Simon Maguire wrote:Kinda stateing the obvious why not for the christmas gigs 'The Pogues' none of them are black
Umm. What? This is a total non-sequiter.
But I'm willing to try parsing this. Let's see if I get it right.
<b>Edit:</b> I suck. Teach me to read and write at 2:00am. I swear I thought that said "skateing," not "stateing." Now the whole message is ruined. It all hung on that one word. Poop. At least we got "The Pogues: They're All Mammals" out of it.
By "Kinda skateing the obvious" my first thought was that you were saying that they (the "producers" of the new boot) were skating around an obvious truth. But somehow that didn't make sense to me.
"why not for the christmas gigs" just really confused me for a moment.
"'The Pogues' none of them are black" also confused me. I somehow thought you might be suggesting that WEA start marketing the band as a white supremecist group or something.
Then I tried giving the parsing another shot and came up with this intended meaning (paraphrased):
"The Producers of this new bootleg are stating the obvious with the title, 'Pogues Not Dead.' Maybe for the next one they could use another remarkably obvious observation: 'The Pogues: They're All Mammals' or 'The Pogues: They're the ones with that guy with the bad teeth and recorded that christmas song that time.'"
I'm nearly certain, now, that that's what you were saying.
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”