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| THE SKIDS: Don't you forget us #13
Thirteenth instalment in my forgotten/dismissed/underappreciated Post-Punk bands list series: Cheesy and worn out Scots, whom the time hasn't shown mercy to. Even in spite of Trisomie 21's coldwave synthiness or half of the featured bands here obvious primary genre being New Age, this is without a doubt the least Post-Punk band here. | | 7 |  | The Skids
Burning Cities
The Skids made their return that nobody was asking for in 2017 with an album nobody listened to with style and delivery nobody found appealing a priori. The reason they came back was trivially political. They reassembled to deliver a message of confused socio-political frustration. But none of the presented ideas, musical or thematic, are developed into anything particularly full or self-aware. It's just a strange echo of once popular band...
Go-to tracks: This Is Our World, Subbotnik, Desert Dust | | 6 |  | The Skids
The Absolute Game
This album sees the Skids at their cheesiest and most accessible. And sure, accessibility was never something the band would avoid, but on here it reaches its astronomical high. So in the end this album somehow manages to be two polar opposites at the same time. It is both the band's most ambitious and catchy record, but at the same time their most musically obnoxious and pompous one as well.
Go-to tracks: Circus Games, Arena, The Children Saw the Shame, Hurry On Boys | | 5 |  | The Skids
Days in Europa
An anomaly in the Skids' discography. An album, which evokes no real emotions, positive or negative. It just sort of exists in some sort of obscure astral plane inbetween, where it does no good, but no damage either. At the end of the day, I don't think I like it more than some of the albums ranked lower, but it definitely doesn't infuriate me as much as those others. It is just that, the inconsequential.
Go-to tracks: Dulce Et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori), Thanatos | | 4 |  | The Skids
Scared To Dance
This album contains the band's most outstanding and illustrious work, the song The Saints Are Coming. That track strikes with beauty, poetry and one of the most killer choruses ever conceived. It is such an outlandish effort that it adds plus points to this otherwise banal album. Nevertheless, at the beginning of their career their energy was still at its high and that is why this album sounds as fun and off-the-hook as it does. The simple songwriting mixed with the riff-blasting instrumentation works wonders and leaves a certain mark of likeability.
Go-to tracks: Into the Valley, Melancholy Soldiers, Hope and Glory, The Saints Are Coming, Charles, Scale | | 3 |  | The Skids
Charles
At the beginning of their career, the Skids were just your usual energetic, fun-loving punk band that didn't pretend to be anything larger-than-life. This EP is steaming with lightness. It is nothing grandiose or overwhelming. And the band didn't have the necessity to be anything of the sort, and the listeners don't have the need to listen to anything of the sort either. It's just a good-timer EP, nothing more.
Go-to tracks: Charles, Test Tube Babies | | 2 |  | The Skids
Joy
Much like Days in Europa was an anomaly, because it did absolutely nothing, Joy is an anomaly too, but this time due to the fact that it is unlike anything in the band's discography. It is disjointed, musically conceptual and instead of ambitious, it is self-aware. The songs have a strange flow. They don't try to appeal to you and they don't try to be likeable. They are simply said music. Not a means of earning money, but a means of creating art. Joy is probably the Skids' best album, because of how much they delved away from their usual sound and how little resembleance this album's songwriting has to their usual. The songs don't have a regular verse/chorus structure, but rather a singular progression, based around a build-up.
Go-to tracks: A Challenge (The Wanderer), A Memory, Iona, Brothers, The Men of the Fall | | 1 |  | The Skids
Wide Open
It is questionable, whether this actually is the Skids' best release. A mere four-track EP with two songs already appearing on their debut album. But this EP has the raw energy of their previous Charles EP but also teh striking riffs they would go on to be known for. Besides, the four-tracker doesn't suffer from empty and unfulfilled ambitions. It is just a damn good punk EP.
Go-to tracks: The Saints Are Coming, Night and Day | |
Papa Universe
02.08.18 | This was supposed to come out earlier, but upon revisiting the band's discography I realised two things: 1. I don't like them as much anymore; and 2. I don't have a lot to write about. And that's why it took as long as it did.
Beginner's Guide:
The Saints Are Coming
Into the Valley
Charles
A Challenge (The Wanderer)
Arena
Night and Day
Test Tube Babies | SandwichBubble
02.08.18 | These discog lists give me strength. And putting an EP as a band's best is nothing to be ashamed of, I do it occasionally | Papa Universe
02.08.18 | brevity is their strength | SandwichBubble
02.08.18 | Might jam it today then! Good stuff as always | DoofusWainwright
02.08.18 | Full marks for the skids? | Papa Universe
02.08.18 | by full marks you mean 5s or are you referring to something else? | zakalwe
02.08.18 | into the valley THE VALLEY THE VALLEY
tune | SandwichBubble
02.08.18 | checked 1, first two songs were a lot better than the last two. | Papa Universe
02.08.18 | yes
the second half is slightly more relaxed and bass-y | SandwichBubble
02.08.18 | You know, I forgot I even listened to their first album... No wonder they sounded familiar lol | butcherboy
02.09.18 | 1 is 1.. band fizzled pretty fast (like a lot of similar 'cross the pond punk bands) |
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