I heard this song on a Los Angeles radio station called KROQ -FM back in the 1980's. KROQ played Newwave and Punk Rock !!!! Those were the good old days for me!
I first heard this song a year ago on a transgender and 9/11 conspiracy theory discord server. Communications technology may change but bangers tunes are forever.
He's still around! I've been to a few shows and they are always a blast! Usually some really small venue! Lots of jokes and stories and stuff. He's a real character, and really is good to fans! After playing a full show with encores, he sticks around for several more hours just meeting fans, signing things, taking pictures before even getting dinner! If you live around LA you should see when his next show is. Worth it!
@@philanthropic8416 Would love him to come back to Australia. He toured in 1986 and again in 2013, when I was lucky enough to see him at The Corner in Richmond. I wanted to stay back and meet him, but alas my Husband was rather crook, and as we had come down from the country, hit the road, as it was already after midnight. Mentioned it in a post, and Stan personally replied, saying he was sorry to read and that next time, Hoped to meet me, i was blown away! :)
Bought his music back in the 80s when I was in New Zealand. Played the hell out of it. Stan was so different. His songs took on different aspects, different & unique sounds & a whole different approach to songwriting. No one was doing stuff like this. Except Stan Ridgway!
Not only is the song great, the video is perfect too. The whole album has a black-and-white film noir feel to it; every track tells its own small story. The lyrics are not only comprehensible but deft-not a quality I’ve stumbled across very often in this or any other genre...
I’ve been looking for this song for years, no one could help me, many many searches of snatches of lyrics remembered were to no avail, my search has ended here, thanking you
I came from that geration in high school listening to wall of voodoo and other left of field music at that time....... Lately ive been on a nosyalgic journey digging up the bands from my school years that weren't mainstream like your bon jovi's of the day because these are the music i truely miss and when i find this alternative music of the time it takes me right back to that time and gives me a great sense of nostalgia and pure joy man i wish the time machine could hurry up and get invented ill be on the first plane❤
It would have been a stomper of a track for the musical arrangement alone, but the storyline, the common man cabbie narrator is makes it a stone cold classic and utterly original, like so much of Ridgway's work.
I watched a porn movie in the very early 80s, it was on VHS video - the girls had pubic hair and everything. I thought the sound track was really great and I tried to found out who it was. Not easy in the days before you could google it. Found out in the end, turned out it was 'Wall of Voodoo" Stan Ridgeway started out doing soundtracks - I bought the vinyl LP 'GrandMa's house. I still have it...
My favorite off The Big Heat, it carried on the noir flavor of many Wall of Voodoo tracks, despite the slicker production. Not too keen on most the album, I found Seven Days in Sammystown by the remainig Voodoos a better effort - darker, with a twisted sense of humor and that great "Country & Gothic Dada" style. WoV really did write the ultimate soundtrack to the American Nightmare and Stanard's and the boys' lyrics and songs should be taught in American Studies classes.
Love this guy Before he went solo, Whe he was with WOV Iwas into 'em Light years before Mexican Radio Dark Continent awesome album Especially the song Full Of Tension
This is so great!! I caught Stan and the band at Greasy Tony's outside of Phoenix in about 1990-91 and it was fantastic!! Stan is such an excellent songwriter, showman and storyteller. Extremely underrated!! What have we got now? Some Katy Perry/ Lady Gaga/ Miley Cyrus bullshit being crammed down our throats from every possible angle. Pathetic. Keep carrying the torch, Stan!!
Stan doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Absolutely iconic and completely unique. I definitely wasn't alive for the eighties (or even the nineties), but his music evokes a certain nostalgia that very few others can.
@budgienation The car's essentially a two-seater. I've seen them at car shows and there is a VERY tight bench seat behind the two fronts. There's no way anything larger than an infant or a small dog could possibly ride back there, and you'd have to be out of your mind to try to cram an infant car seat into that compartment.
Great song, great vid. Stan's the man. Funny thing: the carb looks like a Nash Metropolitan and as far as I know, it was a two seater. Every one I've ever seen, that is. Anyone know if Nash (later to be come "Rambler" and "American Motors out of Kenosha, WI) ever made a four seater Metropolitan? Seriously, I'd like to know.
I was driving taxis when this came out -this song is forever stained in my brain- turned me onto the great man - if your not familiar with TWISTED from the big heat album- check it out!
Not too many bands/artistes that sound quite like Stan Ridgway. I simply adore his approach to music! The guy is a legend. Almost unique. I love it... \m/ (:o)
Hollywood Palladium - 1992 - big benefit show for somebody - 10 bands or so. I went mainly because Concrete Blonde was headlining. Stan was one of the supporting acts. I'd never seen him live before. Left that show far more impressed with Stan's performance than Concrete Blonde's. (Nothing against C.B. - they were having an off night - happens to the best occasionally - their Coach House shows in 89 - 91 were awesome!)
This is Art. Stewart Copland turned me on.Stan is a hard boiled writer, musician and film buff, all noir and shadow, like rain beading a windshield to singular headlights passing in a hiss, ...TJ STRUSKA
Its funny how you can remember a sound you'd forgotten,they(radio) used to play the shit out of this song here in australia when it was released(86 or 87 i think),soon as i heard this song,i was like,"oh shit i cant beleive i remember this" i was 11 yrs old xD
Awesome song! If I could mod the soundtrack of my racing games (Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport/Horizon, Need for Speed), this is one of many countless songs that I would add into the race bgm! Really awesome song to drive fast to!
I love the story I've known a couple of cab drivers one was from Germany he used to have nightmares that his cab was driving in reverse at a hundred miles an hour and he couldn't get it to stop , the other cab driver I knew was from Nigeria and he said that he drove through a couple of houses but never hurt anybody when he was smoking the weed and drinking the liquor cuz in Nigeria they drive all over the place you got to check out the motorcycle taxi drivers o'l you're in for a treat my friend !
Man, if I could find a Nash Metropolitan like that one, I'd hunt up some greasy kid stuff, take up smokin' unfiltered Luckies again, get an old Taxi meter..... Hey, you talkin' to me? YOU TALKIN' TO ME???!!! One of these days, I'm gonna get myself organazised....
pas vraiment d'accord. J'ai beau récemment écouter et écouter encore ce que Stan Ridgway a fait après The big heat, ça n'a pas autant de caractère et d'intérêt. je ne vois pas dans ses autres et nombreux albums de chansons comparables à "Drive she said" et ne retiens pour l'instant que quelques titres de Anatomy.
Large scale commercial success was not a good omen for Wall of Voodoo. Stan split just when they were getting huge. Kept his integrity intact and kept making great music.
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Stan Ridgeway is far too underated. He's a fine musician with so many fantastic stories to tell.
Almost like Andy Prieboy.
@@emilewicz14 yup, both him and Andy are great.
What makes you believe he's underrated?
Stan and wall of voodoo are both criminally underrated. People need to recognize.
he's a giant
I heard this song on a Los Angeles radio station called KROQ -FM back in the 1980's. KROQ played Newwave and Punk Rock !!!! Those were the good old days for me!
Rodney on the Roq
The station of my youth. Still exists but it’s not the magic like then😢
I first heard this song a year ago on a transgender and 9/11 conspiracy theory discord server. Communications technology may change but bangers tunes are forever.
The ROQ of the 80s!
Stan is an unconventional talent. He has a style that's all his own and frankly, that's why I always admired him.
That's always what made the Barstow mofo awesome.
Real talent is not conventional.
He's still around! I've been to a few shows and they are always a blast! Usually some really small venue! Lots of jokes and stories and stuff. He's a real character, and really is good to fans! After playing a full show with encores, he sticks around for several more hours just meeting fans, signing things, taking pictures before even getting dinner! If you live around LA you should see when his next show is. Worth it!
please ask him to come to Australia!!
A true legend, saw him in London and he met and chatted with fans after his performance. Happy to pose for photos and sign autographs
@Abe Garfield source? I can't find anything that says he is dead.
@@philanthropic8416 Would love him to come back to Australia. He toured in 1986 and again in 2013, when I was lucky enough to see him at The Corner in Richmond. I wanted to stay back and meet him, but alas my Husband was rather crook, and as we had come down from the country, hit the road, as it was already after midnight. Mentioned it in a post, and Stan personally replied, saying he was sorry to read and that next time, Hoped to meet me, i was blown away! :)
Stan Ridgway is still alive
Stan Ridgway puts a movie into a 4 minute song. Genius
Or a book you could read at the Laundromat
Bought his music back in the 80s when I was in New Zealand. Played the hell out of it. Stan was so different. His songs took on different aspects, different & unique sounds & a whole different approach to songwriting. No one was doing stuff like this. Except Stan Ridgway!
To this day, no one is writing songs like Stan.
Stan's voice just screams "Rock 'n Roll" He's the real deal.
I like the way the harmonika mimics a cab horn in traffic. I've always loved Stan Ridgway for his great stories.
Not only is the song great, the video is perfect too. The whole album has a black-and-white film noir feel to it; every track tells its own small story. The lyrics are not only comprehensible but deft-not a quality I’ve stumbled across very often in this or any other genre...
Either you get Stan or you don't. And that seems to be the way he likes it.
I love Stan Ridgeway, one of the most underrated musicians of all time
I just learned about him thanks to Sabaton doing a cover
wrote a creative essay which ripped this song off in 1986 when I was 16. Got an A+; thanks Stan (still love the song)!
Good for you
I mean that
My neighbor loves Drive, She Said so much. Every time I play he puts a brick through my window to hear it better!
😂😂😂
what a great musician with a unique voice... legendary
I’ve been looking for this song for years, no one could help me, many many searches of snatches of lyrics remembered were to no avail, my search has ended here, thanking you
Brian Damage: I know the feeling. Finding music here is like visiting my preschool self and separating memories from make-believe...
All you had to do was remember the 4 words..
"Just drive, she said."
I came from that geration in high school listening to wall of voodoo and other left of field music at that time.......
Lately ive been on a nosyalgic journey digging up the bands from my school years that weren't mainstream like your bon jovi's of the day because these are the music i truely miss and when i find this alternative music of the time it takes me right back to that time and gives me a great sense of nostalgia and pure joy man i wish the time machine could hurry up and get invented ill be on the first plane❤
I'm also turning to my favorites from my formative years...
Saw him live about 1989. He tore the house down with this song.
Amazing song, inspired by a true story of his days as a cab-driver.
a great song!
heard it when it first came out and have never forgotten it
thanks for posting this....
Love this dude's music SO MUCH
This is a great tune! It paints a great scenario.
Stan’s basically an incredible short story writer
Yep
The big heat is a classic. One of the great 80s albums. Love this man. Solo or with WOV. Classy.
The Big Heat change my life and my musical position. Thanks Stan!!!
THERE'S SOMEONE FOLLOWING YOO
I haven't heard this song for many years but I still remember every word.
I love this damn song... thank you whoever you are for posting this!
Great song brings me back to the 80"s.
It would have been a stomper of a track for the musical arrangement alone, but the storyline, the common man cabbie narrator is makes it a stone cold classic and utterly original, like so much of Ridgway's work.
Stan, simply, an incredibly weird genius! My kind of guy!
Stan's best song
Yes
I saw these guys at Rockefellers in Houston circa 1989 AWESOME
That's his wife, Pietra Wexstun. It's true! He said so himself on the Stan Ridgway's Grand Emporium on Facebook :-)
Brave man to marry a woman named that
i couldn’t remember this guys name and often thought of this track and someone just posted this and made my day. Clever - definitely underrated
I watched a porn movie in the very early 80s, it was on VHS video - the girls had pubic hair and everything. I thought the sound track was really great and I tried to found out who it was. Not easy in the days before you could google it. Found out in the end, turned out it was 'Wall of Voodoo" Stan Ridgeway started out doing soundtracks - I bought the vinyl LP 'GrandMa's house. I still have it...
great guitars miss dancing to this stuff in clubs..
My favorite off The Big Heat, it carried on the noir flavor of many Wall of Voodoo tracks, despite the slicker production. Not too keen on most the album, I found Seven Days in Sammystown by the remainig Voodoos a better effort - darker, with a twisted sense of humor and that great "Country & Gothic Dada" style. WoV really did write the ultimate soundtrack to the American Nightmare and Stanard's and the boys' lyrics and songs should be taught in American Studies classes.
Wow thanks for uploading!! Covered and sang this song in the eighties, one of my favorites, Stan is the man....
@FriedAudio Yeah, that's a Nash Metropolitan--a 50's joint-venture product from Nash (US) and Austin-Healey (UK).
One of my favorite videos to watch on a Friday Night
Right!! This video looks like a Friday night in a big city!
@@mattclassic1855 Exactly! You get where I'm coming from
Stan Ridgeway.....The Original New Wave West Pioneer!!!
I guess he still writes and performs and never publishes on you tube....he should. I think he don't realise how appreciated he is
Love this guy
Before he went solo,
Whe he was with WOV
Iwas into 'em
Light years before Mexican Radio
Dark Continent awesome album
Especially the song Full Of Tension
I am also a huge huge fan. Love Stan as well!
Life lessons
Keep your eyes on the road. Your hands upon the wheel.
L. A. Woman
Umm..Roadhouse Blues methinks
God what a storyteller!
I can't imagine how many 90's bands got influenced by a song like this. That's literally all I can hear.
This guy was like Dylan but in the 80's... Now just shut up and keep your hands on the wheel
+timewarped2the80s I was at his first solo show in '86, and he jokingly compared himself to Dylan during it.
Excellent comparison.
More like an 80s Harry Chapin.
this song is amzing ty for posting it :D
Such a great song.
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This is so great!! I caught Stan and the band at Greasy Tony's outside of Phoenix in about 1990-91 and it was fantastic!! Stan is such an excellent songwriter, showman and storyteller. Extremely underrated!! What have we got now? Some Katy Perry/ Lady Gaga/ Miley Cyrus bullshit being crammed down our throats from every possible angle. Pathetic. Keep carrying the torch, Stan!!
Stan doesn't get the recognition he deserves. Absolutely iconic and completely unique. I definitely wasn't alive for the eighties (or even the nineties), but his music evokes a certain nostalgia that very few others can.
Darn, this guy was good.
eldorado62 *is
Still is. Check out his latest project - Drywall.
@Abe Garfield Not sure where you got this information, but he is alive and well and still releasing songs. :)
@Abe Garfield no he didnt
Fantastic - great memories from the mid-80's :-)
@budgienation The car's essentially a two-seater. I've seen them at car shows and there is a VERY tight bench seat behind the two fronts. There's no way anything larger than an infant or a small dog could possibly ride back there, and you'd have to be out of your mind to try to cram an infant car seat into that compartment.
As others said before, Nash Metropolitan. Hard to imagine a fare riding in the back of one of these!
Cool stuff Stan
Great song, great vid. Stan's the man. Funny thing: the carb looks like a Nash Metropolitan and as far as I know, it was a two seater. Every one I've ever seen, that is. Anyone know if Nash (later to be come "Rambler" and "American Motors out of Kenosha, WI) ever made a four seater Metropolitan? Seriously, I'd like to know.
I was driving taxis when this came out -this song is forever stained in my brain- turned me onto the great man - if your not familiar with TWISTED from the big heat album- check it out!
I miss those days
Not too many bands/artistes that sound quite like Stan Ridgway. I simply adore his approach to music! The guy is a legend. Almost unique. I love it... \m/ (:o)
Ft. Cambell,KY.1986 this album was slept on.....shame
Must have been a rough night! Thanks for your service.
Midnight Oil must have been influenced by this song. The opening is quite similar to their 'Blue Sky Mine' from around 1990.
Hollywood Palladium - 1992 - big benefit show for somebody - 10 bands or so. I went mainly because Concrete Blonde was headlining. Stan was one of the supporting acts. I'd never seen him live before. Left that show far more impressed with Stan's performance than Concrete Blonde's. (Nothing against C.B. - they were having an off night - happens to the best occasionally - their Coach House shows in 89 - 91 were awesome!)
this guitar intro is just one of the best ever done in music history..
discovered this song on the spud goodman show in Seattle.
Cool song for me long time ago.
He inspired many musicians Stan is Da Man. Love his western themes
Sound so good .. Good tune
I don't need the video - Stan is such as great storyteller I have my own version of the video playing in my head.
young days
OMG! I LOVE YOU STAN!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
god, he just tore MY house down with this song- friend just turned me onto it-guess i missed it cuz I was havin kids in 86 & 88. LOVE THIS!!
i remember first hearing this on 97.7 chom in montreak
Genius !
awesome!
2024. ❤
This is Art. Stewart Copland turned me on.Stan is a hard boiled writer, musician and film buff, all noir and shadow, like rain beading a windshield to singular headlights passing in a hiss, ...TJ STRUSKA
Its funny how you can remember a sound you'd forgotten,they(radio) used to play the shit out of this song here in australia when it was released(86 or 87 i think),soon as i heard this song,i was like,"oh shit i cant beleive i remember this" i was 11 yrs old xD
I totally digg this, I bought a pressing of this and Big Heat A & B side
Stan Ridgway - Drive, She Said - 1986
Love the car
You don't have to worry about me, nope!
Miss So Cal. Everything was happening there in the 80's!
LOL The Nash Metropolitan doesn't have a rear seat!!
another good song!
1986 , Kensington and lots of sustagen gold .
One of the cool things about this Stan's wife is the lady !
Stan rules!!!
Awesome song! If I could mod the soundtrack of my racing games (Gran Turismo, Forza Motorsport/Horizon, Need for Speed), this is one of many countless songs that I would add into the race bgm! Really awesome song to drive fast to!
Always call Stanard Cab.
I love the story I've known a couple of cab drivers one was from Germany he used to have nightmares that his cab was driving in reverse at a hundred miles an hour and he couldn't get it to stop , the other cab driver I knew was from Nigeria and he said that he drove through a couple of houses but never hurt anybody when he was smoking the weed and drinking the liquor cuz in Nigeria they drive all over the place you got to check out the motorcycle taxi drivers o'l you're in for a treat my friend !
awesome
Man, if I could find a Nash Metropolitan like that one, I'd hunt up some greasy kid stuff, take up smokin' unfiltered Luckies again, get an old Taxi meter..... Hey, you talkin' to me? YOU TALKIN' TO ME???!!! One of these days, I'm gonna get myself organazised....
Awesome!! Very Underrated Song, and Video!
I haven't heard this in years
Shit, I forgot how Stan Ridgeway/Wall of Voodoo made some absolutely awesome music.. what the hell happened?
what happened? he kept on making great music. never stopped and still does it.
pas vraiment d'accord. J'ai beau récemment écouter et écouter encore ce que Stan Ridgway a fait après The big heat, ça n'a pas autant de caractère et d'intérêt. je ne vois pas dans ses autres et nombreux albums de chansons comparables à "Drive she said" et ne retiens pour l'instant que quelques titres de Anatomy.
Large scale commercial success was not a good omen for Wall of Voodoo. Stan split just when they were getting huge. Kept his integrity intact and kept making great music.
It says "STANARD CAB" =)
2:57 Cab seems to be outfitted like a recording studio. Of course it would be.
what other songs did they play you lucky bugger
"Walking down a beach and eating someth'n."