Scared to Dance

by Skids

Scared to Dance cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 February 1979
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 53:34
  • Community rating: 3.66/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: David Batchelor, Bill Simpson, Stuart Adamson, Richard Jobson, Tom Kellican

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Spearheading the Scottish punk explosion, the band's debut album masterfully combined raw aggression with incredibly grand, soaring musicality. The record is profoundly defined by Stuart Adamson's highly distinctive, bagpipe-imitating guitar style and Richard Jobson's dramatic, passionately declaimed vocals. The anthemic 'Into the Valley' became a massive hit, cementing the album as a crucial, uniquely Celtic contribution to the late-70s punk landscape.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, political, DIY, old-school, high-energy

Tracklist

  1. Into The Valley (3:19)
  2. Scared To Dance (3:17)
  3. Of One Skin (2:26)
  4. Dossier (Of Fallibility) (3:30)
  5. Melancholy Soldiers (3:02)
  6. Hope And Glory (3:16)
  7. The Saints Are Coming (2:37)
  8. Six Times (2:10)
  9. Calling The Tune (4:02)
  10. Integral Plot (2:38)
  11. Charles (2:48)
  12. Scale (4:42)
  13. Sweet Suburbia (2:32)
  14. Open Sound (1:52)
  15. TV Stars (1:44)
  16. Night And Day (2:37)
  17. Contusion (2:43)
  18. Reasons (2:07)
  19. Test Tube Babies (2:03)

Credits

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