Sunday, 18 August 2024

Snapshots #357: A Top Ten Monopoly Address Songs


This weekend, I set you all the task of buying ten different addresses on thew Monopoly board. Did you get them all, or did you end up in jail?


10. The risque yob gets befuddled.

The risque yob" was an anagram.

The Quireboys - Mayfair

9. They may not win, but they'll still enjoy themselves.

The Good Time Losers - Trafalgar Square

8. Found in competitive archbishops and heartthrob oysters.

Found in comPETitive archbiSHOPs and heartthroB OYSters.

Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross

7. Shatner's full of holes! Let's sew him back together with some spare material.

Patch William - Take Me Home To Marylebone

6. Knife found in London prison.

A Stanley knife found in HMP Holloway.

Stanley Holloway - Wot Cher! (Knock'd Em In The Old Kent Road)

5. John Astin.

John Astin played Gomez in The Addams Family.

Gomez - Whippin' Piccadilly

4. His boy scores no points.

You get Nil, son.

Harry Nilsson - Vine Street

3. Gone off.

2. Craig Charles has lost weight!

In the TV show Red Dwarf, Craig Charles played Dave Lister.

Skinny Lister - Trouble On Oxford Street

1. Neil Young played this on their opening night.


"Los Angeles' famed Roxy Theater officially opened its doors on September 20th, 1973, with a performance by Neil Young and his band the Santa Monica Flyers."

Roxy Music - Do The Strand

You might also have purchased...

S.C.U.M. - Whitechapel

Frank Turner - The Angel, Islington

(That would have been a cinch this week, had I not already featured it in A Top Ten London Underground Songs.)

Ian Hunter - Bow Street Runners

Dimples & Eddie - Fleet Street

Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square

And yesterday's opening act...

David Bowie - Maid Of Bond Street


9 comments:

  1. And this one: https://youtu.be/so7iHDosZa0?si=nn71bBCKTtHYOqLa

    Thanks Mr Rol

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    1. I'm not sure if that's better or worse than Stanley Holloway...

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  2. I can't believe you discarded Jethro Tull.

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  3. What about Nick Lowe’s ‘Withered on the Vine’ from his Impossible Bird album?

    JM

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  4. These were tough locations for those of us who play Monopoly in America but still fun nonetheless. Thanks, Rol. - Brian

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    1. Apologies, Brian. I'll see if I can do a US version to stump every else!

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    2. Apologies, Brian. I'll see if I can do a US version to stump every else!

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