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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Charles | |||
| 2. Reasons | |||
| 3. Test-Tube Babies | |||
| 4. Sweet Suburbia | |||
| 5. Open Sound | |||
| 6. The Saints Are Coming | |||
| 7. Of One Skin | |||
| 8. Night And Day | |||
| 9. Contusion | |||
| 10. Into The Valley | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Working For The Yankee Dollar | |||
| 2. Vanguard s Crusade | |||
| 3. All The Young Dudes | |||
| 4. Hymns From A Haunted Ballroom | |||
| 5. Animation | |||
| 6. Pros And Cons | |||
| 7. Circus Games | |||
| 8. One Decree | |||
| 9. Goodbye Civilian | |||
| 10. Monkey Mcguire Meets Specky Potter Behind Lochore Institute | |||
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Product Description
(2CD) All A & B-sides. 33 remastered tracks from Scottish new wave punks featuring Stuart Adamson (Big Country).
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
This release includes the b-side Pros and Cons, but when it comes to everything else, it's pros all the way
24 Jan 2012
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Captain Oi has been a great servant in keeping the Skids' back catalogue alive and fresh on CD in recent years and now comes its pièce de résistance to date, a compilation of every a- and b-side spanning two discs housed in a robust cardboard clamshell box. Inside, the two discs come in separate sleeves and are joined by a 19 page booklet.
As far as memory serves, all songs present are correct versions faithful to the original singles. Iona is an interesting case. There's the seven minute album version and then two different single edits of around three and five minutes. The decision was taken to go with the five-minute version here. It's considered the rarest and the other version was primarily for radio, so it sounds like the smart choice to me. For the completists there are debut appearances on CD (to the best of my knowledge) for Brave Man and the alternate version of Blood and Soil. The booklet, meanwhile, contains images of every front and rear sleeve in addition to an array of handy liner notes for each release, much like the information on Iona I just nicked from it. Ha!
A total success as a package and a welcome addition to any fan's collection. Now all we need is for a set that has all the singles on separate discs in their own replica sleeves. Just saying.... hinting... call it what you want...
As far as memory serves, all songs present are correct versions faithful to the original singles. Iona is an interesting case. There's the seven minute album version and then two different single edits of around three and five minutes. The decision was taken to go with the five-minute version here. It's considered the rarest and the other version was primarily for radio, so it sounds like the smart choice to me. For the completists there are debut appearances on CD (to the best of my knowledge) for Brave Man and the alternate version of Blood and Soil. The booklet, meanwhile, contains images of every front and rear sleeve in addition to an array of handy liner notes for each release, much like the information on Iona I just nicked from it. Ha!
A total success as a package and a welcome addition to any fan's collection. Now all we need is for a set that has all the singles on separate discs in their own replica sleeves. Just saying.... hinting... call it what you want...
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Hats off to Captain Oi! for the splendid job they've done on this. It can't be faulted.
It's a shame that all this has been ruined by Amazon's inability to pack 'fragile' items sensibly.
My copy arrived squashed thanks to them cramming it in a card outer wrap. I now have to go through the whole debacle of returning it and finding a Collect+ outlet!
It's a shame that all this has been ruined by Amazon's inability to pack 'fragile' items sensibly.
My copy arrived squashed thanks to them cramming it in a card outer wrap. I now have to go through the whole debacle of returning it and finding a Collect+ outlet!
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great collection
10 Mar 2012
Format:Audio CD
great collection of the skids singles in a nice box with a nice booklet, as we all know this band was almost pre big country but instead of the new wave sound of big country this was a really good late 70s punk band, though the skids did not stir up as much attention as say the damned or the clash they deserve a place in punk history, the remastering on this cd set is awsome and the booklet very informative, the skids only lasted a few years until big country formed in mid 1981 and then the skids where pretty much done but in just 3 short years they sure left there mark on the punk scene without all the media hype and attention some of the others got, great package here............
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