Snapshots #462: Songs About Parts Of A House

From the Doors, all around the house... here's some songs you might hear if an estate agent is showing you round.

15. Cromwell flattened them.

English Civil War history lesson required.

The Levellers - This Garden

14. Sweet transvestite.

Frank N Furter himself...

Tim Curry - Paradise Garage

13. I'll give you half a dozen to sweeten the deal, fella.

Six to the Sugar, man.

Sixto Rodriguez - Halfway Up The Stairs

12. Found inside the Eiffel Tower.

Eiffel Tower.

Felt - Don't Die On My Doorstep

The tube of you directed me towards the Samaritans when I tried to find that song.

11. The rooster raced away from Duane and Floyd.

The cock ran from two Eddies.

Eddie Cochran - Sittin' In The Balcony

10. Disrupting the proton laws.

"Proton laws" was an anagram.

Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters

9. Playing bass in That Irish Band makes him very happy.

Adam Clayton plays bass in That Irish Band. God knows how he manages to stay Merry, working with those other twonks.

Merry Clayton - The Doorbell Rings

8. Milk, sugar, cornflour.

The ingredients of a...

Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling

7. Is that the best that you can do, Faith and Ant?

"The best that you can do" is the subtitle of Arthur's Theme. Faith and Ant are Adams.

Arthur Adams - You've Got The Floor

6. Small erasers.

The Rubettes - Under One Roof

5. Card-carrying and paid up.

The Members - Rat Up A Drainpipe

4. She has a Clown... and keeps in with Mr. Brown (for his money).

Cathy's Clown meets Dennis "Money In My Pocket" Brown.

Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls

3. Moving Number 10 from London to Manchester might cause this...

Northern Uproar - From A Window

2. Angelic boss is also loaded.

Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

1. JFK commission unmasks German Numero Uno. 

The people investigating JFK's assassination were the Warren Commission. A German Number One might be "Ze von!" (in a really bad German accent, with apologies to Walter).

Indisputably today's best song...

Warren Zevon - Desperados Under The Eaves

Get back in the Snapshots house next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #462

It's Saturday morning - time to put your other affairs on hold and make room for a bit of Snapshotting.

Who are these people and how are their songs connected?

15. Cromwell flattened them.

14. Sweet transvestite.

13. I'll give you half a dozen to sweeten the deal, fella.

12. Found inside the Eiffel Tower.

11. The rooster raced away from Duane and Floyd.

10. Disrupting the proton laws.

9. Playing bass in That Irish Band makes him very happy.

8. Milk, sugar, cornflour.

7. Is that the best that you can do, Faith and Ant?

6. Small erasers.

5. Card-carrying and paid up.

4. She has a Clown... and keeps in with Mr. Brown (for his money).

3. Moving Number 10 from London to Manchester might cause this...

2. Angelic boss is also loaded.

1. JFK commission unmasks German Numero Uno. 

Answers tomorrow morning!

One Track Summer #19: ...And Automobiles

To end the week, a handful of songs that follow on nicely from yesterday's post...

Iron & Wine - God Made The Automobile

Parliament - My Automobile

ZZ Top - She Loves My Automobile

The Blue Nile - Automobile Noise

Webb Wilder And The Nashvegans - Stay Out Of Automobiles

One Track Summer #18: Planes, Trains...

Everyone knows the signature tune of Gladys Knight & The Pips, the huge 1973 hit (although it didn't make the UK charts until three years later) in which Gladys catches a late train back to Georgia to be with the man she loves, because she'd "rather live in his world than live without him in mine".

Not everyone knows that the song originally featured an entirely different destination, and mode of transportation.

And even if you did know that, did you know that Jim Weatherly wrote the song following a conversation with Farrah "Jill Munroe" Fawcett, shortly after she'd started dating Lee "Steve Austin / Colt Severs" Majors? It sounds like Farrah would have gone anywhere to be with Lee, even if it involved taking a midnight plane to Houston...

The United Kingdom of Song #47: Ironbridge

On our way back from Dudley, Sam and I stopped off in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the small Shropshire Village where Abraham Darby III built the world's first bridge made out of iron across the Severn Gorge between 1777 and 1781.

There probably aren't going to be any songs about Ironbridge, I figured... little knowing that back in 1973, "Shropshire's top pop band" changed their name from Fluff to something far more substantial...