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One Thing Leads to Another

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Format
  
7", 12" single

Label
  
MCA

Genre
  
New wave, dance-rock

B-side
  
Opinions (7 inch) Reach the Beach (Dub) (12 inch)

Released
  
18 August 1983 (US); September 1983 (UK)

Length
  
3:23 (remixed edited version); 3:18 (album version)

"One Thing Leads to Another" is a song by new wave rock band The Fixx, from their album Reach the Beach. "One Thing Leads to Another" is the group's best known song, and their most successful single, peaking at No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1983. It entered the Hot 100 charts on August 27, 1983, at #65, and also peaked at No. 2 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It also went to #1 in Canada in late October 1983.

Contents

Music video

The video begins at a science lab where Adam Woods is looking into a microscope observing a new dimension (the wrist shackle in the video on the wall is seen on the cover of Reach the Beach). It shows a dimension in a black tunnel with lights on top where Cy Curnin is dancing in a classy navy blue double-breasted suit and open-necked white shirt. He is then in a bright tube, wearing a gray sleeveless shirt with his arms and shoulders exposed. Then, in a blue tunnel, he is running with a dog. It ends with the tunnel in a 3-dimensional angle to see throughout the tube with the band members singing the rest of the song.

Personnel

  • Cy Curnin – vocals
  • Rupert Greenall – keyboards
  • Jamie West-Oram – guitar
  • Adam Woods – percussion, drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Alfie Agius – bass

    • Cover versions

    "One Thing Leads to Another" has been covered by the following artists:

  • Jazz musician Joseph Patrick Moore on the 2004 album Drum & Bass Society, Volume 1.
  • Steven Strait covered it in the 2005 film Sky High.
  • Color Theory covered this song in 2005. This version was released on The Fixx: An Electronic Tribute.
  • Oh My God covered this song on their 2009 album The Night Undoes the Work of the Day.
  • Powerman 5000 covered the song on their 2011 album Copies, Clones & Replicants.
  • American indie rock band Here We Go Magic performed a version of the song in November 2015 for The A.V. Club's A.V. Undercover series.

    • The song is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the fictional radio station Flash FM. It was also featured in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris and in the 2009 horror film The House of the Devil. The song is featured in the Veronica Mars episode "Ruskie Business".

    References

    One Thing Leads to Another Wikipedia
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