Fine Young Cannibals

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Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals (1990)
Fine Young Cannibals (1990)
General information
founding 1984
resolution 1992
Last occupation
Roland Lee Gift (born May 28, 1961)
Andy Cox (born January 25, 1956)
David Steele (born September 8, 1960)

Fine Young Cannibals were a British band formed in Birmingham in 1984 and mostly successful in the second half of the 1980s. The biggest hits are Johnny Come Home (1985), She Drives Me Crazy (1989) and Good Thing (1989).

history

Named after the jazz melodrama All the Fine Young Cannibals (English title: Fruits of a Passion ) with Natalie Wood from 1960, the musicians came together in their hometown of Birmingham. Cox and Steele were previously members of the skaband The Beat . They found the Fine Young with their first singles Johnny Come Home and Blue , released in 1985, as well as the idiosyncratic, sometimes driving, sometimes melancholy and jazzy- poppy music style that did not appeal to the pop market, as well as the soulful , often choking voice of Roland Gift Cannibals quickly gained attention in Great Britain and also had initial successes in Germany and Switzerland.

Her Elvis - Cover Suspicious Minds caught on. Less impressed the fans were Buzzcocks from the version of the title Ever Fallen in Love , which the FYC 1986 soundtrack of the film Something Wild (Something Wild) contributed.

As agreed, the musicians then turned to their own projects. While Gift proved himself as an actor with some success in film and on stage, Cox and Steele founded the house music project Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet .

The album The Raw and the Cooked (named after the book Das Rohe und das Gekochte by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss ), released in early 1989, stormed the international charts. The hit single She Drives Me Crazy stayed in the top 20 in Germany for 16 weeks and reached second place there. Despite these successes, the band kept a critical distance from show business. When they were about to receive the Brit Award for The Raw and the Cooked , they gave the price back because they did not want to go to Margaret Thatcher for a photo opportunity and advertising opportunity in connection with the public award .

Cox and Steele edited the album and re-released it as The Raw and the Remix in late 1990 . In 1992 the band separated.

At the end of 1996 a greatest hits album was released with a new piece recorded especially for it. As part of the Super Bowl broadcast, " She Drives Me Crazy " was used in a 2019 commercial . The hit sales increased by over 2,000%.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1985 Fine Young Cannibals DE42 (6 weeks)
DE 		- CH17 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK11
gold
gold

(27 weeks)UK 		US49 (28 weeks)
US
First published: December 1985
1989 The Raw & the Cooked DE3
platinum
platinum

(66 weeks)DE 		AT1 (20 weeks)
AT 		CH2
platinum
platinum

(23 weeks)CH 		UK1
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(66 weeks)UK 		US1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(63 weeks)US
First published: February 1989

More albums

  • 1986: Live at the Ritz; Spin Radio Concert (Promo)

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1990 The Raw & the Remix DE38 (12 weeks)
DE 		- - UK61 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: December 1990
1996 The Finest - The Best Of DE47 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (15 weeks)
AT 		- UK10
platinum
platinum

(14 weeks)UK 		-
First published: November 1996

More compilations

  • 2006: The Platinum Collection
  • 2009: She Drives Me Crazy - The Best Of (2 CDs)
  • 2012: The Collection

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks [↑]: treated together with the previous entry;
[←]: placed in both charts
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US Dance Dance
1985 Johnny Come Home
Fine Young Cannibals 		DE16 (13 weeks)
DE 		- CH15 (7 weeks)
CH 		UK8 (13 weeks)
UK 		US76 (5 weeks)
US 		Dance9 (11 weeks)
Dance
First published: May 1985
Blue
Fine Young Cannibals 		- - - UK41 (7 weeks)
UK 		-[Dance: ↑]
First published: October 1985
Suspicious Minds
Fine Young Cannibals 		DE37 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - UK8 (9 weeks)
UK 		- Dance23 (7 weeks)
Dance
First published: December 1985
1986 Funny How Love Is
Fine Young Cannibals 		- - - UK58 (4 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: March 1986
1987 Ever Fallen in Love
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE19 (14 weeks)
DE 		- - UK9 (10 weeks)
UK 		- Dance11 (11 weeks)
Dance
First published: November 1986
1988 Tired of Getting Pushed Around
The Raw & the Remix 		- - - UK18 (8 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: December 1987
as Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet
1989 She Drives Me Crazy
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE2
gold
gold

(23 weeks)DE 		AT1 (18 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (18 weeks)
CH 		UK5
silver
silver

(13 weeks)UK 		US1
gold
gold

(23 weeks)US 		Dance1 (11 weeks)
Dance
First published: December 1988
Good Thing
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE8 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH12 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK7 (9 weeks)
UK 		US1 (17 weeks)
US 		Dance20 (6 weeks)
Dance
First published: April 1989
Don't Look Back
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE29 (13 weeks)
DE 		- - UK34 (4 weeks)
UK 		US11 (12 weeks)
US 		-
First published: July 1989
I'm Not the Man I Used to Be
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE33 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT29 (1 week)
AT 		- UK20 (10 weeks)
UK 		US54 (6 weeks)
US 		Dance8 (10 weeks)
Dance
First published: October 1989
1990 I'm Not Satisfied
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE66 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - UK46 (3 weeks)
UK 		US90 (3 weeks)
US 		-
First published: February 1990
It's Ok (It's Alright)
The Raw & the Cooked 		DE44 (13 weeks)
DE 		- - - - -
First published: October 1990
1996 Flame
The Finest - The Best Of 		DE65 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT40 (1 week)
AT 		- UK17 (3 weeks)
UK 		- -
First published: October 1996

More singles

  • 1989: Fine Young Cannibals (EP)
  • 1990: FYC (3 × 12inch Vinyl, Limited Edition, Promo)
  • 1996: Tell Me What

Movie

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

swell

  1. ↑ Fine Young Cannibals sell 2,000% more. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles Albums UK US1 US2
  3. ↑ a b c gold / platinum databases: DE CH UK US

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