Skids – Scared To Dance
(Virgin Records 1984 OVED41)
Matrix No’s: A5/B5 – UK Pressing
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some wear to edges/corners & sticker mark top right corner
Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1977 by Stuart Adamson (guitar, keyboards, percussion and backing vocals), William Simpson (bass guitar and backing vocals), Thomas Kellichan (drums) and Richard Jobson (vocals, guitar and keyboards). Their biggest success was the 1979 single “Into the Valley” and the 1980 album The Absolute Game. In 2016 the band announced a 40th anniversary tour of the UK with their original singer Richard Jobson.
Scared to Dance is the debut album by the Scottish art-punk band Skids and reached number 19 in the UK album chart in March 1979. The album was produced by David Batchelor and engineered by Mick Glossop. Scared to Dance was the first album to feature Stuart Adamson’s ‘bagpipe guitar’, which would be the trademark of his later band, Big Country. This combined with Richard Jobson’s highly distinctive singing style set it apart from many of the other punk albums of the period.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Jobson/Adamson unless indicated otherwise.
| Side One | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | “Into the Valley” | 3:17 | ||||||||
| 2. | “Scared To Dance” | 3:19 | ||||||||
| 3. | “Of One Skin” | 2:29 | ||||||||
| 4. | “Dossier (of Fallibility)” | 3:31 | ||||||||
| 5. | “Melancholy Soldiers” | 3:02 | ||||||||
| 6. | “Hope and Glory” | 3:17 | ||||||||
| Side Two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 7. | “The Saints Are Coming” | 2:41 | ||||||||
| 8. | “Six Times” | 2:10 | ||||||||
| 9. | “Calling the Tune” | 4:03 | ||||||||
| 10. | “Integral Plot” | 2:39 | ||||||||
| 11. | “Charles” (1979 re-recording, composed Adamson) | 2:43 | ||||||||
| 12. | “Scale” | 4:43 | ||||||||
Personnel
- Richard Jobson — vocals / guitar
- Stuart Adamson — guitars / vocals
- William Simpson — bass guitar / vocals
- Thomas Kellichan — drums
With:
- Chris Jenkins — guitar
- David Batchelor — keyboards
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