Monday 29 November 2021
Positive Songs For Negative Times #66: Survivor Guilt
Sunday 28 November 2021
Snapshots #217: A Top Ten Autumn Songs
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Snapshots has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
10. Roofing material with added bullshit.
Straw + BS.
9. Eponymously and thematically falling.
The Autumn Leaves - Theme To The Autumn Leaves
Pretty obscure that one. Well done if you got it.
8. Singer with a Spanish bum falls in Midlands river.
Jackie was the singer with the Spanish bum. The Midlands river was the Trent.
7. Poe arrives too late in the year.
Edgar Allen Poe misses Autumn and arrives in the Winter.
6. Bird of prey kills labourer.
Hawk slays workman!
Hawksley Workman - Autumn's Here
5. Browne songwriter reaches the top.
Jackson hits the heights.
The Jackson Heights - Autumn Brigade
4. Mule-owning Sister From UNCLE.
Two Mules for Sister Sarah.
Robert Vaughan was the Man From UNCLE.
Sarah Vaughan - Autumn In New York
3. Found in dark inks.
DarKINKS.
2. Crusaders of unbalanced avenue.
Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong
1. Austrian DJ: why?
Anagram!
Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn
The giveaway, surely.
Saturday 27 November 2021
Saturday Snapshots #217
10. Roofing material with added bullshit.
9. Eponymously and thematically falling.
8. Singer with a Spanish bum falls in Midlands river.
7. Poe arrives too late in the year.
6. Bird of prey kills labourer.
5. Browne songwriter reaches the top.
4. Mule-owning Sister From UNCLE.
3. Found in dark inks.
2. Crusaders of unbalanced avenue.
1. Austrian DJ: why?
Can you Bear to wait for the answers tomorrow morning?
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Neverending Top Ten #4.4: Don't Cry, Dad
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Memory Mixtape #9: Learning To Drive
Monday 22 November 2021
Neverending Top Ten #4.3: The More You See Norma
Sunday 21 November 2021
Snapshots #216: A Top Ten Songs About Brazil
10. Vadim's villain.
The villain in Roger Vadim's movie Barbarella was... Durand Durand.
Condemning the 80s with one single video.
9. Half a drum, half a Scottish sunbeam.
Half a Tom Tom... plus a Mc-Ray.
8. Will Pakistan get zebras, Trudy wonders? The answers lie within.
The image above is, as revealed by Walter, Alain Delon and Romy Schneider, who have nothing to do with Brazil... though they did feature prominently in an image search for these guys...
Will PakiSTAN GET ZebrAS, TRUDy wonders?
Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
Amazingly, despite having done this quiz for over 4 years, that's only the third time I've posted a wrong picture.
7. They sound like silly Scots.
Guillemots rhymes with Silly Scots... doesn't it?
6. Good bee lost in window doors.
The Good Bee would be Johnny, as in Johnny B. Goode.
"winDOW Doors"
5. There's no end to this Beach Boy after he joins a big band.
Mike Love was the Beach Boy.
The Love Unlimited Orchestra - Brazilian Love Song
(With Barry conducting, obviously.)
4. Airblown Mary.
Anagram!
Although it's named after the Brazilian beach, the Copacabana nightclub can't be in Brazil, since it's the hottest spot north of Havana. I'm not brilliant at Geography, but even I can work that one out.
3. Mad king steps down the peer.
Mad King George goes down the peerage to become a Duke.
George Duke - Brazilian Love Affair
2. Barbed conductor.
Wire is a conductor. That's how we get electricity into our homes. It can also be barbed.
1. Lithe mechanism.
Anagram!
Michael Nesmith - Rio
Saturday 20 November 2021
Saturday Snapshots #216
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!
Say the magic words three times and Saturday Snapshots appears!
Can you identify this week's artists... and work out what connects their songs?
Go!
10. Vadim's villain.
9. Half a drum, half a Scottish sunbeam.
8. Will Pakistan get zebras, Trudy wonders? The answers lie within.
7. They sound like silly Scots.
6. Good bee lost in window doors.
5. There's no end to this Beach Boy after he joins a big band.
4. Airblown Mary.
3. Mad king steps down the peer.
2. Barbed conductor.
1. Lithe mechanism.
Will you Winona the prize? Find out tomorrow...