Band Name: Skids
Music Album: Sweet Surburbia - The Best Of The Skids
Album Release Date: April 1995
Music Genre: Punk Rock New Wave
Record Label: Caroline Blue Plate
Album Release Country: United States
Music Record Type: 18 Tracks CD Reissue
Scottish punk band. Formed in Dunfermline during the summer of 1977.
Comprising the songwriting axis of Richard Jobson (vocals) and Stuart Adamson (guitar), together with the rhythm section of William Simpson (bass) and Tom Kellichan (drums), they rode into British consciousness on the new wave backwash to the ebbing tide of punk. The release of their self-financed, attention-grabbing Charles EP came at the time Richard Branson's Virgin label were busy accruing an eclectic roster of post-punk hopefuls. Consequently, with almost indecent haste, the band were tethered to what was to prove an optimistic eight-album deal.
On the flip side of their first Virgin single, "Sweet Suburbia" (1978), the band proclaimed themselves to be "Open Sound", which was essentially a description of the soaring histrionics of Adamson's guitar style. When married to the martial rhythms of the drumming and the bellowing, chant-like vocals of Jobson, this sound conspired to lend their repertoire a rousing, anthemic quality. It was heroic music which at its best, as on the first album, Scared To Dance (1979), seemed to capture the drama and turbulence of battle. Unfortunately, the sound was an all-too-graphic reflection of the band's own stormy relationships, a turbulence which was to settle only with the departure of Adamson in the summer of 1981.
The Skids' decline was in large part due to the portentous designs of Richard Jobson, who sought to mould t (...)
| 1 | Into The Valley | 3:16 |
| 2 | Charles | 2:43 |
| 3 | The Saints Are Coming | 2:41 |
| 4 | Scared To Dance | 3:18 |
| 5 | Sweet Suburbia | 2:25 |
| 6 | Of One Skin | 2:28 |
| 7 | Night And Day | 2:38 |
| 8 | Animation | 4:04 |
| 9 | Working For The Yankee Dollar | 3:39 |
| 10 | Charade | 3:53 |
| 11 | Masquerade | 2:46 |
| 12 | Circus Games | 3:56 |
| 13 | Out Of Town | 4:09 |
| 14 | Goodbye Civilian | 4:18 |
| 15 | A Woman In Winter | 5:55 |
| 16 | Hurry On Boys | 3:44 |
| 17 | Iona | 3:22 |
| 18 | Fields | 4:27 |
Reissue of the 1987 release 'Dunfermline' using the same soundtrack and tracklisting with a different title and artwork.
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