Nanu nanu.
10. Poet stuck in the bog? Typical human being.
Shelley, up to his neck in the peat?
My favourite Mark Lamarr joke: "It's like the Buzzcocks without the buzz."
Watch the video and marvel at what strange times the 80s were.
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
9. A couple, in three movements? Child's play!
A couple are often lovers.
A concerto comes in three movements. (According to iffypedia.)
Children play with toys.
The Toys - A Lover's Concerto
8. Labelled middle-class? No worries.
Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All
7. Too much superglue.
Too much is an excess.
If there was too much superglue between us, you would never tear us apart.
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
6. Ode to a Phoenix, from a menacing anchorman.
Ode to River Phoenix?
Dennis was a Menace.
Bob Wilson was an anchorman.
Well, I’d like to meet Stephenson the engineer
And I’d like to meet Faraday and buy him a beer
And I’d love to meet the bloke who had the bright idea of
Bob Wilson – anchorman
Dennis Wilson - River Song
5. Last dingo does Alan Partridge impression.
Santigold - Say Aha!
4. Second Goddess, electric smut.
We used to call smutty movies "blue". How quaint we were back then.
The second planet from the sun has the name of a goddess...
Shocking Blue - Venus
3. I am the... opposite of Frank Black. You are... the only one in the race.
I am the Walrus of Love.
The Bloodhoung Gang sang that they were "not black like Barry White, no I am white like Frank Black is".
The only one in the race would be the first, the last... pretty much everything.
Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
2. Creepy, kooky dad in police custody.
The Addams Family (creepy, kooky and altogether ooky) dad was Gomez.
Gomez - Get Myself Arrested
1. Jill and Sam's other halves enjoy sliced fruit in a tent.
Jack & Jill.
Sam & Diane. (One for Cheers' fans.)
Enjoy a melon slice at camp.
Cougar not pictured.
One of the best songs of the 80s...
O Captain, my Captain: Saturday Snapshots will be back next week. Carpe diem!
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