Snapshots #441 - Songs About Bodies Of Water

This is the late River Phoenix. I was going to put his picture up here yesterday, but I figured it'd make the link too easy. I have to be so careful with you guys. Instead, I went with Mr. Bragg because...

Billy Bragg - Body Of Water

Here are some more songs about that. Hope you can swim.

15. A Guy Named... Jarvis?

A Guy Named Joe meets another Sheffield Cocker.

I can't believe that this is the first time Joe Cocker has ever appeared on this blog.

Joe Cocker - Delta Lady

14. What Mark Knopfler wore round his head.

He wore a headband.

The Band - Up On Cripple Creek

13. Don't challenge him to fisticuffs.

Louis Armstrong - Canal Street Blues

12. Charlton Heston was their President.

Charlton was the President of the National Rifle Association.

The Gun Club - The Straits of Love & Hate

11. Jog round the oil platform.

Runrig - Loch Lomond

10. Sweeter than The Who's Magic.

The Who had a Magic Bus.

Honeybus - Cross Channel Ferry

9. Climbing without ropes, where Jason Bateman got into trouble.

Jason Bateman starred in The Ozark. Good show. You should give it a watch.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Arroyo

8. All Amish wink... but in a funny way.

Hank Williams - Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

7. How I feel when I discover the price of fuel has gone up again.

That Petrol Emotion - Swamp

6. Young tearaways in the country capital.

Nashville Teens - How Deep Is The Ocean?

5. Blackburn, Orlando and Montana are all sad places.

Bluetones - Down at the Reservoir

4. Verstappen seen in the cemetery.

Max... by graves.

Max Bygraves - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea

3. Full Monty star becomes more impressive.

Grand (Mark) Addy.

Grandaddy - The Crystal Lake 

2. Where a Scottish Queen met her maker.

Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded in...

Fotheringhay - The Pond & The Stream

1. Bernice's pet rung the doctor: "Help, Doctor, I'm all in a tizzy!"

"Bernice's pet rung" was an anagram.

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Let the water carry you back here next Saturday for more Snapshots.

Fun Fact Friday #2: SuperWorm

At one of the hospitals where I work, we get a monthly delivery of books to hand out to children on the ward. 

This arrived the other day. 

Nobody wants to go anywhere near it...

They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm

Trashcan Sinatras - A Worm With A Head

The Clint Boon Experience - Do What You Do (Earworm Song)

Ohio Players - Funky Worm

Porridge Radio - Worms

Little Jimmy Dickens - Hey Worm

Keg - Sate The Worm

Jimmy McGriff - The Worm

Beth Orton - Worms

Guided By Voices - Wormhole

Bluetones - Solomon Bites The Worm

Snapshots #393: Natural Disasters In Song

Call the National Guard - this week's Snapshots has been a disaster!

15. A fetching skyline.

Bring Me The Horizon - Avalanche

14. Definitely not The Numbers!

They're not numbers - they're free men!

The Prisoners - Hurricane

13. Frankie in a submarine.

Frankie Valli goes deep...

Deap Valley - Drought

12. Shades of sadness.

Bluetones - Mudslide

11. Their story's seldom told.

"I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told..." is the opening line of The Boxer.

Boxer - Blizzard

10. Imprisoned businesswoman found in lad's navel.

Martha Stewart ended up in the nick. "Lad's navel" was an anagram...

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Heatwave

9. Stargazing tools.

The Telescopes - Tornado

8. This fishtank's in a right state!

State, as in United States...

American Aquarium - Wildfire

7. Important component in both telecaster and stratocaster guitars.

TeleCASTer and stratoCASTer...

Cast - Sandstorm

6. Lancaster con man invests in Lou Reed libretto.

Burt Lancaster played the religious con man Elmer Gantry. Lou Reed was in the Velvet Underground. A libretto is the words from an opera.

Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Volcano

5. Luggage for a German Underground singer.

Still with the VU, that would be a Nico case...

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 

4. Cook up some Manchester rat recipes.

"Manchester rat recipes" was an anagram...

Manic Street Preachers - Tsunami

3. How Travolta expressed his love for Cortinas.

John ❤︎ Ford.

John Hartford - California Earthquake

2. Bloodsuckers move across your eyeline.

Transvision Vamp - Landslide Of Love

1. Turn the terrible page...

"Terrible page" was an anagram...

Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood

It'd be a disaster if you weren't back here next Saturday for more of this nonsense...

Saturday Snapshots #156 - The Answers

 

It's Sunday morning. Do you know where your answers are?

10. Maternal advice from Larry... or Indiana. 

Larry Hagman played J.R. Ewing.

Indiana was Henry Jones Jr.

Junior - Mama Used To Say 

9. Laine too long on the beach? That's why your clock went missing. 

Denny Laine on a Sandy beach?

Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

8. Lindsay Anderson's conditional in sad notes.

Lindsay Anderson made the film If... which is a conditional.

The Bluetones - If...

7. Tune in with the end of your sleeve.

What's on the end of your sleeve? A cuff!

Roy Acuff - Turn Your Radio On

6. Caught in lessons.

Caught = Busted!

Busted - That's What I Go To School For

(That's the 21st Century version of this.)

5. A tiny one thousandth, suckers! 

A small milli?

Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop

4. Tyger cubs found in septic tank.

William Blake wrote Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright...

Blake Babies - Cesspool

(Juliana Hatfield there, folks.)

3. Royal pooches reluctantly join #6.

The Queen loves her corgis.

Reluctantly joining Busted in school, because...

The Korgis - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime 

2. Looking for a different bloke? Choose a frisky one who's into ideologies.

You need a new man? Watch out if he's Randy!

Randy Newman - Political Science

1. Foxy chef can't tell you when the Battle of Hastings happened.

Sam Fox cooks?

Don't know much about history...

Saturday Snapshots returns next week... even if the world ain't that wonderful right now.

Saturday Snapshots #29 - The Answers

If yesterday's clues were all a blur to you... allow me to clear them up.



10. Oy! Rossiter! This is what James Bond might drink on the dark side of the moon.

Martin Rossiter is the lead singer of Gene. Bond would have his martini shaken, not stirred, with Pink Floyd.

Pink Martini - Hey Eugene

Charity Chic got the artist, Chris solved the song.

9. Bounce! Mrs. McCartney loses a: rare grown-up caterpillar.

If something is bouncing, it's bobbing up and down. Linda - a = Lind.

Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly

Alyson broke out of her chrysalis to solve this one.

8. Women can be just like Van Halen. Crying Clitheroe or Weeping Watford?

A Girl Called Eddy - Tears All Over Town

And another one for Alyson!

7. Split up with your lad? Don't turn a drama into a Cold War crisis.

Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race

And another one for... oh. Nobody. Guess that's a point for me then. (Unless it was answered after 9pm Saturday.)

6. Not Chubby Checker. Not New Order.

Fats Domino - Blue Monday

It never occurred to me before that Chubby Checker was just a rip off of Fats Domino. Perhaps it had occurred to Rigid Digit.

5. I'm overjoyed that you put everything you had into this.

Blood, Sweat & Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy

Lynchie got this. Alyson kicked herself.

4. Make a big fuss while searching for Wonder Woman.

Hue & Cry - Looking For Linda

CC was this week's early bird... despite the fact that these guys had a lot more hair when they had their hits.

3. The next best thing to your daily song about Slash.

The next best thing to sliced bread?

Bread - Guitar Man

A point for C!

2. Swimsuits murder a song about Princess Leia.

Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl

Charity Chic solved this one eventually... though C and Chris were typing the title at the same time.

1. Jazz label gets mixed up with Bill Hicks musical.

The jazz label would be Bluenote. Mix it up and you get Bluetone. This song is named after a Bill Hicks record. Slight Return also owed a debt to Hicks, which was C's guess, but I prefer the track Rigid Digit eventually identified...

(This has a truly awful video - what were they thinking? - so I've posted the audio only.)


By my reckoning, this week's joint winners with 2 1/2 points each are C and CC. Well done, guys. Excellent teamwork as always.

More next week, double-decker buses permitting...