Saturday Snapshots #151 - The Answers

Following the appearance by Doctor Jones ("the dog was called Indiana") on yesterday's Snapshots, I thought it would be nice to lead today with a woman who could always drink him under the table: Marion Ravenwood, aka Karen Allen. She was pretty good at dealing with Starmen too.

Here are this week's answers...


10. The first book of "Oy! I was watching that!"

The first book was Genesis.

Genesis - Turn It On Again

I'm not sure I can get behind the current yoof attempt to rehabilitate Collins, but Turn It On Again is still a cracking tune.

9. Smug tribes with Spanish heart.

Smug tribes is an anagram.

Corazón is Spanish for heart.

Tim Burgess - Oh My Corazón

8. Fictional world - anagram rejected on grounds of taste & decency.

I could not bring myself to come up with an anagram for Bucks Fizz.

Before you accuse me of scraping the barrel, Bucks Fizz will always have a special place in my heart as the band that encouraged my sexual awakening. This track is just pure cheese though...

Bucks Fizz - The Land of Make Believe 

7. High ranking Smurf priest seeks release.

Father Abraham becomes a Colonel.

Colonel Abrams - Trapped

6. Bird & Davies choose their favourite ice cream dessert.

Dickie Bird & Dickie Davies, sports fans!

The Dickies - Banana Splits

5. If you knew she married Bruce, it'd set your temperature soaring.

If you knew Peggy Sue... got married... to Bruce Lee... it'd give you a fever.

Peggy Lee - Fever

4. Powerful sweets, back to front.

The Mighty Lemon Drops - Inside Out

3. Like Williams with a Bad Attitude, lost on a mad stream.

Robbie Williams meets B.A. Robertson...

Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River

2. Paltry cuts ban central haulage.

Paltry cuts = Petty Nicks.

The centre is the heart. Haulage is dragging things around.

Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks - Stop Dragging My Heart Around

1. Walking the dog on Lakeland Fells makes you realise what a beautiful planet this is.

Rufus Thomas went Walking The Dog.

Alfred Wainwright wrote lots of books about walking in the Lake District.




More next week.

Hot 100 #67

There were a couple of 67 bands I found who might have been used to illustrate this week's edition of the Hot 100... but none of them looked as crazy as this old Vanilla Fudge album cover.

67 proved a much harder number to find songs for than our last two entries, but you still came through with some interesting suggestions...

The Swede kicked off by scouring an old hard drive (the lengths you will go to!) to dig up Habitat '67 by Eat Lights Become Lights, "a combo who were apparently once lauded by the NME for '...mixing Krautrock rhythms and celestial drones to heavenly effect...'". Or as I might have put it, "9 minutes of ambient nonsense". Thanks anyway, Swede.

Martin gave a second shout out to Chicago - Questions 67 & 68, which I must admit is really growing on me. One more question and they might have done it. He also offered Elton John - Old 67... which is not bad for 21st Century Elt. With those two suggestions, I wonder if we should start calling Martin MORtin?

Slightly less MOR was Martin's final suggestion - seconded by Rigid Digit: King's X - 67. Love the guitar on that, guys.

Lynchie suggested a classic bit of rocksteady... Melodians - Last Train To Expo '67... and a lyrical 67 from Steve Earle in Someday...

I got me a 67 Chevy, she's low and sleek and black
Someday I'll put her on that interstate and never look back...

Lynchie also offered Johnny Cash as a potential lyrical suggestion not just for this week but every week between 70 and 49. Tempting, because I love One Piece At A Time.

Finally C arrived, touting The Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger. Never really got Dave Matthews, but I gave it a listen and it wasn't half bad.

Little Mikey Carson 67 to 75
He rode his
Bike like the devil until the day he died
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
Oh, 1940 to 1992

So what did I find in my own bag of tricks?

Lord Kitchener - '67

The Brian Jonestown Massacre featuring Tim Burgess - Fact 67

And then... this... which I only discovered last year when somebody recommended it for another Top Ten I wrote (might have been My Top Ten Taxi Songs). A very popular suggestion from you guys though - with Martin, C, Rigid Digit and Jim Dubai all voting for it. Yes, it's cheesy... but it's my kind of cheesy!



66 next? Too obvious? Any other suggestions gratefully received, but I think we all know the winner...