Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing (Official Video)
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↓ LYRICS ↓
The one good thing in my life
Has gone away, I don't know why
She's gone away, I don't know where
Somewhere I cannot follow her
The one good thing didn't stay too long
My back was turned and she was gone
Good thing
Where have you gone?
My good thing
You've been gone too long
People say I should forget
There's plenty more, don't get upset
People say she's doing fine
Mutual friends I see sometime
That's not what I want to hear
I want to hear she wants me near
Good thing
Where have you gone?
My good thing
You've been gone too long
Good thing
Then one day, she came back
I was so happy that I didn't ask
Morning came into my room
Caught me dreaming like a fool
Good thing, my good thing
My good thing, where have you gone
My good thing, my good thing
Where have you gone
It's been so long
Good God, girl
Good God, girl
Good God, girl
Good God
#FineYoungCannibals #GoodThing #TheRawAndTheCooked
This song was number one in us the day i was born
This song was number one in us about 40 years after i was born.
Lucky you
I was about the same age you are now the day it was No1 in the charts . Still a great tune, best decade for music the 80s .
It's fun to have a good song #1 the week you were born. Sugar, Sugar by the Archies was #1 the week I was born, another fun song. It fits me well.
You were born into style and sophistication ❤
1:50 piano parts is unreal. Great song. Lived through the best decades of music. Thank you God
Great piano part by Jools Holland :)
Kinda like little Walter
What a great tune. Quintessentially British, with that 60's soul swing. Love the scooter crew theme in the video too.
Well, the soul swing smacks of the 60's but since the song was released in the 80's that's the decade I personally associate the song with (and a GLORIOUS decade it was to live through, especially as a teenager or twenty-something).
Mods vs Rockers. From film about Profumo scandal
*YO*
👍 100
50s
Aside from being a great song, this video implanted a love of Vespa scooters in me as a 10 year old kid in the Midwest USA. I don't think I'd ever seen one before. Im still riding my Vespas 36 years later. Thanks to FYC!
Yes! That's cool as heck!
Honda 50…65…..Vespa pricey little number back then!😂😂❤
London in the 80s had to be a whole vibe
Can you dig the vibe ?
Certainly was. We was blessed!
80s London was amazing...F%%k what happened
London is always a vibe. Coolest city on the planet. On of the few great things Britain has going for it. 😉
@@enricopolsinelli4929 does that mean they have no crime ???? Because that would be way cool.
They don't make music like this anymore..glad I grow up in the 80'
When musicians played instruments, told a story & held a beat. Today we have mud.
.......tiger feet.....
no auto-tune
Agreed. Mud are still going with original members Ray Stiles and Rob Davis as well as guitarist Keith Read and drummer Pete Phipps. RIP Les Gray and Dave Mount.
My name is mud is a song by Primus. ... just an fyi
Well, there is still good music being recorded and released but it certainly seems to be on the scant side.
SCOOTER BOYS NEVER DIE!
32 scooters . . . i don't know wha . . . WHA . . . WHAAA
I can't stop playing this video I just love it!!!!😊
looped
Good taste!
This song has never gotten the recognition it deserves as one of the greatest songs ever made.
Such a fuckin jam. Surprised I haven't gotten into an accident when I'm driving and this comes on the radio.
Damn straight!
Great band ,great tune, superb vid !!!
Scooterboys and FYC !!!
It don’t get no better than this♠️🏁🇬🇧
AND IM 35 😂😂😂😂😂
@@briancronauer7663 right?? The kids think I’m bonkers. Which, of course, I am 😂😂😂
And just like that, I’m 16 again! Brilliant!
One of the best bands in of the 80s ❤🎉❤
Hell yes!!! 💝❤️❣️💕💕
Fine Young Cannibals were underrated. These guys are awesome . Music still holding up strong even now .
Dudley i agree with you ,, i reckon they were the ultimate in being the best band
underrated? they sounded pretty hard in Mexico at their time!
Sure sure sure
@@JSHRXaos_Realm Exactly, they were def not underrated as far as I can remember! :D
AGREED
Where's the comment I just left? Gushing all about Roland Gift's voice and moves. Anyone else listening in 2024?🥰😍🥰😍
ME!!!
You made my day! 😀 @@Ztereoboy
Here !!
Obvious star power, alas.
yoooooooooooooooooooooooo
One of the greatest albums ever made. 10 songs and 35 minutes of flawless music. The creativity on this album is still breathtaking.
Yep!
Has this song been a show theme? Because it sounds like one.
Great thing in that case 😍
@@eduardpeeterlemming The theme song to Alf
🤟🇬🇧
In my opinion, this is one of the coolest and greatest songs ever created.
Absolutely classic for all ages..Roland extremely underrated singer of his times
Satianath Parayath He is a great actor too. I loved him when he was on highlander.😁
0pres
It`s time times is plural
@@k.d.jackson441 What else has he been in?
Scandal - pretty sure he played Christine Keeler's homicidal boyfriend in that.......
This song reminds me of a world that no longer exists
It was 1989! It will NEVER be 1989 ever again!!
This song takes me back to some of the best times!!
@@brucemcelroye5054 I remember they used to play this song on the Jukebox at the bar I used to hang out at.
As long as we're alive it's still exist, Rock On.
Long live
the PURE BLOODS 🇺🇲
May God have mercy on the vexed for they are truly confused.
Sadly.. :(
These guys are timeless. I wish they'd done more.
I was 15 in 1980 so had my best teenage years during the 80s. Strange thing is that I appreciate eighties music more now that I did back then. Wonder if anyone feels the same...
You’re totally 👍 right. I feel the same!
I do, I found music a bit kitch back then, I was more into alternative stuff.
I can sign what you say.
Absolutely! I am 59 now as well. We are now old enough to appreciate and know how difficult it is to compose music that stands the test of time.
I do. I miss those years...
That Look ..Them Looks..No Man Comes Close..in Beauty..🦋🌹
Amen!
i was in the military in california when this came out, it seem to have such a 60s vibe to it, which fit nice in the then cali scene...not like today.
Let's get one thing straight. A good tune is a good tune. Doesn't matter if it was today, yesterday , or 30 years ago.
Yeah but the problem is finding one today that you'll still listen to in the next 20+ years
You got that right!!😍😍🎄🎄✝️⚜️
my NIggAAAAAA
it's a complete ripp off of TAINTED LOVE....listen to the original. JS
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At 72, I still can groove with these guys!! What a great group....keep 'em alive people~
66 here! I’m with ya!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊
It’s groovin Motown .
75 👍😙🇬🇧
I love how the instrumentation is simple on this but sounds so amazing. The bass line with the piano along with some great vocals make this song perfect
I agree☆
Agreed, have played this song in a band many times. However, as a piano player I just love the piano solo licks. So cool.
The unique voice really sits in the mix so well. His voice is so original and he sings his notes with great passion . It seems like it wouldn't be a good fit but frankly its
perfect.
Jools Holland happened into the recording studio and have the piano solo
Me, I’m still listening it, ‘ cause good music NEVER, goes away and this is an example 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏, thanks 🙏 for pointing this Masterpiece ❤️🗽🇨🇺🇺🇸
This song is a "MASTER PIECE"...💯💯💯
True...timeless music
Such a fantastic tune, astonishingly good! Scooter boys forever!
Wish they made more music. The two albums were absolute bangers
God I miss the 80s
Dang me too I am gonna turn 66😿
This probably didn't really hit until 90 but point taken
One of the most unique voices I've ever heard! Love Fine Young Cannibals! ❤
It's been my favorite band since I was a teen now 46 and still is
Nice stolen comment bundle of sticks!
Roland Gift is awesome good!
I liked the song as a boy in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and heard it again while watching an older movie titled Tin Men (Richard Dreyfuss acted in it) for the first time in 2023. A song that lifted my spirits and a very cool movie, which featured Danny DeVito performing his lines in a Baltimore accent!
The unique voice of Roland Gift you love it or hate it, I love it.
Hello Angela how are you doing?
His voice is a gift after all.
Used to hate it - but it has grown on me by a good margin. Love this song.
And he wuz NEVER in the English Beat!
I am and I am 64 and still going for it old school
Who's still listening to this in 2024? This song isn't going anywhere. It transcends time.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
💯
And space, I'm waaaay far from Birmingham...
Great 😊 music 🎼 is forever ♾️
my eyes saw 2025 and was going /am going to SAY YES
This is music the best music had ever produced comes out of that era
Si cette chanson apparaissait maintenant, elle serait numéro des charts dans le monde entier sans aucune discussion possible. C'est bien simple : elle n'a aucun défaut! La voix, le rythme, ce solo de piano, la percussion, ce saxophone mélodieux, les paroles : tout, absolument tout y est!! Merci beaucoup F.Y.C. !!!
Oui c un putain de rythme entraînant c du lourd c'était bon une vrai musique de vrai musicien solo piano un vrai chanteur une vrai voix un Flow qui bouge bref ke du kiff...
Comme tu dis il serais en haut de tous les charts du moment
Tout à fait d accord
@@jonathancosandier2908 je suis un demi jeune de 45 ans et Good Thing faisait partie des hits partout où j'allais en vacances en Europe. Si tu le peux, fais découvrir cette chanson à tous les jeunes de maintenant. C'est vraiment autre chose que les chansons jouées actuellement
Right on Frenchie!
Il faudrait qu'elle apparaisse dans une série . Elle ressemble beaucoup à la chanson everybody need somebody
Timeless music is what the 80's produced and it was the best music of our lives. Who's behind me?
nobody because you're not gay and you're lonely.
Dustin Geard It's not true no matter what you are told.
@@lolwtnick4362 fuck you bitch
Yeah 80's mainstream music far better than what is popular now.
Rhythm of the 60s, sounds of the 80s and the legendary timeless Vespa. A perfect mix. It's a pity that FYC disbanded.
2024 still a tune
A 44-year-old oldie loving this now just as much as when it first came out. When pop was simple and inventive. If you've got musical training you'd know this is also a very tricky time signature too. Absolute gem.
A Good Thing! 😎✌❤🎶
Hello Mia how are you doing
The piano player is on fire!
I agree and I would add the whole song is top notch .
Jools Holland playing piano on this track.
So much so he had to take a short break!
My mum was going shopping in the 90s with my little sister in her pushchair and she was sat opposite roland gift on the train to hull. And later on in the 90s he went into a pub in the village where I lived and I had a drink with him amongst locals and he signed a bunch of records for the dj in the pub in north ferriby in the duke of Cumberland 😊
Highly underrated. Loved by people all around the world. No matter what language you speak the melodies are universal to the human ear. Its 2024 and I've been listening to this song for about 36 years now. Pretty sure its held up to time well
Piano in this song is fantastic!
Ray Charles?
@@anibalrodriguez3539 Jools Holland
So are the VESPAS!
@@zyankon8318 Yes, Squeeze also
Yes. i can't imagine the song without Jool's excellent tinkering
There are certain 80’s songs that give me an overwhelmingly painful and bittersweet sense of nostalgia. This is definitely one of them.
Agreed.
Same:(
CLAP CLAP SNAP
Damned right...we never knew how good we had it.
I just got that from watching “She drives me crazy”
😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 watching the video gives a whole new dimension to the song... this is the first time ive ever seen the video but hsve been listening to the song for 30 years
This is such a great song! It’s 2024 and it’s on my playlist!
Can't believe I thought this was INXS
It's 2023 so I exclusively listen to music made in the year 2023. And next year I shall only listen to music made in 2024. That's how music works right?
Who needs therapy? Just listen to this
@@ChrisCantHaveItAll Have you heard of free will, just asking for a friend.!
Brilliant combo it gelled beautifully 🇮🇪🎆😎😉🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇
one of the best songs of the 80s
Agreed
One of the few perfect albums ever released.
An underrated song I believe.
I will be listening to them until I can't ! Burned up many dance floors, dancing to their music💙🎶🎵🎶🎵
And I, for one, am very glad to hear it!
One of the most underrated bands of all time
👍
@@martinleavitt6094 Nope, I was there and they were HUGE!
You need a flogging
What is overrated is people making "underrated" comments just for clicks.
This band sold millions of records and were very popular in the 80's
All you haters out there... Nope! I said what I said!
What a GREAT song, he’s so unique what a beautiful voice
The 80s was the best
Fine Young Cannibals definitely did a Good Thing with this....
John 15:4-11
"4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."
*slow clapping*
OOOOh I love that song !!!!!!!!!!!! that piano !!!!!!!!!
Scooterboys will never grow up!!!
80’s music was good thing. Today’s music is bad thing
This song is 35 years old. It is timeless. Sounds like Northern soul but also modern. Great band
The start is basically Tainted Love by Gloria Jones so very Northern Soul indeed.
@@drdavecolly-- Gloria Jones' Tainted Love is from 1964. This first appeared in a movie that was set around that time (Tin Men)...hence the retro sound.
People forget it was originally recorded in late 1986 for Tin Men, where FYC is the house band for the movie.
Love so much of they're music
The piano in this song 😍 Still here in 2020!! The 80’s were the best!!
Speed it up to 2x
40 years after still sound great
Me too..
@@adolfruiz9957 40 years? Hmm. Nope. Can't be.
@@sirloinofbeef3862 sorry 30 years
Me! Still love this song.
This tune is SO motown. I like every hit this band had.
I'm listening to this in 2024, loved this song and video since I was a young girl... love the scooters in this. The guy at 1:42 with the girl and 1:50 both great looking blokes.. wonder if they were part of a scooter club? ❤
Love Fine Young Cannibals,
2024- Who's Listening to
this Awesome 80's 🇬🇧 Banger?
That shot up the 🇱🇷 charts in 86' like a 🚀Ship!
its absolutely essential that young minds of today understand that you don't need obscenity and vulgar lyrics to have great music that makes you want to dance and have a great time
What a great song brings back memories from boyhood,all those people have passed!!!
I know this song through my Grandad, he's 80 and said it's one of his favourite songs. I'm 24 and I love it too, music was so much better back then!
The 80's was the last great decade for good music and good lives.
Super Top 💯
Too good..Was an amazing place..London had soul...Alas, no longer
I am in 2022. Fine Young Canibals still rocks 🪨🎸😎✨👌
I agree
Ditto bro .
Me twoooooooo
I just saw this man in a video performance 1 year back. He IS STILL THAT GOOD. A “GOOD THING!”
His name is Roland Lee Gift
I wonder if I'll get sick of this song ever? I doubt it. What a voice.
Me too, I'll never get sick of this song ; greetings from France !
I never tire of Roland Gifts voice and he sounded great on Jools Holland Hootenanny 2013 he has such an original sound greetings from Australia. Always makes me smile!
never!
Soul Boy 82 and sooo cute❤️
Heaven
Probably one of the coolest music videos ever made!
Every once in a while I watch this vid for a healthy dose of charismatic, graceful moving, smooth-assed singing and feel good beat. Love the piano.
This whole album is a thing of perfection
I'll check it out. Never heard whole album.
Absolutely...
AWESOME Tunes with Party Beats!!!
Who's still listening to this jam in 2021
I saw the band live in 1985, MusicHall, Frankfurt/Germany. Unmatched stage presence, for sure!
Good thing...
@@mylittlepuppy9116 Bad thing, just realised it was 1985, not 1995... As time flies by.
I am always will be. Own original record 1st cut. People though I was nuts. Who knew. Now I'm 63 rock on.....
Listening and dancing!!
Who's still listening to this awesome tune in 2020 ?
Not me, Bill Withers has my attention,RIP!
Im here. Love these guys sitting here missing the 80s especially with this virus and lockdowns.
@@maudemathildeh335 I think I was born in the wrong year haha, I love the 90s but love the 80s and some of the 60s too hahah
yeah, in quarantine drunk. 😷🥴
ME, SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!
This is their best song. The other overplayed mainstream song ain't close.
Johnny Come Home closely followed by Suspicious minds are their best 2.
Truth. Raw. Real. Rare. There is singing in Heaven. Jesus is King. :)
johnny come home was really good
I've heard the other song just drives people crazy. 😎
Yes its there best song 🎵
The 80s had the best music of all decades!!!! It brings warm remembered memories back to me!!!!😊
Excelente, espectacular, buen ritmo y sonido,un temazo.
Y fue unos de los grandes fenómenos del mítico comercial del goodnes el yogurt de Nestlé un gran éxito este comercial
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS, ARE GOODS
Who's listening to this timeless classic in 2025 ?
FYC 80s dancing machine. Who would refused to it?
I ❤ this song and I surprised that as great as this gentleman's voice was and with his talented band backing him. That the Fine Young Cannibals were/aren't more successful then they were/are.
One of the most Motown sounding tracks from a different era. Love it.
When I was younger I would never listen to this kind of music but due to the lack of good music I would say without a doubt compared to today's music this is a genuine masterpiece
I am nearly 60. I am gladly listening to the tunes of the 1980,'s when I was a teenager, as you rightly say, there is a lack of good music, but the 1980's lives forever, just like the 1960's.
A masterpiece when it came out.....I still get all tingly listening to this even now! Good thing!😁
Raw and cooked is a great album, many good songs from start to finish a classic!
what a beautiful voice Roland gift has he is so talented i love him
This video is definitely a 'Good Thing' and not just the song!.
I've lived too long - but in the course of my interminable existence I have found that for whatever reason the 80's of every century are ALWAYS the BEST ! ! !
Best band of 1989
Good thing 2024
The sexiest singer ever
This song needs more recognition. Watching this in 2025!
Been stuck in my head for the last few weeks. Still hasn't aged 🤩✌️
Killer piano arrangement, vocals, drums, rhythm & a stay-in-your- head-all-day tune. Mwah! Brilliant.
OOOOh I love that song !!!!!!!!!!!! that piano !!!!!!!!!
Marie Jools Holland😀
Good song great rhythm through the whole song the bass sounds good,,,
Yup! The piano solo is SMOKING !!!
is cafu
😍😍😍😘😘
Today I won in n auction LP with this famous song 😎👍🏻cannot wait to play it on my phono 😎👍🏻
One of the best bands to ever come out of the 80s super underrated absolute soul and shimmy to this song is immense Roland gift you truly are a gift my friend
I hope that one day my grandchildren will listen to this song. And may it be as special to them as it is to me.
It’s all good when it come to the fine young cannibals,
Timeless tunes never fade,
I appreciate them for taking me back to a time and a place where memories live for ever,
These moments in time,
These moments in time.
Word!
And that's a true fact
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
@@SilentiDominus blade runner
When music was a good thing ❤❤❤❤
Love the 80s, 90s and 70s ❤❤❤