SKIDS – Boy, Man and Soldier: Skids 1978 – 1981 – 5CD Box Set

Description

Limited Edition 5CD Setbeautifully presented in 7X7 Super Deluxe packaging.

With their breakthrough hit Into The Valley in 1979, Dunfermline,Scotlands premier export Skids quickly rose to become one of the mostrespected and popular bands to emerge from the UK punk and new waveera. Founding members Richard Jobson (vocals) and Stuart Adamson(guitars) were a dynamic combination up front (Adamson went on to evengreater commercial success when he later founded Big Country) while thebands tight, taut sound was grounded by the William Simpson on bass and
first Tom Kellichan and later Mike Baillie on drums.

Into The Valley had actually come on the heels of a trio of cult-appeal earlysingles Charles, Sweet Suburbia, and The Saints Are Coming, allconsidered classics today, while its success saw chart follow ups with thelikes of Animation, Masquerade, Working For The Yankee Dollar, CircusGames and Goodbye Civilian. Always considered up there with thegreatest among their peers The Jam, Siouxsie And The Banshees, and TheStranglers, for example both singles and albums showcased an intelligenceand literate sensibility as well as musical innovation and awesome power.
On stage they were simply dynamite.

The 5-disc Boy, Man & Soldier: Skids 1978 – 1981 collection brings togetherthe vast majority of the Skids recorded output from the glory years 1978 1981. It includes the albums Scared To Dance, both the original mix ofDays In Europa and its 1980 remix version, The Absolute Game and Joyplus all of the bands non-album singles, in their edited single forms, alongwith B-sides and single and 12 edits.

Beautifully presented in 7X7 Super Deluxe packaging, Boy, Man andSoldier comes fully illustrated with original sleeve art from the era marriedto a new design by Phillip Marshall and original cover shot by VirginiaTurbett.

Also available: Land, Sea & Sky: Skids Singles 1978-1981. 1LP Blue Vinyl.

Tracklist:

CD1: Scared To Dance
1. Into The Valley (3:19)
2. Scared To Dance (3:17)
3. Of One Skin (2:24)
4. Dossier (of Fallibility) (3:31)
5. Melancholy Soldiers (3:02)
6. Hope And Glory (3:17)
7. The Saints Are Coming (2:38)
8. Six Times (2:10)
9. Calling The Tune (4:03)
10. Integral Plot (2:39)
11. Charles (Re-Recorded Version) (2:48)
12. Scale (4:43)
13. Charles (Original 1978 Version) (2:35)
14. Reasons (2:08)
15. Test Tube Babies (2:04)
16. Sweet Suburbia (2:32)
17. Open Sound (1:53)
18. Night And Day (2:39)
19. Contusion (2:43)
20. TV Stars (Live At The Marquee Club) (2:08)

CD2: Days In Europa (1979 Mix)
1. Animation (4.50)
2. Charade (4.02)
3. Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori) (4.07)
4. Pros And Cons (3.20)
5. Home Of The Saved (5.07)
6. Working For The Yankee Dollar (4.55)
7. The Olympian (3.31)
8. Thanatos (4.07)
9. A Day In Europa (3.03)
10. Peaceful Times (5.05)
11. Masquerade (2.47)
12. Out Of Town (4.09)
13. Another Emotion (3.01)
14. Aftermath Dub (2:59)
15. Grey Parade (4:38)

CD3: Days In Europa (1980 Mix)
1. Animation (Remix) (4:32)
2. Charade (4:02)
3. Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori) (Remix) (4:41)
4. The Olympian (Remix) (3:28)
5. Home Of The Saved (Remix) (4.43)
6. Working For The Yankee Dollar (Remix) (3:39)
7. Thanatos (Remix) (4:00)
8. Masquerade (Remix) (2:45)
9. A Day In Europa (Remix) (2:58)
10. Peaceful Times (Remix) (5:04)
11. Vanguards Crusade (4:39)
12. Working For The Yankee Dollar (Live From The Hammersmith Odeon)(5.00)
13. Monkey McGuire Meets Speccy Potter Behind Lochore Institute (2:53)

CD4: The Absolute Game
1. Circus Games (3:52)
2. Out Of Town (4:09)
3. Goodbye Civilian (4:18)
4. The Children Saw The Shame (3:42)
5. A Woman In Winter ( 5.55)
6. Hurry On Boys (3:43)
7. Happy To Be With You (3:37)
8. The Devils Decade (5:33)
9. One Decree (3:26)
10. Arena (5:29)
11. Goodbye Civilian (Single Version) (3:30)
12. A Woman In Winter (Single Version) (4:04)
13. Strength Through Joy
14. An Incident In Algiers (3:24)
15. Grievance (3:23)
16. Strength Through Joy (1:50)
17. Filming In Africa (3:42)
18. A Man For All Seasons (1:50)
19. Snakes And Ladders (3:59)
20. Surgical Triumph (2:04)
21. The Bell Jar (2:53)

CD5: Joy
1. Blood And Soil (4:01)
2. A Challenge (The Wanderer) (6:12)
3. Men Of Mercy (1:12)
4. A Memory (5:17)
5. Iona (6:54)
6. In Fear Of Fire (0:43)
7. Brothers (3:14)
8. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (5:32)
9. The Men Of The Fall (6:15)
10. The Sound Of Retreat (3:08)
11. Fields (4:32)
12. Iona (7 Mix) (5:07)
13. Blood And Soil (7 Mix) (3:12)
14. Brave Man (7 Mix) (3:38)
15. Fields (7 Mix) (3.32)
16. Brave Man (12 Mix) (6:43)