The Fixx - Red Skies (Original 1982 Version) 

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

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

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

I miss 80s music. Good thing I can come to RU-vid.

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

The Fixx relevant and well in 2024

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

back when MTV played music instead of glorifying teen pregnancy

Unbelievably authentic raw and perfect version of this great song

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!

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.

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

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.

It’s sad that the song is too relevant today... We’re much closer to the apocalypse than 1982... It’s out of my mind..

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.

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

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!!!!

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

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

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.

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

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

Still get chills from this one🤔

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 ❤

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

Red Skies at night. Such a great song.

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

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

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

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

I hear this song is about nuclear war. Maybe so but now I am fitting it into it being about the Apocalypse yet they had no idea when recording it.

"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.

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

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

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.

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!!!

The BASS is killing!

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 !!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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!

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. 😊

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.

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

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

These guys are full of talent.

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.

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.. ❤️

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

A masterpiece of 80's music.

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!

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

I still rock this on vinyl.

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

That bass tone.

I saw this band a few times back in the 80's, they always put on a great show. They have a deep catalog of songs, most of their work never made it to the airways. Jami West-Oram is one of the best guitarists in the business.

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

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.

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.

December 2 2023 and I'm reminiscing about when this song came out when I was a freshman in high school.

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 RU-vid and finding ALL sorts of cool shit.

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

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!

42 years ago. 20 yrs old. This song held special meaning.

There should be an "I love this" button

I had a room plastered with Fixx, Bowie, Smiths, and Roxy posters in suburban Denver in 1985. I didn’t know how good I had it.

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!!

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

Back in the 80's when I was in high-school, there were only two categories of kids our age: the metal-heads or the goody-two shoes, geeks, nerds............or PUSSIES in a simpler word! And the type of music that you listened to was probably the biggest element in determining which of the two that you were in. Me? I was definitely a metal-head. Hard rock and heavy metal has always been and always will be my favorite kind of music. But it wasn't the ONLY type of music that I liked. I also had a like and appreciation for some of the so called "new wave" pop music as well. And this band was definitely one of them. But that was just a skeleton in my closet! That was absolutely TABOO to listen to, like, or give any sanction whatsoever to music like this! Stupid peer-pressure and my fear driven need to fit in.............to be loyal to my pot-head, head banging group of friends that accepted me as "one of them!" But today, at 48 years old, I'm proud to simply just call myself a true music lover. Good music is good music, no matter how you categorize it! Even though hard rock and heavy metal is still, and always will be my favorite, I'm no longer afraid to hide my like for other types of music from my old metal-head buddies! GOOD MUSIC IS GOOD MUSIC! I'ts as simple as that!

These guys are pure talent. Always liked this band - been listening to them since the 80’s. They don’t get enough credit in my opinion.

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

So powerful. Aural, ambient, atmospheric masterpiece of artistry. Transports and speaks to mortality salience and the paranoid of fools using technology to destroy everything. Sung with soaring passion and melodic clarity and precision. Are these gems now buried and lost to time?

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.

I hear you man. I was born in 1967. I was a teenager in the early 80's and in high school during the time. We had the best music ever produce during the early 80's. We watched MTV everyday. When ever i listen to sirus xm radio it is always the 80's.

MTV and the British New Wave movement at their prime.

The memories of their music…. going to places that I can only share with a few old friends, lol 🤫🤫🤫

The Fixx is in..

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!

Thumbs up for listening this super hit still in 2022.

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

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

Love this song by the Fixx in 2024 you guys kick ass 👏 get on with your bad self greetings from California hello to all their fans

92.7 WLIR on Long Island played this and other new wave music in the 80s. Excellent times......

One of my all time favorites by the Fixx. I met and talked with Cy, Jamie, and Rupert in 2010. Rupert has such a haunting touch on those keyboards. Charlie hammers that bass! It would be great if these classic videos were to be remastered.

This started something in us, so long ago.

Time Warp . .Crossing the Ambassador Bridge from Windsor, ONT back to Detroit at 2am in March of '84 and hearing this on the radio.