Saturday Snapshots #44 - The Answers

Thank you for showing your True Colours again this week with your excellent answers to Saturday Snapshots. Time after time, you just keep getting them right! Thank you.

This week's winner was (as is often the case) first to get out of bed on Saturday morning, and this week that was FurryBootsCityBoy. Question, FBCB - is that an alias for Lynchie? The reason I ask is because you (re-)appeared round these parts about the same time Lynchie disappeared and you seem to answer lots of questions from the same eras Lynchie specialised in. My detective's nose senses a link... but I may be completely wrong.

Anyway, answers...


10. A phoney Cooke makes tough mutton for Egyptian royalty.

If Sam Cooke was a phoney, he'd be Sam The Sham.

Egyptian royalty were the pharaohs.

Tough mutton? A woolly bully!

Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Woolly Bully

9. Bimbo Joe Pesci.

A bimbo is an airhead.

Don't tell Joe Pesci that he's a funny guy.

Airhead - Funny How

Well done to Chris for solving the week's toughest twosome, this and number #2.

8. A chronic deed... or an alternative.

"A chronic deed" is an anagram. Alyson worked that out, though FBCB recognised the photo.

An alternative is something else.

Eddie Cochran - Somethin Else

7. Legally poor doll, again and again.

A Sindy doll who was legally poor might be a Law-per. Alyson, being a girl who just wants to have fun herself, had no problem solving that.

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

6. Could this be William's last song? Assistance offered.

A last swan for Billy would be his Swan song.

Billy Swan - I Can Help

5. What could I wear at the funeral without you? It's such a huge dilemma!

I might wear a mourning jacket at a funeral, without u that would be...

My Morning Jacket - Big Decisions

Well done to C for puzzling that one out.

4. Solitary love.

Heart - Alone

Another one for C, though I understand how Alyson thought Ann & Nancy look like First Aid Kit here. Way before the shaggy 80s dos they were more famous for.

3. Riches... and better weather for coffee drinkers.

The Fortunes - Storm In A Teacup

2. Storytelling levellers.

Storytellers are raconteurs.

Levellers might make things steady.

The bloke on the far right is Jack White. The one next to him is Brendan Benson.

Well done again, Chris.

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes

1. Not Jason, at Halloween.

Not Jason Donovan, obviously. The one that clinched FBCB's victory this week.

Girls (and boys) who wanna have fun should come back next Saturday for more of the same.

My Top Ten Sheep Songs

They're flocking baaad.


10. Pink Floyd - Sheep

Look, I don't mind if you skip this one. It's 10 and a half minutes long. According to the lyrics, it does apparently feature a rather amusing version of The Lord Is My Shepherd in which the sheep wreak their revenge through karate "and make the bugger's eyes water"... but you have to listen VERY carefully. I certainly couldn't hear it.

9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Sheep May Safely Graze

Being an Australian sheep seems a hell of a lot more dangerous than being a British sheep. Having to worry about crocodiles, poisonous spiders and Nick Cave... brr!

8. Cake - Sheep Go To Heaven

I just want to play on my pan-pipes
I just want to drink me some wine
As soon as you're born you start dying
So you might as well have a good time

7. Scott Walker - Black Sheep Boy

Written by Tim Hardin... who did very well in our previous Top Ten... but in all fairness, he's no Scott Walker, is he?

6. Airhead - Counting Sheep

Not quite as all-conqueringly astounding as their previous single, Funny How (The Girls You Fall In Love With Never Fancy You... Funny How The Ones You Don't Do)  but then, few things are.

Plus, they got some actual sheep in for the video. 

5. Morrissey - Yes, I Am Blind

OK, this would probably be higher if it actually mentioned a sheep in the title.

Little lamb
On a hill
Run fast if you can
Good Christians, they want to kill you
And your life has not even begun!

Oy! Morrissey! No! Didn't you tell us Meat was Murder?

You're just like me, just like me
Oh, your life has not even begun!

Oh. Fair enough then.

4. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

See, it's still cool to admit to liking Peter Gabriel era Genesis.

And probably very uncool to admit you haven't got a bloody clue what he's on about.

(Still preferable to the Pink Floyd track though.)

3. John Grant - Leopard and Lamb

Don't be surprised if I compile a Top Ten Leopard Songs one day just to feature this track again.

Watch the Simpsons to remember how you laugh
I miss your dark blue eyes, and staring at your back
My leopard, my lamb

2. Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep

In which Kate falls asleep counting sheep and listening to the shipping forecast.

Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep,
And they say they take me home.

If anyone else sang those lyrics, I'd snigger. Kate makes them magical.

1. The Housemartins - Sheep

You're right, of course, sometimes the only reason I compile these charts is to give me the opportunity to proclaim the supreme majesty of records such as this one.

By my calculation, Paul Heaton and Norman Cook were in their early 20s when they filmed this video... even though they both look about 12. Heaton still dresses like your grandad though.




Those were my sheep songs - no room for Woolly Bully, but that had its day in my Top Ten Knitwear Songs.

Which one is your baa-baa-best?