did they do anything better than that?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I like "the Flame" as well. And "Tell Me What". And "Johnny Come Home" is flawless.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 23 March 2008 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
WEIRD. I've been listening to "Blue," "Johnny Come Home," and the glorious "Don't Look Back" all week, "Don't Look Back" is a 12-string cousin to the Beat's "Best Friend."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
'blue' is amazing
― electricsound, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The Raw & The Cooked was being advertised, on pink & grey posters, on bus stops in February 1989. It is for the memory of those days, and the prominence they had then in British life, that I have what fondness I have for the band. And 'She Drives Me Crazy', surely a #1 45 back then, will do as the musical emblem.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
As I said upthread, it's still remarkable that they scored two #1 hits and adlbum stateside.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 23 March 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
They are rated quite highly on amg
Now I can groove to FYC when the mood strikes and all, d then there's this: Then, and I actually really respect Jo-Ann Greene as a critic, but there are bold, unqualified proclamations, anof course, there's "She Drives Me Crazy," which features the most unique, and instantly identifiable, beat/riff combination of the decade.
― Pillbox, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Whoa - that post got all sorts of fucked up. I'll try again
They are quite highly rated on amg
Now I can groove to FYC when the mood strikes and all, and I actually really respect Jo-Ann Greene as a critic, but there are bold, unqualified proclamations, and then there's this: Then, of course, there's "She Drives Me Crazy," which features the most unique, and instantly identifiable, beat/riff combination of the decade.
― Pillbox, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdIAbHzxmg
lol awesome dancing
― gff, Monday, 24 March 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
god, "Don't Look Back"
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm Not The Man I Used To Be" is absolutely killer.
― Euler, Monday, 21 December 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't argue with that.
― when i was your age i was thinking about how to kill people (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 December 2009 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
good thread, good band
― Cunga, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the first tapes i ever owned
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
checked. i do have the finest on my hard disc (so i can drop various tracks onto my wifes mp3 player as she loves'em). so, thats today sorted. i actually got the 2 cd edition of the finest that came with an extra disc of time stampled remixes. one track i seem to recall featuring the cookie crew !?!classics : the flame, good thing, blue, don't look back, i'm not the man i used to be, funny how love is (the echo'd trumpet opening is very sweet), etc.
― mark e, Thursday, 5 May 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a tragedy that this song has more or less fallen into obscurity when it should've been, like, the biggest single of that year and on the radio for years to come:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THD_vY2-AXA
Also:
i wonder if i will always be obsessed with pop music from 1987-1992
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, April 6, 2004 2:53 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Cosigning as hard as I can. The only era that's any competition for '70s AM gold in my heart.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
I remember making my dad listen to The Raw and The Cooked when we were driving somewhere and that's when he explained to me what falsetto was. Good album, but also educational.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
And the videos were super instructive on the Kubrick stare. Educational band all 'round.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 10, 2009
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
It peaked at #11 in the States but it's better than "Good Thing." Not many bands stapling 12-string Beat guitar and sequencers in 1989's top 40.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
So I just went ahead and made this happen:
Forgotten late-'80s/early-'90s pop singles
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 7, 2012 1:20 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
I wonder why this band hasn't gone on reunion tour like so many other acts of the era. They were really popular! People would show up! Maybe they all put their earnings in index funds and are comfortably retired and don't need the money, who knows.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it looks like they're all still alive and pretty much toiling in obscurity. Surely they couldn't hate each other that much.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
Here's a Guardian interview with Roland Gift in 2020. Sounds like he just pulled the plug.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/03/fine-young-cannibal-roland-gift-i-went-back-to-where-being-pretty-didnt-matter
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
I kind of wished FYC would tour as an opener for the (English) Beat, similar to how Camper Van Beethoven would usually open for Cracker on their recent tours. (FWIW, I'm a bigger fan of the Beat than FYC, but I like them both. Also a big fan of CVB but not so much with Cracker.)
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Seem to recall that there was a big fallout between Cox and Steele - according to Roland Gift, the first time the two of them had spoken to each other in ages was at Saxa's funeral in 2017.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 21 April 2022 00:02 (two years ago) link