“As High as You Can Go” by The Chameleons

"As High as You Can Go" was one of three singles pulled from Script of the Bridge, the debut album the Chameleons put out on Statik on 8 August 1983, alongside "Up the Down Escalator" and "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days". The writing is shared by frontman Mark Burgess, guitarist Dave Fielding, drummer John Lever and Reg Smithies, and the band produced it themselves with Colin Richardson, who also engineered.

The album has since been filed under goth, but Burgess won't have it: goth didn't even exist yet, he says, and the Chameleons were post-punk, full stop. One critic heard subtly psychedelic guitars in the Cure's vein and martial drumming that recalls Joy Division, though the band's own tastes ran wider, with Fielding a Joni Mitchell and Mike Oldfield fan and Lever partial to Peter Gabriel and Genesis.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.