The Skids - Into The Valley

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The Skids gave us anthemic choruses and strident guitars but they also gave us that weird way of dancing that Richard Jobson had like a cat skipping on a hot tin roof while can canning.  Good though when no one else was dancing as you looked like a one man dance machine as you copied Jobbo's as opposed to Jacko's steps. Come to think of it Stuart's guitar shapes were kinda weird with the guitar and lower half of body moving as one with knees shut tightly and feet nailed to the floor.

Jobbo's sartorial know how also seemed strangely underdeveloped. Whether the Captain Scarlet uniform and boots for Into The Valley complete with monogrammed RJ on his top or those Top Of The Pops television appearances with the dashing double breasted army jacket for Masquerade or that hideous yellow thing for Charade that fellow Scot Sheena Easton must have leant him he had the knack for picking clothes. But nothing compared to some of the inscrutable lyrics he came out with God bless him. For your enjoyment we present some images of Jobbo and the lyrics to Into The Valley. Lord knows what 12 years old must have thought when they opened up Smash Hits to find this!
Into The Valley 
Into the Valley
Betrothed and divine
Realisations no virtue
But who can define
Why soldiers go marching
Those masses a line
This disease is catching
From victory to stone

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Out of concealment
Blank and stark eyed
Why so uncertain
This culture deceives
Prophesised, brainwashed
Tomorrow's demise
All systems failing
The placards unroll

Ahoy! Ahoy! Land, sea and sky
Ahoy! Ahoy! Boy, man and soldier
Ahoy! Ahoy! Deceived and then punctured
Ahoy! Ahoy! Long may they die

Time for the audit
The gathering trial
A collectors dilemma
Repositioned and filed

 

Into The Valley

Charade

Masquerade

Charade
Stranger still was this email I received explaining Into The Valley. Perhaps it was all about this then...The Skids are from Dunfermline in Scotland and Into The Valley is about going into a small village nearby for a fight basically. Anyone who lives in Dunfermline (me included) will tell you walking through Valleyfield is a VERY bad idea! But im 16 so don't know the time but know i'd get jumped down there!  27.10.2003

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