The Whole Nine Yards Ep 217 23.3.25 Skin with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 217                                                                                              

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 23rd March 2025 3-5pm

http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Skin

Skin is a hugely important symbol in music and lyrics because it represents both physical and emotional boundaries.

Skin is the point of physical connection, making it a common metaphor for love, attraction, and desire.  It can offer protection but is also a point of vulnerability, someone can be both thick and thin skinned..

Songs about skin can refer to racial identity, social justice, or cultural pride and shedding skin or occupying a “new” skin can symbolise rebirth or hope for the future.

Skin is the crossing between our internal and external selves, offering artists a way of exploring love, identity, and emotional strength. We’ve all got skin in the game..

Hour One

Frank Sinatra – I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Songs for Swingin’ Lovers 1956)

Siouxsie & The Banshees – New Skin (Unreleased Showgirls version) (The Rapture 1995 / re-issued 2014)

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Perfect Skin (Rattlesnakes 1984)

Bruce Springsteen – American Skin (41 shots) (High Hopes 2014)

Foo Fighters – Live-In Skin (There Is Nothing Left To Lose 1999)

The Gits – Second Skin (Frenching the Bully 1992)

Athlete – Somewhere Beneath My Skin (The Getaway EP 2009)

Wishbone Ash – In The Skin (Nouveau Calls 1989)

Peace – Perfect Skin (Happy People 2015)

Manic Street Preachers – As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin) (Rewind The Film 2013)

The Boo Radleys – Wishing I was Skinny (Giant Steps 1993)

Hour Two

The Beautiful South – This Old Skin (Golddiggas: Headnodders & Pholk Songs 2004)

Dry the River – Animal Skins (Shallow Bed 2012)

The War On Drugs – Old Skin (I Don’t Live Here Anymore 2021)

Bradford – Skin Storm (30 Years of Shouting Quietly 1989)

Rag’n’Bone Man – Skin (Human 2017)

David Kushner – Skin And Bones (The Dichotomy 2024)

Dijon – Skin (Sci-Fi 1 EP 2018)

Bat For Lashes – Skin Song (Body of Songs 2014)

Sade – Skin (Soldier Of Love 2010)

Breeze Redwine – Under Your Skin (Breeze Redwine EP 2020)

Death Cab for Cutie – Summer Skin (Plans 2005)

Billie Eilish – Skinny (Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024)

Aurora – Some Type Of Skin (What Happened to the Heart? 2024)

Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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