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01. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
02. Fine Young Cannibals - Couldn't Care More
03. Fine Young Cannibals - Don't Ask Me to Choose
04. Fine Young Cannibals - Funny How Love Is
05. Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds
06. Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
07. Fine Young Cannibals - Move to Work
08. Fine Young Cannibals - On a Promise
09. Fine Young Cannibals - Time Isn't Kind
10. Fine Young Cannibals - Like a Stranger
11. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home (Extended Mix)
12. Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds (Extended Mix)
13. Fine Young Cannibals - Blue (Dance Version)
14. Fine Young Cannibals - Wade in the Water
15. Fine Young Cannibals - Love for Sale
16. Fine Young Cannibals - Motherless Child
17. Fine Young Cannibals - Couldn't Care More (Annes Mix)
18. Fine Young Cannibals - Blue (Slow Version)
19. Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds (Caught In A Dub)
20. Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home (Mousse T Cocktail Mix)
ARTIST
TITLE
Fine Young Cannibals (Remastered Standard Edition)
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
LMS 5521445 LMS 5521445
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/30/2021

Fine Young Cannibals' first, eponymous album, originally released in 1985, remastered for the very first time with Roland Gift's involvement. Includes the hits "Johnny Come Home", "Suspicious Minds". Includes 10 rare/unreleased tracks.

"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." --Stewart Mason, AllMusic