Sunday 17 November 2019

Saturday Snapshots #110 - The Answers


If you were a rebel without a clue yesterday morning, here comes a giant relief... this week's answers.


10. Repetitive male title can't get Minogue right.


You spell it Kylie, not...

Mr. Mister - Kyrie

9. Double Tutu for holy people.


Double Decker + Desmond Tutu.

Desmond Dekker - The Israelites

Still hard to hear that without thinking of Vitalite.

8. Sounds like a pink loft... or what happens to Neil Diamond after he stops talking and starts getting emotional.


Pink!'s real name is Alecia Moore.

Neil Diamond sang I Am I Said.

Alisha's Attic - I Am I Feel

7. Wedlock between two fellas creates powerful medicine woman.


Two men with Fred (Wedlock) in between.

Dr. Quinn was a Medicine Woman.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn

6. Unlikely weather forecast threatens us all with death.


I'm amazed that Brian got this by recognising the artist from the photo.

Another Sunny Day - You Should All Be Murdered

5. Dustin Hoffman meets girl with axe, by muddled, rackety aunt.


"Rackety aunt" is Tanya Tucker muddled up.

Dustin Hoffman was the Rain Man.

Lizzie Borden had an axe.

Tanya Tucker - Lizzie & The Rain Man

4. Bumbled horses cross the line every time.


Bumble Bees + Gee Gees...

Bee Gees - You Win Again 

3. Sovereign & subject together promise a brighter future.


Tough one this. But Brian saved the day!

Citizen King - Better Days

2. Most babies are: it's the amniotic fluid. The hell, you say!


Hell is The Underworld.

Babies are born slippy.

Underworld - Born Slippy

1. Flawless relation found beneath pitch.


Pitch = tone.

Is there are more perfect pop song? I know Teenage Kicks takes the Peel plaudits, but it doesn't contain this line...

His mother bought him a synthesizer
Got the Human League into advise her

...which is surely one of the best rhymes ever written into a chart hit.

Why aren't teenage lads making noises like this anymore?



Live Fast, Die Young... but not before coming back next week for more of the same.

2 comments:

  1. Doubt I would have guessed Citizen King, even with extra clues. You Should All Be Murdered is good enough to be on a Smiths/Morrissey album

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  2. Another toughie - but great fun. Thank you Rol.

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