Track Listing

1. She Drives Me Crazy
2. Flame
3. Johnny Come Home
4. Good Thing
5. Suspicious Minds
6. Blue
7. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
8. Don't Look Back
9. Tell Me What
10. I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
11. Couldn't Care More
12. Funny How Love Is
13. Take What I Can Get
14. Since You've Been Gone
15. She Drives Me Crazy (2)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12023 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Fine Old Guard
A FYC compilation was always going to be a lumpy affair. With a back catalogue of two very different sounding albums a chronological order couldn't work so the songs are worked in to create a collage of both albums with some new songs to justify the price label.

From the self titled debut are singles `Johnny Come Home', `Funny How Love is' and the surprisingly successful cover of the Elvis standard `Suspicious Minds'. Also culled from the debut are the majestic `Blue' and equally political `Couldn't Care More'.

Second, and more successful, album `The Raw and the Cooked' gives us the brilliant singles `She Drives me Crazy' and `Good Thing' as well as Buzzcock's cover `Ever fallen in Love' as well as the priceless `Don't Look Back' and `Tell me What' with the standard only slipping with `I'm Not the Man I Used to be'.

The remainder of the album are three new songs which are pretty good particularly single `The Flame' and `Since you've Been Gone' however in the company they are sat with they seem al little weak.
A fantastic album and wonderful obituary to a truly great band.

A good 'best of' album
If you are already a fan of FYC and are looking for the best of, then here it is.
It contains all the tunes you remember from days of yore, which is what you want - however it also contains a few new tracks (probably because there aren't that many hits to go round)which aren't so good.There is a remix of Johhny Come Home which should never have been done !!!!
But, like I said if you want to get the hits, for a good price then get it - the hits are as fantastic now as they were then !!

A must for any Eighties collection
Once you hear Roland Gift's soaring poetic voice you realise what a unique band the Fine Young Cannibals were. Although they only released two albums 'Finest' contains the very best of both, plus two unreleased cuts - 'The Flame' and 'Since you've been gone'. A great mix of rock,R&B, mowtown and dance - something there for every occasion.