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

back when MTV played music instead of glorifying teen pregnancy

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.

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

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.

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

The Fixx relevant and well in 2024

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

Unbelievably authentic raw and perfect version of this great song

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.

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

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

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

Red Skies at night. Such a great song.

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.

I miss 80s music. Good thing I can come to KZfaq.

That bass tone.

The BASS is killing!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ❤

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

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.

A masterpiece of 80's music.

"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.

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

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

These guys are full of talent.

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

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.

There should be an "I love this" button

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

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!!!

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.

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

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 !!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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!

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...

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.. ❤️

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.

THAT...was fantastic.

WHO'S WATCHING THIS IN 2018????

I still rock this on vinyl.

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

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

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.

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

The Fixx is in..

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

So awesome!!!!!!!!! So many weird and magical memories ...

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

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 KZfaq and finding ALL sorts of cool shit.

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

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

MTV and the British New Wave movement at their prime.

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

.......................1982.......................... one UNFORGETTABLE YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a great song. Tells a chilling message of an impending nuclear war

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.

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!

Damn good shit. I am 70. This song should be played at funerals, inaugurals, weddings, divorces, births, riots, family reunions and family dissolutions, and much more. Let it rip!

Retro 80's ,Takes me back when music was still music!!!!!!

Thumbs up for listening this super hit still in 2022.

Red skyes at night, a sailors delight! Red sky at morning, sailor take warning! A night time warning! Sailor beholding!

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!!

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.

THE EMOTION AND DEPTH OF COMPLEXITY OF THIS SONG IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO INCREDIBLE.!

Bass,Bass. Great tune! Great vocals, guitar the whole bit.

What a great song by The Fixx, they were a great band!!!

One of my favorite Fixx songs. I always like the bands lyrics.

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!

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.

The vocal on this live version is just incredible

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

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

Always loved his vocals. Unique.

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!

Great song from the 80's. What a great band the Fixx was, lots of hits great sound and tones on guitars, lead singer had awsome voice. My favorite Fixx song.

I saw them live in Hollywood 12 years ago. Same great band and incredible singer.

Saw them in Daytona Beach back in 84 during MTVs first ever spring break. Awesome as always!

Jamie West-Oram...I have always been in love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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