Calm Animals

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Calm Animals
The Fixx - Calm Animals.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 7, 1989 [1]
Recorded1988
Studio AIR (Salem, Montserrat)
Genre Rock
Length37:45
Label RCA
Producer William Wittman
The Fixx chronology
React
(1987)
Calm Animals
(1989)
Ink
(1991)
Singles from Calm Animals
  1. "Driven Out"
    Released: 1989
  2. "Precious Stones"
    Released: 1989

Calm Animals is the fifth studio album by British band the Fixx, released on February 7, 1989. [1] The single "Driven Out" gave them a No. 1 song on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in early 1989, and reached No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single "Precious Stone" reached the top 25 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart later that year. Calm Animals was the Fixx's only album to be released on RCA Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Trouser Press noted that "the rock-oriented Calm Animals ... has no songs worth mentioning." [3] The Washington Post wrote that the album "has some familiar moments when they recapture their old seductive combination of sin and synth, but the ska-funkincense that powered early Fixx has been flattened to pop-metal." [4]

Track listing

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

  1. "I'm Life" – 3:19
  2. "Driven Out" – 3:59
  3. "Subterranean" – 3:43
  4. "Precious Stone" (The Fixx, Woods) – 3:08
  5. "Gypsy Feet" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 4:03
  6. "Calm Animals" – 4:12
  7. "Shred of Evidence" – 3:41
  8. "The Flow" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 2:59
  9. "World Weary" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 4:38
  10. "Cause to Be Alarmed" (Curnin, The Fixx) – 3:46
  11. "Never Mind What You Leave Behind" [*] (Curnin, The Fixx) – 3:17

* bonus track on 2001 CD re-issue

Personnel

The Fixx

Production

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

YearChartPosition
1989 The Billboard 200 72

Singles - Billboard (United States)

YearSingleChartPosition
1989"Driven Out" Billboard Hot 100 55
1989"Driven Out" Mainstream Rock 1
1989"Driven Out" Modern Rock 11
1989"Precious Stone"Mainstream Rock23

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References

  1. 1 2 Though 1988 is listed as the copyright and publishing date on the initial pressings of Calm Animals, the booklet of Ultimate Collection notes January 1989 as the release date of its debut single "Driven Out". Additionally, the Fixx wrote on Twitter on February 7, 2015, "Back on this day....in 1989.....we released #CalmAnimals.....", implying that the album was released on February 7, 1989.
  2. "Calm Animals The Fixx". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. Robbins, Ira. "Fixx". Trouser Press. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  4. Zibart, Eve (24 March 1989). "Soporific Brit-Pop: Bring on the Frowns". The Washington Post. p. N25.