Old Enough to Forget

By 1986, The Fixx had been on a creative run that would be the envy of a lot of bands. Like a lot of people, I jumped on the bandwagon when the band released what is arguably their most well-known album, Reach the Beach . This was just a starting point, and in short order I had gone and picked up their debut, and then kept up with the band through 1991's Ink . The best song the band ever did was the long version of "Deeper and Deeper," and while it was available on the Streets of Fire soundtrack, it was a much shorter and far less satisfying version. It should have been on Phantoms in its entirety - sigh. By the time Walkabout came out, the musical landscape was all over the place. It truly was the best of times; the sheer number of classic songs and albums from this year is sort of mind-boggling. It's against this backdrop that The Fixx joined the fray. I remember the first time I heard "Secret Separation" and was totally blown away. It was, and still is, ...

I always meant to pick this up, mainly because "Kiss You (When It's Dangerous)" was so good. For whatever reason, most likely budget, I never bought it. Oddly, none of the myriad of '80s anthologies I've collected over the years has the song on it. It sort of faded into obscurity as far as I was concerned. Then, a while back, it popped into my mind. I likely heard it on the radio - I don't think it matters - but I jotted it down on my little pad of paper where I have my list of wants. Right next to Riggs, Alpha Band, and Randall Waller, I wrote down Eight Seconds, and what I thought was the album title: When Seconds Count . You'd think, carrying around the internet in my pocket, I'd have just looked it up. Nope. When Seconds Count was by Survivor, if you're wondering. Eventually I did find it, and the album was titled Almacantar . This time I did use the internet in my pocket to figure out what the title meant. Well, to save you time, it's a s...