Snapshots Spillover: More Coat Songs

Should have posted these on Monday, but other business took precedent. Some more songs that were left in the Snapshots cloakroom after last weekend...

Dan Bern - Hoody

Black - Her Coat And No Knickers

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - When You Laugh at Your Own Garden in a Blazer 

Glenn Miller - Tuxedo Junction

David Bowie - Sell Me A Coat

Another Sunny Day - Anorak City

Cake - Short Skirt / Long Jacket

Luke Haines - Bomber Jacket

Luke Kelly - Raglan Road

Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colours

And yes, that's why Jason Donovan was the picture clue on Saturday...

Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do

See also...

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Joseph's Coat

Speaking of colourful coats (beyond the famous blue one)... do any of these take your fancy?

Philip Jeays - In My Long Grey Coat

Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat

A. Savage - My New Green Coat

Bubblegum Lemonade - Famous Blue Anorak 

Lloyd Arnold - Red Coat, Green Pants & Red Suede Shoes

New Model Army - White Coats

Red Hewitt &The Buccaneers - The Girl In The Teddy Bear Coat

And here are some to protect you from the elements...

E - My Old Raincoat

Josh Ritter - Rainslicker

Ariel Pink - Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade

The Sprites - Winter Coat

Benjamin Shaw - Goodbye, Kagoul World

Guy Clark - Like A Coat From The Cold

REM - Harborcoat

And before we go, a brief exchange between Eliza and Cat.

Eliza Gilkyson - Take Off Your Old Coat

Cat Power - The Coat Is Always On

That's her told. 

Finally then, a brief word from JOhn...

John Cooper Clarke - Gaberdine Angus

Not really a song, that last one, but maybe the man in the Gaberdine coat was a spy...

Snapshots #329: A Top Ten Musical Death Threats

If you feel you've been affected by any song that has threatened your life or the life of someone you know, please call our helpine.

10. Tom calls Ricky about a mix up.

"Tom calls Ricky" is an anagram.

Kirsty MacColl - Can't Stop Killing You

9. What Hulk does.

Hulk Smash!

SMASH - (I Want To) Kill Somebody

8. Lightly slap the long eared bunny. 

Pat the hare.

Pat Hare - I'm Gonna Murder My Baby

Sadly, in December 1963, Pat Hare made this song a reality when he shot his girlfriend and a policeman who came to question him. He spent the last 16 years of his life in prison, where he formed the band Sounds Incarcerated.

7. Suicidal ideations.

They wanna die. But they want you to die first.

The Wannadies - Kill You

6. Inventive mother.

He was a Mother of Invention.

Frank Zappa - My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

5. Getting bored with the hot weather?

Another Sunny Day - You Should All Be Murdered

4. Part of Marvin's hearing aid and a bit of a dick.

Marvin Heard It Through The Grapevine. Moby was a dick.

Moby Grape - Murder In My Heart For The Judge

3. That Peter Gabriel album is a Knock Out.

The Peter Gabriel album was So. It was KO.

Soko - I'll Kill Her

2. Find mayhem in Emmental cheese sandwich. 

...mayhem in Emmental cheese sandwich. 

Eminem - Kill You

1. Not suitable for vegetarians.

Meat Loaf - I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back

If you survived this one, I'll see you back here next Saturday...

Saturday Snapshots #110 - The Answers

If you were a rebel without a clue yesterday morning, here comes a giant relief... this week's answers.


10. Repetitive male title can't get Minogue right.

You spell it Kylie, not...

Mr. Mister - Kyrie

9. Double Tutu for holy people.

Double Decker + Desmond Tutu.

Desmond Dekker - The Israelites

Still hard to hear that without thinking of Vitalite.

8. Sounds like a pink loft... or what happens to Neil Diamond after he stops talking and starts getting emotional.

Pink!'s real name is Alecia Moore.

Neil Diamond sang I Am I Said.

Alisha's Attic - I Am I Feel

7. Wedlock between two fellas creates powerful medicine woman.

Two men with Fred (Wedlock) in between.

Dr. Quinn was a Medicine Woman.

Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn

6. Unlikely weather forecast threatens us all with death.

I'm amazed that Brian got this by recognising the artist from the photo.

Another Sunny Day - You Should All Be Murdered

5. Dustin Hoffman meets girl with axe, by muddled, rackety aunt.

"Rackety aunt" is Tanya Tucker muddled up.

Dustin Hoffman was the Rain Man.

Lizzie Borden had an axe.

Tanya Tucker - Lizzie & The Rain Man

4. Bumbled horses cross the line every time.

Bumble Bees + Gee Gees...

Bee Gees - You Win Again 

3. Sovereign & subject together promise a brighter future.

Tough one this. But Brian saved the day!

Citizen King - Better Days

2. Most babies are: it's the amniotic fluid. The hell, you say!

Hell is The Underworld.

Babies are born slippy.

Underworld - Born Slippy

1. Flawless relation found beneath pitch.

Pitch = tone.

Is there are more perfect pop song? I know Teenage Kicks takes the Peel plaudits, but it doesn't contain this line...

His mother bought him a synthesizer
Got the Human League into advise her

...which is surely one of the best rhymes ever written into a chart hit.

Why aren't teenage lads making noises like this anymore?



Live Fast, Die Young... but not before coming back next week for more of the same.