“Driven Out” by The Fixx

"Driven Out" was the song that did the heavy lifting for Calm Animals, the Fixx's fifth studio album and the only one the British band made for RCA, at the tail end of the '80s. Cy Curnin wrote the lyrics, and the music is credited five ways, to Curnin, Jamie West-Oram, Rupert Greenall, Dan K. Brown and Adam Woods.

Released as a single, it climbed all the way to number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart early in 1989 and got as far as number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Precious Stone" following it into the rock top 25 later that year. Critics were cooler on the album: Trouser Press found nothing on it worth talking about, and the Washington Post heard flashes of the old sin-and-synth seduction but felt the early ska-funk bounce had been flattened into pop-metal.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.