Skids | Virgin Years | CD Box Set

Skids is a Scottish punk band formed in Dunfermline in 1977 by Richard Jobson, Stuart Adamson, William Simpson and Tom Kellichan. Rusty Egan replaced Tom Kellichan in 1979, and Russell Webb and Mike Baillie joined after William Simpson left. The band disbanded after Stuart Adamson left in 1981 and reformed in 2017.

The Virgin Years is a box set compilation of six CDs released by Caroline International in Europe on 19 November 2015. Five of the discs are album reissues, and the set also includes BBC In Concert recordings from March 1979 and Peel Sessions from 1978 to 1980. Producers credited across the set include John Leckie, Bill Nelson and Tony Wilson, and Bruce Fairbairn is credited with a remix.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Into the Valley
2. Scared to Dance
3. Of One Skin
4. Dossier (Of Fallibility)
5. Melancholy Soldiers
6. Hope and Glory
7. The Saints Are Coming
8. Six Times
9. Calling the Tune
10. Integral Plot
11. Charles
12. Scale
13. Sweet Suburbia
14. Open Sound
15. Night and Day
16. Contusion
17. T.V. Stars
18. Charles
19. Reasons
20. Test Tube Babies

Disc 2

1. Animation
2. Charade
3. Dulce Et Decorum Est
4. Pros & Cons
5. Home of the Saved
6. Working for the Yankee Dollar
7. The Olympian
8. Thanatos
9. A Day in Europa
10. Peaceful Times
11. Out of Town
12. Another Emotion
13. Aftermath Dub
14. Grey Parade
15. Vanguards Crusade
16. All the Young Dudes (Kid Jensen Session)

Disc 3

1. Circus Games
2. Out of Town
3. Goodbye Civilian
4. The Children Saw the Shame
5. A Woman in Winter
6. Hurry On Boys
7. Happy to Be With You
8. The Devil's Decade
9. One Decree
10. Arena
11. Circus Games (Single Version)
12. Goodbye Civilian (Single Version)
13. Monkey McGuire Meets Specky Potter
14. An Incident in Algiers
15. Grievance
16. Strength Thru Joy
17. Filming Africa
18. A Man for All Seasons
19. Snakes and Ladders
20. Surgical Triumph
21. The Bell Jar

Disc 4

1. Blood & Soil
2. A Challenge (The Wanderer)
3. Men of Mercy
4. A Memory
5. Iona
6. In Fear of Fire
7. Brothers
8. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
9. The Men of the Fall
10. The Sound of Retreat
11. Fields
12. Iona (7" Version)
13. Blood & Soil (7" Version)
14. Iona (7" Version 2)
15. Fields (7" Version)
16. Brave Man (7" Version)
17. Brave Man (12" Version)

Disc 5

1. Animation
2. Charade
3. Dulce Et Decorum Est
4. The Olympian
5. Home of the Saved
6. Working for the Yankee Dollar
7. Thanatos
8. Masquerade
9. A Day in Europa
10. Peaceful Times
11. Of One Skin
12. Melancholy Soldiers
13. Scared to Dance
14. Integral Plot
15. Scale
16. Into the Valley
17. The Saints Are Coming
18. Night and Day
19. Walk On the Wild

Disc 6

1. Of One Skin
2. Open Sound
3. Contusion
4. Night and Day
5. TV Stars
6. Dossier of Fallibility
7. Hope and Glory
8. Six Times
9. The Saints Are Coming
10. Summer
11. Hang On to the Shadows
12. Zit
13. Walk On the Wild Side
14. War Poets
15. Withdrawal Symptoms
16. Hymn from a Haunted Ballroom
17. Masquerade
18. Filming Africa
19. An Incident in Algiers
20. Circus Games
21. Snakes and Ladders