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...

Saturday Snapshots #19: The Answers

Yes, that's Kylie. Deal with it.


By the way, I'm only going to explain the clues from now on if they're really obscure...


10. Home for mad spirits. Where's the brakes!?!

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

First point to Charity Chic.

9. Smaller than a superstar collie, sighing at trucks.

Lassie was a superstar collie. A smaller Lassie would be Alessi.

Alessi - Oh, Lori

I knew Alyson would get this one. George was miffed!

8. Kinda like this blog... hardly a firecracker!

This blog is kinda like My Life Story. It's hardly a firecracker, is it?

My Life Story - You Don't Sparkle

As I compile these results, nobody has got this. I fully expect Martin to swoop in at the last minute and nab it.

UPDATE: Just before I was about to turn off the computer and go to bed (hey, listen, 9.30 is all I can manage on a Saturday night), my prediction came true. I knew I could count on you, Martin!

7. Beware of this (unabbreviated) spinning lady... she's coming for New York!

A Spinning Jenny, unabbreviated, would be Jennifer.

Beware is a warning.

Jennifer Warnes - First We Take Manhattan 

Another point for CC.

6. Mental illness? Climb a mountain in the Med.

Cyprus Hill? Don't you know I'm loco?

Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain

From Jennifer Warnes to Cypress Hill - CC gets much respect this week!

5. Art makes Hazlewood a prisoner for drinking sugary pop from Korea.

Art = Arthur.

Putting Hazlewood in prison would make him a Con-Lee.

Seoul is the capital of South Korea.

Do you like good music?

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

And another one for the Charity-meister! He obviously had three Shredded Wheat on Saturday morning.

4. Steve & Charlie chew it over.

Steve Strange.

Charlie Rich.

Cud - Rich & Strange

Yes, kids, this is what 1992 looked like.

1/2 a point to George, 1/2 a point to Rigid Digit.

3. Created to adore... and smooch.

Kiss (without their make-up!) - I Was Made For Loving You

C stole this one out from under Alyson.

2. Good for staying up and larging it on Saturday & Sunday.

Ahem. If you don't know what an Arab Strap is, you're probably better off not googling it.

Arab Strap - The First Big Weekend

General agreement that this must be The Alexander Brothers with Nobody's Child... a song I'd never heard before, but I can see why you might think I'd like it. Having watched the video, I reckon there's a distinct possibility Aiden & Malcolm posed for that photo with said brothers in mind.

It took my extra "Think Belle & Sebastian" clue to direct RD to the correct answer.

1. What Bond got LOADS.

Sometimes the clues just write themselves.

George took a couple of shots, but nailed his target in the end.




Congratulations to this week's undisputed champion: Charity Chic. Thanks, as always, for playing along.

Back next Saturday with ten more badly disguised "classics" from the depths of my music library...