Fine Young Cannibals- Fine Young Cannibals (1986) CD 320 torrent

Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals (1986)


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 form a group without them was when their accountant phoned to finalize the divorce. While the defectors had formed General Public, Cox and Steele set about creating something new of their own. Apart from not wanting to repeat the mistakes the Beat made, and a vague notion of adding both jazz and soul to the Beat\'s ska roots (they also decided to feature a strong vocalist), there was no real master plan.

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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.\"



Track List:

01.Johnny Come Home
02.Couldn\'t Care More
03.Don\'t Ask Me To Choose
04.Funny How Love Is
05.Suspicious Minds
06.Blue
07.Move To Work
08.On A Promise
09.Time Isn\'t Kind
10.Like A Stranger (Extended Mix)
11.Johnny Come Home (Suspicious Mix)
12.Suspicious Minds (Suspicious Mix)



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