Fine Young Cannibals Finest

Fine Young Cannibals | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002P3W
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. She Drives Me Crazy

2. The Flame [#]

3. Johnny Come Home

4. Good Thing

5. Suspicious Minds

6. Blue

7. Ever Fallen in Love?

8. Don't Look Back

9. Tell Me What

10. I'm Not the Man I Used to Be

11. Couldn't Care More

12. Funny How Love Is

13. Take What I Can Get [#]

14. Since You've Been Gone [#]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Fineest of the Young Cannibals, May 25, 2002

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Kendal B. Hunter (Provo, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fine Young Cannibals Finest (Audio CD)

...FYC was quite a blip on the radar screen. They are a two hit wonder, with "She drives Me Crazy," and "Good Thing." I played "The Raw and the Cooked" until my sister took my tape from men, then forgot about them until I saw a replay of SNL on "Comedy Central." I tacked down this CD, which is a merger of two of their three CD's. Their third CD was "The Raw and The Remix," which had dance club remixes of their sophomore album.

This is a "Best of" collection, which means all of the [junk]tracks and filler is whittled away. This album is great and has the best tracks off of "Raw and Cooked," with their stellar cover of "Suspicious Minds" off of their jazzier freshman album.

The version of "Don't Look Back" is different from the original version: it has an added drum machine track which brings the song more into the FYC idiom, but drowns out the great guitar work on this great song. In fact, it could have been a third top ten hit.

The linear booklet is skimpy, and doesn't have any lyrics or notes. It is really just a filler paper. Any memories by Roland Gift or the lads about the group's quick life, and too-soon breakup would have been nice.

I like this CD, and hope to track down the other three CD's when I get my 80's Flashback fits.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Roland Gift's voice is incredible!, April 3, 2000

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Jax (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fine Young Cannibals Finest (Audio CD)

I am a 16 year-old who used to never bother to listen to 80's music, preferring instead to stick with my own generation's pop music. However, one song I remember from when I was 6 years old sticks out in my mind, and that song, was of course, "She Drives Me Crazy" by The Fine Young Cannibals. I even saw a satire done of it on the show In Living Color, if anyone remembers that show that starred comedians like Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, David Allen Grier, etc. The song was great, and suddenly last year I found a copy of The Raw and The Cooked from 1989. I listen to that song a lot, and I think Roland Gift's voice is incredibly enchanting. Now FYC's music in general is up there with my own generation's pop music in my book, hands down! The Finest is just a great compilation of good music from these 3 talented Britons who deserve fame even today.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Totally Excellent!!!!, May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Fine Young Cannibals Finest (Audio CD)

This is a great CD! It just works. My wife and I agree on almost nothing about music. She's big into classical & jazz. Give me rock & folk. We both love this CD. I am currently listening to our recently acquired copy at the office. A second is on order for home. Need I say more?