Scared To Dance (studio album)
by Skids

Scared To Dance by Skids
Year: 1979
Overall rank: 13,819th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 28 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1979 (179th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,883rd)
Award Best albums of all time (13,819th)

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Skids bestography

Scared To Dance is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by Skids on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Skids is Days In Europa which is ranked number 11425 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 102.

Skids album bestography « Higher ranked (11,425th)
Days In Europa
This album (13,819th)
Scared To Dance
Lower ranked (33,885th) »
Burning Cities

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Scared To Dance track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Scared To Dance ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 28 votes)
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10/13/2025 13:30 Tamthebam  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 22,83369/100
 
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06/11/2025 20:52 gordystevie16  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 9582/100
 
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03/25/2025 18:01 LittleM1971  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 5,78781/100
 
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04/22/2024 17:30 TonySayers61  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 22,74164/100
 
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03/04/2024 21:57 Sumbody  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,68476/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.9.

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80/100
From 01/18/2019 15:20
Into the Valley and The Saints are Coming are the well known singles from this album, but my favourite is the title track. Underrated.
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From 04/14/2012 09:13
It is strange that despite them being from just down the road in Fife and Into the Valley being such a great song, I hadn't listened to this album. After listening, it doesn't stand the test of time too well. It sounds dated in places and apart from Into the Valley, the songs are not that strong.
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