Snapshots #357: A Top Ten Monopoly Address Songs

This weekend, I set you all the task of buying ten different addresses on thew Monopoly board. Did you get them all, or did you end up in jail?

10. The risque yob gets befuddled.

The risque yob" was an anagram.

The Quireboys - Mayfair

9. They may not win, but they'll still enjoy themselves.

The Good Time Losers - Trafalgar Square

8. Found in competitive archbishops and heartthrob oysters.

Found in comPETitive archbiSHOPs and heartthroB OYSters.

Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross

7. Shatner's full of holes! Let's sew him back together with some spare material.

Patch William - Take Me Home To Marylebone

6. Knife found in London prison.

A Stanley knife found in HMP Holloway.

Stanley Holloway - Wot Cher! (Knock'd Em In The Old Kent Road)

5. John Astin.

John Astin played Gomez in The Addams Family.

Gomez - Whippin' Piccadilly

4. His boy scores no points.

You get Nil, son.

Harry Nilsson - Vine Street

3. Gone off.

Rancid - Leicester Square

2. Craig Charles has lost weight!

In the TV show Red Dwarf, Craig Charles played Dave Lister.

Skinny Lister - Trouble On Oxford Street

1. Neil Young played this on their opening night.

"Los Angeles' famed Roxy Theater officially opened its doors on September 20th, 1973, with a performance by Neil Young and his band the Santa Monica Flyers."

Roxy Music - Do The Strand

You might also have purchased...

S.C.U.M. - Whitechapel

Frank Turner - The Angel, Islington

(That would have been a cinch this week, had I not already featured it in A Top Ten London Underground Songs.)

Ian Hunter - Bow Street Runners

Dimples & Eddie - Fleet Street

Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square

And yesterday's opening act...

David Bowie - Maid Of Bond Street

Hot 100 #49

Many thanks to Jim in Dubai for suggesting this week's opening image and reminding us all of 90s Italo House band The 49ers... though, to be honest, I could have done without the reminder.

Far more interesting was Jim's second band-related suggestion, 49 Americans with the track Should Be More Ideal...

True enough, Alan... but at least it's not Italo House.

As for the 49ers... call me an old fogey, but I far preferred Douglas McClaren's latest, Canadian-themed suggested...

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - My Darling Clementine

In a cavern, in a canyon 

Excavatin' for a mine, 

Dwelt a miner, 49-er

And his daughter, Clementine.

I have to say I never knew Neil Young had recorded that... but it's a bloody marvellous version, so it is.

Speaking of Neil, Marie suggested this fine track from some old mates of his...

Crosby, Stills & Nash - 49 Bye Byes

Back to the 49ers... here's a couple more...

The Quireboys - 49er

The I.L.Y.s - 49er Lighter

The Swede, meanwhile, returned to Old Faithful...

Bob Dylan - The Days of 49

And then, on a different hard-drive, but the same theme...

Wilco - Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

(When you've got more than one hard-drive full of music, you may need to ask yourself if you've got enough. Or at least buy a bigger hard-drive.)

The Swede also kindly provided this week's (soulful) jazz suggestion...

The Lightmen - Luke 23 32 49

...which, he assures us, we'll be hearing from again (and again) in a few weeks times.

Lynchie was up next, with one song... and loads of artists...

Big Joe Williams - Highway 49

Bukka White - Highway 49 (couldn't find that version)

Eric Clapton (with Howling Wolf) - Highway 49

Omar and The Howlers - Highway 49

To which Rigid Digit added...

George Thorogood - Highway 49

Take your pick... I'm rather partial to the Omar & The Howlers version.

Of course, Chris Rea might have been in with a shout there... had he not got lost on the way...

Chris Rea - Somewhere Between Highway 61 & 49

Lynchie also suggested my favourite lyrical suggestion of the week, and I've got to admit I was sorely tempted to run with this one...

Bruce Springsteen - Cadillac Ranch

James Dean in that Mercury '49

Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Caroline

Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am

All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch

That's not our only classic car this week though, because Swiss Adam had this one...

I love the bit in Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros song Johnny Appleseed where he sings 'there it goes, Buick 49....'

Can't argue with that - probably my favourite Joe Strummer solo track.

Later, after consulting his many hard-drives, Rigid Digit returned with these beauties...

Stiff Little Fingers - Gate 49 

The number of the Departure Gate at Heathrow songwriter Henry Cluney regularly walked through to get back home to Belfast 

10CC - Rubber Bullets 

Down at Precinct 49
Having a teargas of a time

Phil Lynott & Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways 

I remember Paris in 49
The Champs Elysees, St Michel
And old Beaujolais wine

Some serious fretwankery going on in that last track.

OK, what did I have left? How about this lot...

The Jazz Butcher - Lot 49

Jonathan Wilson - 49 Hair Flips

Paddy McAloon - I'm 49

Only a couple of years to go that on last one.

Meanwhile, lyrically...

Billy Joel - Leningrad

I was born in '49

A Cold War kid in McCarthy time...

Kind of like Russians by Sting, but not as embarrassing. (I know some of you will debate that.)

And speaking of Billy Joel...

Tom T. Hall - Don't Forget The Coffee, Billy Joe

Well, they wonder why there ain't no rabbits left this day and time

To tell the truth I guess we ate 'em all in '49

Was that yesterday or was it over 20 years ago

"Don't forget the coffee Billy Joe"

The Who - Too Much Of Anything

I can't remember before '49

But I know that '48 was there

Brilliant mathematicians, The Who.

This week's winner though was correctly identified by The Swede. Proof, if further proof were needed, that Joe Walsh was far more interesting than the Eagles gave him credit for. Remember: this man ran for President against Ronald Reagan (even though he was too young at the time to have been elected).


I have an obvious cool answer and an obvious slightly-less-cool answer for 48... but I'm sure we'll find some others too. Over to you.

Saturday Snapshots #27 - The Answers

Well, I tried to make them easier this week... but they're a lot easier when you can see inside my brain and know the answers.



10. Follow the laurel path along the top of the mountains and no one will see you.

Lynchie got the Stan Laurel connection, Alyson puzzled out the rest.

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage 

That was an awfully big marine!

9. Nonsense friends proselytize.

Friends = chums, proselytize = tubthump. The rest is nonsense as far as I can tell. You come up with a better clue!

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

I get knocked down, but I get up again...

8. Oy! Good guys join the queue in church.

Choirboys in a queue would be Quireboys. Oy is a less polite way of saying Hey You!

Rigid Digit tells me this isn't their finest moment... but it was their biggest hit.

The Quireboys - Hey You!

7. Collins plays a cop in Jerusalem.

No need to call the cops on Chris!

Joan As Policewoman - Holy City

6. Unremarkable Barry deals with a broken cup.

Lynchie was the early bird this week, getting first choice of the juiciest worms. Barry White was anything but average.

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

5. Genius is so close to insanity - take a seat and ponder that.

As I type, nobody's got this yet... which makes rather sad.

Furniture - (You Must Be Out Of Your) Brilliant Mind

4. Pink like Heinz. No doorbell.

Pink Floyd. Heinz sang "Just Like Eddie".

Another one for Lynchie.

Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

3.  "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," or "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Werewolves: run for your lives!

Charity Chic got the band straight away, then we trawled our way through Bob Seger's entire back catalogue before Chris got the song.

The two lines quoted came from the final scenes of Casablanca and Back To The Future, in case you were wondering.

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - The Famous Final Scene

2. Sounds like Jeanette's mother. We're over: do I have to spell it out to you?

Rhymes with Mammy Jeanette? Not my best effort, I know. Fortunately, Lynchie saved me from embarrassment.

Tammy Wynette - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

1. Second degree burns. Wouldn't wanna be ya!

Second place gets the Silver medal. The Sun burns.




Early Bird Lynchie takes the title this week.

As long as you keep playing, I'll keep digging them out.

More next Saturday...