Well, I think I actually won a couple this week. There were some stinkers though, so congrats for getting the ones you did...
As usual, I highly recommend giving the songs a listen if you don't know them. They're chosen because they're good ones!
10. Hatless, eyeless Mitchell, could be a Beach Boy... insists on keeping the central heating off.
Yes, as Lynchie points out, it does look a bit like "the late, great John Martyn after he's had a long weekend on the booze" (most weekends, then?) but it's not...
Hatless = Hats off... to Larry
Eyeless Mitchell = Joni without the i (well done, C)
Beach Boys = Wilson
Keeping the central heating on...?
Charity Chic got there in the end (with a little help from C), as I knew he would.
Larry Jon Wilson - Melt Not My Igloo
9. A future resident of Monaco shares Bond's Martini.
Alyson got up extra early to be first to spot this youngster... surely she couldn't possibly remember him when he looked like this?
Monaco = (Princess) Grace-land
Bond's Martini = shaken, not stirred
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
8. Pretty good at bathroom renovation; will also clean up if she fancies you enough.
Took you a while, and caused much debate over what she was wearing...
Pretty = Bonnie
For your bathroom renovation, I'd recommend a good Tyler
Will clean up...?
Bonnie Tyler - Loving You's A Dirty Job, But Somebody's Got To Do It
The Swede & Alyson tag-teamed this one.
7. Twiddly diddly dee (generic version) have a slow teacher.
Gave Lynchie no problems at all - though CC was kicking himself.
Twiddly diddly dee = Rocking Robin, a more generic version woud be a Rockingbird
A slow teacher would have you Gradually Learning
The Rockingbirds - Gradually Learning
6. Holy Sidekicks, Batman - Gonzales was a mouse!
The one nobody got, which is a shame... but hardly surprising. The clues were pretty easy if you knew the band / track. But not many people do. More on that tomorrow...
Speedy - Boy Wonder
5. Liberal philosophy on the John: it's only a crowded house, geezer.
Big expert on liberal philosophers, me. Apparently, there's one called John Rawls.
The John is also what some people call a Loo.
Crowded House sang It's Only Natural.
A geezer is another name for a man.
Lou Rawls - A Natural Man
Lynchie was first to get Lou; nobody got the song.
4. Scissor Sisters' girl goes off road while eating too many chocolate bars.
The Swede swooped in to take this one.
The Scissor Sisters sang Laura.
If you go off the road, you might veer...
A popular chocolate bar in the UK is a Galaxy.
Laura Viers - Galaxies
3. Herbie & Hutch: THE HORROR!
I thought I was going to beat you with this one until The Swede dug deep...
Herbie was The Love Bug
Hutch was partnred with Starsky
The Amityville Horror was a favourite book and film when I was a teenager.
Lovebug Starski - Amityville (House On The Hill)
2. You've got zero chance of getting off without suffocating.
(Your first guess will probably be wrong.)
I knew this wouldn't trouble Alyson... though it took a while to get to the right song.
If you were suffocating, there might be a problem with your Air Supply.
Getting off is another way of saying "Making Love".
Zero = Nothing
Air Supply - Making Love Out Of Nothing At All
Second Steinman song of the week!
1. Jenny Agutter inspires a Schubert opera.
Took The Swede about five seconds...
The Lilac Time is the British name of Das Dreimäderlhaus, a Schubert light opera.
In the Railway Children, Jenny Agutter waved at trains.
The Lilac Time - The Girl Who Waves At Trains
I did try (unsuccesfully). I might have got Air Supply if I'd given it more thought. Think the bands were just too far back or too obscure for me this week. Your other readers seem to have done a better job than I did.
ReplyDeleteWell done Rol on stumping us all this week
ReplyDeleteThat was a tough set of snapshots - For the record my mum was born the same year as Elvis, so had she been born in Tupelo as opposed to Aberdeen, she might have remembered him like that!
ReplyDeleteWell done on putting this together every week by the way - It's become a highlight of the weekend.