Fine Young Cannibals - Fine Young Cannibals
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Track List: Fine Young Cannibals
- Johnny Come HomeDownload & Buy
- Couldn't Care MoreDownload & Buy
- Don't Ask Me to ChooseDownload & Buy
- Funny How Love IsDownload & Buy
- Suspicious MindsDownload & Buy
- BlueDownload & Buy
- Move to WorkDownload & Buy
- On a PromiseDownload & Buy
- Time Isn't KindDownload & Buy
- Like a Stranger [Extended Mix]Download & Buy
- Johnny Come Home [Extended Mix]
- Suspicious Minds [Suspicious Mix]
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Album Details: Fine Young Cannibals
- Release Date:
- 12/01/1985
- Label:
- London Uk Labels
- UPC:
- 639842964128
Pro Reviews: Fine Young Cannibals
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews When Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger split from the rest of the English Beat to form General Public, Andy Cox and Dave Steele originally advertised on MTV for a new lead singer for the Beat. When that didn't pan out (although it did work for Wall of Voodoo), Cox and Steele hooked up with the unique and soulful singer Roland Gift and formed the Fine Young Cannibals. Though the trio first hit the mass U.S. consciousness with 1989's electronic dancepop The Raw and the Cooked, their 1985 debut was a souljazz pop charmer that's more low key but every bit as entertaining. Along the lines of early Everything But the Girl (the two groups share a producer, Robin Millar) with a heavier Motown influence, the songs on Fine Young Cannibals are uniformly strong. The singles "Johnny Come Home" (a plea to a runaway that sounds like the Beat's ska stripped down to its tense and obsessive essentials) and "Blue" (one of the more oblique and successful antiMargaret Thatcher tracks of its era) are terrific, but album tracks like the casually devastating "Funny How Love Is" and the manic "Like a Stranger" (which incongruously ends with a female chorus shrieking "You've been too long in an institution" repeatedly while Gift tries out his Otis Redding impression) are even better. The album's highlight, though, is a reworking of "Suspicious Minds" (with scarifying backing vocals by Jimmy Somerville) that, while it doesn't replace Elvis' version, certainly takes the song into an interesting new direction. Although often overlooked, especially in the U.S., in the wake of their massively successful followup, Fine Young Cannibals is a powerful and satisfying debut. The U.S. CD adds two extended remixes of "Johnny Come Home" and "Suspicious Minds." - Stewart Mason, All Music Guide |
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When the Beat (known as the English Beat in the U.S. only) split in 1983, it came as a surprise to guitarist Dave Cox and bassist David Steele. The first time they realized that the group's vocalists, Ranking Roger and Dave Wakelin, had gone off to f...Full Fine Young Cannibals Biography
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