In 1987, in between the first and second Fine Young Cannibals albums, David Steele and Andy Cox made a house record (Roland Gift was off making Sammy And Rosie Get Laid). The name they used for the record, Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet, is a pretty good description of the sound of the single (except it should also include Robert Mitchum somewhere in there as it is he who provides the vocal sample). It's a decent slice of early house by two men who went from The Beat to FYC, always doing stuff that was interesting and good for dancing to.
Tired Of Getting Pushed Around
This performance from Top Of The Pops in January 1988 is good fun- Andy and David miming guitar and bass, a couple of dancers with nifty footwork, Yazz looking very cool on keytar, a dj/percussionist, a trumpeter (miming badly) and a Humphrey Bogart lookalike (miming badly).
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Considering how much I hated house music, I had a weird affection for this tune, and seeing that TOTP performance may well hold the answer as to why. I was a huge Bogart fan as a teenager, and as crappy as that lookalike's performance now seems, I probably dug it at the time.
I was a big Bogart fan around this time- films like The Big Sleep, the Maltese Falcon and Casablanca were on all the time.
I even bought a trenchcoat!
Loved this. Wasn't there an acid mix too?
https://youtu.be/z6Ew-jVqe8M
Good work Michael
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