Time to Seymour Snapshots!
Who are the Mötley Crüe below, and how are their songs connected?
10. Do you want a job, Zane? No? Too bewildering?
9. Spend 24 hours with the Reverend and the Professor.
8. No wimps allowed in this family.
7. Parabola.
6. Firm enough to build on.
5. Wet Wet Wet.
4. One of us.
3. Womanise Huey? That sounds confusing.
2. Found in the garden, with six others.
1. Where Tarzan swung, he listened.
Answers tomorrow morning!
THE CENTURIANS #1
That's not how I'd spell Centurions.
Instrumental surf rock dudes from 1963 who sound like a million other instrumental surf rock dudes from 1963. The track below was used in the soundtrack of Pulp Fiction, leading to the band reforming in 1995, by which time they'd learned to spell Centurions correctly.
The Centurians - Bullwinkle Part II
THE CENTURIONS #2
Country gospel from Muskogee, Oklahoma in the early 70s. One of a handful of US gospel bands called the Centurions, but these guys were the only ones I could find preserved on the tube of you. And they had the nicest picture.
The Centurions - Start Living Again
THE CENTURIONS #3
From the 1973 album For Want Of A Better Title, here's some Canadian gospel...
Centurions - Jesus Love Goes A Long Way
THE CENTURIONS #4
Discogs wants me to believe that this is a band made up of gospel singer Judy Gossett who had a long career singing in Christian music that began in 1971, and her brother Michael, who has been a member of Salvation Air Force since 1972.
I think that might well be bullshit. This was released in 1994, and it sounds like it was an early example of an AI computer being given the task of composing of House anthem. although the actual culprits were called Gavin Hed and Jarvis Spong.
CENTURIONS #5
Geeneus & DJ Target, aka Darren Joseph and Gordon Warren, were part of the early UK Grime scene in 2003. DJ Target is now a Radio 1Xtra presenter, while Geeneus is the boss of London pirate radio station / laundromat Rinse FM.
Centurions - Midnite / Speed Racer
*Thankfully, I was kidding. I'll admit, this wasn't the most auspicious line-up I've ever featured here, but it still seemed a fitting way to mark 100 posts.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bring together ten songs you'll need for your wedding day playlist...
10. Surprised by Sixx.
Nikki Sixx is the lead singer of Mötley Crüe. A surprise is usually quite sudden.
9. Michael Caine was a bit of a stud.
Michael Caine was Jack Carter.
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride
8. In this universe, I have the right to remain silent.
The right to remain silent is the Fifth Amendment... in this dimension, at least.
Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bells Blues
7. Telephone, post, despatch.
They are all red boxes.
6. The Light, Four, Mr. Fox.
The Light Fantastic, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The Fantastics - Something Old, Something New
5. Were Jack's stripes mean or median?
Were The White Stripes an average band?
Average White Band – Cut The Cake
4. Like a Smith: beautiful, and young at heart.
Patti Smith, la belle and the Bluebells...
Patti Labelle & The Blue Belles – Down The Aisle
3. They performed on the Hill, for the Baker, and at the Coronation.
A band for Hill Street, Baker Street and Coronation Street...
2. Mixture used to heal demons.
"Heal demons" was an anagram...
1. Release your suffering.
Free da pain!
Freda Payne - Band of Gold
If any of you know cause or just impediment why Snapshots should no return next Saturday, speak now... or forever hold thy peace.
What could be nicer than a Pretty Woman on a Saturday morning?
How about ten lots of pretty pop stars? But who are they, and how are their songs united?
10. Surprised by Sixx.
9. Michael Caine was a bit of a stud.
8. In this universe, I have the right to remain silent.
7. Telephone, post, despatch.
6. The Light, Four, Mr. Fox.
5. Were Jack's stripes mean or median?
4. Like a Smith: beautiful, and young at heart.
3. They performed on the Hill, for the Baker, and at the Coronation.
2. Mixture used to heal demons.
1. Release your suffering.
THE SPECIALS #1
We start out in 1963 LA, with the vocal trio of Walter 'Sleepy' Ward, Eddie Lewis and Charles Fizer. Later in the 60s they would return as the backing band of Cal Green (from Hank Ballard's The Midnighters).
The Specials - I'm Leaving It All Up To You
THE SPECIALS #2
One year later in The Hague, we find ourselves enjoying some classic Nederbeat. Singer Wim Koekoek has very little to do on this track. Later in 1964, they renamed themselves The Special Five, but also appear to have gone by The Black Albinos, Danny & Favorites, Eddy & Crazy Jets Show, Rene & His Alligators and The Silhouettes.
THE SPECIALS #3
Chicago soul band from the late 60s / early 70s. Here they are in 1968...
The Specials - You Stood Me Up
DE SPECIALS #4
Dutch Specials who appear to have been in the go from the late 60s, all the way through to 1990, when they released a song dedicated to FC Groningen. This is what they sounded like in 1970...
De Specials - Spaanse Vliegenier
THE SPECIALS #5
The obvious winners this week. I don't need to tell you anything about these guys. Extra Specials.
THE SPECIALS #6
I'm not going to ask who you consider most Special of the Specials... but beyond the answer, do any of the others strike you as particularly Special?
This weekend, I set you all the task of buying ten different addresses on thew Monopoly board. Did you get them all, or did you end up in jail?
10. The risque yob gets befuddled.
The risque yob" was an anagram.
9. They may not win, but they'll still enjoy themselves.
The Good Time Losers - Trafalgar Square
8. Found in competitive archbishops and heartthrob oysters.
Found in comPETitive archbiSHOPs and heartthroB OYSters.
7. Shatner's full of holes! Let's sew him back together with some spare material.
Patch William - Take Me Home To Marylebone
6. Knife found in London prison.
A Stanley knife found in HMP Holloway.
Stanley Holloway - Wot Cher! (Knock'd Em In The Old Kent Road)
5. John Astin.
John Astin played Gomez in The Addams Family.
4. His boy scores no points.
You get Nil, son.
3. Gone off.
2. Craig Charles has lost weight!
In the TV show Red Dwarf, Craig Charles played Dave Lister.
Skinny Lister - Trouble On Oxford Street
1. Neil Young played this on their opening night.
Roxy Music - Do The Strand
You might also have purchased...
Frank Turner - The Angel, Islington
(That would have been a cinch this week, had I not already featured it in A Top Ten London Underground Songs.)
Ian Hunter - Bow Street Runners
Dimples & Eddie - Fleet Street
Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square
And yesterday's opening act...
David Bowie - Maid Of Bond Street
