THE FIRST GRAMMY NOMINATED SONG FROM DUNFERMLINE??

This is an EP by The Skids that I've been looking to post for ages.  I've long had all the songs available digitally, but was determined to wait until I got my hands back on the original vinyl before doing so.  It was only a £1 in a second-hand shop the other day - bargain!! - although it is a bit worn out and crackly nor is it the original red vinyl.


mp3 : The Skids - The Saints Are Coming
mp3 : The Skids - Of One Skin
mp3 : The Skids - Night & Day
mp3 : The Skids - Contusion

These four tracks made up the Wide Open EP, released in October 1978. It was the band's second release for Virgin Records and it reached #48 in the charts.  Four months later, band and label hit payola with the truly magnificent Into The Valley - which I made #22 in my all time favourite singles rundown back in 2008

Three of the four tracks are among my favourites the band ever recorded - I'm particularly fond of the stop-start nature of Of One Skin which shows the band were always going to be capable of being more than just another run-of-the-mill new wave guitar band.  (In case you're wondering its Contusion that leaves me a wee bit underwhelmed)

Oh and just in case you wanted to sing along, pogo and play air guitar to Of One Skin:-

Beware, little one knowledge
Inside, you seem to acknowledge

Traced the case of your family path
A maritime captain escaped the last laugh


Deep little one ponder
Sleep you seem to discover


Meandered the track of a right-angled road
Vesuvius my sheba erupted and gored


Silk little one slender
Certain part of the gender


A mother, a father, a brother, a son
A pyramid of love remembered you are the one


Beware little one knowledge
Inside do you acknowledge
 
Quite........
 
But I dont think anyone ever thought that a somg written by Stuart Adamson and Richard Jobson would one day be nominated for a Grammy....

That however, was what happened to The Saints Are Coming thanks to U2 and Green Day joining forces to record a version to raise funds for a charity linked to helping the city of New Orleans recover further after Hurricane Katrina. The choice of song came about as a result of the bands performing at a New Orleans Saints NFL match in September 2006, the first played in the city after the hurricane, some 13 months after the tragedy.

Knowing that I'd more than likely get a dmca for posting the cover, here instead is the promo:-



 
Happy Listening