A Truer Sampler 01 - Southern Culture On The Skids

Ok, so here's the first sampler.....one of my favorite groups....Southern Culture On The Skids, or as the fans call them SCOTS. Now let me just preface this by saying that when I was around 12 or 13 I used to steal my sister's hair metal tapes, and tape over them with my boom box that sat in the headboard of my bed. Now I would always just tape stuff off the radio that I thought was cool, and typically I would end up taping stuff off the local college station. This was always late at night too and if you've ever listened to college radio you know that they play some pretty weird stuff, especially late at night. Well I had a bunch of these tapes, and my favorite was a taped over Night Ranger tape that had this bad ass song about a mexican wrestler who was also a super hero at night.

Fast forward a few years, and I had completely forgotten about those tapes. I hear this cool song on the radio (different station this time) about little debbie cakes and snack crackers. So I search it out and find out it's a group called Southern Culture On The Skids. I go buy the CD "Dirt Track Date" and loved the hell out of it...used to cruise around to it in my old LTD with the discman plugged into the tape deck. Naturally I start collecting their back catalouge....and find stuff that just keeps getting better and better....songs about wrestling bears & eatin' biscuits and chicken shit. Then I get a newly released EP of some early tracks, it was called Viva Del Santo....I walk out of the local record shop (RIP) plop it in my discman...and holy shit! it's that song I taped off the radio about the mexican wrestler! Pretty Cool I thought.

They became one of my all time favorite bands, and if you've never seen them live you really need to, one of the (if not the) best shows I've ever seen.

Now the way I'm gonna do these samplers is to try my best to put at least one song from every album an artist or group has. On this one though I did not include a song from their very very early first album (from 1985) cause they weren't really the same band then, and I didn't include one from the "Zombified" EP cause well....I kinda ran out of room and the songs weren't as strong as others. Also, the songs I pick are based purely on my tastes, and nothing else.....so if you think something is missing or don't like what I picked, well.....they are just songs I like and think other people should hear.

Buy There Stuff Here

http://www.scots.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Culture_on_the_Skids

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ATS01 - Southern Culture On The Skids