Showing posts with label Shonen Knife. Show all posts
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Sunday, 28 December 2025

Snapshots #428: Ghost Train Songs

Welcome onboard the Snapshots Ghost Train. 

Beware, it's going to be a spooky ride!


15. Common to bumblebees and Greylag Geese. 

BumbleBEEs and Greylag GEESe. 

The Bee Gees - Ghost Train

14. Gervais feminized by Man In Black.

Ricky Gervais becomes Rickie when he counters Tommy Lee Jones.

Rickie Lee Jones - Ghost Train

13. Hold it - you're banned from professional wrestling!

Strangleholds are illegal in professional wrestling.

The Stranglers - Ghost Train

12. Causeless male offspring.

Sons without a cause...

Rebel Son - Ghost Train

11. Slice lost love into bits.

"Slice lost love" was an anagram.

Elvis Costello - Ghost Train

10. Norm's rabbity, isn't he? 

"Norm's rabbity" is an anagram.

Marty Robbins - Ghost Train

9. Visited Graceland. Met Cher.

He did both, while Walking In Memphis. Maybe he even went on the Ghost Train there...

Marc Cohn - Ghost Train

8. Toilet used by both Bob Dylan and The Charlatans.

Bob sang about a North Country Girl. The Charlatans sang about a North Country Boy. These guys provided the w.c...

North Country Gentlemen - Ghost Train

7. When he called out for another drink, the waiter brought a tray.

That's a lyric from Procul Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale, (co-)written and sung by this man...

Gary Brooker - Ghost Train

6. Fancy a zig roll?

"A zig roll" was an anagram...

Gorillaz - Ghost Train

5. No Seine, Sherlock.

The River Detectives - King of the Ghost Train Ride

4. Cutting edge Manga for teenage lads...

Shonen is teenage Manga.

Shonen Knife - Ghost Train

3. The Boss's jumpers...

Bruce Woolley - Ghost Train

2. Rooks 1, Ravens 2...

Counting Crows - Ghost Train

1. Iron Maiden challenge them to a game.

Iron Maiden sang Can I Play With Madness?

Madness - (Waiting For The Ghost Train)


More of this nonsense next Saturday.


Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Hot 100 #63



Album cover above by The 63 Crayons, a band I know nothing about, but they have a cool name. Google them if you have time, I've got just 15 minutes to write this post before my next class...

Cut & paste with your suggestions this week because of the above-mentioned time constraints. Thanks for all your contributions.

The Swede kicks us off (as is often the case) "Tanglewood 63 by Michael Gibbs springs immediately to mind, a tune quickly covered in a Jazz-Rock vein by Colosseum and several more times since."

Nice.

A lyrical offering from Charity Chic next... which could very well have been this week's winner, because it's an awesome tune...

In Winter 1963
It felt like like the world would freeze
With John F Kennedy and the Beatles


Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy

Lynchie & Swiss Adam both went for New Order - 1963. Now, time prevents me from telling the full story, but suffice it to say there a deep scars from my teenage years involving New Order - I basically feel out and didn't speak to one of my best friends for 6 months, and New Order were indirectly responsible for that. They remain one of the two big 80s bands that I have never been able to find a moment's time for (the other being U2). I know the high esteem that many of my blogging peers hold them in... but they're highly unlikely to ever feature here until I can afford therapy.

Martin, extremely helpfully, even provided links with his suggestions this week... let's see how well they survive the Copy & Paste...

White Flag, by Shonen Knife, for the earth-shattering lyric:

"He's a gummer. He's over 63."

Hands Up To The Ceiling, by Tracey Thorn, for better lyrics:

"Here is the street and here is the door
Same as it was before
And up the stairs and on the wall
Is, Kiss and Terry Hall
And Siouxsie Sioux and Edwin too
And Bobby Dee in '63."


And best of all, Bell Boy by The Who, with the line:

"I don't suppose you would remember me, but I used to follow you back in '63."
 
Rigid Digit offered two fine suggestions...
 
 
"Mini skirts were in style, when she waltzed down the aisle back in 63"

 
"I shot John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 63"

But it's Walter who takes this week's prize - as seconded by CC. Alyson even adds that "I seem to remember it was the soundtrack to my first kiss down the local youth club!" Which makes it a double-winner, surely? We can't beat this...



Anyway, got to go now, there's a queue of students outside the room, waiting to be educated...

Joking.

Obviously.

Just in case the boss is reading this.

62 next week. Any ideas?

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