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I primi anni '80 sono, com'è noto, gli anni del pop di classe evolutosi dalla new wave. Molte delle canzoni che hanno segnato quest'epoca sono diventati dei classici celeberrimi ancora oggi, ma di contro ci sono molti altri artisti, pur validi, che il tempo ha lasciato indietro e oggi sopravvivono solo per una ristretta cerchia di nostalgici: fra loro possiamo annoverare i The Fixx, londinesi, nati nel '79 e giunti al debutto nel 1982 con "Shuttered Room".
Il quale, più che un vero e proprio album, dà l'impressione di un'antologia del periodo, un poutpourri variegato di sfaccettature: ce n'è per tutti. Di base è un pop rock frizzante alla Duran/Spandau (I Found You, Cameras In Paris), ma nel calderone abbiamo reminiscenze punk dagli Stranglers (Shuttered Room), pop patinato (Stand Or Fall, Red Skies, non a caso i singoli estratti), new wave canonica (The Fool) o ispirata dagli XTC (Some People, Sinking Island). Più in generale, le idee non mancano, ma sembrano idee già avute da altri.
Detto ciò, non vorrei aver dato un'immagine troppo negativa: l'album è godibilissimo, è il classico lavoro ben fatto ma ancora acerbo e parzialmente fuori fuoco; si intuisce, non ancora del tutto sbocciato, il talento dei suoi autori (già l'album successivo, "Reach The Beach", sarà il loro maggior successo commerciale), che spinti dal desiderio di raggiungere la fama hanno cercato di creare qualcosa che accontentasse tutti, e mi viene da pensare che, se i Fixx avessero centrato almeno un singolone spaccaclassifiche, oggi potrebbero venire perlomeno annessi nel Valhalla delle one hit wonders. E' quindi la personalità che langue, ma trattandosi appunto di un'opera prima è un difetto perdonabile.
Ovviamente, come tutti gli album figli del proprio tempo, è invecchiato male, ma, proprio per questo, lo consiglio agli appassionati delle sonorità degli Eighties: se non conoscete i Fixx, potrebbero davvero appassionarvi.
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02 I Found You (03:37)
The mental image
Grand illusion
Brought together
By total fusion
Lost for words
Your company holds me
Totally yours
Your mind controls me
Place and time
For rendezvous
Your place or mine
I said I won't touch you
Now visions inside that
Last all day
Come back soon
Oh won't you stay
For you
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
Keeping the senses
Open aware
To try to change you
Who would dare
Visions inside that
Last all day
Come back soon
Oh won't you stay
For you
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
The mental image
Grand illusion
Brought together
By total fusion
Lost for words
Your company holds me
Totally yours
Your mind controls me
Keeping your sense aware
To try to change you
Who would dare
Visions that last all day
Oh come back soon
No won't you stay
You...
I found you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you... you... oh you
I found you
04 Stand or Fall (03:59)
Crying parents tell their children
If you survive don't do as we did
A son exclaims there'll be nothing to do to
Her daughter says she'll be dead with you
While foreign affairs are screwing us rotten
Line morale has hit rock bottom
Dying embers stand forgotten
Talks of peace were being trodden
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Is this the value of our existence
Should we proclaim with such persistence
Our destiny relies on conscience
Red or blue what's the difference
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exaltation
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Stand or fall state your peace tonight
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Its the euro theatre
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
(Repeat to Fade...)
05 Red Skies (04:19)
Red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Should have taken warning
It's just, people mourning, running, hiding, lost
You can't find, find a place to go
So it's red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh
Should have taken warning
It's just, people mourning, running, hiding, lost
You can't find, find a place to go
So it's red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh
Someone's taking over
And it looks like they're aiming right at you
Someone says, "We'll be dead by morning"
Someone cries, leaving
Red eyes at night, red eyes at night
Oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Red skies at night, red skies at night, red skies at night (4x)
Red {echo}
Skies {echo}
At {echo}
Night
Red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Red skies at night, red skies at night
Wo oh, wo oh oh oh oh oh
06 Lost Planes (03:20)
When you're hanging from a parachute
The whistling wind might play your flute
So forget it
Lost traffic
Someone said you couldn't fly the plane
So I guess this journey's all in vain
So forget it
Lost traffic
We're on a lost plane
Should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
Flying high but your fuel is low
How far can a missing plane go
So forget it
Lost traffic
Tell you that you're flying radar
But it's that much safer to take that car
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
So when you're hanging from a parachute
The whistling wind might play your flute
So forget it
Lost traffic
Tell you that you're flying radar
But it's that much safer to take that car
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
So forget it
We're on a lost plane
I should've taken the train
We're on a lost plane
07 Cameras in Paris (03:57)
A call is taken
The plans are made
The pawns are placed
For the masquerade
Closed hotel rooms
Off the Place Pigalle
All concealed
Behind the femme fatale
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Political friction is greased by detente
One country can and another one can't
All the movements in a metaphor
Who is the sleeper found dead on the floor
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
In Paris
Umbrellas rolling in Hyde Park
Announcement made don't be seen after dark
Tension rising in the Eastern Block
Who are the two men with the
Same swiss clock
Take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
There's cameras in Paris
So take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
In Paris
So take it from me
There's cameras in Paris
Some papers are missing
Exposure's automatic
Exposure's automatic
Cameras in Paris
Cameras in Paris
Exposure's automatic
10 The Fool (05:22)
A sort of place you don't often find
A quiet room to go out of your mind
Will you excuse me whilst I confide
I've found a place where I can hide
Lights out by nine as a rule
One grey blanket and a stool
Angels fear to tread where stands the fool
But the air is warm, and the walls are cool
So I'm kept away, so here I'll stay
Even the judges kneel and pray
I am the winner in any event, SNAP!
Who was the man who said society's bent?
So I'm locked away in my padded cocoon
A square of hell where nightmares bloom
Armageddon couldn't come too soon
But if it only meant that I could leave this room
Here stands the Fool
12 The Strain (03:33)
Back to back
The president cracks
There's no power left
In the old white shack
It's the same
New Washington
Red button
One push
And the whole world is gone
It's the same
I don't think that he should take the...
Strain
Live off your nerves
You've run out of verve
Take those pills
And you'll feel no ills
It's the same
I don't think that he should take the
Strain
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
Oh no...
Scream at nature to steal some papers
On with the camera to get the answers
Tipping the waiter to find who that was
Leaving the night
Go undercover now
The strain
Strain
Back to back
The president cracks
There's no power left
In the old white shack
It's the same
New Washington
A red button
One push
And the whole world is gone
It's the same
I don't think that he should take the
Strain
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
Same chance same place but wrong day
He can't have it all his own way
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