Songoftheday 12/1/14 - We're passengers in time lost in motion locked together day and night by trick of light...

The Fixx - "Secret Separation"
from the album Walkabout (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #19 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 6

Today's Song of the Day is brought to us by the British new wave band the Fixx, who had already had two successful albums in the States and placed their fourth top-40 hit in 1984 with "Are We Ourselves?". Two years later the group released their fourth studio album Walkabout. With Rupert Hine producing them again, they released "Secret Separation" as the first single. Written by the band with song doctor Jeannette Obstoj (who wrote Tina Turner's "I Might Have Been Queen", also produced by Hine), the song describes someone who's just passed speaking to his loved one about how their loss is only fleeting and they'll be reunited by reincarnation...

"Secret Separation" became the Fixx's fifth top-40 pop hit in July of 1986, while climbing all the way to #1 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart in Billboard magazine (their second after "Are We Ourselves?"). Surprisingly the band never got much love in their own country, and this didn't change, as the single peaked down at #83, their last time on the British chart, though they did nick the Canadian top-40 at #39. I think the "harder edge" in their sound that made them much more successful on the rock chart than other new wave bands is what turned off pop record buyers in England.

Up tomorrow: A LimiTeD man woo woos himself to his biggest solo hit.