@markyboythewolf Shut the fuck up you Rightie wanker, you don't know what WORK is, the hardest thing you ever do is pick up a fucking pen and live off other people's work.
@markyboythewolf Wow, It's interesting to see how many right wing Tory scumbags there are out there - more interested in preserving and enhancing their own wealth than ensuring that people all over Britain aren't left in poverty, working a number of jobs just to keep their family going. I am not a communist but maybe if you started thinking about someone besides yourself and voting in a way which will help everyone Britain then you might find that people will respect your views a bit more.
P.S - Trade Unions (not Unions - You as most likely a Tory like Unions, being a Unionist) Stop people being trampled on by their bosses, raped, abused verbally, sexually, racially and homophobically. They also stop people judging and offending people because of their political opinion. Now tell me that you think that is bad!
P.P.S - I am sure that the people who work in ASDA are nicer and work harder than you.
Maxmulham, the Bathgate, Irvine, Methil etc refers to the Tories shutting heavy industry down and decimating the country - hence the song is about fear of diaspora, of our best people continuing to leave us, as has so often happened in Scottish history.
@klytaimestra101 Trust me, I knew that. I am very familiar with the Thatcher era. Still though, I like to interpret songs my way even though that isn't exactly what the message the singer is trying to send. Sort of like Concrete's Blond's "Joey". It's suppose to be a love song but I see it as a mother-son relationship. Yeah, I guess you can say I'm weird.
I often wonder if this song's message is directed towards me. I'm a Nova Scotian with Scottish ancestry. When the guys sing "Bathgate no more, Irvine" and so on...., I can't help but get this sad feeling like my ancestors just threw thier culture right out the window and progressively adapting to the generic American lifestyle. It's kinda sad for me because I'll never what it's like to actually grow up and live in Scotland. Going there at my age wouldn't help either. Cause you gotta be born thar
@papoj1PVR You used to be able to. It's only been in the last 10 years or so that passengers are forbidden to board a plane with bottles containing more than 100ml of liquid each, coz terrorists discovered a way to make bombs in bottles of gasoline.
the highland clearances were not about people leaving to find work - it was that sheep were more valuable to the lairds than the crofters and the people were driven off the land - many making their way to Nova Scotia - cape Breton - from the Islands and the West coast.
@oldgirl1954 It was really about various things. At first it was about people leaving to better their conditions often only to be have the landlord's attempt to block their leaving (Address For Beelzebub by Burns lambasts MacDonald of Glengarry for stopping people who wanted to leave); then it was about people being moved to the coast in planned townships (like what happened in other parts of Scotland too) then eventually there was forced and often violent clearance too.
Firts heard this song in the film called the commitments, an Irish comedy! basically, there`s a guy drunk as a skunk on the stage and as he`s singing he falls off the stage!!!
@swisiekPL Yes, I am gay. So what. Some people are gay. Get over it. Most homophobes are closet cases anyway. At least we have the balls to bne honest and not live a lie like you probably do.
@ruadriob I dont give a shit either..youre missing the point. Fashion/hairstyles in the 80's were camp. The New Romantics (Duran Duran), soft rock (Motley Crue, Bon jovi)...They all looked like girls, but werent gay. Get off your high horse.
Craig and Charlie are from Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. this song is actually a political statement about the sell off of the British Motor Company to General Motors and the social deprevation caused by the sell off.
well why not ...we are scottish and proud but f*ck just remembered we are nothing coz you English think you are the bloody bees knees ....so maybe thats why we get like we are ...from a very p[roud scot x
@carolcemrobyn thats not true of all English people, I myself, cannot sit here thinking yey i am English... yeeeey.... *sigh* Scotland is awesome, shame I can't live there. I'll just sit here drooling over the accents :D
This is uncomplicated musical genius right here. And by the way I'm from Scotland, and unless you look like Billy Connoly, or one of these guys its better from far away. Which is fair enough I suppose. The highlands are lovely yeah yeah, the people are friendly yeah yeah, but the police force is infamous for being the most brutal on this here planet.
I'm so glad I'm Scottish. I'd never want to be anything else. Americans can have their celebrities and fame. Belgium can have it's chocolates and waffles. Spain can have it's sun and gorgeous boys. As long as I'm from the smae country where these two amazing twins were born, I couldn't be happier. Even with the rain.
So many of us lost relatives when they moved.. Still trying to find what happened to my maternal grandfather's youngest brother. Went to America and disappeared. A whole line lost...
Used to hear this a lot when my son was a premature baby in the local hospital's Special Care Baby Unit. I used to find myself singing along to the chorus. That was back in November '87 when he was born six weeks early and he's now nearly 24. So, very fond memories for me there. Thanks for uploading, emimusic.
@specialfx34 Me too. I've been here for about two decades now and wouldn't ever leave. This song is brilliant, all about the Scottish diaspora (like my great-grandfather I guess). I spent yesterday in 'Embra' at the Fringe and had a ball.
Okay, the song... if you know Scottish history it tugs at the heartstrings.
Craig Reid and Charlie Reid r both scottish nationalists (SNP & SSP) who sing nationalist songs eg cap in hand and people wonder why people get nationalist on the music videos lol
I'm usually good at understanding other accents but I couldn't understand what they were saying when they were saying no more. I had to look up the lyrics lol
@HigherPoker In what way? Explain please! The Proclaimers brought out this song at the height of Thatcher's tenure as PM. It is about the aftermath of the period where Scotland's industrial base was greatly reduced. They directly compare the desolation of towns in decline (Linwood no more, Methil no more) with the earlier Highland Clearances (Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more) It is about the loss of industry and the fact that people were needing to leave to find work. And the Proclaimers
love this band! nice to see some thought provoking, interesting and deep lyrics in their songs....unlike the generic sentimental tripe with which our current chart is infected! e.g. rihanna,lady Gaga and miley fricking cyrus!!!!
@specialfx34 You've misunderstood me. You said that it irritated you that the video was nationalistic. I asked how could it not be - meaning how could they make it any other way? The song is obviously heavily nationalistic and the video simply compliments it. Anything less would be a cop out which they are not prone to do as they mean what they sing.
@specialfx34 How could the video not be nationalist? The song is heavily political and nationalist so the video is just mirroring that. Would you rather they ditch their principles?
@Topea97 Who knows what made you think it is Irish but the other poster is correct. The Proclaimers were born and brought up in and still live in Scotland and sing in their own Scottish accent. The song itself relates to the economic decline in Scotland under the govt of Margaret Thatcher. They compare the loss of jobless young people leaving places like Linwood and Bathgate with the people who left places like Lochaber and Skye etc in the period known as the Highland Clearances.
Why'd they have a dig at the Bible at 1:55 by calling it the 'Biobull'?
Which part of this is bull?-
"Love one another, feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the destitute, tend the sick, visit the prisoners, look after the poor"- Jesus of Nazareth
What pisses me off about this song (although it sounds good), is that the Proclaimers, like most other British bands, made "a song" to break into the American market. I know its about Scotland but they blare out "AMERICA!!!!" as if trying to catch the attention and endear themselves to America.
@TheRoken123 Er, that's not what they were trying to do at all. It was a song about emigration from the depression the UK was suffering during the 80's. Loads of people were leaving their families to find work in the US.
Their entire album tells one big story.
Now stop trying to be a smartass and research them first... They didn't need the publicity, they were great before this song. They toured with the The Housemartins in 1986.
@sargentaaron2004 Yeah I'm sure you're right sargentaaron (though not about the smartass part). I have just been traumatised by listening to so many otherwise okay UK bands trying to Americanize their music for the American market. If thats because they want to make more money, thats fine then they should do it; but not pretend that they have some "Love Actually"-style love affair with America when we all know most Brits probably think American culture is shit, and Americans are stupid.
@MissKateUK I do get it after Sargentaaron explained it. But I believe that most people are not interested in listening to a story and probably can't hear it with the Scottish Accent anyway (especially yanks). They mainly listen to the music (which as I said sounds okay). The only words they probably hear are "AMERICA!!" and "from MIAMI to CANADA!!" and the rest is just "blahblahblah HA! x 10 and "blahblah no mooore! x 10. As I said though I like the song and band. But I stick by what I said.
I was born and raised in Lochaber, it must be something in the water cos even tho both my parents and family are form other parts of Scotland I get a feeling of sadness and passion about the Scottish Highlands especially when I hear this song!! I hold the Highlands dear to my heart still hear and love it!!
Yeah, I like Celtic folk, and yeah, it's great to love your country and miss that which was. That's why I'm English and mss the England that was and which they are now the the process of finishing off and destroying with something called multiculturalism'. In a word colonisation by the third world. I'll never understand the Irish and Scottish though for allowing it into their countries after so many hundreds of years of fighting and hating the English, Long live the UK.
I know many bands that sing with their own accents The Dubliners even David Essex sang with a Cockney accent,one of many.I think the Proclaimers are fantastic and the accent is great,instead of a manufactured American one.
I didn't know (or did know, but am so raddled by it all that I forgot) that the production and verbal harmonies in the background on this are all by the dearly departed Gerry Rafferty. I like it even more now. For that. After hating it a while from 'over-exposure', like when '3 Little Birds' by Bob Marley would drive me mental an aw. Ken. Ye can get enough ay a good thing.
This song is about those who were through out of highlands to make way for cows and sheep, and and shipped off to American during the 1920s. At least, that is what I feel.
The neg Twats on this,,,,,are probably glasweegiies (from analkie english bricklayer) ......ignorant uneducated goats.......nice music.....nice song...that is all
Though it escapes me how that is in any way relevant to feeling sympathy for the people and themes in this song.
And they haven't "worked in the industries" they sing about? That makes no sense whatsoever -- unless of course they have a time machine and went back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
@GlasgowDude00 how many many closed mines ship yards an hello glasgow prick CAR MAKINING IN LINWOOD fkn time machine you fck last 30 years. its a retail park now. arsehole
oh and that GlasgowDude he's not nice he's really bad and I must respond cause weegies are bad and what do I say I will say he's bad so into angry mode and I'll say @GlasgowDude00 how many many closed mines ship yards an hello glasgow prick CAR MAKINING IN LINWOOD fkn time machine you fck last 30 years its a retail park now arsehole oh that was good and I used bad words it was good and I hope he doesnt find out I'm an Irish school girl and my name is Joyce and I like ice cream oh I
@scania245 Fuck that. Red marker oot. It's Auchtermuchty with two aitches child and you are hardly going to CAPITALISE THE WHOLE FUCKING NAME AND THEN PUT fife in lower case. Unless you are an eedjit.
And the content of your posting confirms that. Sharpen your crayon ya bam. Corner of the room witha big pointy D hat. Muppet.
@scania245 Craig Reid and Charlie Reid were born in Leith.How do you know, they haven't been to these places?Have you travelled by their sides for every 5 minutes off their life?They might not have worked in a factory, (I don't know any more than you) as I am sure would benefit many rich people today who dont work a day in their lives. However, it s nice to see a band singing politically in protest and to inform the audience, instead of mindless yeh yeh yeh I is a pop star! Fridaaaay bullcrap.
I first discovered this song when I heard a bit of it sung in 'The Commitments'. I did not know who sang it originally though until I saw The Proclaimers in an interview and a bit of it was played.
The Proclaimers deliberately exaggerated their accents so they sounded Scots and not English which IMHO adds to the song. Anyone know of an English equivalent where the singer doesn't sound like they are trying to be American or faking a strong Liverpool etc accent?
@iantl932 theres nothing exaggerated about their accents. They are from Edinburgh but have lived in fife and this gives them a strong accent. This sounds natural to me being scottish.
The Proclaimers deliberately exaggerated their accents so they sounded Scots and not English which IMHO adds to the song. Anyone know of an English equivalent where the singer doesn't sound like they are trying to be American or faking a strong Liverpool etc accent?
I live in Bathgate! One of (but not the only) reasons I love this song, and The Proclaimers in general :D
ShootingStetsons 3 days ago
Nu muah!
ghostdog7575 1 week ago
I love a good scottish accent
SpannerScrew 3 weeks ago
god there ugly but good;)
kfedcunners 3 weeks ago
Shut up Leftie wankers!
Shutting down loss-making industries makes sense!
Your UNIONS don't!
Get a fucking job at ASDA!
markyboythewolf 1 month ago
@markyboythewolf Shut the fuck up you Rightie wanker, you don't know what WORK is, the hardest thing you ever do is pick up a fucking pen and live off other people's work.
DayDreamAscent 1 month ago
@DayDreamAscent You are clueless to who I am and what I do!
markyboythewolf 2 weeks ago
@markyboythewolf Wow, It's interesting to see how many right wing Tory scumbags there are out there - more interested in preserving and enhancing their own wealth than ensuring that people all over Britain aren't left in poverty, working a number of jobs just to keep their family going. I am not a communist but maybe if you started thinking about someone besides yourself and voting in a way which will help everyone Britain then you might find that people will respect your views a bit more.
thecabbage75 2 weeks ago 2
@markyboythewolf
P.S - Trade Unions (not Unions - You as most likely a Tory like Unions, being a Unionist) Stop people being trampled on by their bosses, raped, abused verbally, sexually, racially and homophobically. They also stop people judging and offending people because of their political opinion. Now tell me that you think that is bad!
P.P.S - I am sure that the people who work in ASDA are nicer and work harder than you.
thecabbage75 2 weeks ago 2
@thecabbage75 A VERY presumptious opinion which I am sure you are entitled to!
markyboythewolf 2 weeks ago
there are two of them
PHILZONE2000 1 month ago
@PHILZONE2000 really?? I thought i was drunk all this time!!
hadders81 1 month ago
Maxmulham, the Bathgate, Irvine, Methil etc refers to the Tories shutting heavy industry down and decimating the country - hence the song is about fear of diaspora, of our best people continuing to leave us, as has so often happened in Scottish history.
klytaimestra101 1 month ago
@klytaimestra101 Trust me, I knew that. I am very familiar with the Thatcher era. Still though, I like to interpret songs my way even though that isn't exactly what the message the singer is trying to send. Sort of like Concrete's Blond's "Joey". It's suppose to be a love song but I see it as a mother-son relationship. Yeah, I guess you can say I'm weird.
Maxmulham 1 month ago
BUTTSECKS at 3:08 XD
SeekandDestroy2100 1 month ago
I often wonder if this song's message is directed towards me. I'm a Nova Scotian with Scottish ancestry. When the guys sing "Bathgate no more, Irvine" and so on...., I can't help but get this sad feeling like my ancestors just threw thier culture right out the window and progressively adapting to the generic American lifestyle. It's kinda sad for me because I'll never what it's like to actually grow up and live in Scotland. Going there at my age wouldn't help either. Cause you gotta be born thar
Maxmulham 1 month ago
@Maxmulham it's shit!!!!!!!
rangersfan1001 1 month ago
@Maxmulham Ironically since this song was written the UK has sold off it's airports to foreigners and exported most of its manufacturing base.
lewisner 1 month ago
0:19 He can bring a whiskey aboard a plane...?
papoj1PVR 2 months ago
@papoj1PVR You used to be able to. It's only been in the last 10 years or so that passengers are forbidden to board a plane with bottles containing more than 100ml of liquid each, coz terrorists discovered a way to make bombs in bottles of gasoline.
Foxglurves 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@papoj1PVR it's Scots so it's Whisky irish have whiskey ;)
thydney1 1 month ago
the highland clearances were not about people leaving to find work - it was that sheep were more valuable to the lairds than the crofters and the people were driven off the land - many making their way to Nova Scotia - cape Breton - from the Islands and the West coast.
oldgirl1954 2 months ago
@oldgirl1954 It was really about various things. At first it was about people leaving to better their conditions often only to be have the landlord's attempt to block their leaving (Address For Beelzebub by Burns lambasts MacDonald of Glengarry for stopping people who wanted to leave); then it was about people being moved to the coast in planned townships (like what happened in other parts of Scotland too) then eventually there was forced and often violent clearance too.
gaconnochie 2 months ago
I'm half-scottish and this song brings back memories of my childhood :')
SpannerScrew 2 months ago
Firts heard this song in the film called the commitments, an Irish comedy! basically, there`s a guy drunk as a skunk on the stage and as he`s singing he falls off the stage!!!
M23Joe 2 months ago
anyone who is cheeky about them fuck off ya wee fannys im scotish
MrRedfield40 2 months ago
wtf is going on at 3:09??
gaypotter 2 months ago 2
Are the Procs gay?
Just wondring..
TungstenKid 3 months ago
@TungstenKid It was the 80's...everyone looked gay.
pieater73 3 months ago 10
@pieater73 And that's a good thing. Why is youtube so obsessed with homosexuality?! Who cares. Some people are gay! Get over it!
ruadriob 2 months ago
@ruadriob screw You, gay.
swisiekPL 1 month ago
@swisiekPL Yes, I am gay. So what. Some people are gay. Get over it. Most homophobes are closet cases anyway. At least we have the balls to bne honest and not live a lie like you probably do.
ruadriob 2 weeks ago
@ruadriob I dont give a shit either..youre missing the point. Fashion/hairstyles in the 80's were camp. The New Romantics (Duran Duran), soft rock (Motley Crue, Bon jovi)...They all looked like girls, but werent gay. Get off your high horse.
pieater73 2 weeks ago
@pieater73 Who gives a shit if people are gay or not? Get over it. So immature.
ruadriob 2 weeks ago
@TungstenKid No, they are not gay. Craig has been married at least once and has one child, and Charlie has three children.
verkaforever 2 months ago
@verkaforever
How do you know it's Charlie and not Craig? They're IDENTICAL! D:
papoj1PVR 2 months ago
@papoj1PVR I looked it up on the web. Someone else on here asked if they were gay, and I looked it up to answer their question.
verkaforever 2 months ago
@verkaforever
'twas a joke on the fact they're identical twins.
papoj1PVR 2 months ago
@papoj1PVR Sorry. I always take things too seriously. I see what you mean. I don't know which is which in the video.
verkaforever 2 months ago
@TungstenKid Nooo, haha! They were twin brothers.
Foxglurves 2 months ago
@Foxglurves Were? I mean are...
Foxglurves 2 months ago
@TutorialsAndReviews7 - took a while for the penny to drop, but very funny!
nick333z 3 months ago
i see that auld biddy on the right at 2.53 knows the words well
*____*
nick333z 3 months ago
Craig and Charlie are from Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland. this song is actually a political statement about the sell off of the British Motor Company to General Motors and the social deprevation caused by the sell off.
sweatford 3 months ago
i agree scotland is great
maxglobalproductions 4 months ago
Amazing CGI for the time the video was made. You really believe there were two of them.
SirJerrySadowitz 4 months ago 28
@SirJerrySadowitz Please tell me you are being sarcastic
Bubonicfred 3 months ago
@SirJerrySadowitz Lol XD thats mean
xavierrrr 3 months ago
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arianajeann 2 months ago
@SirJerrySadowitz My favourite YouTube comment. Ever.
DayDreamAscent 1 month ago
its scottish
hullohulloRFC 4 months ago
well why not ...we are scottish and proud but f*ck just remembered we are nothing coz you English think you are the bloody bees knees ....so maybe thats why we get like we are ...from a very p[roud scot x
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carolcemrobyn 4 months ago
@carolcemrobyn thats not true of all English people, I myself, cannot sit here thinking yey i am English... yeeeey.... *sigh* Scotland is awesome, shame I can't live there. I'll just sit here drooling over the accents :D
xavierrrr 3 months ago
@xavierrrr you will never be scottish but if you ever want to hear a scottish accent, i couldnt be anymore scottish if i tried.
chuckydog 3 months ago
@chuckydog Well no, being born in Surrey and all..... Wish I could hear it!
xavierrrr 3 months ago
@xavierrrr scotland has many different accents, just like england :)
chuckydog 3 months ago
@chuckydog yus, and all yummy enough to make me sit and drool :p unlike most english accents lol
xavierrrr 3 months ago
@carolcemrobyn Wish you could see the irony in that comment, I really do.
NewAccountFFS 2 months ago
what a song,great to hear ma home town irvine in a song !!!
1888gp 4 months ago
This is uncomplicated musical genius right here. And by the way I'm from Scotland, and unless you look like Billy Connoly, or one of these guys its better from far away. Which is fair enough I suppose. The highlands are lovely yeah yeah, the people are friendly yeah yeah, but the police force is infamous for being the most brutal on this here planet.
worldcoup 4 months ago
METHIL! 8D
I'm so glad I'm Scottish. I'd never want to be anything else. Americans can have their celebrities and fame. Belgium can have it's chocolates and waffles. Spain can have it's sun and gorgeous boys. As long as I'm from the smae country where these two amazing twins were born, I couldn't be happier. Even with the rain.
kittychic4444 4 months ago
Stoneybridge!
StanPomeray 4 months ago
I am Spanish and I do not understand any word in this video, but I like it...
Mariia1344 4 months ago 2
@Mariia1344 Awww i appreciate what you say ....secret dont tell anyone i dont undersatnd it either and im being truethfull x
carolcemrobyn 4 months ago
Jesus 118k view should have more than this
Rsunited90 4 months ago
I'm from Sweden but have been to Scotland many times and LOVE it
Wonderful country and the nicest people :)
daveydave72 4 months ago
@daveydave72 I'm Irish. I live in Canada. If I had a choice I'd be living in Scotland – it's totally the best!
Paddymccormick 4 months ago
@specialfx34 dam
FoxXonfor 5 months ago
So many of us lost relatives when they moved.. Still trying to find what happened to my maternal grandfather's youngest brother. Went to America and disappeared. A whole line lost...
goblinonacloud 5 months ago
love this video
mitsymoto 5 months ago
back ache no more!
IWriteSongsGetOverIt 5 months ago
Used to hear this a lot when my son was a premature baby in the local hospital's Special Care Baby Unit. I used to find myself singing along to the chorus. That was back in November '87 when he was born six weeks early and he's now nearly 24. So, very fond memories for me there. Thanks for uploading, emimusic.
annie482000 5 months ago
Lyrics please :D
daveajf1 5 months ago
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darnadams 5 months ago
FUCK VEVO and their shitty adverts
wingslyp 5 months ago
im canadian, never been to scotland, still love this song
150rex 5 months ago
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darnadams 5 months ago
up the scots, cant wait to visit,im a twin meself ,yup yup
IRISHFELLA2010 5 months ago 2
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Macangusagain 5 months ago
and they came from Easter-Ross as well,on the beautiful Moray Firth at Hilton of Cadboll
Macangusagain 5 months ago
proud to be scottish !!
zackdjl926 5 months ago
@specialfx34 Me too. I've been here for about two decades now and wouldn't ever leave. This song is brilliant, all about the Scottish diaspora (like my great-grandfather I guess). I spent yesterday in 'Embra' at the Fringe and had a ball.
Okay, the song... if you know Scottish history it tugs at the heartstrings.
CinnAlla 6 months ago
Craig Reid and Charlie Reid r both scottish nationalists (SNP & SSP) who sing nationalist songs eg cap in hand and people wonder why people get nationalist on the music videos lol
MrScottishJamie 6 months ago
ha ha ... if you're from Liverpool then anywhere is a gorgeous country !!
dollcakes 6 months ago
@specialfx34 Well said, as that great philosopher Jessie J said ....'Music should make us all unite!'
tirnaog09 6 months ago
3:10 Buttsex!
scott16v 6 months ago 2
ah ken thit aw thise fahkin american dinnae ken shite aboot real Scotland...aw tae dae with such joy n happiness
greendan200 6 months ago
I'm usually good at understanding other accents but I couldn't understand what they were saying when they were saying no more. I had to look up the lyrics lol
Stet17 7 months ago
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Stet17 7 months ago
it's like beauty and the geek meets big bang theory.i wanna be sheldon.i wanna be leonard.
gailmckennag 7 months ago
they're pro of making some happy music
2zimzoo 7 months ago
Makes me wish I was Scottish but I'm just south of the border. Have a Scottish surname mind... so I can pretend lol.
11thhourreprieve 8 months ago
I first heard this sung in that movie The Commitments.
jrmetmoi 8 months ago 2
@jrmetmoi same lol
MMG994 7 months ago
@jrmetmoi same here mate
cjb8037 7 months ago
were writing it from a Nationalist viewpoint (they are confirmed Nats) as several songs on the first album were. In particular Cap In Hand!
gaconnochie 8 months ago
@HigherPoker In what way? Explain please! The Proclaimers brought out this song at the height of Thatcher's tenure as PM. It is about the aftermath of the period where Scotland's industrial base was greatly reduced. They directly compare the desolation of towns in decline (Linwood no more, Methil no more) with the earlier Highland Clearances (Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more) It is about the loss of industry and the fact that people were needing to leave to find work. And the Proclaimers
gaconnochie 8 months ago 13
thumbs up for gay porn at 3:08 - 3:17 !!
LetsThrowAnOrange 8 months ago 2
love this band! nice to see some thought provoking, interesting and deep lyrics in their songs....unlike the generic sentimental tripe with which our current chart is infected! e.g. rihanna,lady Gaga and miley fricking cyrus!!!!
MegaKilljoy1 8 months ago 9
Nova Scoooooohhtia!!!!
Maxmulham 9 months ago
@specialfx34 You've misunderstood me. You said that it irritated you that the video was nationalistic. I asked how could it not be - meaning how could they make it any other way? The song is obviously heavily nationalistic and the video simply compliments it. Anything less would be a cop out which they are not prone to do as they mean what they sing.
gaconnochie 9 months ago
These geezers are great they sing with there accent and a lot of singers dont.
thegeezerdan 9 months ago
The Scottish accent is epic.
Predadoo 9 months ago 2
@specialfx34 How could the video not be nationalist? The song is heavily political and nationalist so the video is just mirroring that. Would you rather they ditch their principles?
gaconnochie 9 months ago
This is one of my all-time favourite Proclaimers tunes. Just beautiful.
Spudboy182 9 months ago
@Spudboy182 "Sunshine on Leith".... is another beautiful song. x
goldiedawn17 9 months ago
Great song!!
The scots gaelic word for bible is bíobull.
@xyro16 the irish word for bible is 'Bíobla' pronounced 'bee-ub-lah'
@gutman83: Why do you feel the need to call someone a moron? Why not just make your point and leave it there?
DaveGrennan 9 months ago
It's Scottish, Scottish, Scottish! ;-)
MsNanifan 9 months ago
@xyro16 I thik I herd it on an Irish CD... Who knows?
Topea97 10 months ago
@Topea97 Who knows what made you think it is Irish but the other poster is correct. The Proclaimers were born and brought up in and still live in Scotland and sing in their own Scottish accent. The song itself relates to the economic decline in Scotland under the govt of Margaret Thatcher. They compare the loss of jobless young people leaving places like Linwood and Bathgate with the people who left places like Lochaber and Skye etc in the period known as the Highland Clearances.
gaconnochie 9 months ago
@scots will rule
boozerboo1 10 months ago
Why'd they have a dig at the Bible at 1:55 by calling it the 'Biobull'?
Which part of this is bull?-
"Love one another, feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the destitute, tend the sick, visit the prisoners, look after the poor"- Jesus of Nazareth
TungstenKid 10 months ago
@TungstenKid it's called an accent, this one is called scotish. -_-'
xyro16 10 months ago
@xyro16 and @TungstenKiedI think it's Irish.
Topea97 10 months ago
@Topea97 but isn't this a scottish band?
xyro16 10 months ago
@TungstenKid its Gaelic you moron>
gutman83 10 months ago
@TungstenKid Its the Gaelic word for Bible you moron.
gutman83 10 months ago
@TungstenKid wtf you talking about, piss off and go eat some rice bread ya cunt
hullohulloRFC 4 months ago
I'm from Liverpool and Scotland is a gorgeous country!
michaeldelz 11 months ago 14
@michaeldelz Orright, Scouse! Me mam was from Wavertree (and me great-grandda was Scotch). :-D
CinnAlla 6 months ago
@michaeldelz why thank you
VioLenTBlaZex1 5 months ago
@michaeldelz Why thank you
VioLenTBlaZex1 5 months ago
BORN SCOTTISH
DIE SCOTTISH
SCOTLAND IS WERE LEGENDS ARE BORN
THUMPS UPS
VioLenTBlaZex1 5 months ago 2
@specialfx34 I just hate it when americans do it....thats it.
invectrum 11 months ago
On LOOP
Shmulvey 11 months ago
don't understand a thing about politics or ideology in the lyrics, but love the international language of the music and the melody
EliAlEim 11 months ago
a song
2001cmw 1 year ago
What pisses me off about this song (although it sounds good), is that the Proclaimers, like most other British bands, made "a song" to break into the American market. I know its about Scotland but they blare out "AMERICA!!!!" as if trying to catch the attention and endear themselves to America.
TheRoken123 1 year ago
@TheRoken123 Er, that's not what they were trying to do at all. It was a song about emigration from the depression the UK was suffering during the 80's. Loads of people were leaving their families to find work in the US.
Their entire album tells one big story.
Now stop trying to be a smartass and research them first... They didn't need the publicity, they were great before this song. They toured with the The Housemartins in 1986.
sargentaaron2004 1 year ago
@sargentaaron2004 Yeah I'm sure you're right sargentaaron (though not about the smartass part). I have just been traumatised by listening to so many otherwise okay UK bands trying to Americanize their music for the American market. If thats because they want to make more money, thats fine then they should do it; but not pretend that they have some "Love Actually"-style love affair with America when we all know most Brits probably think American culture is shit, and Americans are stupid.
TheRoken123 1 year ago
@TheRoken123 I think you miss the point of this song slightly. If anything, it's probably the opposite of what you imagine it to be about.
MissKateUK 1 year ago
@MissKateUK I do get it after Sargentaaron explained it. But I believe that most people are not interested in listening to a story and probably can't hear it with the Scottish Accent anyway (especially yanks). They mainly listen to the music (which as I said sounds okay). The only words they probably hear are "AMERICA!!" and "from MIAMI to CANADA!!" and the rest is just "blahblahblah HA! x 10 and "blahblah no mooore! x 10. As I said though I like the song and band. But I stick by what I said.
TheRoken123 11 months ago
@TheRoken123
To be fair, America will like anything if something gets referenced to them :P
DCWario886 11 months ago
i love it!!!
shethistle2006 1 year ago
@shethistle2006 i lkie it goos song a real classic
2001cmw 11 months ago
@shethistle2006 i lkie it goos song a real classic carl lawson hull uk
2001cmw 11 months ago
Only 70000 views on these awesome songs. I'm 16 and I listen to The Proclaimers which more teenagers should do. This is real music.
paiperkes 1 year ago
I was born and raised in Lochaber, it must be something in the water cos even tho both my parents and family are form other parts of Scotland I get a feeling of sadness and passion about the Scottish Highlands especially when I hear this song!! I hold the Highlands dear to my heart still hear and love it!!
hawkeyegemma 1 year ago
I Love this song but man, 3:07 WTF?!?!
TANERSKITO 1 year ago
Yeah, I like Celtic folk, and yeah, it's great to love your country and miss that which was. That's why I'm English and mss the England that was and which they are now the the process of finishing off and destroying with something called multiculturalism'. In a word colonisation by the third world. I'll never understand the Irish and Scottish though for allowing it into their countries after so many hundreds of years of fighting and hating the English, Long live the UK.
rubysson57 1 year ago
Flur of Scotland !
nj04uxu 1 year ago
Flur of Scotland!
nj04uxu 1 year ago
I know many bands that sing with their own accents The Dubliners even David Essex sang with a Cockney accent,one of many.I think the Proclaimers are fantastic and the accent is great,instead of a manufactured American one.
MICHAELCAMPBELL69 1 year ago 4
I didn't know (or did know, but am so raddled by it all that I forgot) that the production and verbal harmonies in the background on this are all by the dearly departed Gerry Rafferty. I like it even more now. For that. After hating it a while from 'over-exposure', like when '3 Little Birds' by Bob Marley would drive me mental an aw. Ken. Ye can get enough ay a good thing.
PerignonPop 1 year ago
I love the Proclaimers ^_^
This song is about those who were through out of highlands to make way for cows and sheep, and and shipped off to American during the 1920s. At least, that is what I feel.
Rikku2250 1 year ago
so....any thoughts on the actual song?
jin6000 1 year ago
Yay its Frankie Boyle lol
MsDdraig 1 year ago
The neg Twats on this,,,,,are probably glasweegiies (from analkie english bricklayer) ......ignorant uneducated goats.......nice music.....nice song...that is all
alanjakarta 1 year ago
@alanjakarta = fanny
17hovis 1 year ago
The Jedward of their day, brilliant!
hearditman 1 year ago
@scania245 Neither have most of us.
Though it escapes me how that is in any way relevant to feeling sympathy for the people and themes in this song.
And they haven't "worked in the industries" they sing about? That makes no sense whatsoever -- unless of course they have a time machine and went back to the 18th and 19th centuries.
GlasgowDude00 1 year ago
@GlasgowDude00 how many many closed mines ship yards an hello glasgow prick CAR MAKINING IN LINWOOD fkn time machine you fck last 30 years. its a retail park now. arsehole
scania245 1 year ago
@scania245,
oh and that GlasgowDude he's not nice he's really bad and I must respond cause weegies are bad and what do I say I will say he's bad so into angry mode and I'll say @GlasgowDude00 how many many closed mines ship yards an hello glasgow prick CAR MAKINING IN LINWOOD fkn time machine you fck last 30 years its a retail park now arsehole oh that was good and I used bad words it was good and I hope he doesnt find out I'm an Irish school girl and my name is Joyce and I like ice cream oh I
GlasgowDude00 1 year ago
These pricks from AUCHTERMUCTY in fife HAVE never seen the places they sing about ? let alone worked in an of the industrys. they sing about .
scania245 1 year ago
@scania245 WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!! FIFE!!!!!!!!
MusicManBW23 1 year ago
@scania245
Er...I dont think you quite get it do you?
daisy2121 1 year ago
@scania245 listen ya junkie prick who the fuck are you
doveyabas33 1 year ago
@scania245 least they made something whith there sleves did you????
ILUV74 1 year ago
@scania245 Fuck that. Red marker oot. It's Auchtermuchty with two aitches child and you are hardly going to CAPITALISE THE WHOLE FUCKING NAME AND THEN PUT fife in lower case. Unless you are an eedjit.
And the content of your posting confirms that. Sharpen your crayon ya bam. Corner of the room witha big pointy D hat. Muppet.
PerignonPop 1 year ago
@scania245 Craig Reid and Charlie Reid were born in Leith.How do you know, they haven't been to these places?Have you travelled by their sides for every 5 minutes off their life?They might not have worked in a factory, (I don't know any more than you) as I am sure would benefit many rich people today who dont work a day in their lives. However, it s nice to see a band singing politically in protest and to inform the audience, instead of mindless yeh yeh yeh I is a pop star! Fridaaaay bullcrap.
xavierrrr 7 months ago 2
I always like to have some proper anal on this song
betover68 1 year ago
Whan ye go wull ya send baaack , a litter froam amerika , tek a luuk down tha railtraaaak from miaami te Kanadaaaaa!
hablerz 1 year ago
I first discovered this song when I heard a bit of it sung in 'The Commitments'. I did not know who sang it originally though until I saw The Proclaimers in an interview and a bit of it was played.
BadGirlOfAutism 1 year ago
1:38
lol
Jakarius321 1 year ago
omg!! my english teacher is in this! haha! go mr finnigan! (1:38)
QuidditchGirl1 1 year ago 3
The Proclaimers deliberately exaggerated their accents so they sounded Scots and not English which IMHO adds to the song. Anyone know of an English equivalent where the singer doesn't sound like they are trying to be American or faking a strong Liverpool etc accent?
iantl932 1 year ago
@iantl932 theres nothing exaggerated about their accents. They are from Edinburgh but have lived in fife and this gives them a strong accent. This sounds natural to me being scottish.
kjw7000 1 year ago
@kjw7000
They are from fife actually, so that makes thier accent stronger.
crazyhorsebob 1 year ago
@iantl932 Loads of bands. try Paul Weller (The Jam) for starters. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols), Joe Strummer (The Clash) etc.
whitbyjet65 1 year ago
The Proclaimers deliberately exaggerated their accents so they sounded Scots and not English which IMHO adds to the song. Anyone know of an English equivalent where the singer doesn't sound like they are trying to be American or faking a strong Liverpool etc accent?
iantl932 1 year ago
Yasss I was taught by the guy on 1:37 :D. English teacher :P
Jawsehh 1 year ago