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I've just watched the video for a pair of brown eyes for the first time I thinks it's offically the oddest video I've ever seen even more so for a celtic-folk/punk band. The bit you see in the Shane MacGowanstory is a little missleading I thought it would be a striaght forward preformance song like most of the Pogues videos.

Any one got any info behinf the video?

From the Lost Decade:

"Back in London - where 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' was enjoying critical fervour and mass cries of 'hit' - The Pogues worked out an accompanying video with Alex Cox and his co-director Martin Turner.
The result was not exactly standard Stiff stuff: the elusive brown eyes were seen in a paper bag and on a pool cue before being gobbled by a bull dog. Other shots clipped a dull-brained Costello, complete with chest-expander, and The Pogues causing certain controversy by spitting at a poster of Thatcher.

"I'd just seen the film 1984 and been really disappointed by it," says Cox. "There had been so many interesting parallels between Orwell's portrayal and the real 1984 and Thatcher's Britain, but the guys who made that film missed all their opportunities to comment. So 'A Pair Of Brown Eyes' gave us the chance to rant and rave about the fact that we are just Airstrip One for the Americans and their B52 bombers and their Cruise missiles, but everyone is so plugged into their television set or their Sony Walkman that they completely miss out on a global perspective."

Super Stiff, Dave Robinson persuaded Cox and Turner to shoot an alternative to the spitting sequence and, naturally enough, it was the second version which was deemed suitable."

I love it, it's perhaps my most favourite of Pogues videos.

............and then, of course, there's the tribute to The Sound Of Music at the very end..............

Thanks for the info Zuzana, Philip I thought you came into the band during the recording of Rum, Sodmy & The Lash so is that your Guitar on the track or Shane's? I'm only asking because your not in the video, so were you not in the band at that stage? Or simply bunking another video

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?

Just to start you off, try here:
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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...

Oh, sorry, i should have searched it first

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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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