“She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals

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“She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals

	song info     “She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals is a New Wave song.     Song Title: She Drives Me Crazy     Artist: Fine Young Cannibals     Album: The Raw and the Cooked     Genre: pop rock, synthpop, New Wave     Composer: Copyright © 1988 Roland Gift, David Steele     Lead Vocals: Roland Gift (formerly of the Akrylykz)     Guitar: Andy Cox (formerly of The Beat)     Keyboards: David Steele, Andy Cox     Synthesizer: David Steele     Bass Guitar: David Steele (formerly of The Beat)     Producer: David Z, Fine Young Cannibals     Recorded: December 1988     Released: 1 January 1989     Label: London Records     Number of listens: 11092     Current rank: 2139 (updated weekly)     Highest rank: 2023 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song) Translations courtesy of Apple and Google.

    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “She Drives Me Crazy” is a song recorded by English group Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1988 album The Raw and the Cooked. The song peaked at Number 5 as a single in the band’s native UK in January 1989 (it was released on New Year’s Day) before hitting Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US on 15 April 1989. It also reached Number 3 on the Dutch Top 40.

Background and recording

    The unique snare drum “pop” sound was created by recording the snare drum portion separately. A speaker was then placed on top of the snare drum, and a microphone below. The original recording of the snare drum part was played back through the speaker and re-recorded.

Music video

    Two music videos were produced for the song, one by Philippe Decouflé and one by Pedro Romhanyi. Similar to Decouflé’s only other music video, New Order’s “True Faith”, his version includes extensive choreography and performers in unusual costumes, including two identical dancers with completely different coloured-outfits, as well as a person with a television on their head. This version received several nominations at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Video.

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    Lynn: This is Fine Young Cannibals’s best song.

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