I heard “Abacab” by Genesis on the radio yesterday. It’s unusual to hear it on the radio.
The song is sort of hypnotic in its sounds and words, but not very deep. Because it’s hypnotic and I’m simple prey for these things, it hung around in my head’s stream for the rest of the day and was still there this morning. But thinking about “Abacab” and Genesis, I started thinking about Mike +The Mechanics, and their music. Mike is Mike Rutherford of Genesis, and their albums and performances were side projects to his Genesis existence.
Mike +the Mechanics’ music isn’t very deep, either, but fit well on the radio stations of the time. “Silent Running,” with its chorus of “Can you hear me?”, was their first hit, so I thought I’d go with that.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Ooh, I’d forgotten how much I like that song!
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It’s odd, when I listened to it today when I posted, I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. I remember, too, that I used it as ‘theme’ music when I wrote a short story that was sold and published long ago.
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Abacab: one of my favorite 80″s songs
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I listened to it quite a bit, and I’m not so fond of it now. Maybe I listened to it too much back then, or maybe it just suited me better then. I like the lyrics a great deal, not so much the music.
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