Yes!!! Gen X here. I love this song. For some inexplicable reason, this song played in my head constantly when I was in the Army training at Fort Sherman, Panama (in 1995). It was the JOTC (Jungle Operations Training Center). In the mornings when the sun was rising, it was a bloody/Orange-ish red color at 5:45 a.m in the morning when were where loading into the Chinook choppers to head out on a mission (a parachute jump) in the mornings during training in the jungle; I was in the 82nd Airborne Division ...Anyhow I diverged. This song always came to my head during those days in my early 20's. ..... perhaps it was because I'm an 80's child who grew up listening to this song in L.A on KROQ radio station. ..... great memories..... great song.
What? You don’t like the fake computer generated voices and lip syncing of todays so-called artists? Lmao! It amazes me how gullible people are nowadays
I loved the 80's, along with the music. Inxs, The Fixx, Howard Jones, Tears For Fears, Public Enemy, The Cure, Depeche Mode, etc, etc. I do miss it, and miss the youth I had along with it...
Yeah that was me sort of. I liked INXS well before their height of popularity with the Album KICK. I went to University of Montana from Connecticut and saw they were playing their. I was elated, then they canceled. Told my dorm when I got there that INXS is coming out with their new album soon! Most of these guys were like INX what who? Was their best album by far hit wise. Then traveled later that year in 1988 and saw them in Spokane Washington where they were in concert on the KICK album tour.
As someone who was born in 1998, I’ve always wanted to be older, taken more seriously. Have more of an impact. Now at 24 I feel my youth finally slipping away and I don’t like it.
@@jacknjill3000 Given the lyrics and the context in which it was released, I always thought it was about the start of World War III and with it, nuclear war.
@@invisiblerevolution *THAT IS TRUE, BABY!* I wish I could time portal myself back to that era. I'd tweak a few things for improvement and not make the same mistakes.
This is one of the few songs that truly transport me back to my teen skateboarding, new wave listening days with my friends in Northern Cali. What a great time to be alive
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. -Ghost Dog
....fuck, we were so spoiled in the 80's, with killer music like this blowing our minds back then. kids today have no fucking idea the fun they missed and will never experience....
Kids today have nothing like 80s kids have. They don't have the music or the films or sheer joy of living. We were so lucky. Time methinks to try & bring it back, but how???
You don't have to go back in time or rather you can go back in time anytime you want just play that music like we are now it's all out there it's still amazing and it's still for us!❤❤❤
This version is hands down my favorite. This band is so good. This song is a power jam that makes driving with my windows down a must in any kind of weather!!!!
80’s was such a unique era for music, style and fashion. I joined the USAF in 1987 during the final years of the Reagan administration. Numerous songs and movies of that time had a doomsday theme as we were still in the Cold War. I will always remember the 80’s!
Good song, but droning on the open A string probably couldn't be considered an "epic" bass line. It fits the song well and that's what makes it good enough I guess.
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.
Takes me right back to driving my black 76 Chevy Malibu with red vinyl seats down the road with my Ralph Lauren Polo collar turned up.....lol....those were the days!
cool visual memory bruh!!! I was 10 when this came out..went and bought Shuttered Room on vinyl...Still have it.. I used to take my ghettoblaster and face it out the window towards my neighborhood..❤ ..u r right..they don't make music the same now. but thankfully there is now SYNTHWAVE music...which is 80s based and I've discovered much of it is BETTER than actual 80s music
September 2024 still one of the best songs ever recorded. America I thank you for providing us such a great music, and the world will always recognize us for that.
With all due respect to you, I must let you know that you have an awesome husband ❤ I love your comment. Made me chuckle, all while I was listening to this awesome song. 😊
1982: I had begun a Receptionist job, the year before. In 2-1/2 years, upgraded to a Sales Secretary at the same company. Total time at the same job: 6-1/2 years, until I had job burnout. I remember hearing 80's songs on my car radio, driving two and from work. And twice daily, five days a week, driving to the Warehouse/Manufacturing Plant, in the morning and afternoon; five miles coming and going. I hadn't heard these songs, for years! Brings back memories.
So I was digging thru some "Smitherings" and then came to this. What a joyful ride! Class of "83" but this was timeless. Still cranking stuff like this at 57yrs young.
This song reminds me of working the midnight shift back in the early 2010’s. I was a little young when this song came out and didn’t appreciate it until later on. The station I listened to at work while working nights would play this song periodically.
The Fixx were the most underrated rock band of the 1980s, along with all of their dazzling haunting ominous songs, this may be the very best one, sounds awesome listening loud through real headphones, not lame unforgivably useless earbuds.
I heard Mark Radcliffe play this when he was on Piccadilly Radio in the early 80s doing a radio show called 'Transmission'. I bought the single on red vinyl if memory serves. I love that clean, airy sound that you get on 80s records....still brilliant all these years later.
I saw “The Fixx” in Dallas in 2016 at The Granada Theater and they jammed “Red Skies” like it was 1982! Brilliant song and a fantastic show! Long live “The Fixx”!
@@tooshay7396 Red skies at night, sailor's delight. Red skies at morning sailor take warning. Nothing beats this song on the radio when you're cruising on a boat or in a car with wind hitting your face at dusk with a pretty sunset driving near the coast!
I send in requests with the songs for artist of the week. For a local radio station here. Just had them songs including this one. Had people in their 40's to their 80's rocking out to them. They loved it.
In the late 90s this song, like almost all Fixx songs, nearly put me into some kind of fever. It was nostalgia for an entire era a mere decade and a half later, when I was like 15. After the attraction of early 90s music was gone (which I did also love), a lot of 80s songs rushed in with the vivid fluidity of music that was so very substantial. I will always love The Fixx.
Heard this as a small kid back in the 80s. It really stuck and I still love it today.
I was a teenager in HS then College. "The Fixx" was kind of "alternative" back then. I the have album & CD, still!
March 2024 still listening the best music.😊
July and forever forward!❤
It is THE song or even "anthem" of WW3. Let's hope it will stay away for long..
Yes!!! Gen X here. I love this song. For some inexplicable reason, this song played in my head constantly when I was in the Army training at Fort Sherman, Panama (in 1995). It was the JOTC (Jungle Operations Training Center). In the mornings when the sun was rising, it was a bloody/Orange-ish red color at 5:45 a.m in the morning when were where loading into the Chinook choppers to head out on a mission (a parachute jump) in the mornings during training in the jungle; I was in the 82nd Airborne Division ...Anyhow I diverged. This song always came to my head during those days in my early 20's. ..... perhaps it was because I'm an 80's child who grew up listening to this song in L.A on KROQ radio station. ..... great memories..... great song.
UA-cam senselessly censoring comments as usual..... pathetic!!!!
2023 and this song is still amazing. We will never have music like this ever again.
never say never lol
I remember the " one thing leads to another" video on TBS night tracks.... early 80s....
That is so true. I miss those days graduated in 1986!Yeah!
What? You don’t like the fake computer generated voices and lip syncing of todays so-called artists? Lmao! It amazes me how gullible people are nowadays
Bullshit. I've heard great music from the 50s onward. The longer you live, the more you learn.
Woke up this day 2024 w this song I'm my head, Wow 1982😞 Miss my 80s.
Me too
Me too my brother
Out of the blue, this song started playing in my head. Had to hear it again.
Funny story, I'm a 80s girl and heard this at groceries store . My teenager came out of me, dancing in the store.
I've always loved this gem of a tune...timeless classic for sure! 💛🎶💛
I was 16 yrs old in 82. Great fkn memories with this song !!!! 😂. Driving my first car a 1970 GTO.
Nice I had a 69 GTO
Me tooo arghhhhh my balls 😂👽🍻🎸🚀🤘🌮🥵🐜
I was 17 and I love this song! 🥰 I can't believe I'm going to be 60 soon! 😳
Excelente tema, incluido en los Heritage de radio Doble Nueve en Lima Peru. Doble nueve! No necesitas más.
Luv the GOAT
THE FIXX, driving my new car down the main drag. Felt like a million dollars, unstoppable!!! Then life hit me hard.
It's amazing what awful things can suddenly show up 🤔
Why wath happend👀🤔⛽🍻🤘👽
I'm so very sorry! What comes down, must come up! I think the difficult times, make us appreciate the normal times.
HEY LINDA? LIFE HITS ALL OF US HARD!!!! THIS IS WHY WE ALL NEED TO REACH OUT TO JESUS TO GET SAVED AND HEALED..
Tommy Tutone 2 was a great album for that, too.
I loved the 80's, along with the music. Inxs, The Fixx, Howard Jones, Tears For Fears, Public Enemy, The Cure, Depeche Mode, etc, etc. I do miss it, and miss the youth I had along with it...
You spoke the truth! I'd love to go back but I would NOT want to relive the most difficult and unavoidable parts of life.
I saw INXS in Hollywood before they got really popular. Mike was 20 ft. from me.
Yeah that was me sort of. I liked INXS well before their height of popularity with the Album KICK. I went to University of Montana from Connecticut and saw they were playing their. I was elated, then they canceled. Told my dorm when I got there that INXS is coming out with their new album soon! Most of these guys were like INX what who? Was their best album by far hit wise. Then traveled later that year in 1988 and saw them in Spokane Washington where they were in concert on the KICK album tour.
You just mentioned several of my favorite '80s bands.
As someone who was born in 1998, I’ve always wanted to be older, taken more seriously. Have more of an impact. Now at 24 I feel my youth finally slipping away and I don’t like it.
This song has always had this incredible feeling and mood. So very trippy.
Yeah and what does it mean red sky’s? War and bombs?
@@jacknjill3000That or it could mean just when the sky turns red/pink at sunset like the video picture depicts
the internet says its about post apopcalyptic wwiii . @@jacknjill3000
@@jacknjill3000 Given the lyrics and the context in which it was released, I always thought it was about the start of World War III and with it, nuclear war.
One of my fave albums! So lucky to see them in concert in the 80's.
I have always loved the bass in this track. One of the best
Still good in 2024!
It was great to be in high school in the 80's there was music for everyone.
Class of '83!
*PREACH!!!!!!*
All genres of music in the 80's HIP-HOP, HEAVY METAL, POP, NEW WAVE, AND ON.... all were at maximum!
When you walked into a house party and this was playing on the stereo you were at the right house.
@@learnpianofastonline
Class of '82! Those were the best days. 2021 sucks badly.
@@invisiblerevolution
*THAT IS TRUE, BABY!* I wish I could time portal myself back to that era. I'd tweak a few things for improvement and not make the same mistakes.
This is such a stellar 80s song. The Fixx was one of the decade’s best
Chase this with Secret Separation.
@@slshuskerTHE. STELLER SONG OF 🎵 FIXX*********
Those were truly the most amazing days of my life and I didn't even realize it!
California Dreamin me either
Sadly no one ever does my friend, I feel the same way.
And if your future self came back, and told you the same thing about today...would you listen?
@@danarmando537 so true....
@@MRAMX390 ,fuck off!¡!!!!!!! Ñnnn. Nnvvccbm.,,
After all of these years, I still enjoy hearing this song.
Hi I recommend an indie 80's style song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
This is one of the few songs that truly transport me back to my teen skateboarding, new wave listening days with my friends in Northern Cali. What a great time to be alive
Me too. There are certain songs we liked to hear back in the eighties, and now we LOVE to listen to said songs even more so than ever.
Priceless❤
Instantly transported
back to the 80's. Love it
great band damn why did the 80s have to end
Gary Wickman younger generation moving up , it has always been that way , and will continue throughout time
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. -Ghost Dog
Jamie West Oram is a fantastic guitarist
Gary Wickman: LOL!
The 90s insisited
What an era to live in. I get mad nostalgic for the good old days and this track exemplifies the 80s.
My husband loved this song 🎶 he would always sing it so well 😢RIP my love
😥
Loved this song growing up in 80s... Great Song.
....fuck, we were so spoiled in the 80's, with killer music like this blowing our minds back then. kids today have no fucking idea the fun they missed and will never experience....
Kids today have nothing like 80s kids have. They don't have the music or the films or sheer joy of living. We were so lucky. Time methinks to try & bring it back, but how???
There will never be a decade like the 80s. I am stuck in the 80s. Wish I could go back in time.
I do go back….in my memories.
You don't have to go back in time or rather you can go back in time anytime you want just play that music like we are now it's all out there it's still amazing and it's still for us!❤❤❤
@@Janine-vi1xn Yep. We carry it with us inside and it continues to give us strength.
I think this entire world, that lived the 80's, wishes the same and remain there forever...
You certainly aren't alone!
This version is hands down my favorite. This band is so good. This song is a power jam that makes driving with my windows down a must in any kind of weather!!!!
Such a visual comment and i lived it than and i still am now...
@@michaelbruns449Agreed!
The same for me. I'm in Seattle, so unfortunately I arrived at point B soaked.
Hells yeah! And the top down if you own a convertible.
I was going to say the same thing about blasting it on the open highway with the top down
Fell in love with this jammin tune; escaped me for many years since 82, brand new to me🫡
Saw an amazing red sky tonight. This popped in my head love this song.
So glad in the 80's I was on my teens what a awesome decade I miss the 80s I wish I can go back and live in one more time... =)
Agree! I loved the 80’s and wish I could do my teen years over again. Lol! Just a little smarter this time. 😂
Fkn A
I was in my 30,s at the time.. oh what a great time..
My daughter's tell me we had great music in the 80s compared to now they are teenager's
@@adriangudino3169 I agree Adrian 👍. Greetings from Dallas Tx
80’s was such a unique era for music, style and fashion. I joined the USAF in 1987 during the final years of the Reagan administration. Numerous songs and movies of that time had a doomsday theme as we were still in the Cold War. I will always remember the 80’s!
So much atmosphere. Built on an epic bass line. Then he just belts it out.
Good song, but droning on the open A string probably couldn't be considered an "epic" bass line. It fits the song well and that's what makes it good enough I guess.
Great tune by the FIXX🎸🎹🎤🎙️
Omg soooooooo 80's...... I wish I could time travel back to the 80's and never come back
Well at least we can back in our music
God bless you and your family 🙏❤️
Michael
This music used to exist
And every week more beautiful music was released
In the 80"s
2022, Saw them in 84. Nothing has changed. This song stands the test of time. Still great
My best friend passed away 35 years ago, this was her favourite band and song, I still cry when I hear this.
I could listen to this song forever.. the memories are priceless 🌺
2024 and still rockin it!
Man I’m 24 and wish I experienced the era of this kinda music. I can listen to this all day on repeat, love it
I was in elementary school when this came out and knew back then that this song was fire! I loved The Fixx at 9 years old!
The real deal version,Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
@Rich Parker I post a lot and have botched some titles...have so many pages it can be hard to fix. But, I try to be true to the music.
Hauntingly beautiful.🎵💖
I love this song! It still rocks after all these years!!
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.
Takes me right back to driving my black 76 Chevy Malibu with red vinyl seats down the road with my Ralph Lauren Polo collar turned up.....lol....those were the days!
cool visual memory bruh!!! I was 10 when this came out..went and bought Shuttered Room on vinyl...Still have it.. I used to take my ghettoblaster and face it out the window towards my neighborhood..❤ ..u r right..they don't make music the same now. but thankfully there is now SYNTHWAVE music...which is 80s based and I've discovered much of it is BETTER than actual 80s music
If you were alive back then and you're alive now, this is yours. No one else's.
Was a sophomore in uni at the time; Was more in to the new-wave and prog-rock sounds but this was one that I had to crank the volume up to 11 for.
I was 16 doing 0'Levels & listening to indie music this was on red vinyl - still have it. It is mine & no on elses.
September 2024 still one of the best songs ever recorded. America I thank you for providing us such a great music, and the world will always recognize us for that.
Wish we could go back to this era. We didnt realise how free n good it was.
Hi Michelle I recommend a song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By 80's indie artist Robert Nix
Yes 😊
Young and free
there will never be music lke this agin
l miss hearing this song on the radio, those were good times.80s.
The Fixx back in 82-ish still listen to the music. I even did a painting of the original art back in the 80's. link is here.
Haven't heard this in forever.
Couldn't agree more they should have been bigger . Very good band . Sydney. Australia 1)6)2023
This 1 band that never got the credit they deserved, 1 of my favorites, his voice and the beat of the music just held you to want more.
I just heard this today on a Florida-based internet radio station. It must be 40 years since I last heard it. Great track.
Iconic 80's band! Fabulous decade.
Great music like this never dies...It keeps getting stronger through time.
1980s were the best. I am fortunate to have lived through them!
I ❤ the (early) 80's! Class of '83 🎸🎹🎷🎤🥁🎺🎻
Just an awesome song for any decade. The Fixx is such an underrated band. One of my favorites!
This song touches home
YES
Love The Fixx. Getting my Fixx fix.
We can and we will have music like this again!
Sadly never again
The music of the FIXX was played quite often when I was stationed at Holloman and the clubs I went to. Great music.
This is their opener for most shows to this day !!!###
I still have this song on red vinyl from new. Great song 🎸 Salmon fly's!
I play this song over and over. Love it! A classic.
Oh God i wish i could go back to this time....and know what i know now.
It was fun let me tell you
My husband started singing this song tonight when we saw some red lights on people’s houses. I had to find it and hear it.
With all due respect to you, I must let you know that you have an awesome husband ❤
I love your comment. Made me chuckle, all while I was listening to this awesome song.
😊
@@donnamariedavidson5065 Thank you! I guess I'll keep him around awhile longer. LOL
Thanks.
40 years later and still sounds good, I saw them in Dallas when this song was first released.
Another great Fixx song. One good thing leads to another.
You could even be "Saved by Zero" if you try hard enough. 😉
The Fixx had a really cool sound of their own ! 😊
The 80s will never die in my head.
Brings me back to 22 yr old, doesn't se that long ago, great song, these guys had few good tunes like this one. Thank you.
1982: I had begun a Receptionist job, the year before. In 2-1/2 years, upgraded to a Sales Secretary at the same company. Total time at the same job: 6-1/2 years, until I had job burnout.
I remember hearing 80's songs on my car radio, driving two and from work. And twice daily, five days a week, driving to the Warehouse/Manufacturing Plant, in the morning and afternoon; five miles coming and going.
I hadn't heard these songs, for years! Brings back memories.
Who loves the 80s for all time i do join me Dec 2019
Count me in
Loved this band 1983-84 High School days.
So I was digging thru some "Smitherings" and then came to this. What a joyful ride! Class of "83" but this was timeless. Still cranking stuff like this at 57yrs young.
This song has one of the best intro's ever. 80's forever!
This song reminds me of working the midnight shift back in the early 2010’s. I was a little young when this song came out and didn’t appreciate it until later on. The station I listened to at work while working nights would play this song periodically.
Out late on a Friday or Saturday night this comes on....good times!
The Fixx were the most underrated rock band of the 1980s, along with all of their dazzling haunting ominous songs, this may be the very best one, sounds awesome listening loud through real headphones, not lame unforgivably useless earbuds.
👍👍👍
not underrated , maybe disliked by the critics..
@@glennhfriedman4571 right...f the critics opinions anyways.
Especially the lame ear buds, hate em
Love The Fixx❤❤
So true!!
I heard Mark Radcliffe play this when he was on Piccadilly Radio in the early 80s doing a radio show called 'Transmission'. I bought the single on red vinyl if memory serves. I love that clean, airy sound that you get on 80s records....still brilliant all these years later.
I was born 1980 so as long as I live I will always hear this songs the 80s will never die
I want and wish music would be like this again.
I saw “The Fixx” in Dallas in 2016 at The Granada Theater and they jammed “Red Skies” like it was 1982! Brilliant song and a fantastic show! Long live “The Fixx”!
Brett B. Barker That’s Right Brett !
I'm a child of the 80s. And saw them in concert too. What is so brilliant about this song? That it's telling you what's to come? It just the beat?
I'm super jealous Brett...way to go and be there bud...80's forever!!
Fuck yes !!
I’d love to see them
@@tooshay7396 Red skies at night, sailor's delight. Red skies at morning sailor take warning. Nothing beats this song on the radio when you're cruising on a boat or in a car with wind hitting your face at dusk with a pretty sunset driving near the coast!
I was Baptised when this was made!❤❤❤
The Fixx dropped some esoteric bombs predicting the future back then...Hell yeah
I send in requests with the songs for artist of the week. For a local radio station here. Just had them songs including this one. Had people in their 40's to their 80's rocking out to them. They loved it.
☆LONG LIVE THE 80'S☆
My favorate Fixx song
Great music. Brings back a lot of my high school and college memories.Still love 80's music!
Personal Favorite Always Jammed To Fix Especially Road Trips Great Traveling Music
Great song still after sooo many years!!❤
I saw them along with the Flock of Seagulls and the Police at Foxboro Stadium in August of 1983 and it was freaking EPIC!
In the late 90s this song, like almost all Fixx songs, nearly put me into some kind of fever. It was nostalgia for an entire era a mere decade and a half later, when I was like 15. After the attraction of early 90s music was gone (which I did also love), a lot of 80s songs rushed in with the vivid fluidity of music that was so very substantial. I will always love The Fixx.
aw i so love the 80's magical . song makes me think of Miami nice lol crockett and tubbs haha
Saw the fixx twice and both times they blew away the headliners such a great sound been a fan for be over 48 years
one hit after another. reach the beach was the shit in high school. class of '84.
Grandiosa banda y la melodía por siempre
Thank you for sharing..I've been looking for this tune for 40 years never knew the name. Thanks you again 2thumbs up