Fine Young Cannibals

The Fine Young Cannibals were a British music group.

History

Named after the Jazzmelodram All The Fine Young Cannibals (German title: Young Cannibals ) with Natalie Wood in 1960, the musicians got together in their hometown of Birmingham. Cox and Steele were previously members of ska band The Beat. With their first published in 1985 Singles Johnny Come Home and Blue as well as with their idiosyncratic, sometimes driving, sometimes melancholy, jazzy pop, to the pop market but not ingratiating style of music and the soulful, often verschluckenden voice of Roland Gift found the Fine Young Cannibals in the UK soon attracted general attention and had initial success in Germany and Switzerland.

Her Elvis - Suspicious Minds Cover caught on. Less impressed were the fans of the Buzzcocks on the version of the song Ever Fallen In Love by the FYC in 1986 for the soundtrack of the film Something Wild ( Something Wild ) contributed.

As agreed, the musicians turned to in the episode first own projects. While poison not tried without success in the film and on the stage as an actor, Cox and Steele formed the House -Music- Project Two Men, A Drum Machine and A Trumpet.

The published in February 1989 album The Raw and the Cooked (named after the book The Raw and the Cooked, the anthropologist Claude Lévi- Strauss) stormed the international charts. The hit single, She Drives Me Crazy stayed in Germany for 16 weeks in the top 20 and reached there in second place. Despite these successes, the band kept a critical distance to the show business. When she should be awarded for The Raw And The Cooked with the Brit Award, they gave back the award since they are related to the public ceremony did not want to give up for a photo opportunity together with advertising opportunity for Margaret Thatcher.

Cox and Steele worked the album and released it in late 1990 as The Raw and the Remix again. In 1992, the band parted ways.

The end of 1996 appeared a Greatest Hits album with a specially recorded new piece.

Discography

Studio albums

Remixes / Compilations

Singles

  • 05.1985: Johnny Come Home
  • 10.1985: Blue
  • 12.1985: Suspicious Mind
  • 03.1986: Funny how love is
  • 01.1989: She Drives Me Crazy
  • 04.1989: Good Thing
  • 08.1989: Do not Look Back
  • 11.1989: I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
  • 02.1990: I'm Not Satisfied
  • 05.1990: It's Ok ( It's Alright )
  • 11.1996: Flame
  • 01.1997: She Drives Me Crazy (Remix)

Film

  • In the movie Tin Men (1987 ), the band made ​​a guest appearance with Good Thing.
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