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Proclaimers - This Is the Story//Sunshine on Leith//Hi Audio CD

A fair review of the Proclaimers "This Is the Story//Sunshine on Leith//Hi" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Proclaimers reviews here, or go back to the Proclaimers tabs.

Proclaimers Band: Proclaimers
Title: This Is the Story//Sunshine on Leith//Hi
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Release Date: 2000-09-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Throw The 'R' Away 2: Over And Done With 3: Misty Blue 4: The Part That Really Matters 5: (I'm Gonna) Burn Your Playhouse Down 6: Letter From America 7: Sky Takes The Soul 8: It Broke My Heart 9: The First Attack 10: Make My Heart Fly 11: Beautiful Truth 12: The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues 13: Letter From America 14: I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) 15: Cap In Hand 16: Then I Met You 17: My Old Friends The Blues 18: Sean 19: Sunshine On Leith 20: Come On Nature 21: I'm On My Way 22: What Do You Do 23: It's Saturday Night 24: Teardrops 25: Oh Jean 26: Let's Get Married 27: The More I Believe 28: What Makes You Cry 29: Follow The Money 30: These Arms Of Mine 31: Shout Shout 32: The Light 33: Hit The Highway 34: A Long Long Long Time Ago 35: I Want To Be A Christian 36: Your Childhood 37: Don't Turn Out Like Your Mother

Proclaimers Grate
" It flows more poetically to the music than it may to read. A comment on a previous review (above): I believe the actual words are, "and make sure my words on your Saxon ears don't grate. In other words, he is sarcastically saying he wouldn't want his accent to offend his Saxon neighbors (or whichever individual he may have written the song about). It reminds me of the clip in the Beatles' Anthology where John is told by an interviewer that ?Harold Wilson? (I think) couldn't understand a word he said, to which John replies in a toffee-nosed upper-crust imitation accent something like, "I really don't know what he's on about. . . he won't get my vote!"

Three fantastic Proclaimers' albums (every last song a winner), but hear the proclaimers first before you buy to make sure you like 'em.


I'm just gonna have to learn to hesitate .....
. . . . to make sure my words only Saxon ears obey.

I had "This is the Story" on audiocassette for about three million years, before I could decipher that line (from "Throw the 'R' Away"). The closest I could come to a feasible guess was "to make sure my words don't assassinate your pate," the Scottish accent of the Caledonian clown being -- it was supposed -- so painfully bad that each phoneme rained upon the head of the listener like a torrent of lethal hammer-blows. But it is "Saxon ears obey" and not "assassinate your pate".


Amazing Songs, Amazing Lyrics
While it's a good song the rest of the songs on these albums blow it away. Before buying these albums I only knew the song "I would walk 500 miles". The lyrics to the songs are fantastic and far more complex than you would guess. Sunshine on Leith and This is the Story are the better albums in this box set. Hit the Highway isn't bad but doesn't approach the other two in terms of quality. The Proclaimers are due to release a fourth album this July. I can't wait.


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