Sunday, 15 February 2026

Snapshots #435: Alcoholic Beverage Songs

In case you've always wanted a whiskey decanter shaped like a camera, Jeff Bezos is selling them for eighty quid.

The rest of us will have to make do with some songs about booze...


15. Thunder deity with too many Os.

THOR & GOD with extra Os...

George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

14. How do you like your jewellery, sire? Not this way, I guess.

"Jewellery, sire" was an anagram.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Jack Daniels (Old Number Seven)

13. Thankfully not The Simpsons.

Not OJ Simpson.

The O'Jays - Brandy

12. Where you'll find a holy blanket... but it sounds like it's falling apart.

Turin, sound like breaks.

Turin Brakes - Martini

11. Sounds like Spike gets Cold Feed, James.

Spike Milli(g)an and James Nesbitt.

Millican & Nesbitt - For Old Time's Sake

That is a drinking song, but I was thinking more in terms of rice wine.

10. Found amid gherkin.

"Amid gherkin" was an anagram.

Mike Harding - Ale Is Physic For Me

9. Broken poet.

Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier, Part II

8. Could be another name for #7... alternatively, 2,240 pounds.

Beth is short for Elizabeth, as is Lizzy. Or... (a) ton.

Beth Orton - Absinthe

7. Dandy Robot goes Irish.

Tin Lizzy was a robot in The Dandy who gave her name (with an Irish lilt) to these guys...

Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar

6. Bugle editor likes converted farm buildings.

The editor of the Daily Bugle was J. Jonah Jameson. 

JJ Barnes - Sweet Sherry

5. In the midst of sorcery, son turns to his Cat.

In the midst of sorcery, son... 

Matthew & Son was a song by Cat Stevens.

Cerys Matthews - Chardonnay

4. Where cactus is our friend.

Lyrics from Midnight at the...

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

...or you could have had...

Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol 

3. Bright Bo Peep loses more than just her flock.

"Bright Bo Peep" was an anagram.

The Big Bopper - White Lightning

2. Stygian depths.

Lager, lager, lager!

Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)

1. Friend of Woodstock?

Snoopy the dog was best friends with Woodstock.

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gin And Juice


Please drink responsibly... then join me back here next Saturday with a clear head.

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