More songs about magazines... today, Music Magazines.
Problem Patterns - Classic Rock Has Become My Prison
Mary Lou Williams Quartet - Melody Maker
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Mojo
What was your favourite music mag? I think the one I miss most is The Word...
I don't know about you, but I find there's very little worth watching on the blogbox at this time of year: it's all bloody repeats!
15. Sounds like Clarice... and Loggins.
Clarice in Silence of the Lambs was played by Jodie Foster.
Kenny Loggins' old singing partner was Jim Messina.
14. It means squat to us.
"Squat to us" was an anagram.
13. What's new for Barbie and Sindy?
What's new, Pussycat?
12. Who's that boy?
11. If only Old No. 7 was a Scotch... it has the DNA!
Old No. 7 is Jack Daniels. If it was a Scotch, it might be McDaniels. Gene is in the DNA.
10. The most boring part of the school day.
9. Michelle Gomez meets John Hillerman.
Michelle Gomez played Missy in Doctor Who. John Hillerman was Higgins in Magnum, PI.
8. The original dandies.
The Beau Brummels - Laugh Laugh
7. A really mean thing to do at Halloween.
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
6. Useful when you need a new pram.
5. Tubular woman wonders why the first too letters are so boring.
Paula Yates was on The Tube. AB = dull.
4. What good is sitting alone in your room, Monsieur Arouet?
What good is sitting alone in your room - come to the Cabaret, Mr. François-Marie Arouet... aka Voltaire.
3. Starry, starry Knights Templar.
Starry, starry night is the opening lyric to Vincent. Simon Templar was a Saint.
2. Hunter and Emma are a pair.
Hunter S. Thompson and Emma Thompson are not, as you might expect, twins.
Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor
1. Crazy young bloke.
He's a lad, insane.
Thanks again to the wonderful Mr. John Medd for providing this week's Snapshots link... songs with words that relate to buses. Or, as John put it, "these artists have all recorded songs where one word in the title can suffix the word 'Bus'."
Did you catch them all?
15. The process of transferring certain residents' belongings from Number 15 to Number 9.
Obviously this clue referred to The Move... especially as a couple of prominent members of this band ended up forming the band at #9 today.
The Move - Turkish Tram Conductor Blues
Bus Conductor.
14. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Lyrics taken from Beautiful Boy, a song John Lennon wrote about his second son... although the line was coined by American journalist Allen Saunders in 1957.
Bus queue.
13. Sounds like some folky minstrels.
His name sounds like the New Christy Minstrels.
Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
Bus strikes.
12. Am I seeings things correctly?
"Seeings" was an anagram.
Bus timetable.
11. Libertine Marquis.
The Marquis de Sade was a bit of a beggar.
Bus operator.
10. Quiet, please.
He was the Quiet Beatle.
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Bus pass.
9. Leo was in turmoil.
Leo is a very short anagram for the band that evolved from The Move...
Bus ticket.
8. Troubled souls.
They were on a Bridge Over Troubled Water...
Simon & Garfunkel - Baby Driver
Bus driver.
7. ...will be...
Boys will be Boys!
Bus terminal.
6. Give him roasted toadstools and a glass of dandelion wine.
Lyrics from The Laughing Gnome...
David Bowie - Station To Station
Bus station.
5. Toffish ogre... or ogreish toff? Neither, exactly.
Two anagrams for the price of one!
Foo Fighters - Times like These
Bus times.
4. Sounds like Cow-Cow, Shoo Shoo Morse.
Ella Mae Morse recorded Cow Cow Boogie and Shoo Shoo Baby.
Bus trip.
3. Ann burned cow! That's out of order.
"Ann burned cow" was an anagram.
Bus journey.
2. My boy cracks the Da Vinci Code.
My boy is called Sam. The Da Vinci Code was written by Dan Brown.
1. Two under par.
The Eagles - Life In The Fast Lane
Bus lane.
More insanity. I'm on holiday this week, so this is all I can manage...
Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas
That would have definitely been included on Saturday had I not already included it in a Bananas Snapshots some years ago.
And this needs mentioning too... but appears far too frequently on my blog!
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Psycho
Here's a version I hadn't heard before... featuring Nina Persson.
If you're a psycho, you're probably pretty twisted...
Skunk Anansie - Twisted (Everyday Hurts)
And you may also be nuts...
That sounds pretty nuts, even by David's standards.
Not that I'm saying he was a basket case...
But some might say he had a screw loose...
Ten Foot Faces - Loose Screw Rag
One fella who was definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic though... was Jim Steinman. And I loved him for it...
The Madness continues!
I've left out the obvious ones like Mad World, I'm Going Slightly Mad, Patsy Cline and Aerosmith. Here are a few more tunes that almost made the cut this weekend, starting with some Pop Punk from 1999...
I was going to use a clue relating to Stephen Moffat and Aiden Moffat... would that have been too obscure even for me?
Jimmie Raye - You Must Be Losing Your Mind
Or, far more recent...
Taylor Swift likes him, so he can't be all bad.
Here's three songs about Cracking Up by artists who appear here regularly...
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Cracking Up
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Cracking Up
And one by a band you may not remember. I didn't!
Only 623 views on youtube says very few people remember them.
Let's get deranged next...
PVC2 - Deranged, Demented And Free
Early Midge Ure appearance there.
Smashing Orange - My Deranged Heart
That was a smashing orange, gran.
Finally for today, a lady whose work "blends elements of gothic rock, doom metal, and folk." This one though wouldn't sound out of place on a David Lynch soundtrack...
10. Short, mild Freud gets snarky.
The Freud in question was Clement (like mild weather), shortened to Clem. He's rather Snide.
9. Do you confuse your arm with your nose?
Mix up the letters from "arm" and "nose" and you get...
The Ramones - Planet Earth 1988
8. Cheap Crystal.
7. Aged Erny gets rather befuddled at times, doesn't he?
"Aged Erny" was an anagram in no way associated with any Ernies you might know who spell their names differently.
6. Knock over the minestrone cans.
Arguably the best song ever written about the 1980s.
5. You may pick him up on Channel Two.
A lyric from Starman, as I'm sure you were aware...
4. Johnny Allen, also known as Buster.
Jimi's real name, and childhood nickname.
Jimi Hendrix Experience - 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
3. Me Too, Dave Lee?
Is someone accusing the Hairy Cornflake of getting Randy?
2. Fortunately, that photo of you with your tongue up against the door of the Dog & Duck won't last long.
The pub-lick image had a limited life span...
1. Anni bars Jock after he gets closer tonight... what an upset!
"Anni bars Jock" and "closer tonight" were both anagrams...
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson - 1980
