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“Red Skies” by The Fixx

Released 1982

“Red Skies” by The Fixx appears on 33 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 1983 and 2023. It was first released in 1982. Its best result is #102 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #178 alternative song of 1983 and #861 alternative song of all time.

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11stations
#102best position
0#1 finishes
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1983–2023years charted

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"Red Skies" was the fourth and last single the Fixx pulled from Shuttered Room, their 1982 debut album, issued by MCA in Britain that June and in America the following January. Under its steady pulse sits a warning of nuclear holocaust closing in, the kind of dread new wave could make you dance to.

Cash Box admired its eerie, dreamy synthesizer effects, its beat and the power of the vocal, and the Orange County Register's Mark Spinn rated it the finest of the group's moodier songs. In the States it reached 13 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks and topped the Bubbling Under chart in early 1983. It didn't stay buried, either: the band re-recorded it for React in 1987.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1983 102 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1983 107

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1988 280 Live 105 Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) 501
1989 114 91X 91X Top 191 Songs of the 1980s (1989) 191
1989 109 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1989) 495
1990 277 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1990) 299
1991 280 Live 105 Live 105 Top 300 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1991) 302
1992 219 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1992) 500
1994 349 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 500 (July 1994) 500
1996 306 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1996) 500
1998 394 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 1998) 488
1999 216 91X 91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999) 500
1999 485 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 915 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1168 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 732 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 1169 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1170 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1169 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 663 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 1154 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2003 486 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) 2044
2004 1154 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1154 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2005 937 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2007 1438 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1402 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1428 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1455 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1521 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1549 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1578 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2021 772 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s 909
2023 227 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s 850

Also listed as: Red Skies (at Night); Red Skies (At Night).

Charting alongside it in 1983

Best songs of 1983 →
  1. 1New Year's DayU2
  2. 2Let's DanceDavid Bowie
  3. 3The LovecatsThe Cure
  4. 4Every Breath You TakeThe Police
  5. 5Rebel YellBilly Idol
  6. 6In a Big CountryBig Country

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