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Fine Young Cannibals (Album) by Fine Young Cannibals

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Fine Young Cannibals Were A Trio Formed In Birmingham England In 1984 By Bassist David Steele Off UK Band The Beat Guitarist Andy Cox And Vocalist Actor/model Roland Gift. Their Name Came From The 1960 Film All The Fine Young Cannibals Starring Robert Wagner And Natalie Wood. The Band's Eponymous Debut Album Was Released In 1985 Spawning Two Hit Singles "Johnny Come Home" And A Cover Of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" Featuring Additional Vocals By Jimmy Somerville. In 1990 The Band Won Two Brit Awards Best British Group And Best British Album For "The Raw And The Cooked" Which Also Reached Number One In The US Album Charts. It Was Re-Packed As A Remix Album "The Raw & The Remix" And Spawned Six Singles Over Three Years "She Drives Me Crazy" "Good Thing" "Don't Look Back" "I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" "I'm Not Satisfied" And "It's O.K. It's Alright ". The Trio Split In 1992 Though They Recorded A New Track In 1996 To Promote Their The Finest Compilation. Gift Soon Reactivated The Brand And Toured In The 2000s As Roland Gift And The Fine Young Cannibals. Fine Young Cannibals Appeared As The House Band In The 1987 Film Comedy Tin Men Peforming Some Of The Songs That Ended Up On The Raw And The Cooked. Steele And Cox Had Previously Recorded Under The Moniker Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet.

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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 Dance-Pop The Raw And The Cooked Their 1985 Debut Was A Soul-Jazz 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 Anti-Margaret 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 Follow-Up Fine Young Cannibals Is A Powerful And Satisfying Debut. The U.S. CD Adds Two Extended Remixes Of "Johnny Come Home" And "Suspicious Minds."

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