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Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked

Fine Young Cannibals disappeared at the height of their popularity ... or at least that's how it seemed. It's a blur now as to when this came out. I know my record and CD (I got the CD first, and just recently found a copy of the album, and couldn't help myself ... although I should have) I know the pressings say 1988, but the songs were on the radio and MuchMusic in 1989. I don't think it matters, but in my mind's eye I think of sunny days and blue sky when I think of "She Drives Me Crazy" so it was probably was in the spring of '89. It doesn't matter. I do remember seeing the video for "Johnny Come Home" back in '85 and it was intriguing enough that I almost bought the album ... didn't, but almost. That album also had a cover of Elvis' "Suspicious Minds" that had a quirky cool vibe. So when a few years later "She Drives Me Crazy" hit, and boy did it hit. Those fat, and I mean FAT guitars that start the so...