Songoftheday 10/15/17 - Blind needs won't set you free, can't you see that time is slipping away, but I got to say...

"How Much Is Enough" - The Fixx
from the album Ink (1991)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 3

Today's song of the day comes from the British new wave band the Fixx, who we last seen with their top-20 pop hit from the summer of 1986, "Secret Separation". Two years later, after switching labels to RCA, the band released the album Calm Animals, but while the lead single "Driven Out", which sounded more R.E.M. than the Fixx, topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock radio chart, it stalled down at #55 on the American pop Hot 100. They returned to MCA and their new wave sound with their sixth studio album Ink. The first release from the set, "How Much Is Enough", written by lead singer Cy Curnin with bandmates Jamie West-Oram, Rupert Greenall, Dan Brown, and Adam Woods had an INXS-esque groove to it....

"How Much Is Enough" became the Fixx's sixth and so far last top-40 pop hit in May of 1991. The song also climbed to #10 on Billboard's Modern Rock and #11 on their Mainstream Rock radio charts. It also peaked at #27 in Canada. A second single from the album, "No One Has To Cry", missed the pop and rock charts altogether.

The band, minus Brown, released another album, Elemental, in 1998, followed by 1011 Woodland, a collection of remakes of their previous songs, a year later. In 2003, they returned with Want That Life, but none of these made a big impression. Their most recent album, Beautiful Friction, came out in 2012, and while Brown returned and the album got good reviews, it missed the chart.

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Here's the band performing the song live in Virginia in 2015...

Up tomorrow: DJ recounts the state of carnal affairs.