The Proclaimers - Sunshine On Leith POLL

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Sunshine On Leith 6
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) 4
Then I Met You 3
I'm On My Way 3
Cap In Hand 2
My Old Friend The Blues 1
Teardrops 1
It's Saturday Night 0
What Do You Do? 0
Come On Nature 0
Sean 0
Oh Jean 0


Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Sunday, 23 March 2014 23:13 (eleven years ago)

I remember "cap in hand" most fondly. I dug this record, don't really have a sense of how these guys are remembered except as "the 500 miles dudes" but I remember how much they put into their Letterman appearance - they looked like they wanted to reach absolutely everybody watching, it was cool to me.

(or if you must, "data") (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 24 March 2014 00:08 (eleven years ago)

I worked in a kitchen with an ageing scots diabetic part time chef (summers chef, winters santa claus) who told me jokes and stories and sang showband and threw his teeth out in front of the waitresses (each heartbreakingly more beautiful than the last in the way waitresses of 16 are when you are 13 and have never spoken unprompted to an unrelated girl) and swore at the radio more often than not, and once when the proclaimers came on he cocked his head and malevolently eyed that device and called over to where i was mopping or sweeping or chopping or scrubbing or whatever and that call went "Da-ra! Ye ken those boys? Ah ken those boys. Pair a wee cunts"

Voted 500 miles in the absence of letter frae america.

treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Monday, 24 March 2014 01:28 (eleven years ago)

Teardrops. It sounds closest to their first album so is less maudlin and corny as the rest and they stumbled onto some interesting lyrics. Mostly it's an okay album though. Good for car journeys.

everything, Monday, 24 March 2014 06:56 (eleven years ago)

probly the title track, darragh is right tho, none of these is "Letter from America"

cultural opinions (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 March 2014 07:17 (eleven years ago)

The only English speaking band I ever worked with that required a translator. Literally.

Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Monday, 24 March 2014 07:32 (eleven years ago)

haverin to you, eh?

POO: the blossom or full flower of the evening (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 March 2014 07:37 (eleven years ago)

I don't think it's close to 'This is the Story' (which is an amazing album imo, 1 of the great debuts), but still a pleasure.

Going to pick Sean because that is my name. Might go 500 Miles otherwise - with that & Letter f. America, i find it cheering that a pair of twins who seem perpendicular to pop-star-ness have written 2 modern standards.

woof, Monday, 24 March 2014 10:04 (eleven years ago)

I voted for 'Then I Met You', fwiw. Was that a single? It should have been!

Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:21 (eleven years ago)

Voted 500 miles in the absence of letter frae america.

start your own This Is The Story poll

Charles, hatless (sic), Monday, 24 March 2014 23:30 (eleven years ago)

I was just wondering the other day if these guys were good, I've never heard them except for that movie from last year which was fuckin waste

every moser (wins), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 07:54 (eleven years ago)

cap in hand. i listened to the proclaimers so much growing up, the tapes to the first three albums were constantly playing in our car. i always liked the lyrics to cap in hand, especially the Saskatchewan bit.

Isaiah "Ice" McAdams (cajunsunday), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 10:06 (eleven years ago)

'Cap In Hand' of course being very timely, with all the recent talk of Scottish independence and all that.

Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:15 (eleven years ago)

Went for the title track over 'Cap in Hand'.

I hate how '500 Miles', which I'm sure I once liked, has become this horrible end of night Scottish party huddle-along thing, usually coupled with Runrig's 'Loch Lomond'

two bunny rabbits on mushrooms singing Proclaimers songs (onimo), Thursday, 27 March 2014 23:33 (eleven years ago)

title track. bit cloying but cracking nonetheless. one of the more unlikely football songs too.

Rave Van Donk (jim in glasgow), Friday, 28 March 2014 03:36 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 29 March 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

I think the result is right - I like the boozy sing-a-ling-ness of it.

The Whittrick and Puddock (dowd), Sunday, 30 March 2014 01:50 (eleven years ago)

At the risk of guitar nerdery, the Jerry Donahue guitar part on "then I met you" is all time

Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Sunday, 30 March 2014 02:47 (eleven years ago)

At the risk of guitar nerdery, the Jerry Donahue guitar part on "then I met you" is all time

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Sunday, March 30, 2014 2:47 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That funky lick?

Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Sunday, 30 March 2014 03:16 (eleven years ago)


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