Saturday Snapshots #43 - The Answers

You don't bring me flowers anymore... the least you could do is bring me the answers to this week's Saturday Snapshots. No need to feel Guilty if you didn't get them all right...

Martin was this week's winner, though he needed help with some of the answers from C, FurryBoots and Chris. Charity Chic gets extra points for the detective work involved in cracking #10.


10. Three step Eddie takes an E with a boy cat on the road to death.

A boy cat is a Tom.

Add an e to (Eddie) Cochran and you get Cochrane.

The road to death? Life.

Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway

9. Mo Farah heads away from the East End.

Mo Farrah is an Athlete.

Leaving the East End will take you to the Westside.

Athlete - Westside

8. CB airgun endorses Kate's cloudbusting prediction.

Yes, CB airgun is an anagram of Bic Runga.

In Cloudbusting, Kate knew that something good was gonna happen.

Bic Runga - Something Good

7. Made up flowers for the construction industry.

The base of make up is Foundation.

The Foundations - Build Me Up, Buttercup

6. David Ruffin discovers the edge of Stevie's paradise.

David Ruffin was a Temptation.

Steve Nicks sung about The Edge of Seventeen.

Paradise is heaven.

Heaven 17 - Temptation

5. Curling irons cause Sonny & Cher's baby to go missing.

Curling irons cause split ends.

Sonny & Cher sang I Got You, Babe. If their baby went missing...

Split Enz - I Got You

4. I feel my favourite ballads of all time.

I feel emotions. (Well, sometimes.)

My favourite ballads would be The Best Of My Love.

The Emotions - The Best Of My Love

3. When you quit like that, you'll get Cash with one last wage slip.

Johnny (Cash) gets one final Paycheck when he quits...

Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job And Shove It

2. Travel east for E-cigs.

E-cigs involve vapours, for Vaping.

If you travel east, you could be turning towards Japan.

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

1. Lucky boy starts to believe in purification again.

A lucky boy would be a fortunate son.

Believing something involves credence. Water purication makes it clear. Starting again is a revival.



Test your Memory again next Saturday morning...

My Top Ten Election Day Songs

It's Election Day. Get out and vote. For someone who can make a difference.

Now over to Number Ten for the results...



10. Arcadia - Election Day

Let's get this one out of the way, shall we? The link above is to the full 8 minute version, which features dry ice, cocktails, bombast, writhing girls in short leather dresses with too much make-up, soulless boardrooms, big hair, shoulder pads, meaningful glances, wine bars, pig-headed shadowplay, Freudian tunnels, trenchcoats, bad dancing... and smug, millionaire Tories.

Truly, it's everything that was wrong with the 80s in one horrendous video.

Although it does contain the lyric...

Will you embrace
His penis is reckless?

No, really, it does - have a listen! If you can bear it.

9. Rory Gallagher - Smear Campaign

One for Jeremy, I think...

The Dirty Tricks department,
Is working overtime.
Trying to stop the candidate,
From getting in this time.
The wheels are now in motion,
All the traps are set.
Under the commotion,
He'll walk into this net.

The state's intoxicated,
They're at the starting gate.
He may never make it,
To the planned T.V. debate.

He can't fight off the big bucks,
Of the old brigade.
He's gotta watch his step,
In this Smear Campaign.

They called a snap election,
In the summer heat.
This town is reeling backwards,
Like a drunk man on the street.

Yeah....

Feed those lies, bend those minds,
At any price.
Foul or fair, as long as he's not in there, Election Time.

Yeah..

Smear Campaign.

8. Bic Runga - Election Night

On the night of the election
Ancient stars will fall into the sea
And the ocean floor sings her sympathy

Sounds like Bic's predicting another Tory landslide.

7. The Replacements - Election Day

Paul Westerberg doesn't care who gets elected until he finds someone to love...

6. John Wesley Harding - Election Night

...while JWH finds temporary romantic solace in the arms of another loser.

I met you on election night
As we cried over our beers
Nothing you could do would cheer me up
We broke up later that year
How come you and I aren't winners?
Why weren't we born the other side?

5. Marvin Gaye - You're The Man

Vote Marvin.

Better hear what they have to say
'Cause the tables just might turn against you, brother
Set around Election Day
Politics and hypocrites
Is turning us all into lunatics

4. Radiohead - Electioneering

I will stop, I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
Ha ha ha

Screaming Lord Sutch gets Thom's vote.

3. Skunk Anansie - Yes, It's Fucking Political

I'll vote whichever way Skin tells me to. She scares me. (Not as much as Theresa though.)

2. Alice Cooper - Elected

If Alice Cooper had stood against Trump, it would have been a very different story.

1. Billy Bragg - Ideology

Yes, the final word obviously has to go to Billy...

When one voice rules the nation
Just because they're on top of the pile
Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest
The voices of the people
Are falling on deaf ears
Our politicians all become careerists
They must declare their interests
But not their company cars
Is there more to a seat in parliament
Then sitting on your arse?
And the best of all this bad bunch
Are shouting to be heard
Above the sound of ideologies clashing

Outside the patient millions
Who put them into power
Expect a little more back for their taxes
Like school books, beds in hospitals
And peace in our bloody time
All they get is old men grinding axes
Who've built their private fortunes
On the things they can rely
The courts, the secret handshake
The stock exchange and the old school tie
For god and queen and country
All things they justify
Above the sound of ideologies clashing

God bless the civil service
The nation's saving grace
While we expect democracy
They're laughing in our face
And although our cries get louder
Their laughter gets louder still
Above the sound of ideologies clashing

Which MP3 gets your vote?

My Top Ten Ruby Songs

Ten rubies on wax cylinder...


10. The Osborne Brothers - Ruby (Are You Mad?)

Featuring some mighty fine banjo picking.

9. Marty Robbins - Ruby Ann

Ain't true love a funny thing?

8. Foster The People - Ruby

 An early FTP track, from before their pumped-up success, released as part of Record Store Day 2012.

7. Bic Runga - Ruby Nights

A haunting story of lost love from the New Zealand chanteuse.

6. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Ruby Room

A Green Day side-project that sounds suspiciously like... Green Day. Nothing wrong with that.

5. Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms

Tom does a Bill Bixby...

The only thing I'm taking is the scarf off of your clothesline
I'll hurry past your chest of drawers
And your broken wind chimes as I say goodbye
I'll say goodbye, say goodbye to Ruby's arms...

4. Donald Fagen - Ruby Baby

From the amazing album 'The Nightfly', the best thing to come out of Steely Dan breaking up in the 80s. 

3. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

The Leeds' lads biggest hit: it seems so long ago. I saw Ricky Wilson in the remake of Jeff Wayne's War of the World stage show just before Christmas. He was the best thing in it... except for Liam Neeson (via hologram) and Jason Donovan. Marty Pellow was awful though.

2. The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday

I know, I know. You really thought this would be Number One, didn't you? It's a lovely song. There's no denying that. But it doesn't quite do it for me like...

1. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town

Back from Vietnam, a paralyzed vet finds it hard to readjust to home life... especially when his wife is finding solace in the arms of other men.

Those of you who don't find this heartbreaking: check you've still got one to break.

Originally recorded by Johnny Darrell. Also memorably covered by (among others) The Killers, Carl Perkins, Cake and Leonard Nimoy. Yes, I said Leonard Nimoy. 




Those were my Top Ten Rubies... which sparkles brightest for you?