Snapshots #430: Underwear Songs!

Heidi Hi, campers! 

Welcome back to this week's Snapshots – songs about underwear! Ms. Klum is famous for walking about in her skivvies, though she did agree to keep her kit on for propriety’s sake. It was either her or Biggie Smalls…

15. Crazy, Hippy Lit.

Crazy Chick was a song by Charlotte Church. Hippychick by Soho. And Chick Lit by We Are Scientists.

The Chicks - Tights On My Boat

14. Tanya Donnelly. (Donelly. Donnelly. Donnelly.)

Tanya Donnelly was the lead singer of Belly. (Belly. Belly. Belly.)

Echobelly - Pantyhose and Roses

13. It’s not unusual to be a very patient man.

Tom Waits - Pasties And A G-String

12. Chinese troops in a skirmish.

“Chinese troops” was an anagram.

Stereophonics - More Life In A Tramp’s Vest

11. When it comes to not throwing stones, these guys are the rulers.

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones… but imagine you lived in a Crystal Castle?

Crystal Castles - Through The Hosiery

10. Sounds like a Yes Man to me.

His namesake is Jon Anderson from Yes.

John Anderson - Do You Have a Garter Belt?

Think this was originally a Tony Joe White tune, but Tony appears here regularly.

9. Show me to my seat.

Usher - Lingerie

8. Dado, shags Patti.

Da do Ron Ron… Sex with (Patti) Smith.

Ron Sexsmith - Late Bloomer

7. It takes a bright man to be captain of the England cricket team.  

Sarah Brightman and Michael Vaughan.

Sarah Vaughan – Shiny Stockings

6. Needs ironing out.

The Kinks - Mick Avory's Underpants

Yeah, OK, it’s only an instrumental – but you find a song with underpants in the title!

5. Most stories contain one - Add Me On Snapchat!

Most sTORIes. The Snapchat thing is an acronym that the young people use. Apparently.

Tori Amos - The Power of Orange Knickers

4. May, Kennedy and Wilson, like the cattle.

Three Bri/yans and Highland Cattle.

Bryan Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

Just be glad I didn’t choose the Timmy Mallett version.

3. Brown, South and Jackson get in the ring.

Three Joes, boxing.

JoBoxers - Boxerbeat

2. Frank takes a Scottish wife, in hashtags and angel eyes.

Frankenstein wanted a Bride, though he wasn’t fussed whether she was a Mc.

In hASHtags and angeLEYes.

Ashley McBryde, Caylee Hammack, Pillbox Patti - Brenda Put Your Bra On

And yes, Ashley has some help on that track… but how long do you want my clues to get?

1. REM's 11th album gets a mixed response.

REM’s 11th was the LP UP. Anagram!

Pulp - Underwear

 

Something less pants next Saturday.

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #129: Thirty Years Ago

Thirty years ago, Damon and the Blur lads won that silly battle for Number One with the Neanderthal Brothers... but lost the battle in the album charts. The Friends theme tune made it into the charts, thanks to The Rembrants. And Take That had a song called Never Forget doing the rounds... but thankfully, I've forgotten it.

Better tunes were available in the late summer of 1995...

Supergrass - Alright

Julian Cope - Try Try Try

Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father

Echobelly - Great Things

The Levellers - Hope Street

Radiohead - Just

Ash - Girl From Mars

The Connells - 74-75

It's hard to believe any one of those songs is thirty years old. 

Here's a song from 2025, all about 1995. The Tumbling Souls are from Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. And that's about all I know... except this one's a cracker.

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #109: Pet Sounds

Echobelly - If the Dogs Don't Get You, My Sisters Will

This is Bertie.

Last week Louise took Bertie to the dog groomer. Bertie had a nice haircut and a wash and blow dry. 

The Jerks - Get Your Woofing Dog Off Me

That evening Louise took Bertie for a walk. 

Bertie decided this would be a good time to roll in a freshly laid cowpat.

Juliana Hatfield - Dirty Dog

Stray Cats - Dig Dirty Doggy

Johnny Cash - Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog

Prefab Sprout - Farmyard Cat

This is Millie.

Millie lives upstairs during the daytime as she does not like Bertie.

Johnny Cash - Mean Eyed Cat

Once Bertie is tucked up in his crate-bed, Millie goes downstairs, out through the catflap, to do what cats do.

On Thursday night, the same night Bertie had rolled in cow poo, I woke suddenly to hear Louise screaming hysterically. I thought perhaps an axe murderer. Sadly not.

Mud - The Cat Crept In

Millie had returned from her night time patrols and brought a blackbird with her, in through the catflap, depositing it on the landing at the top of the stairs. The blackbird was still alive, but clearly terrified, which would explain why it then defecated all over the landing carpet. 

Webb Wilder - Catbird Seat

Louise, having seen something moving in the darkness, was convinced it must be a rat... hence the screams. Fortunately I was able to rescue the blackbird and put it out the bathroom window. It flew away from the madhouse that is Top Ten Towers, vowing never to return.

Pets. Who'd have 'em?

Alec Bathgate - Pet Hates

Spoon - The Infinite Pet

Saturday Snapshots #122: The Answers

Yesterday was Saturday Snapshots.

Today - here's the answers.

Tomorrow... we'll do something different.



10. Look into my eyes, not around the eyes... can you see Michael, Neil and Buzz?

Michael, Neil and Buzz were three spacemen.

Look into my eyes, not around the eyes... well, that's just like Kenny Craig.

Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized

9. Like a fox, did exactly what she said she would, with feeling.

Samantha Fox... sang... with emotion. (The Brothers Gibb did the rest.)

Samantha Sang - Emotion

8. Collected names. Shorten trousers before wireless.

Autograph - Turn Up The Radio

(No shame.)

7. Arab sky confused by Korean digit.

"Arab sky" is a nice simple anagram.

Seoul is the capital of South Korea.

A digit is a finger.

The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger

6. Sidewalk sovereign has rumbling tum.

Echobelly - King of the Kerb

5. Scottish comic, I presume, sends text to former New York mayor.

Here's a Scottish comic...

Dr. Livingston, I presume?

The former New York mayor would be Rudy Giuliani.

Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You

4. William was the ship's captain, not this trembling goat.

Goat = Kid.

Tremblin = Shakin'.

Pirate Captain Kidd was called William, not Johnny.

Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over

3. Excitable pontificators find their goddess with child zero.

Excitable pontificators would be Manic Street Preachers, obviously.

Goddess links to Lord.

Child Zero = Baby Nothing.

Manic Street Preachers & Traci Lords - Little Baby Nothing

Pure 6th form poetry, as Rigid Digit pointed out - manages to be trendily Woke 25 years before Woke became a thing, and verges on "mansplaining" to use another loathsome contemporary expression... but what a tune!

Meanwhile, this post namechecks both Samantha Fox and Traci Lords, so what a degenerate I must be.

2. London football team not on Eastern Standard Time, released at last.

West Ham - EST = Wham!

Wham! - Freedom

1. Saint who could be English or Welsh puts an end to the affair.

Saint George.

Jones is the most common Welsh surname.



Sophia next Saturday!