10 Rock Music Bands Who Had Huge Potential (And Wasted It)
6. Fine Young Cannibals
Everyone knows cannibals are bad, but what if they weren't very old? And good-looking? In that case, bring 'em on!
Fine Young Cannibals were a British pop rock band formed out of the ashes of ska outfit, The Beat. Helmed by vocalist Roland Gift, whose surname was not telling lies, the group released their self-titled debut studio album in 1985 to a decent response.
Four years later, the band put out The Raw & the Cooked, and everything changed.
Songs like She Drives Me Crazy, Good Thing, and their version of Buzzcock's Ever Fallen in Love drove the public wild and sent the album to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. And then, they just vanished.
In 1992, after three years without a follow-up to The Raw & the Cooked, Fine Young Cannibals announced they were parting ways. Apparently, in-fighting and professional jealousy lead to their downfall, which could not have come at a worse time for the Birmingham-based gang.
If their second album was anything to go by, Fine Young Cannibals could have been one of the biggest British bands of the 90s. Instead, they were one of the biggest "What ifs?"