Side B

Reception

Skin 'Em Up has received enthusiastic reviews from a number of notable publications. NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

and Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

both gave the album perfect review ratings, awarding it 10/10 and 5/5, respectively. Trouser Press

Trouser Press

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" ...

wrote, "The album pounds furiously, putting your average megawatt metal band to shame. Songs — mostly non-originals — zip by at a blinding rate; the record's only flaw is its brief running time. Then again, if brevity be the soul of this music, the Shakin' Pyramids are a rockabilly Ramones." Allmusic gave the album a 4.5/5 star rating, calling it an "Explosive bopping and mostly acoustic set from this Glasgow trio, which helped define the short-lived rockabilly revival of the early '80s."

Personnel

• The Shakin' Pyramids
  • Davie Duncan – lead vocals
    Singing
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    , harp
    Harp
    The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
    
    , percussion
  • James G. Creighton – guitar
    Guitar
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    , background vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
    
    
  • "Railroad" Ken McLellan – guitar, background vocals

• Additional
  • Nick Clark – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
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  • Brian Young – Engineer
    Audio engineering
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