The Skids - Working For Yankie Dollar

[v12dot]

Cheers man :)

[selmerthegod]

You can hear Big Country coming in this if you listen to the guitar.

[sxe2910]

thanks for the answer...

[sxe2910]

This one is the single version remix or the album version?

[skatertumen]

good band) just found them. Why i fucking born after time of music?

[essertpitay]

We are all working for the Yankee dollar.

[JoeStunner]

Stuart Adamson was one of the first people who made me want to pick up a guitar. Why he isn't rated higher is one of life's injustices. RIP Stuart.

[muzpunk]

@HurryOnBoys But I like trifle!

[aggoodfella]

this is for all liverpool fans

[sidandmoi]

UNDERRATED!!!

[bananasplitsable]

Got this EP.

[JackDMC]

Break Beat !

[JackDMC]

Breakbeat !

[jon3m2007]

Jobson u fkin queen - Stu wouldnt have cancelled Inverness!

[WoWnerdCasper19]

lol, i was so curious as to why the skids arnt as popular as they could be, until now i had not seen any of their vids, lol the music is good but the videos are garbage xD

[punkrockenpunk]

anyone got tabs for this

[BigWoodyAllen]

Respects to Richard Jobson!!!!!

[1semilong]

He looks more like rambo on a bad day, ludwig..

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

Loved this track as a kid...However when lead singer first comes on he looks like B A Robinson...By the way, I knocked It Off by B A Robinsons on hear somewhere...

[mightywhite41]

woodyfurball you talk shite and you are a twat...stu adamson learnt his chops in the skids and they were the best..you fucking moron

[woodyfurball]

Fook yir Politics, Skids were neva the best band, never will be, Big Country saw too that, Richards modelling career / utter nonsense talk took care of that. They were Brill tho

[mightywhite41]

I agree love the US but yanks are fat,lazy burger munching greedy bastards..nice folk though

[RufusRamen]

@mightywhite41

I personally hate fast food, it's something we should avoid. Everybody worldwide should avoid it, it's filth.

[nmbr57]

As an American, I would like to confirm that most of us are indeed as fat and lazy as you all think. And then there are a few of us who are quite sad about it (like myself), and not quite as lazy and fat as everyone else :)

I've never really cared for the term 'yanks'. It just ... doesn't sound right. Maybe it's just me.

[wyjpc5]

Yankees. A combination of the Dutch names Jan and Kees that were most common in New Amsterdam before it became New York.

[TheMantis1914]

fuck off bnp ,this is a music channel ,fuck off all political partys ...

[TheMantis1914]

too right mate , but lets not forget SKIDS best band ever ,or close ?

[dreadloackratahaaaa]

lol, exciting times when this came out, skinheads, rude boys and Harrington, and oxbloods.. what do we have today....? hoodies.. just a note I heard this is also Gordon browns fav song..

[andreaprodan]

Almost as bad as an XTC video!

[youthfulpunk15]

who doesnt think yankees are overrated arseholes course the skids saw it the clash with im so bored with the usa use yur brain they where slagging americanization of britain

[v12dot]

Go Frankie :)

[frankiethebear]

@v12dot no worries dood. nice bikes!!

[frankiethebear]

the digitalcollective, it's scots not scotts. we know that you turned up three years late in the fight against fascism; it would have been over a lot sooner, millions of lives would have been saved if your fellow countrymen had gotten off their fat arses sooner. we know that you bought and sold your countrymen for profit, denied one third of your population basic human rights until the end of the 60's. we know enough about yankees, more than enough.

[RufusRamen]

We had no reason too get involved in the second world war. We didn't like Fascism, but they didn't attack us. However we did fund the British with supplies.

About the basic human rights until the end of the 60's.

You guys can be labeled as Colonialist, you also where involved in slave trade, you have a fascist political party (BNP) and on a general level its not like people in Britain didn't have racist thoughts until the 60's

[animatetime]

Er Pearl Harbor? Japan had been an Ally of Nazi Germany.since at least 1936. Germany declared war on the US at the same time (though was not obliged to by any treaty).

[tonedial]

IBM Rented the nazis the equipment to track jews and dissidents across the nazi empire - Henry Ford was given a medal fir services renderedby the nazis.He sued the US government for bombing his german truck factories AND WON.Prescott bush had to be threatened with prosdecution before he would stop giving the nazis money.You only came into WW" to profit from the spoils.Fuck American Assholes who don't know their own nazi history.

[RufusRamen]

@tonedial Great Britain had Sir Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Facists. What about Edward the 8th?

Neville Chamberlin? He didn't support the Nazis but he was a pushover.

Basically saying, you can insult a country based on the acts of a few.

Most general americans are anti-facist, anti-communist, and very pro-democracy. Most americans aren't racist (some are, some Brits are too).

[BigCountryChic]

Miss you William Stuart!

[shanejacobus]

Why isn't this video played more often!?

[chrisw1267]

im 14 and i heard this song on the radio and i now love it lol =/

[IANSTONE1965]

saw big country in salisbury in early 1982 .. nobody had heard of them .. there must have been about 100 max there .. i decided to spread the work about the skids to people ...... out of town is awesome by the way !!!!!!!!!

[alastairjr40]

I always remember this song from 79.

[forestgumpaed]

did he form the armoury show after they disbanded,i know stuart admason(r.i.p.)went on to better things with big country.i just love into the valley,his dncing to it was a sight to be seen.brilliant band.

[2bsom1]

yeah i remember him dancin on top of the pops to into the valley,went out and bought the single,what a mug,

[Ruppelj]

If you're interested in finding out what they keyboard chap in this video is up to, type into You tube the following:

Ali Moore ex-Skids session piano player tinkering with Jazz

Enjoy!

[mightywhite41]

this song is about the debt the UK has owed the USA since WW2 financially..If it wasnt for them we would have been fucked!!!

[spizzardo]

First band I ever saw live after the Angelic Upstarts.

[IAmTheWalrus2008]

fekin awesome, love the intro!

[madjazz1]

went out the welsh game on sat, played this in the disco. I thought i was 18 again.What a song.

[mightywhite41]

still got all their vinyls,what a band..stuart adamson such a talent r.i.p

[punkz64]

what a fuck,in good band, what more can i say,

[stevemcdine]

I have the LP with the banned graphics...and I just noticed the famed Bill Nelson assisted with the production....how cool such a good band

[spizzardo]

Cheap trick Bill Nelson?if not who am I thinking of?

[Currybomb]

Left, Right, Salute! As Wire would have put it.

[scottykid5]

RIP Staurt THIS BAND SHOULD BE IN THE TOP 10 BANDS OF ALL TIME!!!

[pilchio]

what a brill song

[cacarl56]

The Skids were one of the most under appreciated band ever! So much talent in one place at one time!

[sidandmoi]

So true! And this is one of my fav songs from all times.

[BurkZerker]

In Germany, in 45 my mind was on the altar.

Thought of god the iron rod, and thoughts that needed shelter.

[muzpunk]

That's some 'DO' on Jobbo!!! top vid.

[Swordman401]

i like this version better then the single.

[socasre]

Thanks

[thunder63]

Even back then you could see Stuart Adamson was the STAR..

[peacepalestine]

god, they were great. I loved Sweet Suburbia, just a massive tune. Stuart was unique, always could recognise that riff. One like him will never come again.

[skyhopper007]

lmho. me too

[headlongthruthegloom]

This stuff sounds better to me now than it did back in

the old daze, and it sounded pretty damned good then.

[Swordman401]

ok thanks

[Swordman401]

anyone know if i can buy some of the skids old videos on dvd or vhs?

[sham64andahalf]

Go on Soulseek and download them off someone mate.

[jon3m2007]

@sham64andahalf - hey mate I dont get it - people ask these questions all time - why dont u just download em and splice em together - or cant u be arsed?

[shanejacobus]

Awesome! I'll definitely have to start collecting their albums, if I can find them. Guess my best option will be eBay.

[darkv8]

i thought exactly da same after listen the saints r coming dX hahahahahahhahahaha

[blakboyy]

excellent stuff from the skids but why is the video quite different from the released single 7" version.

[drlovepants]

marvellous

[mntmind]

Franco you are so wrong Midge never played with the Skids

[howdenender]

Thats not Midge Ure.

[FrancoDamn]

That guy wearing red clothes and playing the keyboards...isn't he a young Midge Ure? WFTYD is a 1980 or 79 song and Midge Ure had the Rich Kids haircut style yet (As i see in this video). He played in some Skids songs between Rich Kids and Ultravox.

[hulmsey]

just read they are playin in the uk again soon i fuckin deal

[keeoif]

Like the c u later looks on 2:01 .Hope they had their wheeaties.

[cejannuzi]

I'll bet that never got played on MTV--instead we got the Buggles 1,000,000 times. Hey, this has to be a fairly early example of the concept promotional video too, and certainly better than most of the ones from the 70s.

[r7coo]

this was the first ever single I bought

, great to hear it again !!!

[Mudge07]

Then there were thre..not Genesis but due to drummer change over from Tom Kellichan to the suave, dapper Rusty Egan on the recording side there were one short.

[SuperSaintGaz]

Great song by a great band...I am doing a project on the skids...can anyone help?

[tvslime]

Man this brings it all back lol...My first gig was The Skids at the legendary Glasgow Apollo way back in 1979.

R.I.P. Stuart...missed but not forgotten.

[noelpeirce]

Yep good band. And bollox, I never got to see them. Nobody from my village ever got as far as Bristol to see them, including me!!

I need a time machine.

PLEASE HELP!!!