Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"

[Best In The World]

Yeah, I love this too. It has always been one o my favorite songs of the 1980s.

[Mirago]

This song has a timeless appeal to it, can't explain it

[Libra]

This was actually their second chart single in the U.S.; the first was "Johnny Come Home", which landed at about the same time as Synch's "Where Are You Now?" did in the Spring of '86, and fared about as well as that originally did (#76).

For a time, I liked this and "Good Thing" about equally, but now I think this has pulled back ahead.

I remember seeing this clip on Nickelodeon as a kid:

[♛ The Manticore ☯]

Love it love it love it!!! A classic!

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it. One of my all time faves.

[disman00911]

Love it too!  One of the best 80s pop songs of all-time.  Often heard this as 80s gold on 101.9 the Mix, Lite FM 93.9, 100.3, and the defunct-80s channel 103.1 WXXY when I was younger.  I also remember watching a parody video of this song featuring the Muppets on Nickelodeon.

Muppets (Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy) - She Drives Me Crazy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3OAwwbzuUA

[Ernesto]

32 years ago today, Fine Young Cannibals landed its first No.1 hit as "She Drives Me Crazy" topped the Hot 100 Singles chart for one week. It also topped the Hot Dance - Club Play chart for 2 weeks. It was the first release from their second and last album "The Raw and The Cooked." "She Drives Me Crazy" received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year but lost to "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler - I would have given it to Don Henley for "The End of The Innocence." The song peaked at No. 5 on the British singles chart in their native U.K. - It remains one of my favourite songs from 1989.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#77 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

Hard to believe now, but “She Drives Me Crazy” didn’t make total sense to everyone hearing it for the first time in 1989: critics back then seemed thrown for a loop by the contrast between its verses’ grab-bag of syncopated, synthesized blip-pops (and frontman Roland Gift’s airy falsetto) with the chorus’ chunky guitar power chords and full-throated vocals. But its blend of funk, soul, rock and pop melodies into something a little weird and wonderful proved alchemical, as the song hopped its way up to No. 1 on the Hot 100. And if you see purple while listening, that’s no accident: the track was recorded at Paisley Park with producer-engineer David Z, one of Prince’s go-to studio collaborators. — REBECCA MILZOFF