Snapshots #459: Songs About Writing (or Groups of Words)

Time to write down your answers for this week's quiz...

 

15. Real twats will have nothing to do with him.

"Real twats" was an unfortunate anagram.

Al Stewart - Time Passages

14. Subordinate T-Rex. 

Dinosaur Jr - The Post

The thing that most of us spend a lot of time writing.

13. Finger, hob, Jimmy.

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

12. Love - Latest Flame - Eamonn. 

Courtney Love, Marie's the Name, Eamonn Andrews.

Courtney Marie Andrews - On My Page

11. What if Johnny and Andrew formed a band?

Johnny Marr and Andrew Marr might have called their band The...

MARRS - Pump Up The Volume 

10. There'll be times when my crimes will seem almost unforgivable...

That's the opening line to Strangelove by Depeche Mode.

Strangelove - Extract From A Journal: Nov 17th 1997

9. Oh my god - they killed the doubter!

Oh my god - they killed Kenny! Probably for being a Doubting Thomas.

Kenny Thomas - Piece By Piece

8. Elvis finds rhymes in a blizzard.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - The Book

Kenny Thomas to King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. That's what this blog is all about.

7. He's neither tool nor dogfight. 

"Tool nor dogfight" was an anagram.

Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy

6. Where Flanders puts Homer's work waste.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Sentence

5. Still... Peanuts.

Still D.R.E. And Snoopy.

Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode

4. Derek (sic) and his Finetime Fools.

"Derek (sic)" was an anagram. Cast sang Finetime.

Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots - Disco Duck (Part One)

3. These Charm-ing Men.

Lucky Charms for The Smiths.

The Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco

Rick Dees to The Lucksmiths. That's what this blog is all about.

2. Hey hey, puff, wheeze, we're the... gasp, pant...

Hey hey, we're the out of breath Monkees. Must be all that blowing.

Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

1. Lovely... Calvin (30).

Lovely Rita and Calvin Coolidge, the 30th POTUS.

Rita Coolidge - Words

I'll write more soon.

Saturday Snapshots #459

It's here! Time to put aside the Misery of the week and Carrie on Snapshotting. Time to start Shining!

Who are the artists below and how are their songs connected?

15. Real twats will have nothing to do with him.

14. Subordinate T-Rex. 

13. Finger, hob, Jimmy.

12. Love - Latest Flame - Eamonn. 

11. What if Johnny and Andrew formed a band?

10. There'll be times when my crimes will seem almost unforgivable...

9. Oh my god - they killed the doubter!

8. Elvis finds rhymes in a blizzard.

7. He's neither tool nor dogfight. 

6. Where Flanders puts Homer's work waste.

5. Still... Peanuts.

4. Derek (sic) and his Finetime Fools.

3. These Charm-ing Men.

2. Hey hey, puff, wheeze, we're the... gasp, pant...

1. Lovely... Calvin (30).

Take a Long Walk to the answers tomorrow morning.

One Track Summer #11: The Wedding Singer

Why did nobody tell me XXXXX had a new album out last year?

I could start a whole new series with that title. Forget the algorithms, they're useless. When I "LIKE" an artist, I'd expect the streaming service to tell me they've got a new record out. Maybe give it priority over another bloody Van Morrison live recording from 1969? 

It's just so hard to keep up.

Anyway, this time it's Jens Lekman, my favourite Swedish pop star, with apologies to Benny, Bjorn and Robyn. Songs for Other People's Weddings reveals that since 2004, Jens has been moonlighting as a wedding singer, and here he chronicles so of the bizarre experiences that's led to, with his customary wit and wisdom...

Waiting by the urinal
for my turn behind two guys
who are taking their time since they are
dressed in an oversized
tuxedo that combines
their bodies into one
Two arms, three legs, a bowtie
A smile as bright as the sun
As if they’ve been conjoined twins since time begun

Their names are Jun and Arthur, they’re getting married today
I’ve been hired as their wedding singer, they know me by the letter J
They’ve just learned that with a suit like this it’s hard to pee
So while one guy does his business, the other turns to me
And says sorry they couldn’t pay much and I say it’s fine
Cause I’m having the time of my life
The drinks are free and after all I
make a fortune from my streams on Spotify
And we laugh and they struggle to zip up their fly

If I'd known, I might have asked him to play at my wedding. Yeah, like I'd have been able to afford that...

One Track Summer #10: Geese & Cobras

Geese are from Brooklyn, and they've been kicking around for the past ten years, so I don't know why it's taken me so long to discover them. 

This track comes from their latest album, Getting Killed, released last year. It's wormed its way into my brain with repeated plays and it will not let go.

One Track Summer #9: Encyclopedi-ite

Billy Reeves was the songwriter and guitarist in 90s indie band theaudience, the group that gave Sophie Ellis-Bextor a leg up to stardom. This was their crowning glory...

theaudience - I Know Enough (I Don't Get Enough)

Billy left the group in '98 and he's had a pretty chequered history since then, including a near-fatal car accident in 2001 and a place in the Guinness Book of Records for releasing the world's first playable jigsaw puzzle with the band Sugar Coat in 2006.

Since then, he's worked as a journalist, a radio producer and a football commentator.

But he still makes music too, and this is from his lates album, Postwar, which will be out in August. And he's got the Bluebells backing him on this track, but don't let that put you off if you're George...

Your mum let me in

To your room

I felt like I was raiding

King Tut's Tomb