I did not even know she was quear until Recently when I followed her on insta. I just brought there ablums. She is beautiful she has a gentle side as well thats what I liked about her.. So soft the so powerful.
You can very easily listen to Hedonism and follow it up with Weak. Both songs transcend time, space, race, gender, political and sexual and societal views. Truly songs for the ages.
If you haven’t screamed the lyrics to Weak at 2am in your car with tears pouring down your face, have you ever been truly heart broken?!
They are SUPER BIG in Italy, where Skin is considered a music goddess. I invite everybody to watch Skin's recent duet with an Italian singer on the Cohen's song "Halleluja". Look for "Santi Francesi con Skin cantano Hallelujah", and thanks me later.
@3:20 response to the "scary lesbian" stuff, I worked as a bouncer and security guard back in the day, and was working backstage at the Melbourne leg of the Filthy Lucre tour of the Sex Pistols. I had been guarding a door to the Sex Pistols dressing rooms etc, and at one point a tiny, bald afro-english kid walked past me. They took about 3 steps and stopped, turned around and asked if I needed anything. I told them I was fine, but thanks, and they insisted. Having no idea who they were , I said "if there is a can of coke sitting around, that would be awesome, but no stress". They walked off, then 2 minutes later walked past me into the Sex Pistols room (had the right pass) then came out shaking her head, walked over to a vending machine and started up a convo about how weird Australian plastic money was, ignoring my protests about them buying some random bouncer drinks out of their own pocket. Only thing scary I saw was how scarily nice she was. Intense, sure, but I wouldn't say scary.
I definitely admire Skin for her courage, her strength, her carisma, her being HERSELF. I suppose she had such a hard time because she was just way too much "ahead" for her time.
I never got the 'Angry Black Lesbian' thing Skin had thrown at her; to me she was an angry, fucked up, fucked over, betrayed, disappointed, vulnerable, tender, aggressive person fighting back in a generally shitty world. It seems most of us are, so why do we keep putting the tiny minority of cold, heartless, nasty, greedy bastards IN CHARGE OF US! Sunburnt and Paranoid; a stone cold classic.
One of my all-time favorite bands, nice documentary. But i`m surprised that Len Arran wasn`t metioned once, he had a huge influence on the band and co-wrote many of their hit singles.
Saw them live in Roskilde festival 98 I think It's still on of the best concerts I've been to And I've seen a few hundred of them just love live music It's there you get the soul of the band and what they're trying to convey to you as a listener And boy did they convey strength and passion in equal measures I can just close my eyes and see and feel the same right now FUCKING GREAT BAND ❤❤❤
You know, the lyrics may have been political for some songs, but the feeling was punk/rock and wasn't cheesy, it was rebellious and to be honest, refreshing. As a young white man into heavy metal, it was completely aligned with desire to get past the hypocracy of socieity. What a band
Literally who? Funny, how a "musician" makes their work entirely about how they look ("Skin"), rather than how they sound. Pro Tip: no one cares what you look like, if you can play. they can't play, or write. hence, the reliance on "muh identity". Fook off with the self-pity, victim complex. Nothing could be less "punk". There's no whining in Rock.
One of the things I love about this channel is how it always tells me something I never knew about the music I adore. Rod Stewart covered Weak?!? That blew my mind.
THE Original out standing TRAIL blazer …..there IS no way of putting a fire out , when the embers are still lit in the very heart and soul of any entity
Unless I missed something, there was no mention at all of Len Arran. Feels like his role in, primarily, the two first Skunk Anansie albums is mostly kept under wraps. Has Skin ever talked publicly about their song writing collaborations?
This band and this girl are gem. I love them from very first time I accidentally heard them as support of Lenny Kravitz concert which my girl wanted to see and I didn’t 😂 Skunk anansie and Skin are my all times favorites and true music landmark. 👍
I was lucky enough to see Skin perform a couple of times, I felt she came at a moment when vocal performance kind of didn't matter , she was underrated, She was the alternative Whitney, She had pipes.
Lol this band sounds so raw and hard even for pop, kinda like a heavier, punkier and far more genuine than Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill that was prob contemporary to it, so I was hoping not to hear “they were labeled as r and b or rap in the US”….and what do u know?? The freakin us market labeled them R&B doing pretty much everyone a huge disservice. I can ALMOST see how FKA twigs ended up with the “alternative r n b” label and probably would have if she was white, but there’s just no debating it here. This is NOT Jodeci or Alliyah lol
Edit: and u guys mentioned You Outta Know as well!
Why does my American self have no awareness of this act!?? Not such a bad thing however, since what’s better than discovering such a diamond that’s been off ur radar for decades and getting the chance to deep dive into something so awesome and established as if it were brand new??
Saw there guys at the Glasgow Barrowland, maybe 1996. My girlfriend at the time wanted to see them (I wasn't keen). They were amazing, one of the best live acts I ever saw. Skin's frontperson skills were off the dial.
So I grew up in the 80's and 90's in the States. There were quite a few British bands that were popular in the States. I'm so surprised Skunk Anansie was never popular here….at least not where I grew up. Skin is amazing. Her voice can be so hard and yet so soft.
Yay for Deborah Dyer (there's something I learned today). What a star, for having a moral compass, and the integrity to not take any bollocks from people who can't cope with a bit of diversity. And I see she even has an OBE these days. Cool, but uncool 🙂 Top band.
I swear, the reason no one thought to recommend this band to me as a teen was racism. When I told people I liked the music of Tool, Marilyn Manson, Dead Kennedys and NIN, but was looking for something with a female singer, no one recommended Skunk Anansie to me, and now that I’m finally learning about them, I’m pissed. I only found out about them through Bjork. Selling Jesus blew me away.
I saw them opening for Seven Dust and was blown away!! Never heard of them before that night but it got ugly…There was 3 young men early 20s 2 white and 1 black and a pack of racist skinheads just attacked this kid outta nowhere! My brother and I ( 40 and 45 .. shaved heads) jumped in on instinct and the kid was scared of me , traumatized and confused. I went to security and asked the police to escort the boys to their car NO HELP! We couldn't identify them "THEY LOOK LIKE ME" we got them to the car with a couple other fans.. The irony is s Both bands fronted by Black singers and are about unity?? I'll never forget that night and my brother and I taking on 5 ignorant punk's! Thanks, that's the condensed version too. Probably around 12 years ago
first discovered this band from the movie Strange Days. i remember going down to Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood and picking up Paranoid & Sunburnt a month or so later and haven't looked back since. this band still speaks to me on so many levels and makes me feel like I can do anything. Also, it's STILL fucking political 27 years later.
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@travisskuff7613
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
#NeverForget
@SheapChit
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
A very clear and concise analysis. Love it!
@fiona3821
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I did not even know she was quear until Recently when I followed her on insta. I just brought there ablums. She is beautiful she has a gentle side as well thats what I liked about her.. So soft the so powerful.
@Polar_Bear_Ron
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
You can very easily listen to Hedonism and follow it up with Weak. Both songs transcend time, space, race, gender, political and sexual and societal views. Truly songs for the ages.
If you haven’t screamed the lyrics to Weak at 2am in your car with tears pouring down your face, have you ever been truly heart broken?!
@vins1979
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
They are SUPER BIG in Italy, where Skin is considered a music goddess. I invite everybody to watch Skin's recent duet with an Italian singer on the Cohen's song "Halleluja". Look for "Santi Francesi con Skin cantano Hallelujah", and thanks me later.
@danilzakharov8712
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Please, make a video essay about Brian Eno!
@sweetnightmares2498
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
There needs to be a Brit Rock revival tour. Skunk Anansie, Therapy?, Terrorvision, Feeder all touring together would be epic.
@nathaniellamb2154
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
@3:20 response to the "scary lesbian" stuff, I worked as a bouncer and security guard back in the day, and was working backstage at the Melbourne leg of the Filthy Lucre tour of the Sex Pistols. I had been guarding a door to the Sex Pistols dressing rooms etc, and at one point a tiny, bald afro-english kid walked past me. They took about 3 steps and stopped, turned around and asked if I needed anything. I told them I was fine, but thanks, and they insisted. Having no idea who they were , I said "if there is a can of coke sitting around, that would be awesome, but no stress". They walked off, then 2 minutes later walked past me into the Sex Pistols room (had the right pass) then came out shaking her head, walked over to a vending machine and started up a convo about how weird Australian plastic money was, ignoring my protests about them buying some random bouncer drinks out of their own pocket. Only thing scary I saw was how scarily nice she was. Intense, sure, but I wouldn't say scary.
@emlyndewar
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
She’s such a badass. Absolute quality band.
@danielbreak4958
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I definitely admire Skin for her courage, her strength, her carisma, her being HERSELF. I suppose she had such a hard time because she was just way too much "ahead" for her time.
@acrodave9287
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Sunburnt and Paranoid! I know, idiot.
@acrodave9287
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I never got the 'Angry Black Lesbian' thing Skin had thrown at her; to me she was an angry, fucked up, fucked over, betrayed, disappointed, vulnerable, tender, aggressive person fighting back in a generally shitty world. It seems most of us are, so why do we keep putting the tiny minority of cold, heartless, nasty, greedy bastards IN CHARGE OF US!
Sunburnt and Paranoid; a stone cold classic.
@thorstenzetsche9730
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
One of my all-time favorite bands, nice documentary. But i`m surprised that Len Arran wasn`t metioned once, he had a huge influence on the band and co-wrote many of their hit singles.
@yvindwestersund9720
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Saw them live in Roskilde festival 98 I think
It's still on of the best concerts I've been to
And I've seen a few hundred of them just love live music It's there you get the soul of the band and what they're trying to convey to you as a listener
And boy did they convey strength and passion in equal measures
I can just close my eyes and see and feel the same right now
FUCKING GREAT BAND ❤❤❤
Just saying 🇧🇻
@user-is6zo5sr5r
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Justice for Skunk
@uberdonkey9721
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
You know, the lyrics may have been political for some songs, but the feeling was punk/rock and wasn't cheesy, it was rebellious and to be honest, refreshing. As a young white man into heavy metal, it was completely aligned with desire to get past the hypocracy of socieity. What a band
@KarlKarsnark
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Literally who? Funny, how a "musician" makes their work entirely about how they look ("Skin"), rather than how they sound. Pro Tip: no one cares what you look like, if you can play. they can't play, or write. hence, the reliance on "muh identity". Fook off with the self-pity, victim complex. Nothing could be less "punk". There's no whining in Rock.
@kinkyolga9668
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
This band blows my mind… post orgasmic chill cd was pure joy for me!
@robotjox77
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
One of the things I love about this channel is how it always tells me something I never knew about the music I adore. Rod Stewart covered Weak?!? That blew my mind.
@mgtowsimp9839
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
When dope was dope…. 😮
@veganvocalist4782
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
THE Original out standing TRAIL blazer …..there IS no way of putting a fire out , when the embers are still lit in the very heart and soul of any entity
@leafsonata
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I heard them on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack and her voice floored me! Such great energy.
@bimbo-yw6ny
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
to me is funk, rock, with points of metal. With her voices you could make slow romantic rock.
@Obeythebeard
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Unless I missed something, there was no mention at all of Len Arran. Feels like his role in, primarily, the two first Skunk Anansie albums is mostly kept under wraps. Has Skin ever talked publicly about their song writing collaborations?
@LambentOrt
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I absolutely ❤ Skunk Anansie!!!
@pangrac1
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
This band and this girl are gem. I love them from very first time I accidentally heard them as support of Lenny Kravitz concert which my girl wanted to see and I didn’t 😂 Skunk anansie and Skin are my all times favorites and true music landmark. 👍
@stuartcrowder1
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
#skunkanansie FOR EVER!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
@helpgirlimtrappedinthetestube
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
callin therapy? n ash british is a bold move 💀
@maldaror7097
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I was lucky enough to see Skin perform a couple of times, I felt she came at a moment when vocal performance kind of didn't matter , she was underrated, She was the alternative Whitney, She had pipes.
@IDontLikePplPlayinOnMyPhone
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Lol this band sounds so raw and hard even for pop, kinda like a heavier, punkier and far more genuine than Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill that was prob contemporary to it, so I was hoping not to hear “they were labeled as r and b or rap in the US”….and what do u know?? The freakin us market labeled them R&B doing pretty much everyone a huge disservice. I can ALMOST see how FKA twigs ended up with the “alternative r n b” label and probably would have if she was white, but there’s just no debating it here. This is NOT Jodeci or Alliyah lol
Edit: and u guys mentioned You Outta Know as well!
@IDontLikePplPlayinOnMyPhone
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Why does my American self have no awareness of this act!?? Not such a bad thing however, since what’s better than discovering such a diamond that’s been off ur radar for decades and getting the chance to deep dive into something so awesome and established as if it were brand new??
@larrydavid6852
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Saw there guys at the Glasgow Barrowland, maybe 1996. My girlfriend at the time wanted to see them (I wasn't keen). They were amazing, one of the best live acts I ever saw. Skin's frontperson skills were off the dial.
@carmaela2689
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
So I grew up in the 80's and 90's in the States. There were quite a few British bands that were popular in the States. I'm so surprised Skunk Anansie was never popular here….at least not where I grew up. Skin is amazing. Her voice can be so hard and yet so soft.
@-AnGeLuS-
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
See, Beyonce ain't that special. Skin was the first to do it. Period.
@xxwookey
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Yay for Deborah Dyer (there's something I learned today). What a star, for having a moral compass, and the integrity to not take any bollocks from people who can't cope with a bit of diversity. And I see she even has an OBE these days. Cool, but uncool 🙂 Top band.
@EdenHellCipher
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I swear, the reason no one thought to recommend this band to me as a teen was racism. When I told people I liked the music of Tool, Marilyn Manson, Dead Kennedys and NIN, but was looking for something with a female singer, no one recommended Skunk Anansie to me, and now that I’m finally learning about them, I’m pissed. I only found out about them through Bjork. Selling Jesus blew me away.
@ralphtarr5931
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
I saw them opening for Seven Dust and was blown away!! Never heard of them before that night but it got ugly…There was 3 young men early 20s 2 white and 1 black and a pack of racist skinheads just attacked this kid outta nowhere! My brother and I ( 40 and 45 .. shaved heads) jumped in on instinct and the kid was scared of me , traumatized and confused. I went to security and asked the police to escort the boys to their car NO HELP! We couldn't identify them "THEY LOOK LIKE ME" we got them to the car with a couple other fans.. The irony is s Both bands fronted by Black singers and are about unity?? I'll never forget that night and my brother and I taking on 5 ignorant punk's! Thanks, that's the condensed version too. Probably around 12 years ago
@stairway211
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
She sounds sorta like Melissa ethridge
@burningbothbinaries9889
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
saw them in 96 at the Arena in Middlesboro, a rough a crowd as you could ever find, they fucking destroyed it, everyone left as a fan!
@andrewcole7149
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
really enjoyed that. very good docu.
@twistedviewlabs
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
first discovered this band from the movie Strange Days. i remember going down to Virgin Megastore in West Hollywood and picking up Paranoid & Sunburnt a month or so later and haven't looked back since. this band still speaks to me on so many levels and makes me feel like I can do anything. Also, it's STILL fucking political 27 years later.
@LadyAstarionAncunin
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
The utter irony and cheek of America especially not accepting the band as rock because it has black people in it. MFkers, black people invented rock!!
@DukesMusic84
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Is it just me or did Willow totally rip off Skunk Anansie? Willow is fucking Will Smith's daughter, it's not the same, yeahhh.
@demianschultz3749
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Mouth
@mana3735
April 25, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Nah, they were just fucking awful.