Skid (album)

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Skid
Skid - Skid Row.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1970
Genre Hard rock [1]
Label CBS (Europe)
Epic (US and Canada)
Producer Clifford Davis
Skid Row chronology
Skid
(1970)
34 Hours
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]

Skid is a 1970 debut album by Irish band Skid Row featuring guitar virtuoso Gary Moore. Released in October 1970, it made #30 on the UK album chart.

Contents

Track listing

Side One
  1. "Mad Dog Woman" – (Brendan Shiels)
  2. "Virgo's Daughter" – (Shiels)
  3. "Heading Home Again" – (Shiels)
  4. "An Awful Lot of Woman" – (Shiels)
  5. "Unco-Up Showband Blues" – (Shiels, Gary Moore, Noel Bridgeman)
Side Two
  1. "For Those Who Do" – (Shiels, Moore, Bridgeman)
  2. "After I'm Gone" – (Shiels)
  3. "The Man Who Never Was" – (Shiels, Moore, Bridgeman)
  4. "Felicity" – (Moore)

Personnel

Skid Row

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References

  1. "Special Merit Picks". Billboard . 28 August 1971. p. 50. ISSN   0006-2510.
  2. Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.  248. ISBN   978-1894959025.