Snapshots Spillover - Even More Magazines

Final batch of these, because frankly I've wasted more than enough time browsing the newsagents' shelves this week.

I was a regularly subscriber to Empire Magazine in the 90s, but I fell out of love with them when they gave 5 stars to The Phantom Menace. I think I'd sold my Empire collection (or binned it) by the time Attack of the Clones came out.

Kasabian - Empire

I always feel guilty for not buying The Big Issue, but on the occasions I have forked out for it, I've never found it a particularly interesting read.

Chumbawamba - The Big Issue

Reader's Digest always reminds me of doctor's surgeries in the 80s. And my Mum's boxset of country LPs...

Larry Norman - Reader’s Digest

That's a great tune. Not sure where I got it from.

Here are a few more...

And Why Not? - The Face

John Lennon – God Save Oz

Marc Almond - Variety (almost)

World Party - Vanity Fair

John Martyn - Look In

Coleman Hawkins - Esquire Bounce

Bruce Ruffin - Mad About You

Manic Street Preachers - Spectators of Suicide

We close today though with a band named after a magazine..

...and when you take a look down their discography, it's amazing how many of their songs could well be (or feature) magazine titles. New Life. Master And Servant. Stripped. Strangelove. Personal Jesus. People Are People. In Your Room. That's like a whole magazine rack right there. Not to mention...

Snapshots Spillover - Music Magazines

More songs about magazines... today, Music Magazines.

Problem Patterns - Classic Rock Has Become My Prison

It Hugs Back - Q

The Rezillos - Top of the Pops

Mary Lou Williams Quartet - Melody Maker

David Bowie - Sound & Vision

Kenny Loggins - Vox Humana

Kid Canaveral - Smash Hits

Everywhere Now - Sounds

Something Happens - Select

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Mojo

What was your favourite music mag? I think the one I miss most is The Word...

Namesakes #207: Aardvarks

Following on from last week's post where we discovered a number of bands named after an Aardvark (singular), here are a bunch named after more than one of those same delightful creatures...

THE AARDVARKS #1

We kick off today in Minnesota with a group of Aardvarks who would eventually change their name to The He-Toos.

The Aardvarks - Josephine 

THE AARDVARKS #2

To Michigan next in 1966, with a song some over-enthusiastic youtuber calls the "greatest garage single of all time."

The Aardvarks - I'm Higher Than I'm Down

THE AARDVARKS #3

And in Missouri, just a couple of years later, these guys were entering a beauty pageant...

Aardvarks - Subconscious Train Of Thought

AARDVARKS #4

Austrian Aardvarks, from the 80s. "On their debut LP they had a more Teutonic/Krautrock hard-rock type sound akin to Harlis or Kaputter Hamster." This one though, featuring vocalist Anita Rettenwander, comes from a few years later.

(Rol makes a quick note of Kaputter Hamster for a future edition of Namesakes.)

Aardvarks - Don't Wake The Sleeping Dogs!

THE AARDVARKS #5

60s-sounding Aardvarks who actually started out in 1989. This is their debut single, which gets a pass from me because it's named after an old man who invited me to explore his Mysterious World when I was a kid... because things like that weren't frowned on so much in the 80s.

The Aardvarks - Arthur C. Clarke

AARDVARKS #6

Also in 1989, these Aardvarks were rocking a land down under...

Aardvarks - Emma's Gone

Which Aardvarks are AAce?

Snapshots Spillover - More Mags (For Ladies Only)

Here are some more songs named after magazines.

Today... some magazines for Ladies. Let's start with something for anyone who wants to make a 3-seater sofa for under £30 this weekend...

John Lennon - Woman

The Danse Society - Woman's Own

Big Country - Bella

OK, let's get a bit more up-market...

Blueboy - Elle

alt-J - Ms.

And let's not forget these guys...

Harper's Bizarre - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

Now if you're getting on a bit, you might prefer...

Magna Carter - People's Friend 

But for younger ladies...

Paul Revere & The Raiders - Just Seventeen

And 3 ½ p was never better spent...

More of this nonsense on Wednesday. It's Magazine Week on this silly old blog...

Snapshots #466: Songs About Magazines

Hello again.

Here are some songs about magazines...

15. The Munch Bunch.

The Scream was painted by Edvard Munch.

Primal Scream - Loaded

Their strapline was "For Men Who Should Know Better". It should have been "For Men Too Embarrassed To Buy Razzle.)

14. Isaak was almost caught going too fast.

Chris (Isaak) caught Speeding (almost).

Chris Spedding - Radio Times

13. Not quite a decade of snowless mountains.

Nine Black Alps  - Cosmopolitan

12. Like a fox with its rock hard relatives.

Sly & The Family Stone - Life

11. A bunch of idiots... and Yuri.

"And Yuri" was an anagram.

Ian Dury - Razzle In My Pocket

Was Razzle a better magazine than Loaded? At least it didn't pretend to be something it wasn't.

10. Proud... Fargo.

Proud Mary meets Wells Fargo.

Mary Wells - You Beat Me To The Punch

9. Top Jackets required.

Thee Headcoats - (We Hate The Fuckin') NME

Wild Billy at his best.

8. Lost without bab.

The missing A in ABBA.

Agnetha Faltskog - The Heat Is On

Louise makes me buy Heat every Tuesday. (She only reads it for the TV section, apparently.) It's hard to tell which is the new issue since every week without fail the cover features either Kate, Meghan, Posh Spice or that woman who used to present This Morning. 

7. My Father's Cars... abbreviated.

My father's car was a Jaguar. (It wasn't. He always drove Fords.)

The Jags - Woman's World

6. Tuesday afternoon is neverending.

That's a line from Lady Madonna.

Madonna - Vogue

5. A severed alliance.

They hate each other nowadays.

Hall & Oates - Private Eyes

4. Instructions for the gospel crowd.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Heavy Metal

3. Where to find the ingredients of a hamburger.

On the patty label.

Patti LaBelle - Oh People

2. Man behaving badly.

Like Neil Morrissey.

Morrissey - Last Of The Famous International Playboys

1. It's ma Top Ten... and I'll cry if I want to.

Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Expect more magazines as the week goes on.

And more Snapshots next Saturday.