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

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. Channels: 2 (Stereo) Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz Sample Size: 16 bit Bit Rate: 320 kbps Audio Quality: Very High (Lossy) Grabber: dBpoweramp Release 14 Encoder: LAME 3.98r Encoder Settings: Constant Bit Rate 320 kbps (Insane) Contains: Album Art, ID Tag [ID3v2.3 (ANSI) & ID3v1.1] M3U Playlist: Yes Format: Mp3 Genre: Pop/Rock Source: Retail CD Label: I.R.S. 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) Support the artists. Buy it if you like it. Please don't forget to seed!

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 neon (2011-03-20)

nice one thanks vtwin :)

 vtwin88cube (2011-03-20)

neonrainbow
You're welcome.
You broke my string of torrents with no comments (25) ha ha!
Thanks for saying thanks :)

Smoka70 (2012-03-30)

Hell Yeah Nice up vtwin88cube.
This is gunna be a blast from my past. I was just watchin F-Y-C Johnny Come Home (on YouTube), hadn't heard these boys from Hull for maybe 10-15 years. But when i heard it just now I thought next stop TPB, so here I am.
Once again Kudos & Big Up Ya Chest :P

Smoka70 (2012-03-30)

Also i just clicked your name link and found your other ups. Some bad ass Albums/Tracks there man.
Will Check em out over the weekend & comment on the ones i get. Nice to see some peeps keepin the p2p alive n kickin. Respect to ya :P

holmes321 (2012-10-09)

Straight up, you rock!