Retro Video of the Week: "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals

Thirty years ago today, British pop/rock trio Fine Young Cannibals released their second (and final) studio album, The Raw & The Cooked, in the US.  It was an international success, hitting #1 on the album charts in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Austria, and charting in the top 5 in Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and Switzerland (though only getting up to #19 in Norway).

A little over three years after the band recorded their self-titled debut, they released The Raw & The Cooked.  They were massive for a year or so, and then they were gone just as quickly as they had appeared.  The group had some success in their native UK prior to The Raw & The Cooked, with UK Top 10s in 1985 with "Johnny Come Home" and a cover of Elvis's "Suspicious Minds" -- both of which reached #8 -- and then in 1987 with their cover of The Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen in Love," which hit #9.  However, they hadn't really broken through on the other side of the pond.

And then "She Drives Me Crazy" was released in late December 1988, as the first single off of the soon-to-be-released The Raw & The Cooked, and it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1989.  They followed that up with "Good Thing" (on which Jool Holland plays piano), which hit #1 in July 1989.  The third, fourth, and fifth singles off the album also charted:  "Don't Look Back" (#11), "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be" (#54), and "I'm Not Satisfied" (#90).  And then they were gone.

"She Drives Me Crazy" is their most famous song, so that's what I'm choosing for this week's Retro Video of the Week.  It's a great pop rock song that is nearly impossible to dislike.  Is it weird that I've always thought lead singer Roland Gift kind of resembles a bird?