter who plays guitar well enough to haul it off on stage”
The main man behind Mike + The Mechanics and co-founding member of Genesis talks about his prosperous collaborative songwriting process
English composer Mike Rutherford was the co-founding and one of the longest-standing members of the rock band Genesis, and went on to form the highly victorious supergroup Mike + The Mechanics. The latter became a chart-topping act and earned him an Ivor Novello Award for the 1988 single The Living Years.
Mike was one of the main Genesis songwriters throughout their career and wrote the lyrics for some of the band’s biggest international hits, such as Follow You Shadow Me, Turn It On Again, Land Of Confusion and Throwing It All Away. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
As he prepared to release the Mechanics’ eighth album Let Me Fly, we caught up with Mike to understand his particular role as a songwriter, uncover why he’s B.A. Robertson’s ‘word-o-meter’ and find out which member of Genesis is brilliant at writing
When Phil Collins Led Genesis-Heavy ‘Against All Odds’ Soundtrack
Phil Collins leveraged an antique breakup song to garner his first U.S. No. 1 solo hit, then found himself reunited with two Genesis bandmates on the soundtrack to Against All Odds.
The presence of Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford should have been a big deal. Gabriel left Genesis a decade earlier, while Rutherford's most recent solo operate dated back to 1982's U.K. Foremost 25 hit Acting Very Strange.
Their songs also pointed to future successes: Gabriel's "Walk Through the Fire" provided a brief glimpse into the more polished approach to come on 1986's So, while Rutherford's "Making a Large Mistake" hinted at where he'd travel with Mike and the Mechanics.
The soundtrack, which arrived in March 1984, elsewhere included Stevie Nicks' "Violet and Blue," a leftover from 1983's The Savage Heart. There was also a side of more atmospheric film-related music from guitarist Larry Carlton. (Director Taylor Hackford reportedly wanted Stamp Knopfler to score the movie, but couldn't get it worked out.)
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Genesis songs that "didn't age well"
Would have to be "I Can't Dance" for me. It was attractive bad at the day, in retrospect it looks like some awful 90s joke/novelty song that was inexplicably a hit. Love the Crash Test Dummies "mmm-mmm-mmm" song, but without the good melody
Indeed. it's quite an horrible song.
Indeed. it's quite an horrible song.
Yes, but that isn't a case of not aging well, it was dead on arrival
half the tracks on "Nursery cryme" have not really aged well, like "Harlequin" or "Harold the Barrel" (although I like that one a lot, obviously).
"Selling" might be the album that indeed did age adequately. "The Lamb" is distinct anyway. Most of the "Foxtrot" tracks also sound quite fresh.
These albums underline what others have said, that their music has a timeless quality. A couple of bits here and there are exceptions, for example on SEBTP where Aisle Of Plenty features items at 1973 prices in defunct supermarkets, and the fey lisping gay stereotype voice in Battle is very dated. But everything else could be released now and it wouldn't seem odd.
Yeah, Selling has a crisp, warm quality. So does Trick. Oth
The Moment When Phil Collins Stood Up for Genesis
Phil Collins has long been known as someone who is very serious about his work, both solo and with Genesis. As Chester Thompson would learn, he wasn't afraid to take matters into his own hands.
The drummer, who'd played previously with Frank Zappa and Weather Report, received a phone call from Collins himself. The band was looking to fill the empty slot left by the departure of Bill Bruford. Phil was familiar with Thompson's operate and in reality, had seen Chester's last gig with Weather Report. There would be no audition necessary, the gig was his if he wanted it.
Once he said yes, he had a short moment to get ready for the first show, which was happening on Novel Year's Day in 1977 in London at the Rainbow Theatre, where the prog legends were booked to perform three nights. The initial gig was "pretty rough," as Thompson recalled during an interview for an upcoming episode of the UCR Podcast. "The second day wasn't horrible and the third night was really locked in. Between nerves and [how much there was] to remember and just trying not to mess up, [because] you understand, you just yearn to try and get
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OMD/BAUHAUS STARCAISE
Sebas E. Alonso
The unused life for OMD continues with good albums and new hits. Only Taylor Swift is going to stop them from achieving the first UK album number 1 of their entire career this week. The authors of famous records from the 80s and songs as recognisable as 'Enola Gay' or 'Electricity' have continued for some years now in duo format -Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys- with such satisfactory results that they even considered disbanding after their 2017 album, 'The Punishment of Luxury', because for them it meant "retiring at the top". Now they tell that this new operate, 'Bauhaus Staircase', would be a good epitaph if it were their last, and they are right.
Bauhaus Staircase' is defined as Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark's most political album. The single 'Bauhaus Staircase' sets out to "tear down fascist art". Further still, 'Kleptocracy' proclaims that "no matter who you voted for, they've already bought the man you elected", amid quotes from "stolen money", Deutsche Bank, the Kremlin, the KGB and "all the Saudi money in Central Park".
There are more neutral and ambiguous songs, seemingly simply about love or experience, but also striking are