The Raw & the Cooked (album)
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The Raw & the Cooked is the second album by Fine Young Cannibals. A remixed version was also released as The Raw and the Remix. Selling over two million copies, The Raw & the Cooked included two US number one songs "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing". The title of the album comes from the book of the same name ("Le Cru et le Cuit" in French) written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
The cover of Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" originally appeared on the soundtrack for Something Wild three years earlier. Three songs from the album — "Good Thing", "Tell Me What" and "As Hard As It Is" — first appeared in the 1987 film Tin Men, where the Fine Young Cannibals portrayed a band in a nightclub.[1] These three songs have a retro-soul style consistent with the film's 1963 Baltimore setting.
After the band asked MCA Records to get Prince to produce tracks to complete the album, the label countered with producer David Z, who had worked with Prince and is the older brother of Bobby Z of The Revolution. FYC and David Z recorded three tracks together at Paisley Park Studios to complete the album, including the hit "She Drives Me Crazy."[2]
The album won Best British Album at the 1990 Brit Awards.
Track listing
- All Songs Written By Gift/Steele, except where noted.
Side one - Raw
- "She Drives Me Crazy" – 3:36
- "Good Thing" – 3:22
- "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be" – 4:19
- "I'm Not Satisfied" – 3:51
- "Tell Me What" – 2:47
Side two - Cooked
- "Don't Look Back" – 3:40
- "It's OK (It's Alright)" – 3:32 (Cox/Gift/Steele)
- "Don't Let It Get You Down" – 3:23
- "As Hard As It Is" – 3:14
- "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" (Pete Shelley) – 3:54
Chart positions
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1989 | Australian ARIA Albums Chart | 1 |
Personnel
- Roland Gift - Vocals
- Andy Cox - Guitar
- David Steele - Bass, Keyboards, Drum Machine
- Jools Holland - Piano on "Good Thing"
- Martin Parry - Drums on "Tell Me What"
- Jenny Jones - Drums & Backing Vocals on "As Hard As It Is"
- Gavin Wright - Violin on "As Hard As It Is"
- Graeme Hamilton - Trumpet on "As Hard As It Is" & "Don't Let It Get You Down"
- Jimmy Helms, George Chandler & Jimmy Chambers - Backing Vocals on "Good Thing", "Tell Me What" & "It's OK (It's Alright)"
References
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