Sunshine on Leith/This Is the Story [Import]

Sunshine on Leith/This Is the Story [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Limited edition box-set combines the Scottish pop/rock duo's 1988 & 1987 albums. Slipcase. EMI. 2004.

Sunshine on Leith/This Is the Story,Proclaimers,EMI,Pop,Rock/Pop

This Is the Story//Sunshine on Leith//Hi
Average customer rating:

Proclaimers Grate

I'm just gonna have to learn to hesitate .....

Amazing Songs, Amazing Lyrics

This Is the Story//Sunshine on Leith//Hi
Proclaimers
Manufacturer: Emi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
General | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004XNFR
Release Date: 2000-09-04

Tracks:

Throw The 'R' Away
Over And Done With
Misty Blue
The Part That Really Matters
(I'm Gonna) Burn Your Playhouse Down
Letter From America
Sky Takes The Soul
It Broke My Heart
The First Attack
Make My Heart Fly
Beautiful Truth
The Joyful Kilmarnock Blues
Letter From America

Tracks:

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Cap In Hand
Then I Met You
My Old Friends The Blues
Sean
Sunshine On Leith
Come On Nature
I'm On My Way
What Do You Do
It's Saturday Night
Teardrops
Oh Jean

Tracks:

Let's Get Married
The More I Believe
What Makes You Cry
Follow The Money
These Arms Of Mine
Shout Shout
The Light
Hit The Highway
A Long Long Long Time Ago
I Want To Be A Christian
Your Childhood
Don't Turn Out Like Your Mother

Album Details

Three Classic Albums in One Slipcase Presentation.

Customer Reviews:

Proclaimers Grate.......2003-05-30

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." It flows more poetically to the music than it may to read. 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 ............2001-05-27

..... 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.......2001-03-01

Before buying these albums I only knew the song "I would walk 500 miles". While it's a good song the rest of the songs on these albums blow it away. 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.