Fanfare (compilation)
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Fanfare is the title of the first compilation album released by Scottish punk
and new wave
band Skids, on Virgin Records
in 1982, shortly after the group dissolved. Despite being a compilation, it doesn't contain any tracks from the band's fourth and final album Joy.
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
and new wave
New Wave music
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band Skids, on Virgin Records
Virgin Records
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in 1982, shortly after the group dissolved. Despite being a compilation, it doesn't contain any tracks from the band's fourth and final album Joy.
Side 1
- "Into The Valley"
- "Working For The Yankee Dollar"
- "Sweet Suburbia"
- "A Woman in Winter"
- "Masquerade"
- "The Saints Are ComingThe Saints Are Coming"The Saints Are Coming" was the third single by the Scottish punk rock band Skids, featured on their 1979 debut album, Scared to Dance. The song became an international #1 hit when it was covered in 2006 by Green Day and U2...
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