(2020) Fine Young Cannibals – Fine Young Cannibals / The Raw & The Cooked [Remastered & Expanded]


Review:
London Records issue brand new two-CD deluxe editions of the Fine Young Cannibals two studio albums. The band’s debut single ‘Johnny Come Home’ was a top ten hit in 1985 and the self-titled debut album reached number 11 in the UK charts the same year after further singles were issued, including a cover of Elvis Presley’s ‘Suspicious Minds’. In 1989, Fine Young Cannibals hit the commercial stratosphere, particularly in America, with The Raw & The Cooked. The first two singles ‘She Drives Me Crazy’ and ‘Good Thing’ both were number one singles in the USA and were top ten hits in Britain (and around the world). The band split in 1992 although they did record a new single, ‘The Flame’, for a 1996 best of. The new London Records 2CD expanded editions go well beyond Edsel’s now out-of-print deluxe editions from 2013, with 29 bonus tracks for the first album (including B-sides, remixes, BBC sessions and more) and 22 extra tracks for The Raw & The Cooked. The albums have been remastered from original analogue master tapes by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy and as well as the 2CD expanded editions, both will be reissued on coloured vinyl with the debut on red and The Raw & The Cooked on white vinyl.





Tracklist:


Fine Young Cannibals
CD1:
01. Johnny Come Home (Remastered)
02. Couldn’t Care More (Remastered)
03. Don’t Ask Me to Choose (Remastered)
04. Funny How Love Is (Remastered)
05. Suspicious Minds (Remastered)
06. Blue (Remastered)
07. Move to Work (Remastered)
08. On a Promise (Remastered)
09. Time Isn’t Kind (Remastered)
10. Like a Stranger (Remastered)
11. Johnny Come Home (Extended Mix)
12. Suspicious Minds (Extended Mix)
13. Blue (Dance Version)
14. Wade in the Water (Remastered)
15. Love for Sale (Remastered)
16. Motherless Child (Remastered)
17. Couldn’t Care More (Annes Mix)
18. Blue (Slow Version)
19. Suspicious Minds (Caught In A Dub)
20. Johnny Come Home (Mousse T Cocktail Mix)

CD2:
01. Johnny Come Home (Derrick Carter Remix)
02. Suspicious Minds (U.S. Remix)
03. Funny How Love Is (Not The Album Mix)
04. Johnny Come Home (Mark Moore 12_ Remix)
05. Blue (Live at Town & Country Club BBC Session)
06. Johnny Come Home (Live)
07. Suspicious Minds (Suspicious Mix)
08. Johnny Come Home (Live, John Peel BBC Session)
09. Blue (Live, John Peel BBC Session)
10. Time Isn’t Kind (Live, John Peel BBC Session)
11. Suspicious Minds (Shakedown Mix)
12. Couldn’t Care More (Live, Janice Long BBC Session)
13. Move to Work (Live, Janice Long BBC Session)
14. Don’t Ask Me to Choose (Live, Janice Long BBC Session)
15. Funny How Love Is (Live, Janice Long BBC Session)
16. Blue (Demo Long Version)
17. Johnny Come Home (Mousse T Extended Mix)


The Raw & The Cooked
CD1:
01. She Drives Me Crazy (Remastered)
02. Good Thing (Remastered)
03. I’m Not the Man I Used to Be (Remastered)
04. I’m Not Satisfied (Remastered)
05. Tell Me What (Remastered)
06. Don’t Look Back (Remastered)
07. It’s Ok (It’s Alright) (Remastered)
08. Don’t Let It Get You Down (Remastered)
09. As Hard As It Is (Remastered)
10. Ever Fallen in Love_ (Remastered)
11. You Never Know (Remastered)
12. Social Security (Remastered)
13. She Drives Me Crazy (David Z 12_ Remix)
14. Good Thing (Nothing Like the Single Mix)
15. Ever Fallen in Love_ (John Potoker Extended Mix)
16. I’m Not the Man I Used to Be (Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper Remix)
17. Don’t Look Back (Twelve Inch Mix)
18. It’s Ok (It’s Alright) (Ploeg Club Mix)

CD2:
01. She Drives Me Crazy (Dimitri From Paris Remix)
02. I’m Not Satisfied (New York Singing Mix II)
03. She Drives Me Crazy (Seth Troxler ‘Out Of Time’ Remix)
04. Ever Fallen in Love_ (The Rare Groove Bootleg)
05. Good Thing (Prince Paul Vocal Percussapella)
06. She Drives Me Crazy (Percusapella)
07. I’m Not the Man I Used to Be (Demo Version)
08. Don’t Look Back (Youth Remix)
09. As Hard As It Is (Demo Version)
10. Tell Me What (Demo Version)
11. Hold Me (Demo Version)
12. I’m Not Satisfied (Demo Version)
13. Ever Fallen in Love_ (Club Senseless)
14. Race Track (Demo Version)


Media Report:
Genre: pop, rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits