STAND OR FALL- THE FIXX (1983)
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- A Classic Fixx Tune from 1983. It was the groups debut hit from their 1982 CD SHUTTERED ROOM.The FIXX were a Five man band that originated from England UK ,they went on to have quite a successful career ,and put together a string of Hits such as Secret Separation,Saved by Zero,Red Sky's At Night and their biggest hit TOP 5 Smash One Thing Leads To Another.They still perform World Wide Tours with the Original Line-up.Cy Curnin on lead still can sing.
- Hudba
If you are playing this in 2024 ''YOU ROCK '' THE 80'S The Best , would 'nt trade it !
THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG BY THEM. IT'S AWESOME!!!
I love the early eighties stuff 🎉❤
agreed brother
I want to go back and rock the 80's again 🎸🥁😎
THAT WOULD BE A DREAM! I WISH THERE WERE SOME GREAT OUTDOOR 80'S BANDS GETTING TOGETHER BUT IT''S NEVER CLOSE TO HOME.@@jeffreyhusack2400
as a kid of the 80s i am proud of my music.
💯
It was and still is the best ❤️
Best decade for Music!!!
@@bryanjackson405oh yes m8
We had it good didn't we!? ❤
Goosebumps still when this comes on after all these years
I got goosebumps at the part that starts at 2:07 and that's when I came across your comment. 🙂
My thoughts exactly.
@@V8AmericanMuscleCar I must agree.
I completely agree
Yup .
40 years later, this song could not be more relevant today.
It's about the cold War. Now because of the US and anti democracy idiots here we are again. Now China has entered the ring. This is a disgrace to our families that fought for freedom.
I saw The Fixx last night at the Newton theater in NJ and they still sound great and are entertaining! Cy still spreading his peaceful messages of love and hope. 🕊🏳 Still relevant in these times.
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This song describes today's time more than it did the eighties!
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
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
An empty face reflects extinction
Ugly scars divide the nation
Desecrate the population
There will be no exultation
Stand or fall
State your peace tonight
Stand or fall
State your peace tonight
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Absolutely friend. Peace
Red or blue, what's the difference
Yes, so true we all need to wake up and reach out and love one another.
We need the return of preppy boys sulking in their parents' mansion to save the day once again.
@@professorsasha9100 Has it occurred to you that those preppy boys, as you call them, are the ones calling the shots in most Western countries today? What would you prefer? Communism? Globalism? Or do you just like trying to look like someone who knows all the answers, but won't tell... instead, just handing sh*t on bands that created iconic music?
Two chords and the song is instantly recognized by anyone who lived during that time.
All these years I never knew how deep this song really is. Very relevant today.
Unfortunately so true!
1983!!! Year I graduated high school. Forever '80's!!!!
1986 for me. .It was all about music back then and it was great music. We walked the neighborhoods with our boom boxes rocking out with no complaints ever!
1986 for me.... still remember this well !
@@melissanative1799 1983!!! Year I skipped school in the 9th grade to go see Iron Maiden in Dallas, Texas. Forever '80's!!!!
I finished Grade 13 in 84, so I had the first edge all through high school, and was at university as the NewMusic continued its evolution.
The intro has been hypnotizing me since 1983.
Myself as well. I was 19 in 82'. A Canadian kid with sooo many UK relatives over here and over there. At the klubs as a 19 year old then, this song as well as "its my life" were the only songs that made me sit, sit only, and think and ponder, forget about me vs girls and 3 a.m. for that night.
lennomenno me too. amazing.
I agree. The start is particularly amazing.
It is hypnotizing I think for me it’s the way the guitar and bass come in especially the bass
@@finaljesus The bass on this song is thumping!
They don't make bands like this anymore. 💖💖 The Fixx!!
Debbie Hannen no they don't
Def much love!
Debbie Hannen, glad to have been there with the other great bands of this great era. Yeah, that’s right, I’m stuck in the 80’s!
Debbie Hannen Actually, Teenty One Pilots Band sounds similar
@@juliocaesaralcaraz9891 - good place to be! I'm still there, too
This song gives me a type of feels that I can’t put my finger on.
Sydney O'Bier It's called fear of the unknown.
I pray for
Texas power off because of snow storm
God bless you and your family 🙏❤️
Michael
A strong 2 chord haunting melancholy. First thing I saw when I got cable in 82.
Hypnotizing and eerie for sure.
The Faulkland War
God, I miss those days! I was 16, in 1983!
Me too !!
@@MrYfz45005 Wonderful days!
the best music came out of the 80s
michael x for sure!
michael x Damn straight.
70's was pretty damn good too.
70s, it started it's slide in the 80s this song is a perfect example.
Oh yeah it did!
This only peaked at #76 on the Billboard charts in Nov. 1982. If I remember correctly, it was played a lot on MTV.
Sorry had play another time
You are correct. I remember the horse falling and the haunting song.
Yup it was indeed played on MTV, that's where I remember the song from.
Would explain why I never heard it when it came out
I heard this going home last night and I just had to find the video. The 80's were the best.
Awww bring me back to the 80s in High school please and I will change all my stupid mistakes..😎👍 😇🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸
Still rocks in 2020 ! The lyrics are still so relevant!
Yes, Leftists still make false equivalencies and push an ideology of slavery on free people.
2023
The lyrics are wise. If only people gave a damn
This was Before MTV went stupid !!!
What anniversary?
Like Weird All "Dare to be stupid"?
I think MTV were already stupid by this time and I think they messed up the beauty of the Fixx's songs with insipid videos. Their songs (the Fixx's songs) were strong enough on their own without dumb videos to accompany them.
@@bandfromtheband9445 troll!
yea,and the good music was easily found on any decent radio station,and there was no fear of someone not liking the song and having it taken off the airwaves
A song that makes me feel both excited and melancholy at the same time. Excited because it instantly takes me back to late ‘82 - early ‘83, which was an insanely great time for pop music. Melancholy, because it was never this good again.
82 might have been the high water mark of western civilization
I agree. Strange how some of the music from the 80s was more predictive than we previously thought.
1982 what a great time 11th grade in High School great times.
This is beyond relevant in 2022!
How about 2024 ? It sure seems like it.
Deserves about 100 million more views
Yes, and it also deserves more Likes than it gets from the views it's already had. But would you believe that the # of Likes being more than 1% of all the views, as this one has, is very rare on CZcams? Look at any other great songs on YT, incl Zeppelin, and you'll see what I mean.
My fav song. I play it every morning 🌄
The FIxx are the epitome of the 80's . So good !
Fixx rules....they defined the 80.s.....killer band.
Loving this song all over again! The beautiful 80's
This song takes me back to the Fall of '82 I was 18 and driving to my girlfriend's (at that time) house and they were playing this on the radio on 93.3 WMMR. I lived in Marlton,NJ and she was from Voorhees,NJ which is a neighboring township. Every time i hear this, I'm back in my '78 Ford Fairmont Futura driving down the road to meet her. That's the Power of Music!!
Skinzz listened to that station while I was in Ft. Dix in 83-84
I went to Burlington County College in Pemberton from 82' to 83' and that was right around the corner. My oldest brother was stationed at Dix around the same time you were there. Where were you from originally?
93.3 WMMR DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH PHIL-A-DELPHIA.
Was it 2 dr 5.0? If not. Ok
@@mikegrant9441 it was a 2-Door and it had that Ford 302 V-8!
STILL HERE...ALL 54 4EVA TWEEN YRS YOUNG ❤FROM NYC!!
2023 and the message is still as clear as it was then
This is so 80's it hurts...so good..lol...
So Hip it Hurts. ;-)
I Kno I wish we could go back during the Regan years I miss the 80s I still listen to new wave It never left I'm stuck there
The drum and bass combo in this song are thumpin! I miss the eighties, what a good time to be alive!
you nailed it!!!!!
Yep.
I fucking LOVED the Fixx. Thought they'd have the staying power of a U2, but to no avail. Great songwriting and expression. If anyone asks why you think yesterday's music is so much better, direct them to this video!
they live in you...fool
You're an imbecile. Shut it !!
Me too.Powerful band
Odd. Billy states something that makes 100% sense, kiwiyank(mix of NZ & USA commonwealth)states they live in you(you=We, as they do)then tops it off with "Fool", "Fool"is the point where the argument started. kiwiyank(mix of NZ & USA commonwealth)is Incorrect.
Song is so much better than the sound quality here allows it to be.
Great song. It''s sad that it's just as relevant today as it was back then
One of the best forgotten groups of the 80s.
You are a dude and you listened to this music, this is chick music.
I haven't forgotten them!
Forgotten my ass.
@@mrHoppedupford You're a chick and you commented on it which makes you a Scag.
Missed but certainly not forgotten
"Stand Or Fall"
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
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
It's 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
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
It's the euro theatre
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
Stand or fall
sadly we did
Yep thats what communists, socialists and Anti-American liberal democrats do
Stand up to Politics that do not benefit the People....wherever you are!
@@ricobigbronxbeard2759 Then abolish the democratic party of narcassistic money and power grabbing perverts and degenerates
Monster Zero GTF out of here with that. You obvs know nothing about this band. If you think the Republican Party cares about the people your sadly mistaken.
I love when CZcams randomly puts something up that I loved and completely forgot about.
It's amazing how many songs from the 80's are still so relevant today. It says so much how man hasn't change so much in 40 years!
The strange thing about living as a young person during the cold war is that we had a vague sense that it could all end at any minute. This gave life a certain meaning and urgency that seems to be missing today. Young people today don't have that anymore...even though technically, the risk of a sudden apocalypse still exists.
I was birthed in Kanada in 1963, and we did the Stop Drop & Roll(under our school desks).
They seem to be more self destructive overall than we were in the 80s
drott150 beautifully stated and I agree with you.
drott150 there was an urgency about it that was all over the media. We were constantly reminded that the world could end any second.
Every time I see a contrail, hear a low-flying jet, or hear an EBS test on the radio, I freeze, for just a second, and wonder whether this is the nuclear attack. After so many years living during the Cold War, it's just ingrained.
Back to a time that's lost, but never forgotten. Only reason to pay homage to you tube. To be able to travel back in time and capture it with 3 or 4 minute videos. This ability has really gotten me through tough times in my life.
Just saw them last night, 11/9/2023, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Universal Orlando. They were AWESOME. They played Stand or Fall third. Final song was Saved By Zero. They still got it!
This is the best 80s song ever.Even in 1982 it sounded fresh and it doesn't have any 80s cliche sounds.2022 this song still Rocks.
Still watching. Oct. 2019. Who else is with me?
I’m with you. Twelve year old me and 48 year old me. Same person. Same ear for musical quality.
In 83 i was in 2nd grade. but, stilled remember this song on the radio.
If you get a chance to see the Fixx live, do it. They are still awesome and still sound like this.
Who is listening in 2020! Most underrated band ever!! The fixx are my FAVOURITE ❤️
I'm listening still in 2023❤️
I’m listening in 2023!!! And probably will for years to come. I love this song.
Great music from the 80s. We watched this video on MTV. Years ago
The 80's .. some of the best music, ever!..💯🤘
That beat screams 80s. And i love it
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
One of the best songs that describes today..!!🙏🔥
I was just thinking that myself
Ah, like a cool breeze from the past refreshing one’s soul.
Saw these guys on the beach in Ft Lauderdale Spring Break 1983...a good time indeed.
Wow...what a gate to the past...the first two notes
That's all it takes 😉👍
This sing describes the nation we live today. divided, socialist, injustice, pandemic, and an uncertain future. Stand or fall, state your peace tonight. Foreigner affairs are screwing us rotten....this deadly covid 19. this song may be over 35 years old, but it perfectly describes what we are living now in 2021
lol, this is the same version of humanity we have always had.
Cringe
an 80s classic..
Man, 1983 was a good year for music.
it's 2021 and we are closer to this now than we were then. heads up, folks...
First year of college! 82-83
My favorite Fixx song!
Lisa Mercado
Mine is "Red Skies Tonight".
Reds skies
built for the future
Deeper and Deeper and Sunshine in the Shad ehere
Save by zero
So appropriate for today.
Could not be more appropriate for now. 85 graduation.💝
My favorite band of the 80's. They lasted well into the 90's too, and that was not easy to do in those days.
Ahhhhhh. Those early days of MTV. Back when they actually played music videos. Great memories. ♥️😏♥️
I grew up listening to music in the sixties and seventies but the best music came from the eighties. I miss that decade.
Ken, I was created in 1963(to west coast hippy parents)so did the 1967 onwards music thing. Late 80's i was a toddler then little kid, early to mid 70's was a kid to pre-teen, mid 70's to late 80's I was a teen then a young man and girls and all they brought enhanced the music at each period mid 70's onwards.
09/2023 ..... still listening to and breathing Fresh-air with FIXX ..... Happy and Safe tour guys"
MTV, when they really played music vids.
MTV ,Now they really suck !! Music died in 1989
The present day music industry,as opposed to music,looks increasingly like a cartel or oligarchy where entry routes are almost entirely barred except via patronage (bar the TV talent show programmes whose winners will promptly have nearly all the rough or non-conformist edges planed off them by some industry mogul). The 80s and to a fair degree the 90s had so many different competing genres as opposed to everything having to fit into only two or three moulds,and as such where the kind of experimentation that used to be abundant no longer gets the slightest look-in,pushed out to the margins. From what I can see from the outside perspective of someone who long ago lost interest in them the MTVs of this world have morphed into a lifestyle channel for people who indentify with or buy into whatever they're promoting. It must be a frustrating and tiresome situation for many of the young and not-so-young-anymore who don't want to be part of an unthinking fuddy-duddy mass conditioned into being spoonfed generic corporate auto-tuned gloop. There are a few radio stations not hell-bent on safety-first formula but does seem to be an absence of a TV channel today that gives exposure to the best,or at least better or more interesting,innovative or risk-taking of the new music that presently gets relegated to the periphery.
Paula Abdul, Randy, and Simon were also truly willing and filthy pawns in this as well. Soulless fuck-snots to the max.
+Ralph Jackson Excellently put! So sadly the truth.
Oh yes, those were the good old days!
I remember this video on MTV before rap ruined it all for us.
Rap has nothing to do with MTV. They barely played it when this video hit the airwaves, back then in the early '80s. And when the mid to late '80s came around it was divided down the middle with just as much Rap as New Wave and/or Rock. If you hate Rap so much, then tell your ppl to stop trying to make it theirs and leave Black music tf alone! How 'bout that?! 🙄
I was 14 when this tune came out/childhood Cold War lulliby/thanks To our friends in The United Kingdom for the second music invasion in the 80's. Hi to all my Gen X people.
Incredible song. Relevant.
The Fixx is still totally awesome...
This song was played prior to the Tears for Fears concert in Tulsa. Roland and Curt haven't forgotten about the Fixx.
What does tears have to do with the fixx i mean what's your point
@@jesuslovesyou5384 he means the preshow Vamp
Growing up in the 80s, waking every morning and looking for the mushroom cloud.
Nobody sounds like the fix l miss this band MTV days 80.s
This Song is Now More Revelant then Then
VIVE LE RESISTANCE!
this track stunned me when released in Australia in '82,i was 14,it stands alone in some respects as one of those songs that has the power that can stop u in your tracks and make you reflect,the mood in itself is unique,it grabs you,its a striking song,and film clip,always has been,always will be
I had a similar response, and also in Australia.
Howdy mate, I couldn't agree more. From Dallas TX
I'm also from Australia and I love this song too
GREAT SONG!! My freshman year in high school.
When i heard this song on the radio in '83 i fell in love with The Fixx, and still love them now 40years later💥💜💯
I remember this like it was yesterday...thanks for the upload
ohh mmmmm
Gotta give u thumbs up!
fits perfectly for our current times
Seems all countries right now are talking tuff & its a bluff
Still loving this song in 2023 ❤
In 1983 I got a Sony Walkman and this is the second song I heard on it. The first one was Thomas Dolby “Blinded Me With Science.” I was 12 years old. Today I turned 50 years old.
Brings back so many memories of my teenage years! Love it!
Im seriously thinking of starting a cover band playing The Fixx & The Cars. Ill call it The Mechanics. 🙂 Seriously though, 2 fantastic 80's bands that have timeless music
I miss the 80s
80sGirls3534, thank you, for this. I married 'Van Nuys HS answer to Molly Ringwald'. She was being celebrated at her 20th HS Class reunion took the mic and said " very simply, this toast is for my husband, king daemon, (i stand applause continues) the only man i know who could have said to his fraternity brothers upon graduating from the University with honors in Chemistry, 'this toast is for my future wife, who tonight is graduating from junior high school somewhere in the San Fernando Valley' " of course, i was agape! and she got a standing ovation and everybody came & shook my hand. God, Loved her. She passed in 2019.
April Fools Day.
This is one of my top 10 favorite songs ever! The bass is so growly/driving, and the chorus/vocal is shrieking! It's fantastic! Wahi' Valleys
Amazing song, still sounds great!!
And unfortunately still relevant. 😥
Simply unbelievable - beautiful, profound, and incredibly prophetic as the song and video may well be even more relevant to the world today than in 1983.
Amen! I fell in love with this song the first time i heard it IN 1982 when it was fresh ... i was 10 years old in 1982! The whole "Shuttered Room" 1982 album kicks ass and everyone should hear it once
Happy 67th Birthday Jamie West-Oram February 19, 1954 Barnsley, United Kingdom.
I really like his unique guitar style. He was fantastic live.
Awesome tune but also as a parent of two young children, this song makes me kinda sad and reminds me how much a parent can actually love their children. That is the greatest love!!
Masterpiece!
This song is very good....not sure I'd call it a masterpiece though
@@rebjiii For me it is a masterpiece.
@@Stormwatch153 its good....it is far from a master piece
@@rebjiii For me it is a masterpiece, maybe for you it is something far, but for me it is a masterpiece.
One of the most underated songs of the 80s should be 100 million views truly ahead of its time.
Wow! I was 11.5 yrs old when this came out! Good memories!
I love this song .rock the cool 80s.
Ms Beiber. Are you 50+ or a young'un whom fashions REAL Music.
Such a beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL song and really cool video.
I do recall and remember, and still listen. I am 70.
This song made me want to run screaming when it came out in 82 when I was 17....40 years later...I Still Does at 58.
As a metal head, both literal and figurative, I was brought out of the mentality and exposed to icons of the new wave by my true friends. This band opened my eyes and mind and are to me, a new wave Rush. They are my goto comfort and have haunting presence that took me through some very storied and scary times. Iin order to progress we must go .... Deeper and Deeper! best to you all!
Beautiful! Love It!
The best to you as well! Those were the good ole days. Wish I could go back
I was in the same boat. I was strictly a metalhead until friends turned me onto the Fixx, English Beat, etc
I was a metalhead too but I have always loved the fixx, simple Minds and Modern English and also INXS because it was actually great music!
so awesome... the level of inteligence and emotional uotient in ys words.... awesome... best on yald... love
The power of music to bring back a special time and place in your life...for me it was being a 15 year old kid hearing this for the first time at my Saturday morning bowling league in Grand Blanc, Michigan...I was blown away by how good this tune was, and 34 years later nothing's changed!
I was an 18 year old high school senior in Flint. I remember all of my friends excitedly discussing this song in our World Politics and Humanities classes. Remarkable how on target this song is, in 2022.
It's even more relevant in today's world. Gawwwwd this song takes me back tho ❤
Tell me this wasnt almost 40yrs ago. I want my MTV. Dang those were the days and nights. Whew
This song is seared into my soul. I was 16 when it all over MTV and radio.
Memories freshman year at college