ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers
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@luasdublin
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
weirdly depending where you live , 500 miles is either an 80s song or a 90s song.
@Jeffrey-hk4fq
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
🤓What would Buddy Holly look like today 🤔(?)
@thatfaebasterd
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Used to joke that this song was basically the national anthem of Scotland.
@richtysoe6393
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Every british Gen-Xer watching this video: "1993?!?!"
@davidsleith7222
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
great reaction cheers, im a scottish musician in my 50's and this song is actually too catchy, the verse is singable, the chorus is an earworm and a hawf, by the time da la la da hook kicks in, everyone is up dancing going berzerk, its probably the unoficial national anthem in scotland alongside o' flower o' scotland. i've been trolling reactors and yet to see a bad review/ someone who doesn't get instantly hooked from the get-go. it surprised me that so many folk said this song on 1st hearing caused a feeling of nostalgia, i thought it wiz just a gaelic thing, but nopes. reminds me a lot of men at work – land down under in its simplicity, chord structure so basic: C – G – Am – F-G back to C, but its SO upbeat and goofy you cannae not bop yer head to it. Anyhooz, cheers for the reaction.
@abigailemerson2421
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
… I fully thought they were saying “Hoover,” like the vacuum, like When I do my chores I’ll be doing it for you baby… oops
@boyfromoz7
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Cool fact. Leith is/was a pretty rough area of Edinburgh as depicted in Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting. Hibernian (or Hib's) also known to to have some massive sing alongs to "Sunshine on Leith" at the stadium.
@JC-sp4pt
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I once saw these guys play a 3 hour long gig.
Not exactly what I'd call a one hit wonder.
@Sinistralitee
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I always love these kinds of One Hit Wonders, they're success is usually due to just fluke or just happenstance, they're one hit wonders not because they tried but because they don't care
@JoelAdamson
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
They can do math.
@Cornbinks
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I'm surprised Big Country wasn't part of the Scottish rock conversation.
@JamesTanner-p4x
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
11:40 – It is good. I was just in it.
@beckythompson4538
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Yessss! After you said it wasn’t a hit my mind cycled through movies that featured it and Benny and June popped up SECONDS before you said it! I’m so proud of myself! I’m a Spokanite so I probably should have recalled it faster but hey..
@scruz6293
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Don’t worry. It comes around again.
@StefanTheMongol
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I will never get sick of this song. It wails!
@Jesus_H._Tap-DancingChrist
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
It's Craig not Creg
@Man-db026zy
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Replace the instrumentals with stomping and you get a sea shanty
@aidansayshi123456789
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Lost my shit when you played the Down By Law cover
@scarabmcgee263
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Being from Canada and growing up in the 2000s, we mostly associated this song with Terry Fox because every year they’d play this song over montages of clips of him before the annual run.
@michellewallhagen2346
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
“Sunshine on Leith ” is a great album, start to finish.
@Redpandaspy
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
I learned this song because Christian Evengelicals co-opted it and made it a "worship" song with dances and call and responses.
@Sasambots
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Almost everyone I know of born in the 90s or after in Canada knows this as the Terry Fox song with how often it was used in schools and elsewhere for advertisements for the Terry Fox Day and Terry Fox Run and other charities. It's become an anthem for defeating cancer here.
@_Toralu_
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 pm
"Cap In Hand" is probably my favourite of their songs
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