Skids Virgin Years CD Box Set

his fantastic box contains 113 tracks covering the Virgin Records career of acclaimed New Wave legends The Skids. Disc 1 is the #19 charting debut LP Sacred To Dance complete with eight bonus tracks and including the hit singles "Sweet Suburbia" (#70) and "The Saints Are Coming" (#48) and "Into The Valley" (#10). The 2nd disc features the original Days In Europa album which hit #32 back in 1979 and includes hit 45's like "Charade" (#31) and "Working For The Yankee Dollar" (#20) as well as the bonus of a version of Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes" from a BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen session. Disc 3 is the #9 charting The Absolute Game album complete with the bonus Strength Through Joy LP. Includes UK hit singles "Circus Games" (#32), "Goodbye Civilian" (#52) and "Woman In Winter" (#49). The band's 4th album Joy has never before been issued on CD so here it is on Disc 4 along with six bonus tracks! Disc 5 sees for the first time on CD the remixed version of the Days In Europa album which includes the hit single "Masquerade" (#14). Also included is the BBC In Concert show from March 1979. Disc 6 is another Skids collectors dream - all five of the bands sessions for John Peel! The 21 tracks include many never re-recorded by the band and all are appearing here on CD for the first time. Add in a detailed 40 page booklet with detailed sleeve notes by band devotee Tim Barr and all overseen by the official website and you have the ultimate Skids release!

Tracklist

» Into The Valley
» Scared To Dance
» Of One Skin
» Dossier (Of Fallibility)
» Melancholy Soldiers
» Hope And Glory
» The Saints Are Coming
» Six Times
» Calling The Tune
» Integral Plot
» Charles
» Scale
» Sweet Suburbia
» Open Sound
» Night And Day
» Contusion
» T.V. Stars (Live At The Marquee)
» Charles
» Reasons
» Test Tube Babies
» Animation
» Charade
» Dulce Et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)
» Pros And Cons
» Home Of The Saved
» Working For The Yankee Dollar
» The Olympian
» Thanatos
» A Day In Europa
» Peaceful Times
» Out Of Town
» Another Emotion
» Aftermath Dub
» Grey Parade
» Vanguard's Crusade
» All The Young Dudes
» Circus Games
» Out Of Town
» Goodbye Civilian
» The Children Saw The Shame
» A Woman In Winter
» Hurry On Boys
» Happy To Be With You
» The Devils Decade
» One Decree
» Arena
» Circus Games (7" Version)
» Goodbye Civilian (7" Version)
» Monkey McGuire Meets Specky Potter Behind Lochore Institute
» An Incident In Algiers
» Grievance
» Strength Thru Joy
» Filming Africa
» A Man For All Sessions
» Snakes And Ladders
» Surgical Triumph
» The Bell Jar
» Blood And Soil
» A Challenge (The Wanderer)
» Men Of Mercy
» A Memory
» Iona
» In Fear Of Fire
» Brothers
» And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
» The Men Of The Fall
» The Sound Of Retreat
» Fields
» Iona (7" Version 1)
» Blood And Soil (7" Version)
» Iona (7" Version 2)
» Fields (7" Version)
» Brave Man (7" Version)
» Brave Man (12" Version)
» Animation
» Charade
» Dulce Et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)
» The Olympian
» Home Of The Saved
» Working For The Yankee Dollar
» Thanatos
» Masquerade
» A Day In Europa
» Peaceful Times
» Of One Skin
» Melancholy Soldiers
» Scared To Dance
» Integral Plot
» Scale
» Into The Valley
» The Saints Are Coming
» Night And Day
» Walk On The Wild Side

This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.