Skid row
A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, inhabited by the poor, the homeless, and/or others considered disreputable and forgotten by society. The term skid row may be applied variously to anything from an impoverished urban district to a red-light district to a gathering area for the homeless. It can even be applied figuratively indicating not a physical location but rather the fact the state of a poor person's life. In general, though, skid row refers to areas inhabited or frequented by marginalized individuals (typically marginalized by poverty though drug addiction, bigotry, and/or other factors may be at play as well). Urban areas considered skid rows often feature cheap taverns, dilapidated buildings, and drug dens as well as other features of urban blight.
The term skid road originally referred to the path along which timber workers skidded logs. Its current sense appears to have originated in the Pacific Northwest. Areas identified by this name include Pioneer Square in Seattle;Old Town Chinatown in Portland, Oregon;Downtown Eastside in Vancouver; Skid Row in Los Angeles; the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; and the Bowery of lower Manhattan.
Skid row (disambiguation)
A skid row is a part of a city known for high vagrancy and poor maintenance.
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Skid Row also may refer to:
Bands:
- Skid Row (American band), heavy metal and post-1985
- Skid Row, 1987 name for Nirvana (band)
Titled works:
- Skid Row (album), American
- Skid Row or Skid (album), Irish
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Skid Row, Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°02′39″N 118°14′38″W / 34.044232°N 118.243886°W / 34.044232; -118.243886
Skid Row is an area of Downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the population of the district was 17,740. Skid Row was defined in a decision in Jones v. City of Los Angeles as the area east of Main Street, south of Third Street, west of Alameda Street, and north of Seventh Street. Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations (between 3,000 and 6,000) of homeless people in the United States.
Etymology
The term "skid row" or "skid road", referring to an area of a city where people live who are "on the skids", derives from a logging term. Loggers would transport their logs to a nearby river by sliding them down roads made from greased skids. Loggers who had accompanied the load to the bottom of the road would wait there for transportation back up the hill to the logging camp. By extension, the term began to be used for places where people with no money and nothing to do gathered, becoming the generic term for a depressed street in a city.
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Skid Row
ALBUMS
- Skid released: 2007
- Skid Row / 34 Hours released: 2006
- Live and on Song released: 2006
- Gary Moore / Brush Shiels / Noel Bridgema released: 2000
- 34 Hours released: 1990
- Skid Row (Dublin Gas Comy) released: 1987
Skid Row
1987-04-17: Out of Order / Toy Train Crash Backside Bone Beefcake Show, KAOS-FM Olympia Community Radio, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA
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ALBUMS
- Rise of the Damnation Army (United World Rebellion: Chapter 2) released: 2014
- The Best Of released: 2014
- Slave to the Grind released: 2011
- Revolutions Per Minute released: 2006
- Thickskin released: 2003
- 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row released: 1998
- Subhuman Beings on Tour!! released: 1995
- Subhuman Race released: 1995
- Doin' the Business released: 1991
- Skid Row released: 1989
- 2003-10-18: The Rock Nightclub, Maplewood, MN, USA released:
- Hollywood Rocks 1992 released:
- Live in Brasil: Rio de Janeiro 22/01/92 released:
40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row
Released 1998- Youth Gone Wild
- 18 and Life
- Piece of Me
- I Remember You
- The Threat
- Psycho Love
- Monkey Business
- Quicksand Jesus
- Slave to the Grind
- Into Another (remix)
- Frozen (demo, 1994)
- My Enemy (remix)
- Breakin' Down (remix)
- Beat Yourself Blind (live, 1995: Astoria, London, UK)
- Forever (previously unreleased 1988)
- Fire in the Hole (demo, 1991)
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Released 1991- Slave to the Grind
- Here I Am
- Psycho Love
- Riot Act
- I Remember You
- Sweet Litte Sister
- Get the Fuck Out
- Monkey Business
- Peace of Me
- 18 and Life
- Youth Gone Wild
- Makin' a Mess (29.10.1989 Gothenburg)
- Big Guns (29.10.1989 Gothenburg)
- Rattle Snake Shake (29.10.1989 Gothenburg)
- Youth Gone Wild (29.10.1989 Gothenburg)
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by: Herman BroodThe swiftest fingers play for money
the best are tangled up in minds
The sweetest sisters come down to connin
they buy no truth of any kind
Senile mothers woo their spittin' sons
hunky husbands sell their pounds of flesh
the most sung song is sixteens tons
only trash is good for cash
Send me y'r greetings, sweet sweet love
commend me if I need to be heaven above
Y'r socalled friends just drain y'r brain
to be a star in conversation
the clap trap rows on Lover's Lane are
only meant to keep you on probation
Shoot y'r shit & shoot y'r stinkin' lip
you find no way to score a solid hit
try everything now to prove y'r hip
you're gonna end up the final stupid flip
Send me your greetings, sweet sweet love
commend me if I need to be heaven above
but leave me, please leave me
with the scum & the junkies
on skid row, where all names are delusive
skid row, where all pain is exclusive
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