Snapshots #252: A Top Twelve Signs Of The Zodiac Songs

The Zodiac is all about reading the stars in the sky... so here's David Starsky...

Look, I couldn't find a picture of Mystic Meg with a camera, all right?

Well done if you predicted the ten artists below... 

12. Roman Empire, Berlin Wall, House of Usher.

The Fall of...

The Fall - Two Librans

11. Inside the house, Charles still gets a tan, somehow.

Inside the house, Charles still gets a tan, somehow.

The Charlatans - Taurus Moaner

10. Heroic Bum. 

Supertramp - Aries

9. Perception minus commodities.

Sense less things.

Senseless Things - Leo

8. Muddled, in a moron's RV.

"In a moron's RV", muddled up, gives you...

Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns

7. Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen and Barry Allen feel all pent up.

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is the current world chess champion.

Barry Allen is The Flash. (Look it up.)

If you feel all pent up, you're angry. Pent also means five, as in pentagram.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - Scorpio

With Metal Mickey on guest vocals.

6. Bloody emus!

Anagram!

Moody Blues - Gemini Dream

5. Rubber Duck.

See Convoy.

Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn

4. Instigator of Temptation.

One of the founding members of the Temptations.

Eddie Kendricks - Son of Sagittarius

3. Gregorian Horse.

Anagram!

George Harrison - Pisces Fish

2. Colin Firth hates them.

Regular readers will get the reference.

Eels - Cancer For The Cure

1. Height, width, depth, time...

Height, width, depth, time... are the first four dimensions. As I'm not a physicist, I'm not going to try to explain the 5th.

The Fifth Dimension - Age of Aquarius

The stars tell me there will be more of this nonsense next week. 

Snapshots #231: A Top Ten Easy Songs

Yesterday's quiz was far too easy.

But I'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for you pesky kids...

10. A giro pal got confused in the early 70s.

"A giro pal" was an anagram for this Canadian rocker from the 70s...

Pagliaro - Lovin' You Ain't Easy 

9. Stupid stuff.

Senseless Things - Easy To Smile

8. Like Captain Kirk, or Jeff's Dad.

Captain Kirk sailed the stars. Jeff Buckley's dad recorded the song these guys were named after.

Starsailor - Silence Is Easy

7. The pipes are calling for just schoolboy(s).

Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling... for Just William.

Danny Williams - Dancin' Easy

(That's Martini!)

6. Here, he has no name.

Where The Streets Have No Name? (No, I'm not linking to that.)

The Streets - It Was Supposed To Be So Easy

5. RR: organist, on a beach. 

"RR: organist" was an anagram... of the guy pictured, on a beach. Normally he'd play the drums.

Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy

4. Plays middleman for John, Eddy and Amy... with Sally. 

John Grant, Eddy Grant and Amy Grant meet Sally MacLennane, with help from a Go-Between.

Grant McLennan - Easy Come, Easy Go

3. Found in dirt and talons, lord and titans, Ronald and tits.

Three anagrams for...

Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy

2. Part Blues Run The Game, part Funkin' For Jamaica.

Blues Run The Game was written, and originally recorded by, Jackson Frank.

Tom Browne was Funkin' For Jamaica.

Jackson Browne - Take It Easy

(Because The Eagles cover version would have been TOO easy!)

1. I favoured Spectrums.

I had a Spectrum 48K. Rather than one of these...

Take it easy for the rest of Sunday morning. You deserve it.

More Snapshots next week...