The Fixx - How Much Is Enough?

"How Much Is Enough?" was the first single released off the sixth studio CD "Ink" by The Fixx. The song peaked at #35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on 5/11/91. It also peaked at #10 on the Modern Rock Chart on 3/09/91 and at #11 on the Mainstream Rock Chart on 3/16/91. This video spent 12 weeks on MTV peaking in 'Active' rotation. It was the sixth and last top 40 hit by the band. After their CD "Ink", the band took a hiatus but reformed in the late nineties. The original members are still together today touring and recording. Check out TheFixx.com and TheFixx.net for details. I do not own copyright to the video or the audio.

[@johnramsdell8861]

In 2008 I lost my job in a soulless factory job and I was a floundering scared mess. I listened to this song and realized I was not a machine to make money, but a person that can benefit the sphere I inhabit. I went to school to become a teacher and now I teach middle school biology. I make about half what I made in the factory and my hours are often longer. Best decision the fixx helped me make! Soul no longer empty. Ty

[@staceycarmody9970]

So awesome to know you were inspired by their music this way. You are not alone.

[@MrFishboneswim]

I did the same thing 😂

[@JasonGeske-ui2xl]

The lyrics are prophetic, this exactly where we are as a society! Never enough and always wanting!

[@RonnieMJr2000]

I love this song. Such an underrated band. They help mold the 80’s. I was lucky enough to be an adolescent and a teen during that decade.

[@Cynthia-eu7yu]

There's an incredible relief living a minimalist lifestyle. Clutters the mind less.😮❤

[@gdub454]

The Fixx..one of the best bands of the 80s and when MTV was pretty cool...their greatest hits CD is superb...this track is included...

[@sethschiller832]

gdub454 my opinion is I believe MTV was the foundation that brought Alot of music to the radio that we listen to and vote for like the Fixx and other groups that are still around today

[@chrisrj9871]

Great song from 1991

[@ACLStands]

what a great band...these guys are awesome!..and i listen to the shit we got now...and it just makes me cry

[@chickenparmsandwich]

Jamie West-Oram is one of the most underrated guitar players around.

[@georgemathie8123]

I absolutely agree he is that melodic heart of the fixx that never gets the credit he deserves

[@loovtrain4520]

Hell yes

[@bryanhayes1218]

Look where we are at in 2021, 30 years later this song has come to fruition . Cy and boys seen it coming!

[@drummer1965usa]

Incredible. This was the best song they'd done since "One Thing Leads To Another" and radio airplay in 1991 could only push this to #35 on the charts. Goes to show that timely, relevant songs get knocked to the ground by radio programmers in favor of pop pap. Some things never change. Rick in South Omaha

[@mikegrant9441]

Praise god america was not dead yet. God help all of us now!

[@progtoeternity]

Red Skies is also very strong

[@WithoutRemorse12]

It was the era of Alt. Rock and grunge. Despite how talented many artists from 80s new wave era were. They carried a sort of stigma and it was hard for them to reinvent themselves and adapt to new sounds.

[@gtmobayer]

Best song by "The Fixx", since "Secret Separation!"

[@WarpedRecord]

For the longest time I was under the impression that this is by Simple Minds. I was very happy to learn it is by the Fixx because I like them much more.

[@simoforever75]

the money is the ruin of the world,but the music is one of the salvation,great fixx!

[@jtdrumzz]

Apparently in today's hollow world, too much is STILL not enough !! "Buy Buy Buy materiel" !!...and round and round we go !!

[@jaimeacosta233]

This great band always underrated but at the same time, especially in these days, very, very relevant. Way ahead of the rest in all aspects of music creativity and form. One of the true elite to stand or fall.

[@gergher2381]

i found this forgotten treasure, so many years i kept the melody inside my head,!!! Great song, great band

[@dugworm]

Saw them last week and they did this. Had totally forgotten about it, FANTASTIC

[@loovtrain4520]

Great song. Criminally under appreciated.

[@mikegrant9441]

I will not say underrated. I will say unappreciated!

[@jeffbaker7236]

Felt like getting deep and real with a band called The Fixx today. A lot of wisdom and life realizations can happen with music when it's not only for commerce. "How Much Is Enough" is from 1991 and it hit me like a hammer when I was 21. Growing up in the 80s we were brainwashed with consumerism and your whole self-worth was determined by what you had. But like the very wise words of Cy Curnin in this song says, How much is enough when your soul is empty?. How music is enough in the land of plenty when you have all you want (like I was grown up having...look at my record, tape, and CD collection) and you still feel nothing at all? Not only this song leads to life realizations but also this video of it. There's a lot of imagery that will speak to somebody in this video along with lyrics and the music itself that will inspire intense feelings that will make you think. Some parts of the video, The Fixx lead singer, Cy Curnin, dresses up as the demon that convinces you to keep buying more and more to cover up how miserable you are and then drag you down even further into a hurting, empty abyss. This piece of music made me realize how empty life was when I was 21 but it took my best friend, Robin, to pull me out of an empty life (this is represented in the music by what I think is a key change that switches to a higher pitch that seems to suggest that there is hope). I believe there's nothing wrong with 'entertainment music' but I do hold 'thinking of the heart and soul' music in very high regard. Would love to meet The Fixx and buy them all a drink as a way to say 'thanks for the brain music'.

[@DreFromMaine8472]

One of my favorite songs by them, I was 13 when it came out in 1991. It made me a fan of theirs for sure!

[@chrisrj9871]

I never heard it until "Rock On 1991" which I got in late 1999... so still in the 90s, at least!

[@Nightmike1989]

This might just be the near future, pretty straightforward and addictive, one of their absolute best.

[@jeffjohnson8624]

How much is enough when your soul is empty? how much is enough in the land of plenty? when you have all you want and still feel nothing at all, how much is enough?🎶-by the Fixx. 🖖☮️🎶

[@embeleshow]

memories of freshman year. what a great song. This and Roll the Bones by rush were my favorite

[@dennisthemenace5466]

the 80s were a fucking blast! i want to go back!

[@sandrakotsky7]

Eighties? U2? Simple Minds? Talking Heads? NOOOOOOOO!!! THE FIXX!!!!!!!

[@TTROY1]

This was 90s

[@WilliamSumner-yl4cv]

I was in the 11th grade when I heard this song loved it

[@timcleveland225]

I am so glad I am not the only person to appreciate this wonderful song and band, I think INK is their best album, I saw them on the INK tour, 1991.......Greenville, SC still have the tee shirt, it is about to fall apart, but my INK CD still sounds Fantastic. It was a standing room only sort of venue, I stood back far enough to see and hear them, despite a poor turnout they played like they were playing to thousands. Wish they had booked Charlotte. A very under rated album, the production is excellent. All the songs fit into the theme, Bravo guys for pulling out songs from INK. 👏👏👏You are the only Band I can think of with the Classic lineup. Says a lot about you, speaks volumes.

[@LetsTalkShop]

This song is more relevant TODAY than ever!

[@dentalsalespro]

one of the best bands from the 80s

[@user-xw9fi5ck9g]

アルバムを象徴する傑作ナンバー、素晴らしい！

[@homerolopez075]

fucking awesome song!... from early 1991

[@josearturogarza5114]

Good enough's not good enough Don't complain that you've got it tough With all you have your life's a bore Can't relax you want so much more Blind needs won't set you free Can't you see that Time is slipping away But I got to say How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough Gravity may bring you down But harmony could spin you round Information aerial Says buy buy buy material Give take all day long Can't you see it's Hopeless being strong When you live it wrong? How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough So give me your attention I know it's getting late While you were dreaming Something slipped away We're drowning in possessions Playing tricks with our minds Lost from one another Baby put your hand in mine Time is slipping away But it's not too late How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough

[@user-hx4kv4be3g]

Very good video clip. 😎

[@scottkuester8946]

Great song off a really strong album

[@mikemccready1127]

A very prolific tune, from a band that put out many masterful,, meaningful and great sounding tunes. Thanks so much for posting!

[@stevenmccoy5103]

I have never seen this video. Knew the song, this portrayal sync perfectly with my simple interpretation of lyrical message. I can see why it didn't get attention; Too Truthful and Prophetic about these days. LETS REINTRODUCE IT AND MAKE #1 World wide...please? ;-)

[@theknightrocker68]

Awesome priceless tune!!!

[@ashjac0009]

Cool song! Loooove it!

[@simoforever75]

thanks god also for the music!

[@benchuco]

emociona como canta este humano...buen grupo ... puro temas calados.

[@turbolivesinmyheart6328]

Fixx is awesome

[@d-dub8890]

So many of their songs need to be re-mixed! Love the Fixx!!!!!!!!!

[@Zoey-1031]

I so feel this song today. If you replace the word Material with Power I'm watching my country heading straight into ground. Material has been replaced by Deception lies and greed. "How much is enough in the land of plenty? How much is enough when your soul is empty?" This still song has even more meaning today, as it did, when they wrote it. Funny how history always repeats it self. You can't erase it, no matter how hard they try, it lives and breathes in those who remember.

[@juliocortes4421]

Este video fue programado durante varios meses en MTV en 1991, en el Rock Block. Genial banda...

[@jaimeacosta4933]

In 2019 amid the virus, this song rings true. Always rang true even when it was released. But some slept anyway. Now you know

[@pretendamnesia]

Its 2020 not 2019

[@cinecromancer]

The Fixx, with their 80's lineup intact, finally released their new CD "Beautiful Friction" on July 17, 2012 and it's getting fantastic reviews! It's available on Amazon, iTunes and elsewhere. Check out the new tunes and check out the band live on tour with dates at TheFixx.com. Thumbs up to keep post on top!

[@progtoeternity]

Beautiful Friction is an amazing album ! Not as pop as the previous material but so impressive how creative this band can be.

[@eidetecker]

So, jump forward to July of 2022 and The Fixx have released 'Every 5 Seconds', and IT-IS-INCREDIBLE!!! Some of the best work of their entire career.

[@andreapatane4204]

This song from The Fixx is bouncy. 🎉

[@JerryInGeorgia]

This just might be my favorite Fixx song... But it's just so hard to say so for sure because they have had so many awesome tunes. I saw them twice in their heyday... The opposite of epic fail.

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

gotta love cy cernin, his antics are priceless

[@22ndWave]

Love this vid. Such a great song. Jamie shines here particularly and I didn't even notice the auctioneer was Rupert the first time i saw the vid. 2:58 is the best bit!

[@larrythecrab9199]

Great album this track is taken from, Ink, well worth buying, i still have the original UK vinyl copy. Incidently, I wonder if this video is where 'Boner' from U2 took 'his' Mephesto persona from?This certainly predates the Zooropa album.

[@stevegungel4357]

The Fixx put U2 to shame IMO

[@bryanhayes1218]

Bono lifted a concept from Duran Duran as well look at Serious by Duran Duran & Mysterious ways U2.

[@simoforever75]

this song is beautiful,great fixx i love yor music! by andrea bonacchi

[@nicj99]

bought and listened to this in '91 while living in Sun Valley ID.....driving taxi there during the winter....what a place to contemplate "how much is enough"....whenever i hear this images of multi-million dollar houses, high-end cars and jewerly -adorned beautiful people that i met and saw stream through my mind...then i took the CD on the road to Newfoundland, Canada and back....great disc!!

[@atepabadu5071]

I was born in '91

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@Wachenfeldt lots of great tunes on Ink but i agree, this kicks ass the hardest!!!! Love the lyrics and the guitar riffs.......................

[@dw6796]

I am more confident every day that David Tennant is Cy Curnin. Also, that's a young Ty Burrell as the auctioneer at the beginning.

[@thisismagacountry1318]

Liar, the auctioneer is keyboardist Rupert Greenall.

[@NoCanDu]

OK... Big fan but had never seen this video! Cy makes a pretty creepy devil. Or just a pretty one. ;) Love this song. Love the funky rhythm guitar from JW-O!

[@shmuli9]

I had this CD... :-)

[@chezrutti1]

Listen to the lyrics people... time is running out! SHUN GREED & materialism ! EINFACH LEBEN - LIVE SIMPLY!!!

[@estebant.arango1895]

Veamos por un lado teníamos la evolución de SimpleMinds y por el otro The Fixx que eran power pop? una simple evolucion de nuevos romanticos?,una especie de pop sofisticado o todo al tiempo?.Sin embargo con este pedazo de canción alcanza méritos bastante memorables de gran alcance en la frontera de comienzos de los 90s.

[@HamCubes]

I thought this was like from the aughts! Who produced this irresistible song?

[@simoforever75]

thank god.

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@MrObviousToo Very underrated band from the eighties and nineties, they really were one of the first alternative bands to make it big. Cy's vocals just make these great songs even better.

[@chrisrj9871]

So this song was from an 80s band... the song still sounds very 80s... but it's from 1991.... the video has a decidedly early-90s look to it... all still a great song and video though! I don't want people getting confused, is all.

[@chriscorman734]

How was this song not a bigger hit

[@Rocketeera.Great.American]

Where can i find a better hd quality version of this song?

[@reversefulfillment9189]

Heres a pro tip for the young seeker, would you bid $27? 27, 27 do I hear 27? There are 27 Nakshatras.

[@TheMouko]

driverseat brought me here next moving in stereo enjoy....

[@TheBriggs13]

this song describes the internet

[@ramonamunchow8855]

Today, Cy looks better and sounds much better.. ;)

[@extantia]

@GVike A lot of non-vocalist bassists appear to be that way, they tend to be the least featured musician in film footage (whether in vids or live) for most bands with few exceptions (such as Flea). As a bassist myself, I tend to fall into the former category-- focus on being the mortar that bonds the rhythm section to the rest of the music, and let the others be in the spotlight.

[@whitepearl8639]

Whooisdaaa?????😁

[@SD9Driver]

How much is enough when your soul is empty?

[@lpifitnessbrandproducts6774]

New song by 'skin traffic ' ' here is new heaven and earth'

[@grogmaninteractive]

What does Cy says in the second part of the song? "Information ariel says buy, buy, buy material" ariel??

[@grogmaninteractive]

Ah I see :D Thank you very much, now makes sense! Lots of lyrics around the web are incorrect.

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@homerolopez075 THE FIXX WERE AN AWESOME BAND, VERY UNDERRATED IN MY OPINION, AND THEY WERE THE ONE OF THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE BANDS, THEY WERE FORERUNNERS OF GROUPS LIKE REM

[@lisamcguire7778]

Why bother with arguing about who's better... Honestly-all of the aforementioned rock! (for someone in particular maybe even many, many 'someones.')

[@homerolopez075]

@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO for sure!, i have some cd´s of them

[@larrylambert5596]

I love the fixx a band, but really how much did you have to go on when the Ussr callded its quits.

[@sethschiller832]

What do you think if cy from the fixx was the joker in the batman movie

[@buckeygoldstar6210]

Cy Currnin could make a great "Joker"

[@eduardoescudero5931]

ESCUDERO apoya a que vengan a Chile

[@CJ-zb7ng]

dont remember this top 40 hit

[@Brickhouseacademy]

@ronberetta-because his words are true . how much is enough went he song is empty ...we lost our intelligence much, but is it us or who feeds us or do we settle for the easy feed and stop thinking for ourselves

[@Mannchild11]

Whoa careful there. They are all great legends but you taking on U2? Ask yourself this: Would Taking Heads or U2 open for the Fixx? Probably happened the other way around in the past.

[@ShondaMorse-qu4ft]

☯️👑🕊️👍😊✌️🕊️👑☯️

[@robertbeckwith9220]

from the album "ink"

[@alexanderblazic1145]

The fixx how much is enough onily hits 1991

[@sethschiller832]

Alexander Blazic i might be interpreting this wrong but the Fixx had alot of music that were hits on both rock and top 40

[@reneorozco5963]

Muy buena cancion, me parece que duran duran le copió a the fixx cierto ritmo

[@BenVarkentine]

Apparently, there wasn't enough to pay for horns that could stick on his head without his having to hold them in place... (smh)

[@GVike]

The bassist was either anti-social or wanted nothing to do with the videos. Either he wouldn't appear in them or if he did he'd be a statue in the background. Any ideas why?

[@bradwestcott]

That's Dan K. Brown's style, IMO that robotic stance is actually a pretty cool contrast with the rest of the band

[@kennyplay5982]

Bizarre devil face...

[@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@simoforever75 isn't it nice to listen to a singer that can actually sing?? today's music lacks good singers like cy and others

[@dischargesummary8794]

Allah HuAkbar

[@sethschiller832]

Doesnt cy kerning look like the joker this zong

[@geebru]

All i can say is that !! All the other bands of the 80's copy catted there style of play and most of there sound.....These guy's rip !!!!

[@Tjs964]

It sure is. Obama 2012.

[@josejones7025]

Great lyrics... I too grew up in this age... there was SO much killer new music to explore back then. was never a fan of this shitty Brit pop outfit. this is dreadful and horrible. Someone mentioned REM? 🤣😂🤣Other than same time period, REM were a far superior band. 🖕One thing leads to another🖕. Great example of how awful as 80s new wave was. 👎👎👎. Thank god, by 2012 they gave up putting records out!! No more Fixx Indian casino tours!

[@thisismagacountry1318]

REM had no staying power. You hear the Fixx on radio more AND they're still touring in 2022.

[@geniousatqw]

Ask this to Trump Almighty!

[@edgardoriveraguardiola160]

Good enough's not good enough Don't complain that you've got it tough With all you have your life's a bore Can't relax you want so much more Blind needs won't set you free Can't you see that Time is slipping away But I got to say How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough Gravity may bring you down But harmony could spin you round Information aerial Says buy buy buy material Give take all day long Can't you see it's Hopeless being strong When you live it wrong? How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough So give me your attention I know it's getting late While we were dreaming Something slipped away We're drowning in possessions Playing tricks with our minds Lost from one another Baby put your hand in mine Time is slipping away But it's not too late How much is enough? when your soul is empty How much is enough? in the land of plenty When you have all you want and you still feel nothing at all How much is enough, is enough