The Fixx - When The Time Comes, Will You Believe? (Live - Chicago Parkwest Edit)

Rescued from the garbage! "When The Time Comes, Will You Believe?" is a truly obscure song by The Fixx. It never ended up on any of their CD's, not even as a B-side on a single nor in any of their compilation discs. No studio version was *ever* recorded. It was played at a show during their 1987 tour. This particular live version is not the usual version that was played on that tour and thus is even more obscure. This version rocks a little harder and has a different break which really illustrates the guitarist's signature guitar style. This rare version was played maybe just once at a gig at Chicago Parkwest and captured as a bootleg recording on someone's handheld audiotape recorder. Twenty years later he found the audiotape and converted it to mp3 and posted it online. This bootleg originally had a much quieter ending to the song which ended around 3:30 but it was slightly corrupted and didn't sound right so I fashioned a more energetic extended outro from other parts of the song. I don't know why the band rejected it because it sure sounds like a hit to me! Maybe the band will run across this video and dust off the song and record it for their upcoming 10th studio CD in 2011. What do you think of it? Can you believe the band thought so little of it as to discard it forever? Even their trash is better than most band's best. P.S. This sounds much better with headphones on. Enjoy!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The
• Fixx
• When
• Time
• Comes
• Will
• You
• Believe
• 1987
• British
• Pop
• Rock
• New
• Wave
• progressive
• classic
• rock
• curnin
• west-oram
• guitar

[Nightmike1989]

Fine job on this great track, it's amazing that this was nearly lost in obscurity, thank goodness it was resurrected.

[gretchbrooks]

Most excellent and thank you for the time put into compiling this-a great piece of history!

[tinfoilhatter]

@DartsRme312 well,they're no 'eagles of death metal',but they're pretty good-haha

[DartsRme312]

because they DON'T make crappy songs LOL!! they rule!

[murph1245]

Cool. Always good to hear another rare gem from the Fixx. Thanks.

[redyns777]

XTC were British too, and I never heard a crappy song by them. They're both great English bands.

[stl49erfan]

maybe 1983, 1984

[tinfoilhatter]

excellent! -they're the xtc of british rock bands,man! except they've never made a crappy song,ahaha

[churchtroll]

Fabulous! Thanx for this walkabout in history!

[shamrocket99]

do we know when this is from (year?)