the FixX: Unjustly Maligned or Reasonably Dismissed? Are We Ourselves?

xpost Tracer this morning:

"But when the wrong word
Goes in the right ear
I know that Alfred's been lying to me!"

I dig the “reach the beach” instrumental… awesome drums and chorusey guitar. Mostly this music makes me want to roll up the sleeves of my sportscoat

They aren't already?

I dig the “reach the beach” instrumental… awesome drums and chorusey guitar

yes, that one's a bit of a balearic classic iirc, and i'm guessing it's the reason why 'one thing leads to another' goes for a little bit more than a lot of their other records (it's on the b-side of that)? really like the vocal version too though

wait…. they released an album last year! And it’s…. pretty good??!

I mean maybe not a GREAT album but far far better than it has any right to be.. “Neverending” and “Cold” and the uh fairly on-the-nose “A Life Survived” particularly good imo

So you guys got me to listen to the first two records today, which I'm gonna do right now…

1. Are the obvious antecedents Bowie and Roxy? Is there anything else evident? I'm interested to see if I notice anyone else… Cy Curnin for sure thought he was the kinda person who wasn't about to talk about how much he likes gals in song, which distinguishes him from Ferry and in fact Jran Jran, who I suddenly remember that he so strongly disliked that in RS in '84, he sneered that the wave that engulfs the audience in the 3rd minute of the "reflex" video represents the amount of cum those guys spurted in a year…

2. They do seem to be the kind of act that were more than eager and very much equipped to transition from the new wave English marketplace to an AOR circuit working the heartland that in 1983 anyone could anticipate but that barring U2 never did…like, they could open for Rush and Rupert Hine could produce them alongside Rush and Saga… Flock of Seagulls maybe could want that also, but not Depeche Mode or the Cure…

3. Watch him bound out onto the stage in Denver, jerking around in the manner one does when one has just ingested several snoutfuls of Showbiz sherbert…the song they start with here, "the Sign of Fire" is I believe the fifth best known Fixx tune… anyone else remember it as such?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLXm44Frsuk