20 Best Songs of the 80s – #13
Fine Young Cannibals isn’t a one-hit wonder, but a one-album wonder. Several songs off their 1988 album The Raw and the Cooked charted, including #1 positions for today’s song and the jaunty ‘Good Thing.’ The album also featured such gems as ‘Don’t Look Back,’ ‘Ever Fallen in Love,’ ‘I’m Not the Man I Used to Be’ and ‘As Hard As It Is.’
The Raw and the Cooked is one of those albums that I haven’t played in probably close to a decade but I’d never consider selling back. Every time I think about it, under one of those belt- and shelf-tightening spells I have once in awhile, I peruse the track list and think ‘No way am I giving this up!’
But I still don’t listen to it.
I’m not sure why that is. Too many CDs and too little time, I guess. I’m going to make an effort to get this into my CD case the next time I’m swapping out discs. I’m sure I won’t be disappointed.
Things you do don’t seem real
Tell me what you’ve got in mind
‘Cause we’re runnin’ out of time
Won’t you ever set me free
This waiting round is killing me
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can’t help myself
I can’t get any rest
People say I’m obsessed
Everything you say is lies
But to me there’s no surprise
What I had for you was true
Things go wrong, they always do
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can’t help myself
I won’t make it on my own
No one likes to be alone
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can’t help myself
Uh huh huh
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can’t help myself
Uh huh huh
She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
I can’t help myself
Meet Me In Montauk 
I adore this song.
I remember instantly falling in love with Roland Gift and finding his delivery of this song in falsetto (which I had no idea was what it was called) absolutely revolutionary.
I also remember that this was an 80’s song not just for the 80’s generation. My mom loved this song as much as I did, and when it appeared in an episode (“Courting Nancy”) of thirtysomething, it must have felt as right to the 30 somethings who were huge fans of the show at the time as it did for a young woman a decade + younger than them.
While it certainly does capture the spirit of the 80’s, in the end, I guess a great song is a great song is a great song – in any decade.
btw, thirtysomething is now, FINALLY, available on dvd. So maybe I’ll be able to post the great montage scene set to this song one day soon.
Agreed that this is a great song from a very strong album. And it probably has been 20 years since I have played it, which is 20 years too long.
Amy is right I LOVE this song! I’m bouncing around now while listening to it. Great theme week!