Throw the 'R' Away
"Throw the 'R' Away" is a song by Scottish music duo the Proclaimers from the 1987 album "This Is the Story". The band's first single, "Throw the 'R' Away" was released in 1987. Content. Musical style. Describing the single, "Chicago Reader"'s Bill Wyman commented "it's a rollicking folk number, complete with wordless shouts and a rousing finale". Lyrical theme. In 1989, Mike Bohem of the "Los Angeles Times" called "Throw the 'R' Away" a "celebration of the thick accent that some experts had said would hold them back". Throw the 'R' Away "Throw