Saturday, 1 November 2025

Saturday Snapshots #420: Special (Half-) Guest Post Edition

George came to me with another excellent Snapshots idea, which I then butchered and twisted to my own ends, partly because:

a) There were too many well-know artists in his list (some of whom had featured here very recently) and I've set myself an ever-increasingly difficult target of trying to include some artists every week who have never been on Snapshots before.

b) I wanted to take his idea in a slightly different direction... which I can't say any more about as it might give you an unnecessary clue.

c) I think it was possibly too easy and you guys are getting far too smart.

Anyway, thank you George, and everyone else who has offered Guest Posts recently. But please be warned that if you do offer an idea, and I might bastardise it to my own bizarre purposes. Sorry if that seems ungrateful!

Anyway, here are some pop stars. How are their songs connected?


15. The very latest in toy soldiers.

14. Often killed in avalanches.

13. Just saying, it follows Burt… but only so far.

12. Post pride.

11. De Niro is waiting for Howard’s End.

10. Humming, Thunder, Surfing. 

9. Some were talking to Jesus and Mary, the rest were saved for the Brotherhood.

8. They’ll never be stale.

7. When you hear the bing, the whiskey will be fermented, so grit your teeth till then.

6. Where pretty penguins live.

5. An O.J. Celeb.

4. Caroline is determined.

3. Soviet strikers.

2. Spill the milk wide.

1. Silence was golden when he was a child.


Answers tomorrow!


60 comments:

  1. 12 Fall
    10 Byrds
    7 CSN
    4 Sweet

    JM

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  2. Is it foreign cities (Rotterdam, Marrakesh)?

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  3. Their place in the list, 1-15, relates to a number in their song. Starting with One And Only?

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  4. Whole numbers. Even and odd!

    JM

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  5. No. But Alyson has the order part correct. It's just not 1-15.

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    1. The numbers start big then come down to No. 1 at the end

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    2. Well, yes. But there is a specific reason for the order.

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    3. Kim - Four Letter Word
      Sweet - Six Teens
      Beautiful South - Perfect 10

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    1. Last digit of one clue becomes the first digit of the next e.g. Beatles 64, CSN 49

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    2. Wow.

      No.

      Remember folks: George was a Maths teacher...

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    3. Wow.

      No.

      Remember folks: George was a Maths teacher...

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    4. Fibonacci code?

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  7. Sorry I'm late, Sir!
    Pure random guess - fibonacci sequence?

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  8. Each No. squared 1x1 2x2 3x3 etc
    When I'm 64 at 8, etc

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    1. Kim - Four Letter Word
      Sweet - Six Teens

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    2. Thank you, Alyson. You are such a Square.

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    3. Edwin - 25 miles
      Beautiful South - 36D

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    4. Yea, at last. As they used to say in the '60s, I', an L7.

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    5. Well done, Alyson! A++

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    6. Very impressed Alyson.

      C - what on earth is a fibonacci sequence?

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    7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

      JM

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    8. Think sunflowers, pinecones, romanescu broccoli, and 'Only Connect'!

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    9. You lot are all far too clever for me

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  9. Thanks to George for coming up with this one (we should have guessed it would be number orientated) and to Rol for making it more devilish.

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  10. Well done to Alyson. Sorry I'm late, been out to get pigeon food and chicken food.

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    1. Thanks. For Walter Pigeon?

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    2. Yes Alyson, and for Freckles the chinese chicken

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