@roseyrhymes you should listen to their stuff, people like "Into the Valley" their punk anthem, but they have a lot of varied material, quirky rhythms, slow songs. Scottish punk band, where the guitarist Stuart Adamson went on to form the band Big Country. This song (The Saints...) was covered by U2 and Green Day for some kind of Katrina relief charity. This is another side of Skids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIkgbSZTdg
@eyespyhifi nice time to be exposed to the skids type of R'n'R; they were virtually unknown in the states at the time, but I happened to have some british friends who exposed me to bands like the skids,ruts etc.
14 Comments (since 24 Jun 2014)
roseyrhymes
i was always pretty ignorant to 'the skids.'- thanks for the post.
markhdz
@roseyrhymes you should listen to their stuff, people like "Into the Valley" their punk anthem, but they have a lot of varied material, quirky rhythms, slow songs. Scottish punk band, where the guitarist Stuart Adamson went on to form the band Big Country. This song (The Saints...) was covered by U2 and Green Day for some kind of Katrina relief charity. This is another side of Skids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIkgbSZTdg
UncannyUK
'Animation' is one of my favourites.
markhdz
@UncannyUK that's an excellent song. I'm partial to 'Scared to Dance' and 'Charles'
eyespyhifi
One of the bands of my early teens. Fantastic.
roseyrhymes
like that. it's almost like film score music. good, well-rounded band. - thanks for the link.
markhdz
@eyespyhifi nice time to be exposed to the skids type of R'n'R; they were virtually unknown in the states at the time, but I happened to have some british friends who exposed me to bands like the skids,ruts etc.
markhdz
@roseyrhymes film score, exactly! They were really good musicians and interesting songwriters, who rose above their punk roots pretty fast.
roseyrhymes
yeah man, great shit....possible amazon purchase!! what cd would I get??
markhdz
@roseyrhymes this looks like it has everything of importance : http://www.amazon.com/Saints-Are-Coming-Best-Skids/dp/B000JU7IPG/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1403625704&sr;=1-2&keywords;=the+skids
roseyrhymes
got it!! thanks, bud.
BarneyRubble
@UncannyUK Yeah, Animation is one of my faves too
eyespyhifi
@markhdz Ah, The Ruts, I'd almost forgotten about them, great stuff.
markhdz
@EunuchJelly I'm glad you think so.