The Skids - Virgin Years

Six CD set. This fantastic box contains 113 tracks covering the Virgin Records career of acclaimed New Wave legends The Skids. Disc 1 is the #19 charting debut LP Sacred To Dance complete with eight bonus tracks and including the hit singles Sweet Suburbia (#70) and The Saints Are Coming (#48) and Into The Valley (#10). The 2nd disc features the original Days In Europa album which hit #32 back in 1979 and includes hit 45's like Charade (#31) and Working For The Yankee Dollar (#20) as well as the bonus of a version of Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes from a BBC Radio 1 Kid Jensen session. Disc 3 is the #9 charting The Absolute Game album complete with the bonus Strength Through Joy LP. Includes UK hit singles Circus Games (#32), Goodbye Civilian (#52) and Woman In Winter (#49). The band's 4th album Joy has never before been issued on CD so here it is on Disc 4 along with six bonus tracks! Disc 5 sees for the first time on CD the remixed version of the Days In Europa album which includes the hit single Masquerade (#14). Also included is the BBC In Concert show from March 1979. Disc 6 is another Skids collectors dream - all five of the bands sessions for John Peel! The 21 tracks include many never re-recorded by the band and all are appearing here on CD for the first time. Add in a detailed 40 page booklet with detailed sleeve notes by band devotee Tim Barr and all overseen by the official website and you have the ultimate Skids release!