Snapshots #405: Superstitious Songs

If you're wondering why there was a photo of Stevie Wonder holding a camera available on the web of lies, apparently it comes from an old Saturday Night Live sketch in the 80s. Stevie was presumably a very good sport.

As to why it was featured here, well...

13-month-old baby, broke the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, the good thing is in your past
When you believe in things that you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way

Here are fifteen songs about good and bad luck superstitions...

15. Not actually jumpers.

The Cardigans - Your New Cuckoo

Hearing the first cuckoo of the year is considered good luck - turn your money over!

14. Nonaligned one.

With the correct alignment, those letters form...

Lonnie Donegan - Black Cat (Cross My Path Today)

Lots of debate whether black cats bring bad luck or good luck.

13. KLM, Vietnam Airlines, Air Tahiti, Air Force One.

Google them. They all have...

Blue Aeroplanes - Walking Under Ladders for a Living

12. Mighty Like A Shotgun Wedding. 

Might Like A Rose. Shotgun Wedding was by Roy C.

Rose Royce - Wishing On A Star

11. Electric Vehicle designed for the beach.

Evie Sands - Close Your Eyes, Cross Your Fingers

10. They spent so long sorting out the creases, they didn't score any runs.

Too much ironing led to a maiden over.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

9. Oy! Fiddle de way out of this one!

"Oy! Fiddle de" was an anagram.

Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

8. A complete lack of gratitude.

The Unthanks - Magpie

One for sorrow, two for joy...

7. What if Bogie came from Bethlehem?

What if Humphrey came from a Little Town...?

Humphrey Lyttelton Band - Bad Penny Blues

6. Don't cry, baby, I'll turn on the air-con.

Wah! Heat - Don't Step On The Cracks

5. A Minder from Nottingham, with Joan.

Terence was a Minder. The river Trent flows through Nottingham. Darby & Joan.

Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well

Or Sananda Maitreya as he's known these days.

4. POTUS 3, Wright Flyer 1.

The third President was Jefferson. The Wright Flyer was the first Airplane.

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

Pinch punch, first of the month.

3. What have you got tangled in your hair, Nan?

"Hair, Nan" was an anagram.

Rihanna - Umbrella

Don't open it indoors.

2. Reggae prototypes in space.

The Skatalites - Lucky Seven

1. Taylor Swift, for example.

Taylor is a very...

Big Star - Thirteen

If anyone knows any songs about putting your shoes on the table, I'd love to hear them... otherwise, there'll be more of this nonsense next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #85 - The Answers

Thank you for Stayin' Alive long enough to come back and check out the answers to yesterday's Saturday Snapshots. Here's hoping You Win Again, without any Tragedy.

Lynchie just took the prize this week, with Rigid Digit failing to nail a draw by not working out the Happy Mondays song. If in doubt, go for the obvious one! Chris and Charity Chic shared out the rest of the points, although CC needed a little prompting.

Enough of my Jive Talkin'...


10. Lost kangaroo perplexes one-handed table tennis rulers.

Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper?

"Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper... wait a minute: where's me jumper!?"

One of Sam's favourites at the moment.

9. Thorny roller gets the full valet.

Rose Royce - Car Wash

8. Triceratots share the hurt.

"Triceratots". Geddit?

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain

7. Vulcan legend handles the crockery.

You can look up where T'Pau got their name from if you don't already know.

T'Pau - China In Your Hand

Wishing to dodge the shame of spotting this one, Rigid Digit revealed he'd seen them on an old TOTP repeat the night before. Alyson, ashamed to have not spotted them, replied, "I thought to myself, the only band I can think of with a long curly-haired female singer is T’Pau but it’s not a picture of Carol Decker. I was wrong!"

It did take me a while to find a photo of T'Pau where Carol Decker was not immediately recognisable. Then again, not everybody had quite the same teenage interest in that lady that I did.

6. Chimney struck by Murdoch / Hawke co-pilots.

Finally! One I get to explain!

Howling Mad Murdoch was the pilot in The A-Team.

Stringfellow Hawke flew Airwolf.

(Child of the 80s ahoy!)

Put them together and you get...

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning

Apparently that was "a b**tard of a clue!", according to Lynchie. I just didn't want to go down the obvious "wild dog" route.

5. Amazon? Nestle? McDonalds? Never satisfied.

Bad Company - Can't Get Enough

4. Queasy, dizzy, teary... how much does the honeymaker charge to get across the river?

C wondered, "Is no. 4 the lovely Bee Bridgetoll with 'Pre-menstrual'? Sorry... but it should be, I'm sure it'd be great."

It would be great, though if that were an actual song, I'd have been more likely to go with a clue about stabbing your other half with a bread-knife because they'd slightly burnt the toast. Not that I'm talking from personal experience or anything.

With an extra clue about this lady also working in a Community Centre, Charity Chic was able to solve this one.

What's the bee's fee? To take you across the bridge?

Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness

3. Flatulation coalition.

The Association - Windy

2. Join the escalator and think about what the Boomtown Rats never had.

The Boomtown Rats never had a happy Monday, obviously.

You're twisting my melon, man!

The Happy Mondays - Step On

Call the cops!

1. Explain to your mum how you boil jelly.

Boil jelly was an anagram.

How has it taken me 85 weeks to get to this gent? Doesn't he look a smart young man? I wish I could have found a photo of him in the boxing ring.



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