The Raw and the Cooked (album)

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]

[edit] Track listing

"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
"Don't Look Back" – 3:40
"It's OK (It's Alright)" – 3:32
"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)" – 3:54

[edit] Personnel

Roland Gift (Vocals)
Andy Cox (Guitar)
David Steele (Bass and Synth)

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Preceded by Like a Prayer by Madonna	Billboard 200 number-one album June 3 - July 21, 1989	Succeeded by Batman (soundtrack) by Prince

The Raw and the Cooked (album)

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