Snapshots #383: A Top 15 Crimes Against Music

You have been brought before me today charged with some of the most heinous crimes known to man. 

How do you plead...?

15. Seen in various lit stadiums. 

VariouS LIT Stadiums...

The Slits - Shoplifting

14. None of your.

None of your business!

The Business - Drinking & Driving

13. Favoured by horses...

The Sugarcubes - Theft

12. Mate's wake.

Funeral For A Friend - I Am The Arsonist

11. Looks like it's where the sweet train stops.

It's almost like the Candy Station!

Candi Staton - Blackmail

10. Miss Diane, you f***ing ****!

That may be my favourite clue ever. But I'm easily pleased.

Benny Profane - Rob A Bank

9. Located in the Grenadines? Hah! 

Grenadine sHah! 

Nadine Shah - Stealing Cars

8. What is love? In a modern museum.

Howard Jones sang What Is Love? In the Tate Modern.

Howard Tate - She's A Burglar

7. Holds up a group of geese.

A prop for a gander.

Propaganda - Abuse

6. The Rock, Just Like...

The Rock is Dwayne Johnson. 

Just Like... Eddy!

Duane Eddy - Stalkin'

5. Almost like Britney on a bonfire.

Imagine a burning Spear(s)...

Burning Spear - Slavery Days

4. Just like heaven.

Nirvana - Rape Me

3. There's nearly a thousand of them! 

999 - Homicide

2. Just part of the audience.

In fact, she used to be lead singer in theaudience...

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

1. The exported leopards find themselves in a bit of a tangle.

The Teardrop Explodes - Treason

I sentence you all to more Snapshots next Saturday...

Saturday Snapshots #128 - The Answers

Sad to hear of the passing of Kenny Rogers yesterday. If I get chance, I'd like to run a Top Ten Kenny Songs... although they will probably be the obvious ones. Always had a lot of time for Kenny. I guess he knew when to fold them...

Here's yesterday's answers...

10. Sadder than a rug cutting Walrus.

Sad = blue. The Walrus (of Love) was Barry White. Cutting a rug is dancing.

Barry Blue - Do You Wanna Dance?

9. Once upon a time... the end. Peanut ballads.

Once upon a time... the end... that's cutting a long story short.

Peanut ballads is my anagram of the year!

Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short

8. Martin Luther ♡ $6,000,000 Man.

Martin Luther King adores The Bionic Man.

King Adora - Bionic

Don't worry if you don't remember them. They weren't that good. Although the NME thought they were the second coming for about a week.

7. Read Butler's smoking pal his rights and pour on the paraffin.

Butler's smoking pal is Lambert.

Your get read your Miranda Rights.

Miranda Lambert - Kerosene

6. Panic in the green streets leaves me wanting.

Panic In Detroit.

Emerald green.

Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me

5. Related to #1; wants to get to Homebase.

#1 is... explained below. Getting to home base is slang for going all the way.

Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

4. Small openings for ordinary ladies.

The Slits - Typical Girls

3. Albert's brother, perhaps, without his cereal, catches 40 winks.

Albert Hall's brother?

Without his (John) Oates.

Daryl Hall - Dreamtime

2. Yo, Dad, Sir... accept your fate.

"Yo, Dad, Sir" is an anagram.

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

1. Pressured by Blur? Can't handle it? Call for an ancient French trickster.

Blur sang about Pressure On Julian.

Can't cope?

The ancient French trickster is Reynard The Fox.


Stay safe and well till next Saturday.