Raw Like Sushi by Neneh Cherry

Raw Like Sushi, Neneh Cherry's debut, landed on 5 June 1989, and it's the sound of a Swedish ex-punk who cut her teeth in London with the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic deciding the dancefloor was the new front line. The seed was "Looking Good Diving with the Wild Bunch", a 1986 B-side for Morgan-McVey that went nowhere until Tim Simenon of Bomb the Bass re-recorded it as "Buffalo Stance", a brash, streetwise worldwide smash that went to number three in both Britain and America and topped the charts in Sweden and the Netherlands.

Simenon produced the album, and the credits run deep: Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja co-wrote "Manchild", a UK number five, and Andrew Vowles, as DJ Mushroom, turns up on three tracks, while Cherry's husband Cameron McVey hides behind the name "Booga Bear". "Kisses on the Wind" made the US top ten, and the album reached number two in the UK.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.