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The Raw & The Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals (1989)
A week of one-album wonders
I don’t know if there was really a genre name for the sound of a rock band who was comfortable making danceable pop music in the late 80s.
Bands like FYC scratched the same itch as INXS or Human League for people who liked their rock music less dancefloor-y than New Order or Pet Shop Boys.
The main standout feature of this band was the excellent and distinctive vocal abilities of singer Roland Gift. He has great range and can switch from a Motown-style soul crooner to a rock frontman in a beat.
This second FYC album would be the last. Gift had a subsequent solo album that I’ve not heard, and the world of pop rock rolled onward towards the ineluctible emergence of “Alternative,” whatever TF that meant.
