Fine Young Cannibals Fine Young Cannibals Import LP (Red Vinyl)

LP version. Solid red vinyl; gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve; includes limited time download code with the full album and 29 rare unreleased bonus tracks.

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 29 bonus rare/unreleased tracks - B sides, live renditions (including BBC session recorded with John Peel and Janice Long), and remixes with versions by Mousse T Cocktail, Derrick Carter, and Mark Moore.

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...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.

Once every 25,000 or so record releases, a voice comes along that leaves listeners speechless. Such a voice belongs to one Roland Gift, the twenty-three-year-old lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals. Neither a chesty soul screamer nor a throaty, sleek crooner, Gift purrs and moans with such casual authority that the ten songs on Fine Young Cannibals seem more like a culmination than a debut.