Songoftheday 3/12/13 - The deception with tact just what are you trying to say?...

The Fixx - "One Thing Leads To Another"
from the album Reach The Beach (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #4 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 13

Today's Song of the Day is another of my all-time favorites from the 80s, and it's by the British new-wave group The Fixx, who scored their first top-40 hit in the summer of 1983 with "Saved By Zero". They followed up that single with one that would be exponentially more popular, and their biggest hit to date - the funky snark of "One Thing Leads To Another"...

If I told you I would play this song on cassette repeat for an afternoon, I wouldn't be lying. I was obsessed with this jam.

"One Thing..." would become the Fixx's sole top-10 single, went to the runner-up position on the rock chart, and was their first and biggest dance hit at #14. But surprisingly, the song stalled all the way down at #86 on the British singles chart - I still have no clue why the band got no love from their countrymen.

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Actor Steven Strait covered the song for his movie Sky High in 2005..