Skid
Skid or Skids may refer to:
Comics, games and amusements
Music
See also
Skids (Transformers)
Skids is the name used for four characters in the Transformers Universes. Due to trademark reasons, the name was modified to "Skid-Z" for it to be used on new characters and an "Autobot" prefix was added when the original Skids toy was reissued and when he became an Alternator.
Transformers: Generation 1
As with many early Transformers toys, Skids' toy was previously released in a Takara toy line named Diaclone. The toy originally included a scooter which could fit inside his vehicle mode but this was omitted when the toy was released as a Transformer.
Skids was characterized as the perfect absent-minded warrior. Highly intelligent and always collecting data, Skids is nonetheless always daydreaming. He is a scientist first and foremost, and has made many valuable discoveries. Skids genuinely hates the war he finds himself caught up in, but for now is forced to continue in the Autobot army.
Reception
Skids was voted the 10th top Transformer who was bad ass in the comics by Topless Robots.
Skids (band)
Skids were a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline, Fife in 1977 by Stuart Adamson (guitar, keyboards, percussion and backing vocals), William Simpson (bass guitar and backing vocals), Thomas Kellichan (drums) and Richard Jobson (vocals, guitar and keyboards). Their biggest success was the 1978 single "Into the Valley" and the 1980 album The Absolute Game.
History
Early years (1977–1979)
Skids played their first gig on 19 August 1977 at the Bellville Hotel in Pilmuir Street, Dunfermline, Scotland. Within six months they had released the Charles EP on the No Bad record label, created by Sandy Muir, a Dunfermline music shop owner turned manager. The record brought them to the attention of national BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. This led to a local gig supporting The Clash. Virgin Records then signed up Skids in April 1978. The singles "Sweet Suburbia" and "The Saints Are Coming" both made commercial inroads, before "Into the Valley" reached the UK Top 10 singles chart in early 1979. The band released their debut studio album, Scared to Dance, the same year. It was recorded at The Townhouse Studios in London, England with production and keyboards by David Batchelor. Adamson walked out towards the end of the sessions before all the guitar overdubs were completed. Session guitarist Chris Jenkins was chief maintenance engineer at Townhouse studios and completed the album using Adamson's studio set up, adding additional guitar to four tracks – "Into the Valley", "Integral Plot", "Calling the Tune" and "Scared to Dance". In the meantime Adamson returned to Scotland while the recording was finished. He rejoined the band for the live concert tour promotion of the album. The record included "The Saints Are Coming", which was later covered in late 2006 as a charity single by U2 and Green Day.
Podcasts:
The Skids
ALBUMS
- The Singles Collection 1978-1981 released: 2012
- Masquerade Masquerade: The Skids Live released: 2007
- Into The Valley: The Best Of The Skids released: 2005
- Into The Valley: The Best Of The Skids released: 2004
- The Very Best Of released: 2003
- The Greatest Hits of Big Country and The Skids released: 2002
- Days in Europa released: 2001
- Dunfermline released: 1987
- Fanfare released: 1982
- Joy released: 1981
- Strength Through Joy released: 1980
- The Absolute Game released: 1980
- Scared to Dance released: 1979
- The Saints Are Coming: The Best of The Skids released:
Masquerade Masquerade: The Skids Live
Released 2007- Circus Games
- Out of Town
- Melancholy Soldiers
- Animation
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Of One Skin
- Working for the Yankee Dollar
- Hurry on Boys
- A Woman in Winter
- Charade
- The Devils Decade
- The Saints Are Coming
- Happy to Be With You
- Into the Valley/Sloop John B
- Will Ye Go Lassie Go
- Masquerade
- Scared to Dance
- Charles
- Sweet Suburbia
- Night and Day
- Reasons
- TV Stars
The Very Best Of
Released 2003- Charles
- Sweet Suburbia
- Into the Valley
- Goodbye Civilian
- Walk on the Wild Side
- The Saints Are Coming
- Working for the Yankee Dollar
- Charade
- All the Young Dudes
- Melancony Soldiers
- TV Stars
- Snakes and Ladders
- Circus Games
- Animation
- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
- Masquerade
- Fields
- Hymns for a Haunted Ballroom
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Thanatos
by: SkidsThe chateau bursts in seething red
As hour glass waits to count the dead
Knowing, leering and standing by
Enveloped, dwellers await to burn and cry
Thanatos, thanatos
All scruples fell in form aground
While buildings slid without a sound
Charred, smouldering and ridden through
Woman chant in another shrew
Thanatos, thanatos
And shackles met amid the rain
As sandfloors fed into disdain
Singing, chanting and looking on
Haunted hymns from a ballroom throng
Thanatos, thanatos
Thanatos
Can`t you see
Thanatos
I`m so lonely
Thanatos
Can`t you see
Thanatos
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