Mike + The Mechanics (studio album) by Mike & The Mechanics

Mike + The Mechanics by Mike & The Mechanics
Year: 1985
Overall rank: 9,970th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 43 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (127th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,454th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,970th)
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Mike & The Mechanics Self Titled LP Vinyl Record Atlantic 81287-1 (EX) 1985
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Mike + The Mechanics - The Singles 1985 - 2014 - Mike + The Mechanics CD VLVG
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Mike & The Mechanics bestography

Mike + The Mechanics is ranked 4th best out of 12 albums by Mike & The Mechanics on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Mike & The Mechanics is Living Years which is ranked number 7551 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 166.

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Mike + The Mechanics track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
70/100 (from 43 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.5/100, a mean average of 67.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.9.

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From 07/28/2013 20:08
Still super safe pop-rock, but this surpasses what Phil Collins was doing at this point.
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Mike Rutherford, long-time guitar player for Genesis, started his own band to reasonable pop success. Recruiting fine vocalists Paul Young and Paul Carrack, the Mike+ debut storms out with two pop gems and as a whole is a fine pop album for the guitarist/bassist, even culling an unused Genesis song ("a call to arms") and making it his own.
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