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UFO - Mechanix Audio CD

A fair review of the UFO "Mechanix" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all UFO reviews here, or go back to the UFO tabs.

UFO Band: UFO
Title: Mechanix
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-02-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Writer (2009 Digital Remaster) 2: Somethin' Else (2009 Digital Remaster) 3: Back into My Life (2009 Digital Remaster) 4: You'll Get Love (2009 Digital Remaster) 5: Doing It All for You (2009 Digital Remaster) 6: We Belong to the Night (2008 Digital Remaster) 7: Let It Rain (2008 Digital Remaster) 8: Terri (2009 Digital Remaster) 9: Feel It (2009 Digital Remaster) 10: Dreaming (2009 Digital Remaster) 11: Heel of a Stranger [*] 12: We Belong to the Night (Recorded at Oxford 25/3/83) * 13: Let It Rain (Recorded at Oxford 25/3/83) * 14: Doing It All for You (Recorded at the Soundcheck, Birmingham Odeon 26/3

No need to adjust
The band decided to just sort of let nature take it's course and the rest is history as they say. Mechanix was in my humble opinion a make-or-break effort. "Mechanix" may not be their strongest effort but it is well worth having in your collection and gets 4 stars due to making changes yet not changing anything. There was some fine tuning done but the overall UFO sound still remained intact. I think the title was very fitting as well. And the remaster effort is also very good. Every now and then something will be remastered and actually sound worse than the original cd. Not in this case.


ufo,s last great album of the 80,s mechanix!!!
songs like the writer,doing it all for you,back into my life,feel it and dreaming to name a few!!unfortuneatly founding member bassist pete way left after the mechanix tour. i like qute a bit of ufo,s mechanix. because he did,nt like the direction ufo was heading in musically with some of the tunes of mechanix. . i saw ufo on the tour for mechanix and they were great they opened for rainbow!!andy parker the drummer had this huge chrome drum set paul chapman had a white b. c. rich,pete way and neil carter had white washburn basses and guitars. . ufo played almost every great song they made including electric phase which paul chapman played slide guitar on!. . . . well this album seems to end the 80,s era. . . so get it!!!.


ufo rocks well and solidly
The band starts off with a solid rock classic 'the writer" which describes the now vanishing power broker newspaper or magazine writer who can make or break careers in music or politics. This 1982 release, which went top ten, was the bands strongest studio release since their last cd with Michael Schenker: 1978's "Obsession". And from there to the end of the disc there isn't a filler song to be found. "Feel it" is probably the standout hard rock track on here; it can hold it's own with the best of their whole output.
There is even a superior ballad on here 'back into my life". This is highly skilled and top notch metal the kind in which you expect good playing and singing. And this would be the bands last great disc until
1995's 'walk on water" . The best thing is however the many bonus tracks on this disc and that makes this a better buy than ever. .


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