Disco de The Proclaimers: “This Is The Story/Sunshine On Leith/Hit The Highway”

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.

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.