Playfully Yours - She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals Cover)

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From '' Mixtape ''
Released: March 20, 2015
Tracklist
1. Are 'Friends' Electric (Tubeway Army)
2. A Forest (The Cure)
3. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
4. She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals)
Playfully Yours: Brock R. McKinley, Katie Busemeyer, Maxx McKinley
Guitar on 'She Drives Me Crazy': Rodney Simpson
Produced, recorded and performed by Playfully Yours at Fallen Fan Studio in Cincinnati, OH.
Cover Art: Michelle White
Physical Layout: Evan Scott Sharfe for bewatermyfriends.com
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"She Drives Me Crazy" is a song recorded by English group Fine Young Cannibals, included on their 1988 album The Raw & the Cooked.
The song peaked at Number 5 on the British singles chart in the band's native U.K. 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.
"She Drives Me Crazy" also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Spain and on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart.
It also was a top 3 hit on the German and 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.
Re-release
The song was re-released in 1997 in support of Fine Young Cannibals' compilation album The Finest.
It included a remix by Roger Sanchez, as well as Mousse T. remixes of "Johnny Come Home".
The single reached No.36 on the UK Singles Chart.
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.
Cover versions, parodies, and uses in the media
English synthpop band The Good Natured released a cover of "She Drives Me Crazy" on their 2013 Extended Play (EP) release of their song "5-Ht".
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy recorded a version as the opening track to the 1994 Muppet album Kermit Unpigged.
A music video, featuring cameo appearances by various celebrities, was released to promote the album.
Atlanta-based consumer advocate and radio show host Clark Howard has for many years used the opening bars of this song as the introduction to his syndicated radio program.
The Flying Pickets recorded an a cappella version for their 1994 The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1 album.
Former Cantopop singer Yvonne Lau Man-Kuen (Traditional Chinese: 劉文娟; Simplified Chinese: 刘文娟) released a Cantonese cover based on this song named "The Grey Art Gallery" (Traditional Chinese: 灰色畫店; Simplified Chinese: 灰色画店) in 1990.
The Fine Young Camels sing "C Drives Me Crazy", an Sesame Street parody of "She Drives Me Crazy".
A Muppet camel in the Mojave Desert (voiced by Paul Jacobs) sings about how he loves the letter C and things that start with C.
He is backed by two male Anything Muppets dressed as Bedouins. A Muppet cookie and a Muppet cat also sing and dance along.
The number features an introduction by Jerry Nelson, stating it's their "greatest, and only, hit ever."
American comedian Arsenio Hall, under the pseudonym "Chunky A", recorded a novelty parody of this song, called "Ho is Lazy."
"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this song as "She Drives Like Crazy" for his 1989 soundtrack album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff.
Electric Six recorded a cover version as part of a pledge package for their Absolute Treasure Kickstarter campaign.
The cover was subsequently released online.
Aesthetic Perfection released a cover version of the song on the "A Nice Place To Destroy" single in 2012.
The Fox television show The Last Man on Earth features the song in a season 1 episode, also entitled "She Drives Me Crazy" when two of the main characters, Todd and Melissa, are making love.

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Fine. I also loved Gary Neuman's/Newman's Tubeway Army, Are Friends Electric.