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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhatever happened to the Fine Young Cannibals?
They seemed to disappear after this song.
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Whatever happened to the Fine Young Cannibals? (Original Post)
Archae
Sep 2012
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petronius
(26,595 posts)1. They got old, and developed peer bellies
Not so fine anymore...
rug
(82,333 posts)2. I don't know but they were very good.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)3. I don't really know...
probably worth looking up. Most, if not all of their members had been in other bands before, so I'd imagine they kept on making music.
"Good Thing" was another single by them that I think was actually better, but "She Drives Me Crazy" is good too.
Yavin4
(35,411 posts)4. They Ate Each Other
They were cannibals.
my first thought too.
Archae
(46,297 posts)5. According to Wikipedia...
They broke up in 1992.
drm604
(16,230 posts)6. Don't forget this one.
JeffersonLoveChild
(76 posts)7. Here you go
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Although it is six years since Roland, who enjoyed a string of international hits with FYC including She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing, was in the charts, the 40-year-old star feels his self-titled debut solo album is the completion of unfinished business.
"I felt the Fine Young Cannibals did not finish. We were supposed to do a third album but we just could not get it together," he says.
"I always felt like something had been left unfinished. So this record is like completing my work with the Cannibals as well as branching out into something new."
Yet Roland reveals that it was the international success of his former band which eventually sounded its death knell.
"We had such success with our second album that this mentality developed that the next album had to sell twice as many copies or else it would be a failure.
"So instead of concentrating on writing songs we started thinking about making hits all the time. I think that is what eventually killed the Cannibals.
However, the band remained on amicable terms and there was no high profile public falling out.
Excerpts:
Although it is six years since Roland, who enjoyed a string of international hits with FYC including She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing, was in the charts, the 40-year-old star feels his self-titled debut solo album is the completion of unfinished business.
"I felt the Fine Young Cannibals did not finish. We were supposed to do a third album but we just could not get it together," he says.
"I always felt like something had been left unfinished. So this record is like completing my work with the Cannibals as well as branching out into something new."
Yet Roland reveals that it was the international success of his former band which eventually sounded its death knell.
"We had such success with our second album that this mentality developed that the next album had to sell twice as many copies or else it would be a failure.
"So instead of concentrating on writing songs we started thinking about making hits all the time. I think that is what eventually killed the Cannibals.
However, the band remained on amicable terms and there was no high profile public falling out.
"The Cannibals didn't really go out with a bang. We had one single called The Flame in 1996. That was really our swansong. In reality the group had been over a good few years before, we just wouldn't admit it," says Roland. "Eventually we stopped functioning."
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)9. Fine Young Cannibals - The Flame
auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)8. They gave up meat and became the Fine Young Vegans nt