Needs more than a mechanic.

Advantages: Living Years
Disadvantages: The rest

...Mike & The Mechanics - Hits I am still busy transferring CD's to iTunes and I am getting to the last 100 or so now. This is a CD that my wife originally bought, one I had already purged for 'Living Years' so I have taken the opportunity to listen to it again, though from memory it was not great. I like the fact that in the inner booklet they state clearly that these 'hits' were hits in various places in the World, not just UK. The 'Hits' span 11 years from 1985 (Silent running) - 1996 (All I need is a Miracle '96). The band were/are: Paul Carrack (used to be in Squeeze) Paul Young (used to be in Sad Café), Paul died of a heart attack in 2000. Mike Rutherford (used to be in Genesis) Adrian Lee Peter Van Hooke Gary Wallis So, we have a high class and well connected line up, but what about the 'Hits'? ~~~The Tracks...

paulhanton 02.10.2008 · Read review
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Mike & The Mechanics - Hits

Advantages: Very likeable and playable album
Disadvantages: None

...MIKE & THE MECHANICS "Hits" - Relatively cheap to purchase these days ... I wouldn't pay anymore than £6.99 I am just listening to it as I write this ... very beneficial! This album is a collection of the bands hits from 1985 through to 1996 and includes songs that the band have experienced great success with in various regions of the world over an eleven year span. The album sleeve is fairly basic, with a cartoon design of a mechanic slumped asleep upon a tyre, resting upon his tool box in front of a gas filling pump. The inner sleeve is a 6-page booklet of photographs, along with a list of the tracks and information regarding the year they were produced and whom they were written by. When Phil Collins opted for a solo career in 1985, Genesis bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford decided to form his own pop/rock band "Mike...

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Mechanical Manson

Advantages: Anthemic, accessible, good use of electronic wizardry
Disadvantages: A few poor, mundane, filler tracks

...of the album. A truly classic Manson song. A slow, big fat bass line creates a rather 'sleazy' feel and this is supported by the lyrical innuendos- 'Cops and queers....to swim you have to swallow'. The song mainly deals with the self-disillusionment of drug abuse and the hypocrisy of a society that denounces narcotics and yet relies upon them in so many ways (for more, info, see Michael Moore!). The chorus is certainly memorable and catchy. Manson at his best. 9 out of 10 3. Mechanical Animals - The title track of the album. The first true 'rock' song of the album- a thumping drum and guitar intro. Manson takes time to comment on his incendiary nature- 'I was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding'. The chorus here is brilliant; the song is stripped down to Manson's vocals and an acoustic guitar (a rare MM moment). The song finally erupts...

thomlafferty 16.11.2004 · Read review
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Mechanical puzzle game for Nintendo DS - Mechanic Master

Advantages: Good concept, fun to play through the levels
Disadvantages: Poor graphics and sound, not enough levels.

...This review is for Nintendo DS game, Mechanic Master, developed and published by Midway Games. Mechanic Master is a puzzle game with over one hundred levels to work through, with many similarities in principle to the 1990s PC game, The Incredible Machine. The aim of the game is to work through the levels, of which there are just over one hundred, solving mechanical puzzles. Each screen has humans and aliens, and you have to save the humans and kill the aliens by placing the various mechanical pieces, such as platforms, levers and boxes, in the right place. There are two different ways that you can play the game, either in the drawing mode or in the puzzle mode. The drawing mode involves you drawing on the touch screen with the stylus to place lines on the screen to guide the items into place. In the puzzle mode, you instead move...

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Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Advantages: Fantastic variation, and some of their best songs.
Disadvantages: Songs are all fantastic, but there's no real structure to album.

...A slower song, and nice introduction to the album. It sets the pace well with haunting lyrics and vocals that you can actually hear the words to. Guitars accompany Manson, slowly at first then build up to a more powerful beat at the end. Track 2 - The Dope Show A mid-tempo song with strange lyrics! Where the first song was much more serious, this one is a good track to introduce you into the stranger side of Manson's music. Track 3 - Mechanical Animals The title track has a nice guitar introduction, and a good chorus , but it doesn't really stand out to me. It definitely doesn't seem strong enough to be the title track hen compared with the other songs on here. Track 4 - Rock is Dead Another less than serious track. Very strong and catchy beat, and I can assure you that you'll find yourself suddenly singing 'ROCK, is deader than...

Mayoki 21.05.2008 · Read review
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Days of Worth - The Western Mechanism

Advantages: Strong, exciting, thought provoking music
Disadvantages: Being on the same label as Lost Prohets may put some people off this band

...their music, and on this album show signs of remarkable display with their powering, always interesting and exciting music. There are many slabs of musical brilliance on display on this record, with many of the tracks shining through and sounding amazing. Tracks such as 'Standard Suburban Anthem,' 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' and title track 'The Western Mechanism' really do go down a treat with their energetic, emotional display of rocking excellence. Days of Worth really are a fine British rock band and are definitely a band that the UK should be proud to have. These tracks in particular show off the band's musical expertise, especially 'Ladies and Gentlemen.' The band released this one as a single and it really is a stormer with awesome guitar work, booming bass lines, and vocal superiority over most bands out there. Days of Worth are...

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System Mechanic Software - A Great Choice for PC Maintenance!

Advantages: affordable, affective, easy to use
Disadvantages: none

...The new System Mechanic Professional fits all of my needs and seems to be quite reliable. I run this program once every 2 weeks and it finds and fixes any problem remotely wrong with your computer. The process is simple and easy to use, however If difficulties do arise, there is someone you can reach through the iolo site to guide me through it. An excellent program. System Mechanic automatically repairs errors and fragmentation, cleans out clutter, and tunes up your PC -- so that it runs smoothly, reliably, and up to 300% faster! Here are some examples of problems that this program addresses and fixes: Problem: Random errors, crashes and restarts Solution: Fixes registry problems, clears clutter, and repairs security vulnerabilities Problem: Sluggish programs, downloads and startup Solution: Defragments memory and hard drives...

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Mechanical Animals

Advantages: brilliant songs, very original
Disadvantages: None, it's manson

...What can i say, to the Marilyn Manson lover this is just another masterpiece showing off the supreme genius that is Marilyn Manson. Featuring some truly great songs such as "The Dope Show" "Mechanical Animals" "I Dont Like The Drugs, But The Drugs Like Me" and "Coma White" making this a must have album for any true Marilyn Manson lover. As ever Manson manages to astound with his ongoing originality making all off his albums very different and mechanical animal is no exception. Lets not forget the brilliant insert cover and inlay design giving you stages of a coma which really shows originality. Even if it is a bit sedistic. I rate it a 9/10 album and a must have in your collection....

somebloke 29.04.2001 · Read review
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A great cheap set of scales (Argos Value Range Mechanical Scale)

Advantages: Store away well, incredibly cheap and do the job
Disadvantages: Ugly looking

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soutram 16.11.2009 · Read review
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Not that mechanical

Advantages: Good set
Disadvantages: not much new hear

...This is the fourth time I've seen O.C.S and I have never been disappointed. They are an excellent live band and have written some excellent songs, okay they are not the most original of bands and they are stuck in the past a bit, but there would be a gap in the scene without them. They certainly don't deserve the slating they get from the music press. Anyway they are currently touring to support the release of their new album "Mechanical Wonder" and single "Up on the downside", so I went along to see them at the Brixton Academy. The Support Band were Mo Solid Gold and were very entertaining, they sound different from a lot of the guitar music that is about at the moment they are a sort of rock/gospel band, not the best description but its hard to describe what's hard to describe, the singer was very lively and they have a single...

Lazy_shadow 14.03.2001 · Read review
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