Monday 4 November 2024

Snapshots Spillover - More Cryptozoological Songs

Damn it - I missed that conference. If I'd known about it before, I'd have been there like a shot. 

Cryptozoology is the study of animals that are legendary, extinct, or unknown, and whose existence is disputed or unsubstantiated. Not that anyone in their right mind would dispute Bigfoot or Nessie... but there are some crazy folk out there.

Here's a few more appropriate tunes...

Queen - Dragon Attack

That's Huey Morgan's favourite Queen song. He used to do a Radio 2 show in the middle of the night between Friday and Saturday that I always used to listen to (one of the last Radio 2 shows I bothered with) and he'd play that every other week.

Lalo Schiffrin - Enter The Dragon

Squirrel Nut Zippers - The Kraken

The Kraken was a famous many tentacled sea monster, who probably hung out with this (surprisingly popular) underwater cryptid...

Nick Cave - Leviathan

James - Leviathan

Manic Street Preachers - Leviathan

Edwyn Collins - Leviathan

Back onto dry land now for the scary prospect of a half-dragon, half-chicken hybrid...

Shearwater - Open Your Houses (Basilisk)

Even scarier - part-Lion, part-man, part-eagle, part-scorpion... it's the Manticore!

Momus - The Manticore

And next, we have a best straight out of the old testament, And next, we have a best straight out of the Old Testament, whose "bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron”... 

The Shadows of Night - The Behemoth

To be honest, I think I'd rather find a bunch of these guys at the bottom of my garden...


Lisa Germano - In The Land of the Fairies

Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots

Magnetic Fields - I've Run Away To Join The Fairies

But I've saved the best till last today... well, it had to be, didn't it? 

From the album Loch'd & Loaded, of course...



5 comments:

  1. Not a song but I know you play fast and loose with the rules so won't mind. This lot were responsible for all sorts of drivel in the 70s:

    https://youtu.be/jNwhblDNYmw?si=me8NDxfai9ws41ps

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    1. That's the best thing George will hear all week.

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    2. He's a sucker from a prog crumhorn solo

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    3. For not from. Or succubus not sucker (keeping to your theme)

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  2. What - some people dispute Nessie!

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