Better Than Ezra "Good"

How did you spend the final months of summer vacation before going away for college? In my case, those waning days of carefree young adulthood included many late nights driving around Northwest Indiana with a late-night run to Dunkin Donuts. Chicago's Alternative Station, Q101, accompanied us on most car rides and always seemed to be playing "Good" from Better Than Ezra.

Fine Young Cannibals "She Drives Me Crazy"

Chicago television commercials touting Q101's "Murphy in the Morning Show" from the early-'90s featured "She Drives Me Crazy" from Fine Young Cannibals. Many Chicagoans may recall that Murphy wore a straitjacket in many of the commercials. During the short time I worked with Murphy in the early 2010's, he admitted he was beyond tired of fielding questions about the infamous straitjacket.

INXS - "Not Enough Time"

One of my personal favorites from INXS was their slower-tempo "Not Enough Time".  The song brings back memories of the early days of Q101 when the station shifted from an Adult Contemporary format to Alternative.  The station quickly became the radio station of a generation.

Fine Young Cannibals - "She Drives Me Crazy"

Fine Young Cannibals (or FYC) made a big splash in 1989 with their The Raw & The Cooked album which gave us "Good Thing" and "She Drives Me Crazy".  I just remember the old Q101 using the song in one of their infamous commercials touting Murphy in the Morning.