Saturday Snapshots #119 - The Answers

Mork calling answers... come in, answers!

Nanu nanu.


10. Poet stuck in the bog? Typical human being.

Shelley, up to his neck in the peat?

My favourite Mark Lamarr joke: "It's like the Buzzcocks without the buzz."

Watch the video and marvel at what strange times the 80s were.

Pete Shelley - Homosapien

9. A couple, in three movements? Child's play!

A couple are often lovers.

A concerto comes in three movements. (According to iffypedia.)

Children play with toys.

The Toys - A Lover's Concerto

8. Labelled middle-class? No worries.

Bourgeois Tagg - I Don't Mind At All

7. Too much superglue.

Too much is an excess.

If there was too much superglue between us, you would never tear us apart.

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

6. Ode to a Phoenix, from a menacing anchorman.

Ode to River Phoenix?

Dennis was a Menace.

Bob Wilson was an anchorman. 

Well, I’d like to meet Stephenson the engineer

And I’d like to meet Faraday and buy him a beer

And I’d love to meet the bloke who had the bright idea of

Bob Wilson – anchorman

Dennis Wilson - River Song

5. Last dingo does Alan Partridge impression.

"Last dingo" is an anagram of Santigold. Although she was originally called Santogold, so that would make her the last dongo.

Santigold - Say Aha!

4. Second Goddess, electric smut.

We used to call smutty movies "blue". How quaint we were back then.

The second planet from the sun has the name of a goddess...

Shocking Blue - Venus

3. I am the... opposite of Frank Black. You are... the only one in the race.

I am the Walrus of Love.

The Bloodhoung Gang sang that they were "not black like Barry White, no I am white like Frank Black is".

The only one in the race would be the first, the last... pretty much everything.

Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything

2. Creepy, kooky dad in police custody.

The Addams Family (creepy, kooky and altogether ooky) dad was Gomez.

Gomez - Get Myself Arrested

1. Jill and Sam's other halves enjoy sliced fruit in a tent.

Jack & Jill.

Sam & Diane. (One for Cheers' fans.)

Enjoy a melon slice at camp.

Cougar not pictured.

One of the best songs of the 80s...




O Captain, my Captain: Saturday Snapshots will be back next week. Carpe diem!

My Top Ten Time Songs

There are hundreds of songs about time... but these are all called Time, and nothing else.

We'll deal with some of the others... when I have the time.


10. Marion - Time

Hey, remember Marion?

No, me neither.

(Liar.)

9. Dennis Wilson - Time

From the classic solo album Pacific Ocean Blue that proved Dennis to be more than just Brian's brother.

8. Ben Folds - Time

And in time I will fade away
In time I won't care what you say
In time, but time takes time you know

7. Pink Floyd - Time

Other people would have placed this much higher, I have no doubt. Maybe even at Number One.

Me, sorry, I never had that much time for the Floyd...

6. Codeine Velvet Club - Time

A toast to life and its bitter ironies.

5. INXS - Time

Well, it's only time.
It's only that makes you... 
It's only time that breaks you.

As with a lot INXS lyrics, you can look back now and hear a lot of foresight.

4. Supergrass - Time

Not listened to this in years... it brings back memories of good times.

3. Tom Waits - Time

Wonderfully smokey, late night storytelling.

2. Freddie Mercury - Time

Could have been Number One, just for being Freddie. But time waits for nobody... not even him. From the musical of the same name, written by Dave Clark.

1. David Bowie - Time

Time, he flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor

Indeed. Apparently they released that as a single in America without any edits because nobody knew what wanking was.




Which do you have most Time for?