Song · Stan Ridgway
“Drive, She Said” by Stan Ridgway
From the album The Big Heat (1985)
“Drive, She Said” by Stan Ridgway appears on 3 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1986 and 1991. It was first released in 1985 on the album The Big Heat. Its best result is #78 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #155 alternative song of 1986 and #6,022 alternative song of all time.
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"Drive, She Said" went out as a single behind The Big Heat, Stan Ridgway's 1985 debut album on I.R.S. Records, and the American singer-songwriter wrote every word and note of it himself. Hugh Jones handled both the production and the engineering, giving Ridgway's new wave a clean, tight frame.
The video is where it turns into a movie. Shot on black-and-white Super 8 in Hollywood, with Andrew Doucette directing and Tina Silvey producing for Silvey-Lee Productions, it follows a woman bank robber who hijacks a cabdriver's taxi: a pocket-sized noir with the cab meter running.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 78 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1986 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 430 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) | 500 |
| 1991 | 413 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) | 500 |
Also listed as: Drive She Said.
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