The Fixx - 1983 - Reach the Beach

 

The London band's second album was a big hit - selling 2 million in the U.S. alone. Songs from their first two albums were radio staples for awhile and then they seemed to vanish, sort of discarded as new wave bands that were no longer en vogue. And yet, they slowly crept their way back into the consciousness through continued airplay on AOR stations with songs like "Red Skies", "Stand or Fall" (both from their debut) and "One Thing Leads to Another" and "Saved By Zero" from this one. I intend to visit their subsequent output.

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