Snapshots #263: A Top Ten Why? Songs

Sufferin' succotash! It's time for some answers.

Why?

Why not?

10. Cleo’s partner does it in a more contemporary way.

Cleopatra's partner was Anthony... newly!

Anthony Newley - Why?

9. Soggy shortbread.

Limp Bizkit - Why?

8. Humble, hand-wringing clerk.

See David Copperfield.

Uriah Heep - Why?

7. Join Astaire in disarray.

"Join Astaire" is an anagram.

Joe Satriani - Why?

6. The sun’ll come out for a good man and a working bull.

"The sun'll come out tomorrow" is what Annie believes. Len Goodman + Ox.

Annie Lennox - Why?

5. Able to fly now that all appendages are complete again.

Stitched Back Foot Airman, obviously.

No, really, it is.

Stitched Back Foot Airman - Why?

4. Phantom of the Opera gets frisky.

Michael Crawford played The Phantom of the Opera.

Randy Crawford - Why?

3. Ganymede, perhaps?

The Big Moon - Why?

2. Cyril moans just like a slimy acorn.

Two anagrams for the price of one!

Carly Simon – Why?

1. The bridge in Sweden that hosts winter sports and rhythm.

"The bridge" in Swedish is Bron + Ski + Beats.

Bronski Beat – Why?

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Saturday Snapshots #127 - The Answers

Still 'ere?

(Get it? Still... Oh, please yourself.)

Here are this week's answers...


10. Carla Thomas = The Mighty Wah.

Carla Thomas sang Baby. The Mighty Wah! sang Come Back.

What's that inbetween?

The Equals - Baby Come Back

9. Ditto, like one member of an Ohio band.

Ditto... because the song title is the same.

The Ohio Band was The Ohio Players.

Player - Baby Come Back

8. Young Jack Kerouac expresses surprise at Go-Betweens album.

Gosh! The Go-Betweens album was Talulah.

Jack Kerouac was a beatnik.

Talulah Gosh - Beatnik Boy

7. Laugh and wake because it's no longer day.

Josh (laugh) and Rouse (wake).

Josh Rouse - It's The Nighttime

6. Pretty dixie single-hander.

Dixieland is The South.

A single-handler is a boat you sail on your own.

The Beautiful South - I'll Sail This Ship Alone

I don't care what you think of The Beautiful South - that is a beautiful tune.

5. At the start of the year, Pearl got a new partner in a swell town.

January is at the start of the year.

Pearl's original partner was Dean.

Swell is surf.

Jan & Dean - Surf City

4. Plane ticket, date unspecified, and cry forward.

"And cry forward" was an anagram.

Randy Crawford - One Day I'll Fly Away

3. Lodestone influences patriarchal bronco contest.

A Lodestone influences Magnetic Fields.

Patriarchal = Papa. Bronco = Rodeo.

The Magnetic Fields - Papa Was A Rodeo

2. Replacement, comes on knocking.

A replacement is a substitute.

Knock knock. Who's there?

The Who - Substitute

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

1. Forever tomorrow, minor 5th.

Morris Minor + E (the 5th letter).

How I dearly wish I was not here...



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Saturday Snapshots #86 - The Answers

I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted to one time to see you laughing
And solving Snapshots in the purple rain.

Blimey - working out the scores from yesterday's quiz took a bit of work. I had to take my shoes and socks off. Lots of half marks flying around too, but as I write this it looks like a draw between Alyson and Rigid Digit... although nobody's solved #9 yet, so that could change.

Anyway, here are the answers...


10. My latest car has no gearstick and runs on flower power... but it wins the race and holds the secret to getting me a better job.

I loved the suggestion for this, from Happy Mondays to U2... I'd love to know how the clues led you to those guys. Bit obscure, but somebody gave me this song on a mixtape about 20-odd years ago and it's been a favourite ever since...

New Faster Automatic Daffodils - It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know

9. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but Superman's still getting ready, just in case.

The one that nobody's got as I type this, but the clues were pretty obvious if you know the band.

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - War of the Worlds

8. Campaigners get horny and homeless.

The Crusaders + Randy, living on the streets.

The Crusaders & Randy Crawford - Streetlife

Full 10 minute version with the sax intro: lovely.

7. Carter is insane.

Madness - Michael Caine

6. Adore + C - A = radio flyer.

Take A from Adore and you're left with Dore. Add Charlie (C from the phonetic alphabet).

Charlie Dore - Pilot of the Airwaves

5. Oystercatchers get up very early to play around.

Oystercatchers are the same as Pearlfishers, surely?

Larking around early in the morning?

The Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks

Sublime. I knew Charity Chic would get this one.

4. Frank smokes a joint with Strangers in the Night, headphones on.

In Strangers In The Night, Frank memorably sang "doobie doobie doo", which wasn't anything to do with drugs but might have inspired a ghost-hunting pooch.

The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music

3. Not Robert, not Level 42... sounds like a man though...

Not Robert Palmer, but Amanda sounds a bit like "a man though".

Level 42 sang Running In The Family, and it's not them either.

Good deduction from Alyson & C.

Amanda Palmer - Runs In The Family

2. David Koresh vs. Satan.

David Koresh led a cult.

Satan is a little devil.

The Cult - Lil' Devil

1. Duck learns to pick a pocket or two on the red eye.

Donald Duck.

Fagen picked a pocket or two.

The red eye is an overnight flight.

What an album this is!



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Randy Tuesdays #4: The Crusader

4. Randy Crawford

While I don't consider myself the world's biggest fan of Veronica 'Randy' Crawford, I had a devil of a time picking this week's Randy Tuesday track. Four or five of her UK hits (despite being American, she never cracked the Billboard chart) have insinuated themselves into my musical back pages to the point where I consider them comfortable old friends, even though I never actually went out and bought a Randy Crawford record. (Well, until today... when I ordered a cheap Greatest Hits just so I could inhale these songs into my record collection.)

The choice was between...

One Day I'll Fly Away: her first big hit. So laid back. Beautifully sad.

You Might Need Somebody: much better than the 90s cover by Shola Ama.

Almaz: has a piano in it, so you know I'm sold. Also reminds me of an old boss who had a name that sounded a bit like 'Almaz', to the point I'd sing at him to take the piss. He was the bloke who gave me my first job in radio, back when it was fun. He never sacked me.

Rainy Night In Georgia: probably the best song Ms. Crawford ever recorded, though I still prefer the Brook Benton original. It's just one of those songs that sends a shiver down my spine.

In the end, I had to settle for this, the track that brought her to fame... even though it was the only record she ever recorded with The Crusaders.