Skids - Working For The Yankee Dollar

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Working For The Yankee Dollar video

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  • As sang on Never Mind The Buzzcocks...

    "We're all tooled up in Upminster well into the Soft machine,

    Soap on a rope and an endoscope and a can of Mr. Sheen"

  • Love it great music Great band and then you have Stuart Adamson

    Lead singer in one of the best live bands of all time Big Country

    William Stuart Adamson R.I.P Born 11 April 1958(1958-04-11)

    Died 16 December 2001(2001-12-16) (aged 43)

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  • My mate's claim to fame was doing the Richard Jobson high-kick dance throughout this entire song without spilling a drop of beer from his pint glass in his donkey jacket pocket.

  • An early-ish fusion of guitars and synths. Always been my favourites Skids track. RIP Stuart.

  • In the words of the amazing Phil Jupitus, fron S05E02 of Never Mind The Buzzcocks:

    Sorry man but the party's crap, I wish I'd never been,

    Soap on a rope, an endoscope and a can of Mr. Sheen,

    He's in bed, and the bar is dead,

    In a Tudor's schoolboys gin,

    We're tooled up in Upminster, cus they're into the soft machine,

    GARY BARLOW! GARY BARLOW!

    Never Mind The

  • and check out those chix!

  • I'm overseas miles away from my Skids collection - raised on the band - goosepimple stuff - effing fantastic - never has the cricket sweater been so popular!!

    Thank goodness for YouTube! Tonight will be spent with a bottle of rum and the playlist and this sad old git reminiscing til the wee hours............

  • @robotnickspingas Imagine any of the bands then getting signed now? Cowell and Co na thoses were Golden days Skids iconic and brilliant .

  • takes me back to uk gold in the early 90s

  • class group and a brilliant sound , why dont we have this sound now?

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