The Skids - Charade

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Memories!



[nicodagger]

wow...the lead singer here looks a lot like the lead singer from the band "Big Country"...that's weird...

[SKOTP69]

I've been watching Brideshead Revisited on tele, and thinking about this whole era, and this is a perfect embodiment of the connection of that nostalgia and Post-Punk creativity!

[mossvalemac]

Classic Skids Dunfermlines and Scotlands finest Punk Band! Class act R.i.p Big Stewart.

[08thistle]

grew up with the skids, top class!

[7deacons]

Richard Jobson, Stuart Adamson & William Simpson with Alistair Moore

[LouRoff1]

first single I ever bought still fab , that and the Jam ,Smithers Jones.

[blade0954]

classic song,still adore it,as much when i bought it in 1979

[MobiusBandwidth]

what a fun vid, I'd never seen this one, thanks! RIP Stuart, no one can touch your genius.

[mongo88now88]

agreed. I'm from Toronto and will forever remember The Skids from 1982 and then BC. Stuart struck me. I'm older now of course and still listen to 'Close Action' and 'Charles'.

[sailintonothing]

Yeah, interesting comment about the golden brown video, seen them both a million times and never made that connection, good point. Only down side of that video to me is that its a shame we dont get to see stuart adamson playing the guitar enough, its essentially a really good guitar song to me, great vid all the same,

[jon3m2007]

Clasic song With a "Clasic" very, very cleaverly thought out video (thankfully we never had a video when it was out) ROFL!

[myriadmind]

The Stranglers ripped off this video with theirs of Golden Brown

[SuperMonty007]

Awesome !

[bigcountrygeorge]

my favourite skids song.

its a shame cause im only 13 so i never got the chance to see them or big country )-:

[MobiusBandwidth]

@bigcountrygeorge at least you have great taste in music George!

[grecian300]

The guitar has attitude. A cross between Bill Nelson and Steve Jones, love it.

[ZLUGGO]

One of the best songs ever by one of the best bands ever.

[liv4aco]

loving stuart on the violin :P

he's actually pulling it off pretty well - i've seen people in big budget feature films do a crappier job

[inettoavivere]

that's sooo true!

and we have bunches of mainstream bands putting out videos where they pretend to play their own songs with their own instrument and fail. sad.

[OiOiRudy]

you got good music taste, respect ;-)

cheers n Oi!

[DrHoldowicz]

The Skids -Brilliant !

My favorite single was "Working For The Yankee Dollar".

[r8ltl]

i tore the baws out of my pvc trousers trying to copy jobson

[bfbjr]

Go Stuart!

[JustaScotsman]

great band saw them at the apollo in glasgow in 1979, only went off them when Richard Jobson chucked it and became a male model..!

[blade0954]

fantastic band, their debut album"scared to dance" is a masterpiece,saw this song on multi coloured swap shop i think it was,check out the title track from the album,you can easily get a compilation of their hits from most music stores

[colincky]

brilliant band , fife produces great people.

[ZLUGGO]

One of the best songs ever.

[iposters]

My 1st record was Masquerade! Purchased for £1 from Woolworths in Stowmarket on my 13th Birthday 30th June '79

Still have it. One of my most cherished items.

[willstrong00]

amazing..my birthday is 30th June 66, and i also have this record although most likely stolen from Woolworths Derby in the same year!

[Ettrick8]

did you manage to get the special edition one ?

[ray1bradbury]

Only just discovered the Skids in the last 5 minutes - ah Youtube, what riches do you NOT offer?!

Loving this band! 5/5 Cheers

[rockingmods]

Stuart Adamson R.I.P

The Skids were and still are the dogs bollocks!

PEACE N LOVE FOR EVEYONE

[Aaron50001]

SHIT HOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZLUGGO]

One of the best bands ever.

[No1Charade]

Ok thanks for the song. It is of course all about me Charade x

[lollygaggle]

I too really liked The Skids but have no clue what is being sung about, apart from 'charade', I don't understand one single word. Don't matter though.

[djvambo]

Remembering Stuart, he would have been 50 yrs old today. RIP....

[kangtheconqueror]

Stuart Adamson was a very distinctive player. Sadly missed, K.

[ryanspeed]

A very distinctive guitar player indeed! Like you, I miss him also! :(

[Dannsaid]

stuart adamson, we miss you!!

[dw1d13]

They were brilliant

[Jonno228]

Excellent. Thanks for posting this!

[bradyirishguy]

i like how he just dances about and doesnt give a shit who sees, thats a cool guy

[mart6456]

ahhhh,memories of my youth

[Ettrick8]

absolutely, did you ever see them in concert?

[mart6456]

yes,newcastle city hall,i had a full length leather coat on at the concert thought i was bees knees,but prob looked like a complete prick lol.

[Ettrick8]

I saw them twice at the Glasgow Apollo in the 70s, I too looked like a complete prick trying to copy Jobson's dance moves : )

[mart6456]

lol great group though,good times.

[shanejacobus]

Yeah, I'm definitely going to have to buy their records on eBay sometime since they are not available in my local music stores.

[BobMonkfish]

Kind of cool, but very eighties, and slightly camp too!

[mike1800S]

Yeah but thats because music was fun back then and bands could take the piss out of themselves, now their all serious - and talentless

[BobMonkfish]

To be fair, bands still take the p out of themselves (travis covering Britney Spears etc). I could almost see Jobson smoking like Noel Coward in the video.

[JBTEvans]

I'm with you there, Stuart stopped playing for BC when people were fighting and went to talk to them and then went back on stage and acted as if nothing had happened - who does that nowadays eh?

[Swordman401]

RIP Mr. Adamson

[krausy]

Omigosh---how cool is that? Thanks so much for sharing this.

[macaroon4]

this is phenomonal *****+

[Allyclark]

Brilliant!