The Fixx - Red Skies (Original 1982 Version)

[@castaman43]

The Fixx relevant and well in 2024

[@SamS-ds9gk]

Hell yes!

[@cmaden78]

Absolutely they're still killing it

[@lanceprzybyla7662]

Cranking the shit out of it now!!!!!🎉❤

[@j.t.cooper2963]

Almost 40 years old and still blows me away every time I hear it.

[@stephanteboul598]

Those were the days. Great song!!

[@ManfredElsingBielefeld]

Such a fat sound/song.-writing!!!

[@mikee9673]

I just saw them the other night in MPLS. Incredible

[@catherinesimard5261]

Same

[@2degucitas]

Songs about nuclear destruction tended to be fierce and popular.

[@norms1980]

I miss 80s music. Good thing I can come to KZbin.

[@RetroJenny]

Great song. This is back when MTV was music television. Now it's manure television.

[@stevearchuleta6916]

RetroJenny true....I like that comment...I grew up when Mtv first started....the good ole 80s....😎

[@ghernandez80]

I agreed.

[@menom7]

VERY TRUE Steve!!! In FACT..............MTV,was barely a year-old when this video debuted on it!!! As a bunch of my friends,and myself watched when MTV first debuted back in August 1,1981!!!! Ahhhhhh,the 80's RULED My Friends!!! :)

[@TPaine1776]

AKA moron television

[@drJLONGHAIR]

Manuretelevision LOL !!!

[@davidsherrick898]

If you're not here in 2024 and with the best FIXX song!

[@lemurianchick]

My favorite by them is "Stand or Fall."

[@deborahchesser7375]

This one will always haunt me, so beautiful

[@Lancaster7]

Saw them and flock of sea gulls together in concert.

[@dscott351]

Brings back so many good memories of a simpler time with great friends.

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@dscott351 hell yeh, being young with boundless energy and few real worries is what I miss most. Im not sure if it was a gift or a curse but I knew even back then that those were the best times of my life. I miss those times so much.

[@kevinlake8856]

This is actually a live excellent performance. Shows the Fix talent. God I mis the 80s.

[@jaxsun67]

Agreed

[@spookerz35]

I believe this could be a performance done on a show similar to "Top of the Pops", where bands would mime their songs in front of an audience. On some occasions, the vocal track was stripped and the singer would be the only one performing it live. If you notice what Cy does at the bridge, it seems to make sense. The music, however, sounds exactly like the recording. I've always loved the tone JWO got out of his guitar, which I believe is a rodded up strat copy (forgot the brand).

[@oscarl.ramirez7355]

me 2. Thank G^d for KZbin.

[@greyeye6371]

@@spookerz35 the music sounds different than the studio version

[@GrymsArchive]

@@spookerz35 I disagree 1: They are all plugged in 2: Watch the drummer and keyboardist 3: Miming that well without 1 single screw up 4: This is not any studio recording I'm aware of. 5: There were shows back then that had "Live Music" The BBC did and another off the top of my head was Midnight Special in The US. That's just off the top of my head.

[@Hairmetallurgist]

By far, the BEST version (the original studio version), not the re-mixed one they passed off years later. Rupert's keys sound amazing, and Cy's vocals rock.

[@toddvandell85]

And Jamie West-Oram definitely does not suck on guitars. He's the other cool New Wave guitarist from the 80s, besides U2's The Edge, that played shattering icicles guitar. And the original bassist, Charlie Barrett, was great too, though he bailed after Shuttered Room, sadly. The guy that replaced him? With the beard? Dan K. Brown? A bit less interesting, to me, although he stayed with The Fixx a bit longer, ultimately. Alfie Agius was also good on bass, but he too left shortly after joining the band. He did the Shuttered Room tour, recorded 4 songs on the album Reach the Beach, including the hits *Saved By Zero* and *One Thing Leads to Another.*

[@steven-napoleonwilliams1422]

Totally agree

[@billkeithchannel]

I just came from that version. He did have better hair in that video.

[@optimisticoutreach1236]

The newer version is 10X better...

[@robyndismon394]

While i can appreciate your honesty, the 2nd version (I think) is so different from THIS version I don't think they merit comparison. They almost sound like 2 different songs. I think we can agree that we ALL love The Fixx.

[@topenddean]

I wanna go back!!! Man we had some great times back then. And the music was soooo good! The Fixx is THE sound of the early 80's.

[@yorkshiregrit2889]

me too mate

[@batphink2655]

I reply to you nine years later, i have my Time Machine ready...still wanna go? Lol 👍

[@topenddean]

@@batphink2655 YES! Get me outta here! LOL

[@hamop3]

Absolutely in less than a second I would gladly go back.

[@melissanative1799]

THE MUSIC WAS THE BEST PART OF THE 80'S. IT DIDN'T LAST LONG ENOUGH.

[@TheArcofinfinity]

Relevant as Hell currently. I grew up in the Nuclear fear of the 70's and 80's. Here we go again!

[@claudiamoore7929]

Do you find it funny that some of the songs from the 1980s and not the Disco generation of course kind of seemed to be coming true especially now would love to hear from anybody

[@lennarthoogerheide3473]

Yes, THE "anthem" of WW3.. hope we postpone it for a long time..

[@chrissykinney1126]

Yes! Another REALLY GOOD insight into the future, (now) is the comedy GOLD, & philosopher himself, the late, great, George Carlin! He was always a family FAVORITE, a very smart man, whose insight way back then, rings TRUE to this day forward!!! I didn't really realize it back then, bc his comedy was SO GOOD, & i wasn't listening to political crap at all, but, revisiting it now .. WOW! You really should, check out some of Carlin's stand up, its eerie​ to hear all the things he talked about, that are SPOT ON in todays world!! (Actually spot on for the whole history of politics, etc.) Plus, we ALL need a good laugh or 2, esp. In these messed up times we live in. Go watch some of his stand up from around 2000's, & 2008, SHOCKINGLY ACCURATE!! Plus, just Good comedy! 😊 @@claudiamoore7929

[@Edward-bd8iy]

If you are old enough to have participated in the 'duck-n-cover' drills, you can understand and relate. We are the DEVO generation. Thank God for Reagan and Thatcher and thank God all the predicted nuclear devastation never happened... still waiting for the apologies from all you doom-predicting doofusses who were wrong about everything. Oh, that's right, Trump's the latest 'reckless cowboy idiot evil genius' now, right? 45 years of peddling that lie and that's still all you have 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@veronicanicholas2434]

Too true..80s ruled

[@cadirector]

Definitely one of my favorite bands of the 80's. There were so many to choose from. The Fixx, The Police, The Cars, INXS, The Pretenders, Berlin, Missing Persons, The Motels and many others. The more I think about it, I think the 80's was the best decade musically both in sound and videos.

[@hsard]

definitely the best era.

[@sl4983]

Well said

[@richr.7698]

A Flock of Seagulls, Men at Work, Culture Club, Billy Idol!

[@andremuhammad3672]

Add in Hall & Oates

[@optimisticoutreach1236]

The newer version is 10X better...

[@sonjar1853]

I’m not a musician, but this song sounds very complex musically. Extremely creative. Genius.

[@castaman43]

The fixx my dude, ahead of there time

[@Saffron-sugar]

@@castaman43 their

[@atticusfinch3931]

@@Saffron-sugardon’t be that guy you’ll find no one wants to be around you

[@tonyreilley2842]

I can correct your grammar, if you promise to come nowhere around me, too.

[@castaman43]

@atticusfinch3931 it makes her feel relevant, it's all good.

[@geoffolehane]

This song is one of the most remarkable songs of the 80's. I saw them do this live in the 90's.

[@RaoulDukeSr]

Completely agreed my friend !!

[@MrMoisheLebowitz]

This song gives me shivers even now after all these years.

[@unperegrino70]

Would you explain what he is singing about, please? I'm from Peru and can't understand clearly his words.

[@martinhyizna3299]

Unbelievably authentic raw and perfect version of this great song

[@edwardbrook2029]

Waaayy better than the studio version

[@derekbaker3279]

@@edwardbrook2029 FYI, this is a TV 'performance' on a show similar to 'Top of the Pops', and the recorded 'performance' was later turned into a video for MTV, MuchMusic & equivalents around the globe. However...unlike 'Top of the Pops' & most TV shows of the day, this 'performance' is Cy actually singing live over a pre-recorded backing track. The backing track is actually the original studio recording from the Fixx album called "Shuttered Room". BTW, I would encourage you to hunt down that album, as it has this version of "Red Skies At Night", (which, I agree, is MUCH better than the re-recorded version)...plus it has some other great tunes!

[@kurtisgardner1733]

this song has the nastiest "twangy bass" ever!!! This song is on fire and it lasts throughout the ages!!!

[@derekbaker3279]

I agree 100%. There is such anger & dystopian angst/tension in every bass note!

[@melissanative1799]

THE INSTRUMENTALS IN IT IS OVER THE TOP!

[@mikegreene8285]

This, lunatic fringe and twilight zone were the 3 best songs to crank all the way up while cruising up and down the main drag back in high school. Good times, good memories.

[@JS-hx5wh]

Those are three absolutely awesome tunes. Haven't listened to Lunatic Fringe or Twilight Zone in quite a while. Will do so now.

[@janetalvarado6557]

Fuckin A!

[@susanp7194]

excellent taste!

[@dougmiller7643]

Oh yes Mike Awesome tunes, such great times so many decades ago. Thankful we can still listen to them. Blessed we were to have such Awesome music. Every aspect of it, brings chills to me think how much we were so blessed. Amen

[@dougmiller7643]

You know it Mike, What a magical time it was being with so much great music, movies, friends, just surreal.

[@puckdropper27]

SERIOUSLY...this band was so ahead of it's time.. this is so fucking great today and simply blows today's music away!!! TIMELESS..

[@jumpinjojo]

*its time. Not it's.

[@johnwagner4776]

I was a little kid during the First British Invasion. I was old enough for the New Wave dance clubs during the Second British Invasion. I want my MTV!

[@tracydumka1970]

Same!!

[@YuBetchya]

Except these guys are from Australia

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"Call your cable company And say 'I WANT MY MTV!!!' " (And then pay three times your cable bill for it)

[@MrGaryboyd]

music like this only comes along once in a lifetime. thank goodness we have the ability to pull it up at will.

[@unperegrino70]

Would you explain what he is singing about, please? I'm from Peru and can't understand clearly his words.

[@RubyRantDOTcom]

Back when MTV was a permanent fixture in the house, this is the one that always made me drop everything and tear a straight path to the telly because I could not get enough of watching this beautiful performance...still here in 2024!!!!

[@michellevey9608]

I just saw them 11/23. They're better now!

[@davidsherrick898]

They still sound great!

[@DarkSeriphim237]

Driving at night and listening to this song puts me into an altered reality, lol I know that sounds weird but this song takes me back in a time I wasn't even born in. Great Music they had back then.

[@gibsonplayer8]

Great song! Awesome version. No one writes tunes like this anymore. 80's was such a great decade for music.

[@hamop3]

One of the best Decade in human existence, hands down dude

[@deanpliska9336]

Just love music 🎶 from 80's Just love MTV couldn't stop watching it waslike drug 😊

[@daisymenjivar5198]

Great school years, great parties, beach going, hangouts with good friends. great movies, great music, great bands .Yeap the 80's were so g great! the best time of my life ❤

[@waynegagnon474]

same here

[@hamop3]

Jenny you said a mouthful We literally had it all. Blessed we were to live it.

[@randymiller3949]

Man...1982...I was 13 yrs old & in 7th grade. I remember this song being played on 97.5 WABB here in Mobile Alabama...I thought this song was the GREATEST SONG EVER!!! The 80s will always be THE GREATEST ERA/DECADE OF MUSIC TO EVER COME AROUND IN MY OPINION especially 1981-1985. The 80s music phenomenon will never be FORGOTTEN OR LOST!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.

[@scringe1]

Nothing touches this version. Cy kills it with these vocals. In fact, the whole band is great here.

[@TheMonolith75]

This is my favorite version of "Red Skies"(the original) :)... It's so haunting and raw-in ur face!! I used 2 love singing 2 this when I was 7 back in 1982...Cy has this great voice that's captivating...One of my fav The Fixx songs!!!

[@xensboy2466]

1982 was a sad year for me, and it's a paradox that this terrifying song actually felt uplifting musically at the time. There is a sort of feeling for people, for everyone, a love of Humanity. I really like the poignant keyboards, the singing and the arrangements. Thank you, The Fixx.

[@Eggmanrocks]

Why sad year

[@kellethomas7808]

I feel so bad for kids today. They will never know how great we had it in this decade and the music we got to enjoy. Their stuck with bieber. Poor kids.

[@kellethomas7808]

Also... I want to do bad things to Cy! 😘💕

[@hozonkai9967]

I was born in 1996... and it SUCKS!!! 80s FTW

[@kellyroberts1097]

I'm 36 years old and I agree. Music now can't compete.

[@samanthapickering3365]

Kelle Thomas LOL I KNOW 😭😂😂

[@FirstDagger]

You know there is always metal.

[@davidranger13]

I'm Still Hooked After Hearing "Red Skies At Night" In 82!!! ❤🙏🏼✌😎

[@des9655]

Always on my Playlist.. it never gets old... even though I am

[@oldschool5539]

............. A TIMELESS CLASSIC...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@savedbyzero8947]

...........and ALWAYS WILL BE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bryanweigle3777]

June 1983 I was 15 yrs old, a record store in downtown Traverse City, Michigan...this video was playing on a big screen tv, and I was blown away...I remember it like it was yesterday

[@mikefromuniontown3809]

SET THE HOT TUB CONTROLS. THE WAYBACK MACHINE, OR JUST REINSERT ME IN THE MATRIX I MONTH BEFORE YOU SAID and wipe all the last 38 years ..then for better or worse it would have been A real LIFE.

[@marktarr4664]

I hear stuff like this and I see my wife and I back when we were first going out. Dancing, drinking beer, shooting pool and…. (You know). Brings tears to my eyes.

[@okrajoe]

Red Skies at night. Such a great song.

[@djft6944]

Still get chills from this one🤔

[@rebjiii]

YEP.....this is a classic from the 1980's.....this version is much better than the faster version

[@des9655]

Me too...

[@kevinmcgiffin10]

Hard to believe this beauty is 40 yrs. old and still just as punchy as the Fixx are. Still touring still jammin AND WE ALL LOVE IT !!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@gdcat777]

This is so hauntingly beautiful, like the early 80's. I miss then when I was in art school BEFORE computers took it over.

[@gdcat777]

***** Yeah, and today's "music" videos seem to involve "hos" humpin' the camera lens. The good old days are gone.

[@shanedangers]

+gdcat777 "ho's humpin' the camera lens"...yep! that pretty much sums up todays sad state of popular music LOL. hilarious.... i hate rap and hip hop too...i was 10 in 1982 and remember well this being aired on MTV, i went out and bought Shuttered Room on vinyl pretty much immediately.. used to CRANK this song out my window for the neighborhood to hear LOL

[@ALSILVERU2]

When everyone was crazed about getting or affording a computer!!

[@mikeray1544]

The digital "idiot box".............wrote learning is verboten. Im 50 yr old mechanic and I use book/paper printed manuals/real time shop exp/my brain(the original diagnostic unit)-to service vintage Japan motorcycles. Go Gen X people/Yarrrrr!

[@JFPickus]

Fleetwood Mac

[@msimpson4078]

Love this band always great live met them in 1983 backstage with A flock of seagulls. AWESOME ALL AROUND

[@hamop3]

What an Awesome meeting

[@GialloHorror]

The haunting echos of this song will ring forever! Best Fixx song EVER! Best version too

[@bigguedo]

I miss bands like this. The 80's was full of great bands.....they have been replaced with justin beaber.... and other crap like him.

[@cyprixx]

Beaber's not even the worst of it.

[@patrickcroker3775]

Agreed, its the crappy artists that use autotune in every song not hearing their natural voices, when they could be unique.

[@ginagagliastre9837]

bigguedo, I agree!

[@sl4983]

+Allow me Eighties was the height of talent, music, etc

[@roadracer517]

Not so. Try college alternative online streaming. Some awesome stuff if you look in the right place.

[@karenfelder3901]

Still a great song now as it was in the 80s. Loved it!!! The soundtrack of my teenage years. MTV was great with videos like this.. ❤️

[@hamop3]

Yes indeed Karen, think back often of the eighties, from songs, movies, President, the Pope, we literally had it all. Thank You Jesus that YT still has the Awesome music. 😊

[@ckat77]

This song I used to play repeatedly wherever I went. Thank you for posting this. I'm 49. I used to think I was late being born because as a 14yr old, the post '60's music was hanging around. I love the 1980's. And, I learned to be grateful for what I do have and view all things positive wherever I am timewise. I'm a generation 'X'er and know we create our own realities. ckat77

[@brendonbookman6080]

we sure do

[@ckat77]

Thanks for your response. Jesus Bless you. ckat77 Karen

[@darrenhenderson3]

+ckat77 I think the same about this generation. I am upset that i was born late but now, i'm just glad i get to embrace all music, new or old!

[@jackglick7641]

ckat77 Right on spot!

[@ckat77]

Jack Glick You are another person with good taste in music! ckat77

[@StopBeingLiedTo]

thank you MTV! Not even 91X put this into rotation until you made it happen. The best of the early 80s.

[@eddimundo]

i was working at a gas station in Queens NY after school, part time and had this and other tunes in my cassette player. I also had a pocket full of quarters so I could call my girl.

[@metalandwood4u]

There a whole generation that's never even seen a payphone. There's a defunct payphone in a nearby town to me. I so wanna steel that bitch and use it for art.

[@ecclestonsangel]

@@metalandwood4u do it! I don't think anyone will go crazy or anything. Do it! Do it! Do it! That would be awesome art! I'd do it!

[@glennkarant6760]

Damn I remember when it was a dime...

[@giannit2777]

Hi. I grew up in Queens- Flushing area!! The good old days!!

[@DoubleVisionandco]

"Someone said,, "We'll be dead by morning" ,, Someone cries... Leaving red eyes at night" Absolutely brilliat song by a incredible band. Loved this song in the 80's but had forgotten about it for a long time. Then if I recall correctly in the late 90's it was dark and the skies were red and I took a picture of them, it was from the massive fires in mexico. When I seen the Red Skies it brought back this song and that night I downloaded it off Napster.

[@The1WhoKnowsTheTruth]

Class of 1983 here. Think about the Metal and the New Wave that was released in my 4 years of HS. Blessed I am.

[@TheFranksantana]

The perfect epitome of an 80's band, The Fixx Rules!

[@BruceWall-gv4up]

Remember 2nd. semester 83-85 rebel. yell

[@BruceWall-gv4up]

84

[@delta0921]

A masterpiece of 80's music.

[@savedbyzero8947]

........ABSOLUTELY, AND BEYOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@prkchpxprss]

Worked at Sam Goody at the mall, hawking CDs and cassette tapes in 1999. Cranked up the in-store stereo system to The Fixx Greatest Hits. Never old, even in 2024

[@oldvision1645]

This is the version I saw over and over again in the early MTV days. I think this take has a crispness , passion and strength to the vocals that the others videos lack. One of the great songs of the 80s.

[@TouchMeKnott]

Best version of this song. Everything rocks. The bass. The vocalist. The echoing vocals. Liked it years ago, and like it now. It's kind of timeless.

[@michaelalfano1712]

The BASS is killing!

[@dynjarren7523]

I used to listen to this album nonstop. It’s still held up! I was right back then.

[@anthonydalrymple]

I'm a big fan of what I'd like to call "twangy bass". This song has it in spades!

[@stevenpekich7035]

anthony dalrymple Great bass in this song

[@gregtthomas]

I call it warm, fuzzy bass.

[@qg3726]

@@stevenpekich7035 SO how was it that he was replaced by Bassist that has been with them ever since?

[@MDCSWildcats86]

@@qg3726 Uncertain. There was an Alf Agies who played bass on some songs for REACH THE BEACH (including OTLTA and SB0), but he left the band during recording and Dan Brown joined late. Some songs on RTB were recorded as a quartet with the bass played by Rupert Greenall's bass synth.

[@leonardopaulodesouza8653]

Sir. I am from.Brazil and I am knowing this song today. Amazing song

[@batphink2655]

BRILLIANT song from a BRILLIANT band ,these guys are genius songwriters and excellent musicians all of them! Lovely guys too since I met them twice!

[@kmfdm10392]

Incredible live version. This must be 'My Night' for having a few drinks, feeling good, putting the headphones on and falling into the Rabbit Hole of KZbin and finding ALL sorts of cool shit.

[@jazzytds]

This song reminds me of the waves crashing around my ankles at Croatan Beach. Young, and not giving a damn about anything because life was perfect. The beauty of the sun and tide with careless youth was a formula for a sublime day of endless music and laughter. Memories are like the tickler file of your mind, and I enjoy flipping thru the 80's files of my mind, the memories are documented precise, concise, and I have not one friggin regret. Forever young...

[@TheLadyrose01]

very well said!

[@jazzytds]

Thank you, I said it from my heart...

[@TheLadyrose01]

:)

[@ultrakool]

the sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death. sry, had to throw some waters' pragmatism on all that sunshine and lollipops ;^) i'm the guy who'll vote nay, just to keep things from becoming unanimous, so..

[@jazzytds]

Actually no sunshine and lollipops, just my opinion, my feelings. If you feel like Holden Caufield and you're having an Existential moment, kick rocks with the BS...sorry had to throw some waters pragmatism on all of yours. cheers!

[@samuelroberts9728]

I respect Cy. He certainly wasn't going to lip sync. His voice is phenomenal

[@des9655]

I was lucky to see the Fixx live several times in St Louis, Mo.. at free concerts.. I'd pay to see them again!

[@feferosette]

The 80's had some of the best music. I was a child in the 80's. 👏👏💕💕

[@laurametheny1008]

Used to dance and dance to this and so many other great 80s songs in the clubs..

[@samanthapickering3365]

Laura Metheny, me to 🙌

[@kevin-jg5nq]

It was popular in clubs in Europe, too.

[@sl4983]

Same

[@psil6517]

These guys are full of talent.

[@cdncitizen4700]

... still touring and well worth seeing as seasoned musicians, still the same band members!...

[@christopherphelps7662]

This song was to cool. It blew my mind in 1982 remember if your old enough. Man what a song. Dam good.I lived through it.

[@austx290]

Well said!

[@lorireece1970]

Christopher Phelps I'd take New Kids over Beiber any day!

[@christopherphelps7662]

thank you how sweet someone reads my stupid memories. luv ya.

[@johnc.griffinjr.4508]

I still rock this on vinyl.

[@halomurals7850]

There should be an "I love this" button

[@des9655]

I've been privileged to see them multiple times in St Louis because we love them.. they have come through multiple times to play in concert.. many times for free.. gotta love that!! Plus they were great live!!

[@caswm40]

I agree 100%. These guys songs were all awesome, especially "One way or another." I had a chance to see them in concert back in 1983 in Oakland, Ca - they opened for The Police, and when they (The Fixx) played "Red Skies" everyone started throwing up crushed soda cups as frisbees, lighting lighters and "Going Crazy" (the lead singer shouted this out after the song) - for me, it was, and still is, the most euphoric experience I have ever had in a concert!

[@mos8541]

I was there in HS when MTV was invented and so on. Not the same MTV as today of course, it was sort of GOOD back then 30 years ago.

[@austx290]

+mos 8541 Right on!

[@wylier]

the main difference is that back then it had music-themed programming almost exclusively. Once it discovered 'reality tv' (i.e. "The Real World"), that was the beginning of the end for musical programming on that channel. They had to invent a new channel - VH1 - to bring the viewers musical programming.

[@1967juanhernandez]

The Fixx was one of my favorite bands during the best decade the 80's!

[@Knonnynonny]

So awesome!!!!!!!!! So many weird and magical memories ...

[@charlenemack7040]

I’m 72 I remember when all their awesome music was played on the 📻. Now every once in a while on the oldies channel you’ll hear an awesome song by The FIXX. 😊

[@lunarmist428]

This started something in us, so long ago.

[@altonsteel5145]

I recall seeing these guys at a Nightclub in MI in 1982, Jaggers.....

[@t3rdeyevisual]

That bass tone.

[@jcsolomon6470]

When MTV was a Wild wild west of all kinds of styles of music from past to present at the time.Thats why before the covid situation my daughter and I would go to various venues in New Orleans that you would check out on you tube and these bands like Drab Majesty goth 80s styles with those classic sounds or Soft Moon you meet these guys and made me feel like the early MTV days and you tell them that and these guys Just light Up!Jcsx

[@SuperDavidmills]

Kick ass song to this day! True music with only voice & instruments. Can't beat it or remake it..

[@marknroses]

Before 1982, there was no music being made like this (sound and lyrical consciousness). The Fixx may have been given to us to warn that the Fixx is in, and it sure looks like it now in the 2020s!

[@kevinmalcolm3358]

Bass,Bass. Great tune! Great vocals, guitar the whole bit.

[@PammyWhammy-o3g]

I love everything about this, from the nice, dense synth pads to the chiming clean guitar tone... why does no one do that today!?

[@edwardbrook2029]

I’ve watched and listened to this version 1000 times. It’s definitely the best. = perfection 😎

[@readwrite769]

Wow, I didn’t even know about this version!!🔥🔥

[@cd24fan]

Saw them in Daytona Beach back in 84 during MTVs first ever spring break. Awesome as always!

[@kellyedens2619]

back when MTV played music instead of glorifying teen pregnancy

[@MDCSWildcats86]

Actually, some of the videos they played back then glorified teen pregnancy and worse. Don't get me started.

[@hsard]

@@MDCSWildcats86 LOL, right...

[@sl4983]

+Nathan Milliron Yeah but MTV didn't specifically have shows for that

[@mamelucoeltuco]

MUSIC television. NOT shit TV.

[@barrysmith625]

When the 80's came out I lived the lifestyle and I was damn proud of it

[@dustinmartin8954]

Class of '88 here, I'm so glad I grew up in the 70s and 80's, we had some of the best damn tunes!

[@savedbyzero8947]

.......................1982.......................... one UNFORGETTABLE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

A very early live performance of Red Skies (on a kids' TV show!) can be found on the channel Made in Maidstone. It was just under a month after the release of Shuttered Room.

[@readwrite769]

Finally going to see them on tour this year!!🎉🎉So many great songs, this is a great version!!🔥🔥

[@troyinsc1937]

It always cool to go back an revisit some of these great songs from the 80s. When I try and watch things like the Grammy's for me it is unwatchable after just a few minutes. I miss the bands, the songs and CONCERTS most of all.... All hail to the 80s! Hail!

[@johnwadsworth9122]

This is the version I was most familiar with. This was my introduction to The Fixx. It came on MTV late one summer night with Saved By Zero. I needed that Fixx ever since.

[@metalred74]

The world famous "underground" radio program "Coast To Coast A.M." has played this song and "Stand or Fall" as bumper music in between segments for years! I love both songs.

[@scorpiomale3015]

How I wish it was 1982, these days were the best!!!!! I'm 45 years old and i never get tired of listening to the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@DoubleVisionandco]

Another great song about nuclear war and the end of us all. We thought about that alot in the early to mid 80's, admit it or not.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

DoubleVisionandco Regan and Gorby instilled it in us I think

[@GER-sm3gh]

Nothing's changed, and we seem hellbent on reignighting the cold war

[@ecclestonsangel]

I remember thinking I had no idea what life would be like in the 21st century because we'd probably all be wiped out. Putin would still like that. I've been binge watching Miami Vice. Best tv show EVER!!

[@TBBrickYT]

From 78-82 was stationed at Hahn AB Germany. We would regularly don our NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) suits, put on our gas masks, and practice getting our jets up before Ivan's nukes smelted us into a glowing, glassy slag pile. Fortunately, the Federal Republic of Germany was a great place to be assigned. Took the edge off a lot of scary possibilities. Almost 40 yrs later, the 2:00 pm Thursday tornado siren test still creeps the bepeepers, outta me. Same siren that back in the day meant here comes the Big Boom. But, what's truly weird, whether it's Red Skies at Night or 99 Luftballons, or any other of their ilk, I crank them up and badly sing along, loudly.

[@MissPerriwinkle]

LEGENDARY TUNE !!!!!

[@cyprixx]

MTV and the British New Wave movement at their prime.

[@jonorochester2250]

absolute bollocks.

[@sl4983]

True

[@shanecabbage2187]

Love this live version.

[@effdonahue6595]

I saw The Fixx and Flock of Seagulls open for The Police back in August 1983 at Foxboro Stadium in Massachusetts, awesome show!!! 👍

[@lyndadiaz1]

Thumbs up for listening this super hit still in 2022.

[@standingwave73]

There are a handfull of songs that impressed so much I still remember vividly the first time I heard them. This is one.

[@markdroege1774]

great 80s song! when mtv played music videos 24/7!

[@JasonGeske-ui2xl]

I truly forgot how amazing this band is! I havent heard them in a long time and now i cant get enough! Many of their musical peers have nothing but the highest praise for them!

[@jackieoreilly3295]

i was in 11th grade when i first heard this song come out we fell in love with the group dang time flys now where all in are late 40's

[@mediajewhad8898]

You've made some grammatical errors Jackie - spend your time in high school learning or drinking, taking drugs and worshiping black dribblers ? Oh well, we need someone to mop the floors and take out the trash

[@markscott6090]

Excellent vocals!