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Post by Kardon Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:54 pm

philipchevron wrote:
Woody wrote:The video is my absolute favourite video! Did the dog have any meaning, and into which club the song became Live by-formed? Is there actually a favourite video, or a video trick happened where somewhat particularly merry?


The "live" section was filmed at the Pindar Of Wakefield, Kings Cross, London, now called The Water Rats. It was a venue especially associated with early Pogues. If you look carefully, you can see a couple of Shillelagh Sisters in the live section.


It's like "Where's Walo?"... I will have to look :D

Re: A pair of brown eyes video

Post by philipchevron Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:40 pm

DeeDeeMahone wrote:A Pair of Brown Eyes" is a single by The Pogues, their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 71. It featured on the band's second album, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go," a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style.
Music video

The music video for "A Pair of Brown Eyes" was directed in 1985 by Alex Cox and was set in a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque Britain with Margaret Thatcher in the place of Big Brother as a supreme, god-like authoritarian figure. The video featured roles played by band members as well as a cameo by Elvis Costello.

A cameo by Elvis Costello?


The musical DNA bit is wildly off course, but the Costello cameo is true. Look for a man on a sofa with a chest-expander.

Re: A pair of brown eyes video

Post by DeeDeeMahone Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:48 pm

A Pair of Brown Eyes" is a single by The Pogues, their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 71. It featured on the band's second album, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go," a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style.
Music video

The music video for "A Pair of Brown Eyes" was directed in 1985 by Alex Cox and was set in a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque Britain with Margaret Thatcher in the place of Big Brother as a supreme, god-like authoritarian figure. The video featured roles played by band members as well as a cameo by Elvis Costello.

A cameo by Elvis Costello?

Re: A pair of brown eyes video

Post by Ztrike Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:12 am

Ah, my preferred song of choice to sing when I'm pissed out of my mind...

Buy me several pints and I'll treat you to a rendition. No, really. :)

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Post by kevinem Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:16 am

theos wrote:
rain dog wrote:yeah, beats me... shane is gold, however, when trying to keep up with the rest of the gang right at the end, as they try to escape the head-to-baton police... the best i can figure is that there are guys with batons and helmets who are very upset that the rest of the general populace is not prancing about with every step, whilst hitting themselves with batons. they may have a point... i wouldn't mind prancing about, and i know plenty of people who could use some self-beating...


So they were escaped the beat of the baton or police? As I have known, that baton of the police was very powerful


Yeah it's true the baton of the police was so very powerful and how they escape?
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Post by theos Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:35 am

rain dog wrote:yeah, beats me... shane is gold, however, when trying to keep up with the rest of the gang right at the end, as they try to escape the head-to-baton police... the best i can figure is that there are guys with batons and helmets who are very upset that the rest of the general populace is not prancing about with every step, whilst hitting themselves with batons. they may have a point... i wouldn't mind prancing about, and i know plenty of people who could use some self-beating...


So they were escaped the beat of the baton or police? As I have known, that baton of the police was very powerful

Post by philipchevron Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:51 pm

Woody wrote:The video is my absolute favourite video! Did the dog have any meaning, and into which club the song became Live by-formed? Is there actually a favourite video, or a video trick happened where somewhat particularly merry?


The "live" section was filmed at the Pindar Of Wakefield, Kings Cross, London, now called The Water Rats. It was a venue especially associated with early Pogues. If you look carefully, you can see a couple of Shillelagh Sisters in the live section.

Post by Woody Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:35 am

The video is my absolute favourite video! Did the dog have any meaning, and into which club the song became Live by-formed? Is there actually a favourite video, or a video trick happened where somewhat particularly merry?

Post by philipchevron Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:21 pm

Woody wrote:Do two different versions exist of videos of the song A pair OF brown eyes? On a video one sees like Spider on the poster of Mrs. Thatcher spits, on the other one is it not to be seen. There one sees to stop only that the poster is painted.


In a word, yes.

Some TV companies refused to show (yawn) the spitting at Thatcher poster. But our aversion to the old monster has not gone away just because she is now a senile alcoholic, as "Murder" on the upcoming box set will indicate.

In the end, like everybody else, we lost most of our battles with Thatcher, so it made it all the sweeter when the "Birmingham Six" ban, and its subsequent unbanning, revealed her to be every bit as paranoid, reckless, hysterical and stupid as we said she was.

I've heard lifelong Atheists fervently wishing for the existence of Hell just so there was somewhere appropriate for the Witch Baronness to go after her death.

Post by Woody Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:34 am

Do two different versions exist of videos of the song A pair OF brown eyes? On a video one sees like Spider on the poster of Mrs. Thatcher spits, on the other one is it not to be seen. There one sees to stop only that the poster is painted.

Post by firehazard Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:43 pm

Ah, but some of these ancient threads are well hidden under vast piles of banter and other trivia. :wink:

Post by Dropofpoison Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:10 pm

Oh, sorry, i should have searched it first :oops:

Post by rain dog Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:06 pm

yeah, beats me... shane is gold, however, when trying to keep up with the rest of the gang right at the end, as they try to escape the head-to-baton police... the best i can figure is that there are guys with batons and helmets who are very upset that the rest of the general populace is not prancing about with every step, whilst hitting themselves with batons. they may have a point... i wouldn't mind prancing about, and i know plenty of people who could use some self-beating...

Post by firehazard Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:03 pm

Just to start you off, try here:
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Brown Eyes video

Post by Dropofpoison Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:58 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgYq5NcSps

Sorry if this has already been discused, but i saw this video and couldnt make sense of it. I thought this song was about a guy who was reme,bering a war he was in? Its a good video but does anyone know what its about?

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