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Band Name: Skids

Music Album: Sweet Surburbia - The Best Of The Skids

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Music Genre: Punk Rock New Wave

Record Label: Caroline Blue Plate

Album Release Country: United States

Music Record Type: 18 Tracks CD Reissue


Skids – Sweet Surburbia – The Best Of The Skids (1987) 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 (...)


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18 Tracks
1 Into The Valley3:16
2 Charles2:43
3 The Saints Are Coming2:41
4 Scared To Dance3:18
5 Sweet Suburbia2:25
6 Of One Skin2:28
7 Night And Day2:38
8 Animation4:04
9 Working For The Yankee Dollar3:39
10 Charade3:53
11 Masquerade2:46
12 Circus Games3:56
13 Out Of Town4:09
14 Goodbye Civilian4:18
15 A Woman In Winter5:55
16 Hurry On Boys3:44
17 Iona3:22
18 Fields4:27

Reissue of the 1987 release 'Dunfermline' using the same soundtrack and tracklisting with a different title and artwork.




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