It could be because they were British musicians and a British Band. Here in the states we typically don't hear deep album cuts from British bands. I am fortunate that I have access to music resources. I picked up the "The Hits" by Mike and the Mechanics a few years ago. I think the music is uniquely sounding and maybe that is why it stands out so well in my mind. It hit me tonight June 1 2023. I like a few songs off the Hits album. "Over My Shoulder", "Another Cup of Coffee", "Nobody's Perfect" and "Nobody Knows". Maybe the two lead vocals approach helped with their sound. Paul Carrack and Paul Young.
@@lockedin60 Are you saying that other songs by Mike and the Mechanics weren't by British musicians and a British band? Was "The Living Years" by American musicians and an American band?
@@ChrisBakerauthor No!. My point was that maybe since they are British group that may have influenced the way the music sounded. Mike had the benefit in playing with one of the best Progressive Rock bands of any era (Genesis) through several different stages. I love there music I like a lot of UK-British Music even though I am from the states. Because of MTV and now several social media and music apps we are exposed to music from different parts of the world. Another Brit Act Chris Rea. One of his first singles was released in the US in 1979 "Fool If You Think It's Over". I remember it well and it had heavy rotation on local radio stations in NC (Greensboro and Raleigh NC). But I never heard anymore of his songs played here in the States. But I ran into his music again about 10-12 years ago because of youtube. Then I started playing his other songs. I don't know if I would have known about his other great songs without youtube.
What a MASTERPIECE. It’s 2020 almost 2021 and I’m still listening. ❤️ I’m 26 yo but I miss the 80’s so freakin’ much!!! 😫 🇧🇷 edit: 2023 and I’m still listening 😆
Cheers to anyone and everyone who is listening, reflecting and enjoying the sheer innocence of the music. My toast is to you! Many Blessings. And stay safe wherever you are in this beautiful world. I'm 44 years old. Single. Never married. Wonderful family, career and beautiful health. Blessed every day. And yet I have no awesome woman to share this with. I love this ballad and look forward to jamming out with that awesome woman one day.
This album helped me survive the late 80s. It was a decade of fun and optimism, and also of AIDS. Dozens of my friends dying, so many acquaintances and co-workers dying around me...it culminated in losing my partner of 8 years as I held his hand. Without music, I doubt that I would have survived. This entire album was something comforting and beautiful in a sad world. Now, I'm in my 70s and still loving this music. I still find it hard to comprehend why I am alive when so many incredibly talented, creative, and loving people are gone. Erased in the prime of their lives.
I know it's difficult to understand and hurts but was God's purpose, you still have time to repent of your sins and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior !! Be blessed !!
@@mharg6408 Your a dipshit!! Take the hate elsware, and don't use religion as a shield. Sorry to hear your struggle leefi 1, but, yes this is great music!!
Eu, saudades dessa época que as lágrimas vem em meu rosto, época mágica,sem violência, pessoas se respeitavam,amor sincero,as namoradas da época,pais e avós ainda vivos😢
Mike +The Mechanics have been on heavy repeat with me lately. "It's comfort" music. It instantly places make to my childhood. It's like a receiving a hug from a friend, I haven't seen in awhile ❤ RIP- Richard blezer, I'm glad , I'm at the age where I could recognize him. Rest in peace homie. He was one of kind.
Richard Belzer was the "man of the house" in this video. So sad that he currently passed away 3 weeks ago. He was a star in recent crime television shows as I'm sure that some will remember. Loved him and his acting!
I remember Richard from his comedy talk show when he did his funniest line when someone asked him a question he answered with a question, "Could you be more vague?" Just hilarious, at least when I heard it. In fact, I think Chandler Bing made a whole career with questions like that on Friends!! Could you be more stupid? Taken In .....so jazzy was one of my favorite songs of the 80s. RIP MATTHEW PERRY & RICHARD BELZER.
Such a great song. It's a reminder of how great that era was. There was a little bit of technology, but not too much. Those days were good and gone forever.
Heard this today on the radio and it took me right back to 1986!!!! TOTALLY forgot about this one until today!!! LOVED this song…back when life was literally just beginning for me. They don’t make music like this today!! 🙌😊
I haven’t heard this song for a long time. A real long time. Good to be listening to this in 2022. Paul Carrack, Mike Rutherford, and Paul Young were members of this group. Back then there were two musicians by the name of Paul Young. Unfortunately the Paul Young of this group has passed away. The second Paul Young, the artist of the song Every time you go away is still alive.
Love the song, as always. But the video holds a special place in my heart and rock history. Belzer(!) and Paul Carrack, and the amazing Paul Young singing, who died way too young. Magic music in so many ways.
@Kathie Myrenaes Funny thing, but I always believed Paul Carrack sang this song. He and the late Paul Young definitely had similar vocal timbres. I feel like I've heard Paul Carrack sing it, and he might have when Paul Young died and Paul Carrack took over all the lead vocal duties in Mike & The Mechanics in 2000. I'm pretty sure that's him playing keyboards behind Mike Rutherford in this video. 🙂 Anyway. Great song. Paul Young left us way too soon. R.I.P. And yes, the great Richard Belzer co-stars in this video. Undoubtedly playing John Munch, the character he's most known for playing on Law & Order: SVU and several other shows besides. (Richard's John Munch currently holds the record for the most played character on the most TV series.) In addition to his lengthy career as a comedian. From Wikipedia's entry: "Belzer has played Munch in episodes on seven other series and in a sketch on one talk show, making Munch the only fictional character to appear on eleven different television shows played by a single actor. These shows were on six different networks: Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC) Law & Order (NBC) The X-Files (Fox) The Beat (UPN) Law & Order: Trial by Jury (NBC) Belzer's appearance on Trial by Jury, which aired April 15, 2005, made him the third actor ever to play the same character in six different prime time TV series. The other two actors are John Ratzenberger and George Wendt, who played Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson, respectively, in Cheers (1982-93); St. Elsewhere (1985); The Tortellis (1987); Wings (1990); The Simpsons (1994); and Frasier (2002). Arrested Development (Fox) The Wire (HBO) 30 Rock (NBC) The characters are watching a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode; a scene shot for 30 Rock Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC) Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), in which he played a John Munch-like character on a fictional Law & Order spinoff. In March 2016, executive producer Warren Leight announced Belzer would return to reprise the role in a May 2016 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, titled "Fashionable Crimes". Belzer portrayed Det. Munch for 22 consecutive seasons on Homicide (7 seasons) and Law & Order: SVU (15 seasons), which exceeded the previous primetime live-action record of twenty consecutive seasons held by James Arness (who portrayed Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975) and Kelsey Grammer (as Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier from 1984 to 2004)."
Around 2008, probably 3 am, near the Christmas holidays, I was traveling in Tennessee, truck driving, hauling cars listening to George Noory and this song played as a bumper between commercials and it reminded me of what's truly important. Health Family and Security God bless
I love how they chose a Kombi.. A car that means more than a means of transportation.. One symbolic of the times.. Great Tune.. Sax solo.. Another great was in the living years
One of Mike and his Mechanics, best. Such a legendary track, instrumentally, lyrically and what a music video for it. Such an iconic album it came from espically during their prime, and literally one of the most underrated tracks, pure legends.
God I love this band. I attended every opening concert in the US at the Sunrise Musical Theater. The people there always tried to make them feel so welcome.
Taken in, taken in again Wrapped around the finger of some fair-weather friend Caught up in the promises, left out in the end No pride, taken for a ride You say I'm the only one when I look in your eyes I want to believe you but you know how to lie And if you say you understand I don't believe it And when you reach out for my hand I don't believe it And if you say you take the blame I don't believe it And if say that nothing's changed I don't believe it, don't believe it Taken in, taken in again Someone saw me coming, a fool without a friend There's one born every minute and you're looking at him And if you say you want me near I don't believe it And when you're holding back the tears I don't believe it And when you swear that you are mine I don't believe it And it's your heart that's on the line I don't believe it, don't believe it Taken in, taken in again Wrapped around the finger of some fair-weather friend Caught up in the promises, left out in the end No pride, taken for a ride You say I'm the only one when I look in your eyes I'd love to believe you but you know how to lie You say you want me near I don't believe it And when you're holding back the tears I don't believe it Oh, there's one born every minute, you're looking at him Taken in, taken in again Someone saw me coming, a fool without a friend I want to believe you, oh When you say you understand When you reach out for my hand Oh, I wish I could believe you Taken in, taken in again
Don’t think they ever recorded a bad song. Between the two Paul’s, Carrick & Young they crafted a catalogue that sits up there with the best. Mike continues to record and tour with two replacement singers and with all due respect to their talents, the golden era can never be repeated.
I have a pretty great story about this exact song. So flashback to the year 2002. I hear the song on the radio, and I love it. But the radio guy doesn't say what it is. So I try to search for the lyrics I remember on the internet so cross reference. Negative. Nowadays its easy but back then it was not. Until the late 2000s this song lived rent free in the back of my mind and try as I might I couldn't figure it out and I was also giving up hope I'd ever hear it again. Until one night I was with some friends at a bar. Seriously years later. And it comes on. I immediately leave the conversation at the high top we were sitting at and go straight to the bartender and say "does your radio have a readout of what's playing?" He says "yeah". I say "please can you please please go find out what this song is and tell me? I have been trying to find it for years", and he did. I love this song.
For 38 years I have had this song in my head every now and then but didn't know the title or artist. Today, I took the bold step to hum it in Google music search and here I am...this is a great life accomplishment. I can rest on my laurels now.
I just saw on You Tube the band named "Mike and the Mechanics" and said to myself, "there's a song of theirs I must find now, ", Here I am". Feeling the Same as you ! 😀, Bill
I too heard this song long ago on the radio but missed the DJ announce the credits and until just recently lost track of the song. There was no internet to look things up back then. I heard it again recently and this time was able to search You tube for the words Taken In and viola, here I am. It's even better than I remembered it being.
Gem Song and Video only got to 32 on the Charts.Still awesome with stunning Vocals to be blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s atmosphere could harp on and explain
THIS SONG HOLDS A VERY BEAUTIFUL BUT BITTERSWEET PART OF MY LIFE. IT TOUCHES THE EXACT DIALOG / NARRATIVE THAT WAS HAPPENING IN MY LIFE BACK IN THE MID 80,s Kim..... I'll probably never 4get you but BOY DID YOU PLAY ME 4 A FOOL!!
Such an iconic track, and what a great way to start a birthday off with this underrated Classic, from such a legendary album! Made my day so much greater! #April19
one of my favorite song of mike and the mecanics very cool like turning the 80' music the best decade of all the music so many talented musician and group i can never forget the rest of my life
Solo basto una sola vez escuchar esta canción en mi infancia para nunca mas olvidarla, entonces la busque por 25 años, hoy la escuche en la radio, por suerte, esta radio muestra su programación online, estoy feliz por encontrar esta joya...
Así es Preciosa canción maestro de épocas de oro donde la música si era música, limpia y sana, desde ciudad de Guatemala 🇬🇹 saludos. Y que vivan los 80s.
Corporate greed for easy money Don't care about vocals, meaningful music, instruments in the studio, all the above. Just easily throwaway music for this attention deficit generation
The guy who appears in this video playing bass is Ashley Mulford. He was in Sad Café with Paul Young, and was the touring guitarist-bassist when Mike + the Mechanics went on their first tour across the US & Canada.
One stupid thing I still reminisce about was the fact that I got to lean against Paul Carrack's keyboard stand at the Center Stage in downtown Atlanta. LOL I was so jazzed about that at the time. Everyone going home on the subway (MARTA rail) was jazzed up about the fact that they had gone to the Grateful Dead Concert.
I WATCH THE FLY 🪰 THE OTHER DAY WITH JEFF GOLDBLUM AND RIGHT AWAY THE SONG TAKIN IN BY MIKE AND THE MECHANICS & CAPTAIN OF HER HEART CAME TO MIND RIGHT AWAY, SO LOOKED THE YEAR THE SONGS WE'RE RELEASED AND BOTH SONGS WE'RE RELEASED BETWEEN 1985 & 1986 AROUND THE TIME THE MOVIE 🎬 FLY WAS MADE!!🤩
Melhor época pra música pra namorar pra casar época de ouro com certeza os bailes eram sensacionais vc tirava a moça pra dançar perguntava ela aceitaria dançar com vc era demais quem viveu sabe do que estou falando eu era adolescente nessa época conheci minha esposa e. Estamos juntos até hj, forte abraço pra ti