Snapshots #326: A Top 15 Songs Celebrating Different Musical Genres

Sunday morning - time to visit the Temple! Your choice - the Shirley Temple... or the Temple of Snapshots!

Here are yesterday's answers - songs that mention different musical genres...

15. Lost your job? These guys can help you out financially.

The Dole - New Wave Love

14. $6,000,000 Steve goes to Skywalker Ranch.

Steve Austin was the $6,000,000 Man. George Lucas owns the Skywalker Ranch.

Austin Lucas - Easy Listening

13. A good thing, used by one of the gentlemen mentioned above.

Luke Skywalker used The Force.

Positive Force - We Got The Funk

12. Good at advising you how to put one foot in front of the other.

They taught us how to Walk This Way.

Run DMC - Roots, Rap, Reggae

11. What's on the other side?

Alternative TV - Punk Life

10. Carolyne hurt by a muddle.

"Carolyne hurt" is an anagram...

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

9. A friend of Allan Clarke.

Allan Clarke was in the Hollies. This was his buddy.

Buddy Holly - Rave On

8. Open All Hours.

Cornershop - Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal

7. Ghosts, demons, black magic...

The Supernaturals - Country Music

6. Could be Green, Poison or Broken.

The Arrows - I Love Rock n Roll

5. Tyne Henchmen Abound.

Anagram!

Echo & The Bunnymen - All That Jazz

4. Winnie's glue gun.

Pooh... sticks.

The Pooh Sticks - Indie Pop Ain't Noise Pollution 

3. The capital of Manchester.

M is the capital letter of Manchester. This is Robin Scott, aka...

M - Pop Muzik

2. Just the job for me!

In case you didn't know it, I am an English Teacher.

English Teacher - R&B

1. A soggy mass.

Pulp - Disco 2000

There will be another eclectic mix of genres next Saturday...

Product Placement Friday #10: Dulux

Finding songs that mention Dulux was a bit like watching paint dry. But here's a selection, the first of which raised at least a slight chuckle...

Girl, your hair is like a Dulux paint colour chart,
Yeah, you are the spirit level to my shelf at perfect right-angles.

Flat 29 - D.I.Y. Lovin' (Put up a Shelf)

Slightly more credible rap, but a lot less fun...

Cause I was like new to the game 
When Run DMC said Walk This Way
Then I get to the town with my Dulux paint

Kano - Rock n Rolla

Meanwhile, they also seem to use Dulux down under...

How many more of you wanna join the crew to question my authenticity? 
Bathe in a tin of white Dulux to satisfy you of my legitimacy

Rivermouth - Excellent English

Here's something that's not my thing at all, but does exactly what it says on the tin...

DJ Gilbert - Dulux

Alternative you might prefer some 90s alt-rock from Finland...

Throat - Dulux

Or 11 minutes of this weirdocity...

Continuous Electric Now - Dulux Cinzano Umnan Wittering & Zigo

Finally, here's a lost advertising jingle (extended) from Mr. Sammes and his mates... 

The Mike Sammes Singers - Dulux Super 3

However, going by the maxim that I only need one good tune to make a post viable (although it's equally as out there as some of the tunes above), let zip back to 1980 for a taste of Alternative TV. The song is titled Graves of Deluxe Green, but clearly that's not what Mark Perry is singing. Perhaps he just wanted to avoid a lawsuit...