Walkabout (The Fixx album)

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Walkabout
The Fixx - Walkabout.jpg
Studio album by
the Fixx
ReleasedMay 1986
RecordedNovember 1985
StudioFarmyard Studios, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England
GenreNew wave
Length48:32
LabelMCA[1]
ProducerRupert Hine
The Fixx chronology
Phantoms
(1984) 		Walkabout
(1986) 		React
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[1]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide2.5/5 stars[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 stars[4]

Walkabout is the fourth studio album by the English new wave band the Fixx, released in 1986.[5][6] The first single, "Secret Separation", spent two weeks atop the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in July 1986; it was the band's second No. 1 single on the chart.

Production[]

The album was produced by Rupert Hine.[5] Singer Cy Curnin started working on the album while temporarily living in Africa. Walkabout was the first album to include bass player Danny Brown as an official member of the band.[7]

Critical reception[]

The Ottawa Citizen called the album "the most well-rounded, honest effort by the group so far, marked by a deliberate attempt to 'uncomplicate' the group's sound, without sacrificing the poignancy of the social messages in the songs."[8] The Los Angeles Times called the album the band's best to that point, writing that "the LP's uninventive slices of quirky new wave, tentative funk and Bowie impersonations could have been worse."[9] The Sun Sentinel wrote that "the Fixx is capable of creating polished but ultimately passionless and perfunctory pop-funk ... this is not a record that anyone's going to remember five years from now."[10]

Track listing[]

All songs are written by Dan K. Brown, Cy Curnin, Rupert Greenall, Jamie West-Oram, and Adam Woods, except when noted.

  1. "Secret Separation" (Brown, Curnin, Greenall, Jeannette Obstoj, West-Oram, Woods) - 3:51
  2. "Built for the Future" - 4:07
  3. "Treasure It" - 4:38
  4. "Chase the Fire" - 4:27
  5. "Can't Finish" - 4:09
  6. "Walkabout" - 4:35
  7. "One Look Up" - 4:15
  8. "Read Between the Lines" - 3:59
  9. "Sense the Adventure" - 3:42
  10. "Camphor" - 3:53 [with hidden CD track "Peace on Earth (Do What You Can)" - 10:46]

Personnel[]

Additional personnel

The TKO Horns:

Production[]

  • Producer: Rupert Hine
  • Recording and Mixing Engineer: Stephen W Tayler

Charts[]

Chart (1986) Peak
position
Australia Kent Music Report[11] 99
US Billboard Top Pop Albums[12] 30

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1986 "Built for the Future" US Album Rock Tracks 13
"Secret Separation" US Billboard Hot 100 19
US Album Rock Tracks 1

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 3: MUZE. p. 483.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ "AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  3. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 427.
  4. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 247.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Fixx | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "THE FIXX DOESN'T SHY FROM CONTROVERSIES". Sun-Sentinel.com.
  7. ^ Kim, Jae-Ha. "ROCKER CURNIN GETS A FIX ON THE WORLD WITH HIS LYRICS EVEN WHILE". chicagotribune.com.
  8. ^ "The Fixx gets family feeling". Ottawa Citizen: F3. 20 June 1986.
  9. ^ Atkinson, Terry (29 June 1986). "SUMMER LP ROUNDUP THE FIXX MIXES IT UP". Los Angeles Times: 93.
  10. ^ Henke, James (25 July 1986). "BIG COUNTRY REBOUNDS; THE FIXX LP INCOHERENT". Sun Sentinel: 38.
  11. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 113. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  12. ^ "The Fixx". Billboard.
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