Skids – The Absolute Game
(Virgin Records 1980 V2174/VDJ33)
Matrix No’s: A4/B3/A1/B2 – UK Pressing
Double Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Embossed Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some slight wear to edges/corners & light crease in top right corner
Lyric Insert in Nr MINT condition
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.
The Absolute Game is Skids’ 1980 third album (not counting the two different versions released of their second album, 1979’s Days in Europa) and was produced by Mick Glossop.
Track listing
Original album
All tracks composed by Skids unless indicated otherwise.
| Side One | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | “Circus Games” | 4:10 | ||||||||
| 2. | “Out of Town” (Jobson/Adamson) | 4:08 | ||||||||
| 3. | “Goodbye Civilian” | 4:15 | ||||||||
| 4. | “The Children Saw the Shame” | 3:40 | ||||||||
| 5. | “A Woman in Winter” | 5:40 | ||||||||
| Side Two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 6. | “Hurry On Boys” | 3:42 | ||||||||
| 7. | “Happy To Be With You” | 3:36 | ||||||||
| 8. | “The Devils Decade” | 5:42 | ||||||||
| 9. | “One Decree” | 3:23 | ||||||||
| 10. | “Arena” | 5:10 | ||||||||
Strength Through Joy
(limited-edition second disc available with initial copies)
All tracks composed by Skids.
| Side One | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | “An Incident in Algiers” | 3:55 | ||||||||
| 2. | “Grievance” | 2:58 | ||||||||
| 3. | “Strength Through Joy” | 1:59 | ||||||||
| 4. | “Filming in Africa” | 3:39 | ||||||||
| Side Two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 5. | “A Man For All Seasons” | 1:50 | ||||||||
| 6. | “Snakes and Ladders” | 4:01 | ||||||||
| 7. | “Surgical Triumph” | 2:13 | ||||||||
| 8. | “The Bell Jar” | 2:33 | ||||||||
Personnel
- Richard Jobson — vocals / guitar
- Stuart Adamson — guitars / vocals / keyboards / percussion
- Russell Webb — bass guitar / vocals / keyboards / percussion
- Mike Baillie — drums / vocals / percussion
With:
- Jude Nettleton — vocals
- Julius Newell — vocals
- Andrew Sigsworth — vocals
- John Sigsworth — vocals
- Alison Pipkin — vocals
- David Pipkin — vocals
- Hannah Yeadon — vocals
- Esther Marshall — vocals
- Chloe Dymott — vocals
- Marlis Dunklau — vocals
- Gracie Benson — vocals
- Sally Nettleton — vocals
- Harriet Bakewell — vocals
- Mary Volke — vocals
- Derek Wadsworth — didgeridoo
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