Snapshots #408: CRAZY Songs!

Here are fifteen songs featuring madness... in one form or another.

You don't have to be mad to enjoy Snapshots, but it helps...

15. Your Country Needs You.

Not the same Lord Kitchener who was on the recruitment posters. I'd like to have seen him turn his hand to a bit of calypso.

Lord Kitchener - Batty Mamselle

14. And so, we had a cuppa tea...

Lyrics, of course, courtesy of Bernard Cribbins...

Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy

13. Take a crowbar to the stool.

Jimmy the buffet!

Jimmy Buffett - Fruitcakes

12. Legendary, according to Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins.

Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins starred together in a film called Legends of the Fall. Sadly Brad did not play Mark E. Smith. And neither did Sir Anthony.

The Fall - Barmy

11. Not a fan of clubbing.

Seal - Crazy

10. Comes before Ann and somewhere in between Jim, Andre, Lloyd and Barry.

Barbara comes before Ann. Jim, Andre, Lloyd and Barry.

Barbara Mandrell - Crackers

9. That's not how I'd spell a saffron producer.

Saffron is found in croci. Or crocuses, if you prefer. 

Krokus - Out To Lunch

8. Give a feline a home!

And it will no longer be a Stray Cat...

Brian Setzer - Off Your Rocker

7. Offensive to Native Americans.

The Redskins - Bring It Down (This Insane Thing)

6. Recently deceased moving bard.

I missed the news that the Poetry In Motion man died earlier this year. Here's another one by him...

Johnny Tillotson - Out Of My Mind

5. A bloke in a German forest finds a child's house.

Wald means "forest" in German. A child's house might be a Wendy house.

Wendy Waldman - Mad Mad Me

4. Lonely, Mountain, Mop, Ten.

It's lonely on top. Mountain top. Mop top. Top Ten!

The Four Tops - Going Loco Down In Acapulco

3. Infant escapades. 

The Adventure Babies - Barking Mad

2. Tommy Roe's Scallywag.

Tommy Roe sang Dizzy. A scallywag is a rascal.

Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers

1. Mixing his food, Andrew ate a clever, clever Eric.

"Andrew ate a clever, clever Eric" was a lengthy anagram...

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend

You'd be BONKERS not to come back for more Snapshots next Saturday...

Hot 100 #67

There were a couple of 67 bands I found who might have been used to illustrate this week's edition of the Hot 100... but none of them looked as crazy as this old Vanilla Fudge album cover.

67 proved a much harder number to find songs for than our last two entries, but you still came through with some interesting suggestions...

The Swede kicked off by scouring an old hard drive (the lengths you will go to!) to dig up Habitat '67 by Eat Lights Become Lights, "a combo who were apparently once lauded by the NME for '...mixing Krautrock rhythms and celestial drones to heavenly effect...'". Or as I might have put it, "9 minutes of ambient nonsense". Thanks anyway, Swede.

Martin gave a second shout out to Chicago - Questions 67 & 68, which I must admit is really growing on me. One more question and they might have done it. He also offered Elton John - Old 67... which is not bad for 21st Century Elt. With those two suggestions, I wonder if we should start calling Martin MORtin?

Slightly less MOR was Martin's final suggestion - seconded by Rigid Digit: King's X - 67. Love the guitar on that, guys.

Lynchie suggested a classic bit of rocksteady... Melodians - Last Train To Expo '67... and a lyrical 67 from Steve Earle in Someday...

I got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and black
Someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back...

Lynchie also offered Johnny Cash as a potential lyrical suggestion not just for this week but every week between 70 and 49. Tempting, because I love One Piece At A Time.

Finally C arrived, touting The Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger. Never really got Dave Matthews, but I gave it a listen and it wasn't half bad.

Little Mikey Carson 67 to 75
He rode his
Bike like the devil until the day he died
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
Oh, 1940 to 1992

So what did I find in my own bag of tricks?

Lord Kitchener - '67

The Brian Jonestown Massacre featuring Tim Burgess - Fact 67

And then... this... which I only discovered last year when somebody recommended it for another Top Ten I wrote (might have been My Top Ten Taxi Songs). A very popular suggestion from you guys though - with Martin, C, Rigid Digit and Jim Dubai all voting for it. Yes, it's cheesy... but it's my kind of cheesy!



66 next? Too obvious? Any other suggestions gratefully received, but I think we all know the winner...