If you've got the Hair Like Brian May Blues this Sunday morning, don't feel Under Pressure. Here are the answers to the 100th edition of Saturday Snapshots to Keep Yourself Alive.
As I write this, nobody had spotted the Extra Special Bonus Mystery which connected 10 of the songs on this list... but I guess you'd have to be pretty sad to do that. (No offence to Alyson who came close to working it out.) Different photos, different clues and different songs, but the odd-numbered artists in this list all appeared in Saturday Snapshots #1, way back in September 2017.
I think Alyson just pipped Rigid Digit to the crown this week. I was intending to work out a league table of winners from the past 100 editions, but as you probably have realised by now, my time is rather restricted at the moment. Thanks for playing along as always, everybody. Remember: this quiz is Driven By You.
20. Lennie's pal in dire circumstance. I guess Tony must have shown him the way.
George & Lennie, as anybody who's done an English exam at school in the last 50 years will know, were the unlucky duo from Of Mice & Men.
Dire Straits, natch.
Tony Christie wondered Is This The Way To Amarillo?
George Strait - Amarillo By Morning
Justin Townes Earl (son of Steve) claims this is the last truly great country song ever written.
19. Oxymoronic invitation to stop the fight.
A band called War asking why we can't all just get along? Surely that's an oxymoron?
War - Can't We Be Friends?
18. V, son of Scotland, rejects the preserves.
V = 5.
Mc = son of Scotland.
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
17. From here to there, with Brass Eye drug.
From here to there is a distance.
Cake was a Made Up Drug.
Cake - The Distance
16. Hooked on romance, old cinema tune.
Love is a better drug than cake.
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
15. Battles Evil Dead with Carl Douglas.
Ash - Kung Fu
14. Silky soft V on a quiet evening.
Laziness compelled me to re-use the V clue.
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
13. Ashes in the toilet have you skidding on pebbles.
Loo-cinder? No?
I did like Walter's idea that parts of this clue might relate to a Drunken Angel.
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
12. Stay in bed with a bunch of flowers.
The Posies - Dream All Day
11. Nesting spirit. Atlas or Goliath, possibly.
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
10. Warhol goes Wilde, with a slight sway.
Andy Warhol, Kim Wilde. Not Andy Oscar.
Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
9. Colleagues visit a disco that only plays Dolly and Johnny.
The Associates - Club Country
Check SS #1 for Party Fears Two.
8. Threat stops traffic across the sea.
Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger
7. DJs are... cemented.
DJs are on the radio. (Except club DJs.)
The Concretes - On The Radio
6. Moroccan bartender visits Homer's town, looking for Madonna's dear ladyfriend.
Rick was the bartender from Casablanca.
Homer lives in Springfield.
Madonna was friends with Dear Jessie.
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
5. Touché + mutant ninjas = a harmonious match.
Touché would win that fight.
The Turtles - Happy Together
4. Skirmish between pro-US biopics and laces. Murderous commandments!
"pro-US biopics" is one anagram.
"and laces" is another.
Put a skirmish (Vs.) between them and thou shalt...
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thous Shalt Always Kill
Thou shalt still not question Stephen Fry.
3. Ain't nothing like it. Your help required to pass.
The Real Thing - Can't Get By Without You
God, that takes me back to the Fifth Form. (80s reissue.)
2. Wren, spinning, no relation to one, an ordinary man.
Jenny Wren, Spinning Jenny, no relation to Huey (below).
Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys
1. Donald's nephews deliver papers to trendy L7.
Well, two of Donald's nephews. Dewey must have been sick that day.
Still one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded...
Well, that's it, folks. 100 seems a pretty good number to bow out on, don't you think? Time to call it a day on Saturday Snapshots, maybe? Give you all a lie in next Saturday morning?
(Maybe not.)
Well done to Alyson for the win! Rock Me Gently is my favorite discovery of these selctions. Dream All Day is like a 90s version of Don't Fear the Reaper.
ReplyDeleteYou must be the only person who actually listens to all the tunes, Chris!
DeleteI usually apologise for winning on the back of merely being the early bird, but I wasn't yesterday, so I'll take the win! I do like the wordplay within the clues in Saturday Snapshots but goodness know how you come up with them week after week.
ReplyDeleteYou mention bowing out at #100 and of course we would all respect that as putting the clues together must take time out of your busy week, but of course it would be missed. It's become a little meeting place on a Saturday where we all drop by for a bit of fun, but of course the rub is that you don't get the fun of playing along, which is a bit unfair of us. Perhaps time for someone else to pick up the mantle of a regular quiz but to honest, don't think anyone else could top Sat Snapshots.
Thanks so much for putting this 100th edition together.
Thanks, Alyson. I enjoy it plenty. It gives a little zip to my Saturday morning even though I'm not playing. As with everything else, I wouldn't keep doing it if it stopped being fun or I couldn't find the time.
DeleteHip To Be Square - a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
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