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Continuing my trip back through the 1994 album charts.

08/05/94 : Skin - Skin


I assumed this was an album by Skin, the fearless black lead singer from Skunk Anansie, but it turns out it's a bit early for that, so instead we have an album by Skin, the slightly less intimidating pasty white British rock group instead. Who I'd never heard of, so who knows what this is going to be like...

OK - it's a very American rock sound in a Def Leppard/Bon Jovi kinda vein. And, if you're in the market for such a thing, I'd say this is well done with decent enough songs on it featuring some very decent guitar work. I, however, am rarely in the market for such things and I really didn't need 75 minutes of it - after half an hour, I was very ready for it to end. I can see they were filling a need for plenty of people though and I imagine they would have been fun live.

We're at #9 in the charts with a new entry this week at the start of a three week run and I don't think it will surprise you that this was as high as it got. The top five this week were Deacon Blue, Crash Test Dummies, (a new entry), Blur, Pink Floyd and Eternal with one more new entry in the top ten for a Dusty Springfield best-of (#6).

Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for the album and their entry isn't a lot more helpful - they formed out of London in the early 90s and they didn't actually have a fixed band name until the album was ready to release (despite having played loads of gigs). Their career highpoint came in '95 when they were selected to support Bon Jovi at Gateshead stadium - unfortunately, their career lowpoint came just before the gig when someone plugged their gear into a voltage converter set to US power levels and their guitar amp and Hammond organ suddenly ceased to work. The only other thing that jumps out is that their '92 single "Elected" featured Rowan Atkinson and Bruce Dickinson, which is a somewhat curious mix - there's no word on the critical or commercial performance of the album (but it obviously did well enough here). 

discogs.com tells us you're going have to spent four quid to get a decent version but if you want a copy signed by all the band members it's going to set you back a pricey £250! This isn't one for me but I can see it will bring back fun memories for people of my age or slightly younger and there's nothing wrong with it (except for the length).

01/05/94 - A puzzling one
15/05/94 - A bit boring really

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