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Fine Young Cannibals
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Track Listing
- Johnny Come Home
- Couldn't Care More
- Don't Ask Me To Choose
- Funny How Love Is
- Suspicious Minds
- Blue
- Move To Work
- On A Promise
- Time Isn't Kind
- Life Is A Stranger
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #58011 in Music
- Released on: 1999-10-04
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Excellent .............
I don't normally submit reviews, but I must take issue with the previous reviewer. This is a great album from start to finish - (ie: both Side 1 AND Side 2 on the old vinyl version) and ought to be in your collection. FYC were refreshingly original - contemporary British soul in the 1980s. Whilst not explicitly partisan, their lyrics often reflect the political mood of the time - such as, in songs like `Blue' and `Move to Work', the problems facing the working class in Britain's industrial heartlands as traditional industries floundered (and the aggressive acceleration of that process by the government of the day). That said, 20 years on they still sound fresh. Perhaps my only reservation is their cover version of 'Suspicious Minds' - to their credit they do a decent enough rendition, but the original Elvis version is so strong that any cover inevitably suffers in comparison.
The unusual band name apparently came from the title of a 1960s film. If you're investing in FYC CDs don't bother with the compilations - they only recorded 2 albums - this one "Raw & the Cooked"; they're both worth owning and cheap enough to get now.
An Album of Two Sides.
When Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger left The Beat to form General Public founding members Dave Steele and Andy Cox vowed to continue and after rescuing Roland Gift from the Birmingham pub rock scene formed Fine Young Cannibals. The band was accompanied in live performance by session musicians.
Side one opens with debut single `Johnny Come Home' which was pushed to chart success by The Tube who filmed video's for fledgling bands (another band to springboard to success this was Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and Cox and Steele's trademark dancing played no small part in the charm of the band. The songs story of London's homeless sets the political tone for the album and it continues through the anti-war `Couldn't Care More' and the right to work `Don't Ask Me to Choose'. The beautiful ballad `Funny How Love is' comes next before the band pull off the impossible by covering the Elvis standard `Suspicious Minds' and getting away with it.
Side two opens promisingly with left wing anthem `Blue' but afterwards the wheels come off the writing with the remainder of the album being very a bit of a let down which doesn't inspire you to play it over. This album is best in its original vinyl format, where side one can be played on rotation without the need to turn the thing over.
