Mike + The Mechanics To Issue The Singles: 1986-2013 (UK Report)

The great UK reissue site, Super Deluxe Edition, is reporting a UK issue of collected hits for Mike + The Mechanics.  The 2CD collection is called The Singles: 1986-2013.  It will contain all of their single issues, including b-sides and rarities.  To make the set more incredible, the set will add in a previously unreleased track, “One By One”, and a brand new song, “When My Feet Don’t Touch The Ground”.

Mike + The Mechanics formed in the mid-80s as a side-project for Genesis band-member, Mike Rutherford.  Completed by band-mates, Paul Carrack, the late Paul Young (of the underrated Sad Café band), Peter Van Hooke, and Adrian Lee.  What was intended as a “keep busy” effort ended up being a large-scale project with Rutherford and the band.

Over the years, and during the highly potent MTV era, Mike + The Mechanics pumped out hit after hit.  Those hits included “Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)”, and “All I Need Is A Miracle” to name but two.

On October 21 (UK), The Singles: 1986-2013 will release.  This ‘best of’ can be pre-ordered via the UK arm of Amazon.

Here’s the full track listing (from the official Mike + The Mechanics website):

CD1:

Silent Running
(On Dangerous Ground)
All I Need Is A Miracle
The Living Years
Word Of Mouth
Over My Shoulder
A Beggar On A Beach Of Gold
Another Cup Of Coffee
Now That You’ve Gone
Taken In
Nobody’s Perfect
Everybody Gets A Second Chance
Nobody Knows
Seeing Is Believing
A Time And Place
Whenever I Stop
Perfect Child
Reach Out (Touch The Sun)
Try To Save Me

CD2:

When My Feet Don’t Touch The Ground
(***New track***)
One By One
(Previously unreleased featuring Paul Young & Paul Carrack)
Nobody Told Me
I Think I’ve Got The Message
Too Many Friends
You Never Change
Always The Last To Know
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Boys At The Front
My Crime Of Passion (Acoustic Version)
Little Boy
Help Me
Revolution
I Get The Feeling (Live)
Taken In (Live)
Word Of Mouth (East West Mix)
Too Far Gone