Songoftheday 1/30/13 - I'll be more together stretched by fewer thoughts that leave me, chasing after my dreams disown me loaded with danger...

The Fixx - "Saved By Zero"
from the album Reach The Beach (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #20 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day was the first big hit from British new-wave rock group the Fixx, who came together in London at the end of the 70s under the name the Portrait before changing to the Fix then adding an X. The group, with lead vocals by Cy Curnin, released their debut album, Shuttered Room in 1982, which was an underground classic of the genre, and produced two minor (but long-lasting) hits in "Stand Or Fall" and "Red Skies". Even though bassist Alfie Agius left during the recording of their sophomore album Reach The Beach, he appeared prominently on the first single from the set, "Saved By Zero". Credited to the band, the song is based on the Buddhist tenet of giving up everything for inner joy, something the band had been preaching at the time.

The single became the Fixx's first top-40 hit in the US, reaching #20, and also #9 on the rock radio format chart, but strangely missed the chart altogether in Britain. It was also a minor hit in Australia and Canada.

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...and here's the band on tour with the song in 1984...

Up tomorrow: Aussies go "oops".