Some skits are great and some are terrible, but one thing I can guarantee you is that nobody wants to listen to them as often as they want to listen to their favourite songs.  I think on vinyl it wasn’t as irritating because you can do a needle drop, or even on tape people were always fast forwarding even on their walkmans to get to what they wanted to hear, but on CDs it was ANATHEMA.

Whoever sequenced CDs for major labels never figured out that if you put a skit at the beginning of a song, everyone will want to die forever.  Obviously we are all thinking of 36 Chambers right now.  Sure it is a bonding experience that all of us know the whole “torture” skit by heart, and can mockingly ask “is he is he is he dead,” and we all know to have Ghost’s Killer tape if he lets you hold it… but I HATED HAVING TO FAST FORWARD ON ALL THE GOOD TRACKS.  Jesus Christ I probably didn’t even hear “Method Man” (the song) until 1994.

The rule with skits has to be that unless they have their own discrete track (ideal), they come at the END of any track they may be attached to.  Then you can SKIP.

On the album Dust To Dust by Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich (the astute will note that this is 3rd Bass without MC Serch), an innovative technique was employed where a brief skit prior to track 7 (I think?) showed up as being part of track 7, but if you skipped to that track you went straight to the song.  I guess every CD track has a spacer section - remember when we used to burn CDs and the default was a two second gap? - and they put the sound in that gap, and that was brilliant.  And no-one else ever figured out that that was the way to go.  And it was the greatest tragedy.

And yeah that’s how I feel about skits apparently.