iPod Essentials #56: "Stand or Fall"--The Fixx

I've never understood why The Fixx wasn't more popular than it was. Great songs, solid musicians, cutting vocals. I feel they were one of the best rock/New Wave bands of the 80's.

"Stand or Fall" was one of the best songs of the 80's. The message is dark, like another one of its hits: "Red Skies." Both songs deal with war, or imposing war. Yet "Stand" offers a glimmer of hope, as long as we make the right choice by standing up to government or bureaucracy, making our voices heard: "State your peace tonight."

There's never anything wrong with that, given the world in which we live.