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Fine Young Cannibals

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Fine Young Cannibals is a Rap act. Their sound grew out of The English Beat, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Talking Heads, Monie Love and The Beat. Those roots explain a lot about how Fine Young Cannibals arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as ABC, Thompson Twins, Eurythmics, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Spandau Ballet, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sweeter Than Fiction, Opposites Attract and What Is Love, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Fine Young Cannibals, reaching back through The English Beat and forward to Sweeter Than Fiction. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Fine Young CannibalsThe English BeatDesmond Dekker & The…Talking HeadsMonie LoveThe BeatElvis PresleyBuzzcocksJimmy SomervilleSweeter Than FictionOpposites AttractWhat Is LoveABCThompson TwinsEurythmicsOrchestral Manoeuvre…Spandau BalletWet Wet WetT'PauKim Wilde

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Fine Young Cannibals connections

Fine Young Cannibals grew out of The English Beat, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Talking Heads and Monie Love, shares an orbit with ABC, Thompson Twins, Eurythmics and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, went on to shape Sweeter Than Fiction, Opposites Attract and What Is Love. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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