Sunday, 11 December 2022

Snapshots #270: A Top Ten Suburban Songs

Here's what the internet suggested when I typed "suburban camera" into my search engine.

Slow down. Here are this week's suburban answers...


10. The Offspring?

The Descendents - Suburban Home

Who doesn't want to be stereotyped?

9. Zealots.

The Fanatics - Suburban Love Songs

The Fanatics were Simon Fowler's band prior to Ocean Colour Scene.

8. Sulphuric Children.

The chemical symbol for sulphur is S. So these are the S-Kids.

The Skids - Sweet Suburbia

7. Euphemistic initialism used to express frustration.

FFS!

That's an amalgamation of Franz Ferdinand & Sparks, in case you were unaware.

 FFS - Little Guy From The Suburbs

6. US Quiz Rota found to be all messed up

"US Quiz Rota" was an angram.

Suzi Quatro - Official Suburban Superman

5. Wogan’s entrance room.

That would be a Terry Hall.

Terry Hall - Suburban Cemetery

4. Bassett, between two blokes.

Fred Bassett. Remember him?

Manfred Mann - Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James

3. Prisoner remembers the good times inside.

Prisoner reMEMBERS the good times inside.

The Members - The Sound of the Suburbs

2. Where you can buy a Geordie term of endearment, lads.

In the "pet" shop, boys.

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

1. What Spider-Man’s Uncle does with his sheets. 

Uncle Ben always folds his sheets. With great bed linen comes great responsibility.


More next Saturday.

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