Skids - Scared To Dance album flac

Skids ‎– Scared To Dance. Genre: Electronic, Rock. Style: New Wave, Alternative Rock, Punk. Scared To Dance ‎(CD, Album, RE). Virgin, Virgin Japan. Scared To Dance ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, Pic). Virgin, Universal Music Catalogue. Scared To Dance ‎(3xCD, Album, RE, Box).

Album · 1979 · 19 Songs. Young Scottish punks The Skids kicked down doors with this 1979 debut by building upon a flair for huge, romantic-sounding choruses similar to those that U2 later took to the bank. Singer Richard Jobson, a tough son of a miner, had a militaristic quality to his vocals. The band’s hummable-if often cs (such as Charles, about a hapless worker in a dystopian factory who literally becomes his job) and muscular Kipling-esque yarns of soldiers in plight ( Melancholy Soldiers, Hope and Glory ) complemented the big guitars and hard rock arrangements well.

This 3CD version of the album comes with nine bonus tracks, a second disc with a dozen sought-after, previously unreleased 1978 studio demos and a third disc containing a late-1978 performance at London’s Marquee. There is also a 20-page booklet with lyrics and detailed liner notes.

The Skids' frontman remembers their legendary 'Into the Valley' performance on TOTP. More clips from Classic Album: The Skids' Scared to Dance. Classic Album: The Skids - Scared to Dance. It was very posh, but it was very cool" - Richard Jobson on The Skids signing to Virgin.

Skids - Scared To Dance. 4 people found this helpful. Listening to 'Scared To Dance' now, however, I realise he was right for the band. Their punk credentials rest mainly on Jobson, as the rest of the band could play rather better than most of their competitors. They could have substituted a hard rock vocalist like Ozzy Osbourne or Dan McCafferty for Jobson on certain tracks (the title track in particular) and no one would have thought they were listening to a new wave band. It isn't a perfect album by any means. Two or three of the songs in the second half of the original album don't have as much of an impact. In particular, 'Six Times' is too ambitious, the time signature changes being better left to the prog boys. Even so, it's one of the superior albums of its era.