Snapshots #454: Settlement Songs

Welcome to a list of 15 songs about places we might choose to make a home in...

15. Mourning turtles and dodos.

Doves - Kingdom Of Rust

14. Mimosa.

Those of you who enjoy a nice cocktail will know that a Mimosa is another name for...

Bucks Fizz - The Land Of Make Believe

13. Strictly - new meets half of old.

Those of you who like watching celebrities dance on TV may well be horrified to have learned that the new Strictly host is Josh Widdecombe. Not a patch on the former host, old Wink' (Claudia Winkelman).

Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness 

12. Novel prize and contemporary currents, tripled.

Booker Prize. New berries. (Yes, currants are berries. I googled it.)

Booker Newbury III - Love Town

11. What's Ben's tomato worth, under the current exchange rate?

"Ben's tomato worth" was an anagram.

The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic

10. Glaswegian Manga.

Urusei Yatsura - Strategic Hamlets

9. Stewart, Dean and Joyce.

James - Hymn From A Village

8. Hymn to making her doubt her own sanity.

Gaslighting is not big and not clever.

The Gaslight Anthem - Biloxi Parish

7. Not an imaginary hatchback.

No, it's a Real Estate!

Real Estate - Municipality

6. The first search engine found rhymes for campanologists.

The first search engine was (apparently) called Archie. 

Archie Bell & The Drells - Soul City Walk

5. Deliver them from email.

The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight 

...or you could have had...

The Postal Service - Brand New Colony

4. Swollen Cindy needs to unwind.

"Swollen Cindy" was an anagram.

Edwyn Collins - Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation

3. From Sunnydale to Martinique.

Buffy came from Sunnydale. Sainte Marie is in Martinique.

Buffy Sainte Marie - I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again

2. Oddities.

Space - Neighbourhood

1. Fancy pants in Ginger.

Kenny sang about Fancy Pants, with Ginger Rogers.

Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County

Come back to the Snapshots settlement next Saturday.